1596 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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JOHN R. BLACK, Sworn for the State. I am the party referred to in the above affidavit of Mr. John W. Coleman, and that I did so exhibit the hairs recovered from the factory and delivered to me as the hairs recovered by Barrett on the lathe at the National Pencil Company, and the hairs examined by said J.W.Coleman are the same hairs recovered and said J.W.Coleman did as above indicated state upon examining said hairs at the city police headquarters, that to the best of his knowledge and belief they were the hairs of Mary Phagan, who was killed. These hairs examined and referred to in the above affidavit of Mr. Coleman are the same hairs that were delivered to Dr. Harris at the State Capitol, I being present when said hairs were delivered to Dr. Harris.

MRS. L.L.ARMSTRONG, Sworn for the State. I am the proprietor of the Sanitary Hairdressing School at 1004 Whitehall Street. During the many years experience I have had in the business of hairdressing and dealing in human hair I have examined hundreds of specimens of hair and know it to be an established fact that hair from the same head often varies widely, both in color and in texture. As a general rule samples of hair taken from the ends of a long strand of hair are of a lighter shade than samples taken from closer to the base. It is also a fact that a small sample of hair, consisting of only a few strands, when compared with a larger sample, of hair from the same head, will almost always look lighter in color, especially if the hair be of a light shade. Attached hereto is a small sample of hair which I myself cut from a persons head today. Examination of this sample shows that one end is much lighter in color than the other end, the light colored end (a slightly reddish color) being the extremity of the hair and the darker brown colored being the end next the scalp. I have seen many cases like this, and some in which the variation in color was even more marked than this.

(Attached to the affidavit is the hair referred to therein.)

MISS JIMMIE MAYFIELD, Sworn for the State. I am employed at the National Pencil Company and have been there about a year and a half. I have read ground #2 of the extraordinary motion for new trial. In the above case and they have quoted as saying the said Jimmie Mayfield now states positively that the hair showed to her by the said Barrett, was not the hair of Mary Phagan, and that the same was