1539 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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unbecoming to a lady. I was brought into the case against Mr.
Frank by detective Bass Rosser and was subpoenaed to the office
of Mr.Dorsey twice before the trial and questioned very closely by
Mr.Dorsey. He told me to say that Mr.Frank's general character was
bad and as illustrating to me how he desired me to state that Mr.
Frank's character was bad, he said, "I want you to state that his
character is bad just as you would state that Mayor Woodward's
character was bad, and in the same manner you had heard that Mr.
Frank's character was bad. That is the way I want you to testify
and I want you to answer my questions right off sharp and quick."
When Mr.Dorsey was prompting and questioning me in his office,
he did not at any time use the word "lasciviousness", but when I
went on the witness stand he did use the word and asked me if Mr.
Frank's character for lasciviousness was good or bad, and I answered
"bad" in the face of the fact that I did not know the meaning
of the word lasciviousness, and never had it explained to me un-
til today. I deny most emphatically that Mr.Frank's character or
reputation is bad for lasciviousness. He always made the girls
at the factory attend strictly to business and he was not generally
liked by them on account of his strictness with them in his deal-
ings regarding their work.

H. G. SCHIFF, JOS. STRENSKY, RICHARD JACOBUS, AND I. A.
QUINN, Sworn for the movant. We are acquainted with Miss
Marie Karst. She could have knowledge of the facts testified to
by her by reason of the fact that she had been an employee of
the factory and had been personally acquainted with Leo M. Frank as
an employee of the factory, attested by Cur. Burke.

(GROUND 12 STRICKEN UPON MOTION OF MOVANT.)

GROUND 15.

MARY RICH, Sworn for the Movant. I know Jim Conley and
at about 2:15 o'clock P. M. Saturday, April 26, 1913, Jim Conley
come out of alley in rear of the National Pencil Factory and
bought a 20¢ dinner of me, and after getting the dinner in his
hand, he went back to the extreme alley and I did not see him
any more that day. This affidavit in pencil was
attested in ink by Geo. Burke as Notary Public