1591 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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R. P. BUTLER, W. V. DARBY, H. G. SCHIFF, BULA FLOWERS, JOE WILLIAMS, JOS.
STEIKER, R. W. LOEB, L. A. QUINN, P. SIGANSKY, Sworn for the Movants.
We are acquainted with the handwriting of Jim Conley. We have examined the letters attached to Annie Maude Carter's affidavit and the same are in the handwriting of said Jim Conley.

SIG MORGAG, H. HEIN, CHARLES LEEB, Sworn for the Movant. We are acquainted with R. P. Butler or H. G. Schiff, Rudolph Loeb, P. Sigansky, Jos. Steiker and Miss Bula Kay Flowers and know their general character for truth and veracity; the same is good and we would believe them on oath in a court of law. They work at the National Pencil Company during the time that Jim Conley worked there and had opportunity to become familiar with his handwriting. All of said persons are employees of the Pencil Company and have been thus associated with each other for some time.

H. A. ALEXANDER, Sworn for the Movant. I am a practicing attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, and I have made a careful study of and am familiar with the handwriting of Jim Conley as shown in the two writings or notes found near the body of Mary Phagan, also in other specimens of his handwriting made for the police department, and particularly the note written by him for the police on an occasion when he was taken to the National Pencil Factory by them. I am familiar with the peculiarities of Conley's handwriting, notably the unnecessary stroke which he invariably throws into the letter "s"; his unusual method of making the letter "o" by which he brings the line into the circle of the "o"; the ending of the last stroke of the preceding letter and the beginning of the first stroke of the following letter; the uniform dropping of the letter "h" below the line; the disjoining of the last stroke in the letters "m" and "n" from the following letter when such following letter begins on the line; the use of a capital "p" and the dropping of the letter "k" below the line. I have examined the letters attached to the affidavit of Annie Maude Carter entitled and filed in the above stated case, and in my opinion said letters were unquestionably written by Jim Conley. In my examination of said letters, I find the identical peculiarities described above and also the same mis-spelling, for example, "wood" for "would", "hisself" for "himself". There is not