1607 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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8TH GROUND
MRS. CARRIE SMITH, sworn for the State. On Monday night,April 20,
1914, at about 10:00 o'clock I was standing at a weiner stand im-
mediately in the rear of the Metropolitan Club building near the
corner of South Forsyth and West Mitchell Streets. A man who had
introduced himself to me who had been passing under the name of
Maddox and who represented himself to be a book agent and said he
was at work getting up a book, came riding by in an automobile
which stopped in front of the entrance of the Metropolitan Club.
In this automobile there were one or two other men. I cannot re-
member exactly, but I think there were two other men; at any rate,
some of them got out of the automobile and went into the entrance
of the Metropolitan Club and this man Maddox came up to where I
was. He bought him a weiner. This is the man who said to me that
he was an agent and was getting up a book on the Frank case and
that his commission on the book would be $4.00 and he told me
if I would sign a certain paper which he brought to me, he would
give me one half of his commission. I refused to sign the paper.
I formerly worked off and on three years for the National Pencil
Company and knew Leo M.Frank well. I was well acquainted with his
general character and reputation. I will state that his character
and reputation are and were prior to the murder of Mary Phagan, bad.
I have read over my evidence as given on the trial of Leo M.Frank
and say that the same is true. I was present when twelve or fifteen
girls were in the office of Solicitor General Hugh M.Dorsey in
the Kimball House, the day we were sworn in the case against Leo
M.Frank. This was the first and only time that the Solicitor General
ever talked to me. He stated that the law only allowed certain
questions to be asked and that there were certain answers, one way
or the other, to be given. He put the questions, viz, first "Are
you acquainted with the general character and reputation of Leo M.
Frank?" If there were any present who did not answer that "yes"
it was only one or two, as certainly most every one present they
were. He then put the question, "Is that character good or bad?"
and the girls answered, including myself, that Frank's character
and reputation was bad.