1598 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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have me quoted as saying "positively that the hair on said lathe was not the hair of Mary Phagan, and that the same was entirely too light in color and not of the same texture". This statement is absolutely false and untrue.

3RD GROUND:

BASS ROSER, Sworn for the State. I have examined the stenographer's report of the trial of the case of State vs Leo M. Frank. Same comprises seven large volumes, written on legal cap paper, and covers 3,647 pages.

4TH GROUND:

ALBERT McKNIGHT, Sworn for the State. I have heard read to me the affidavit which has my signature on it, and which I swore to before G.C. February on the 16th day of April, 1914, and witnessed by several white men, this being the affidavit that was taken from me at the police station recently. This paper is just exactly as I spoke it. This affidavit is absolutely true. The reason I made the affidavit for Burke was because he kept an after me. Burke came to me and told me that he would get me a job at the Terminal Station, making $10.00 a week, and he said the tips I would get around there would average $100. He asked me how much I was making, and I told him $7.00 a week. He asked me hadn't I rather have a job like that than have one just making $7.00, and I told him yes. He says, "Why don't you go on then and tell me the truth," says, that "there isn't one out of a hundred believes what you told on the stand." He asked me could he learn me how to drive his automobile, and I told him yes. He says, "Well, then, if you wouldn't like the job around the Terminal Station, I will learn you how to drive the car, and if she wants to, little house out near me, and I will get work for me if she wants to. The job he got me was a job at a guano house. I wouldn't take that job, and he sent me then down to Schoen Bros., 325 Decatur St. packing hides. Schoen Bros. are Jews. I worked down there five days. I laid off then until next Monday. He promised that Terminal job and never gave me that, and promised to learn me to drive his automobile and didn't give me that job. I got hurt at a crossing on McDonald Street. I was hiding out to keep away from the detectives. Burke told me that they were looking for me to make a witness out of me in the Conley case. This is the first I knew they were