1605 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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operating on his mind in telling what he did. Albert McKnight is present when I sign this affidavit and has heard read over to him the same before I signed it, and Albert McKnight says that wherein reference in this affidavit is made to him and what he said and did, the same is absolutely true.

ANGUS MORRISON, sworn for the State. I have been working for the Book & Gregg Hardware Company for fourteen years. I heard the affidavit this day signed by R.L.Craven, dictated, and I have read over and seen him sign the affidavit. In so far as the statements in that affidavit refer to me, they are absolutely true. I concealed myself in the warehouse of the Book & Gregg Hardware Company at the request of Mr.Craven and for the purpose of hearing Albert McKnight make a statement with reference to what he knew about Leo M. Frank on Saturday, April 26, 1913. I heard Albert McKnight tell Mr.Craven that he saw Leo M.Frank between one and two o'clock on the Saturday that Mary Phagan was killed, that Frank came home, that he saw him through the looking glass, go into the dining room, that Frank did not eat anything, that he stepped over to the sideboard, and that Frank left the house within ten minutes after he got there. I also heard him tell what Albert said his wife Minola told him about what occurred between Mrs. Minola Frank, Mr.Frank's wife, and Mrs.Selig, Sunday morning at the breakfast table. I then heard Craven read over to Albert McKnight what Craven said he had written out and Albert said it was the truth. I never thought of any reward, don't want any reward. I know the Solicitor General well and I happened to meet him casually one day after I had heard the aforesaid conversation. I told him that I could give him an important bit of information but that at that particular time I was in a hurry. A week or ten days passed before the matter was again discussed, then 3 names and Campbell came up and said that Mr.Dorsey had sent them to see me. I declined to talk to them until I had called Mr. Dorsey over the telephone, and he said it was all right and I then took them down to Mr.Craven and McKnight. McKnight told the detectives exactly the same thing he told Mr.Craven.Both Starnes and Campbell told him that if he went the truth, to say so. McKnight then signed the paper, which Craven had read over to him. McKnight continued to work at the Book & Gregg Co. until it was affected by the papers being read.