1609 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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at the time. I don't know, of course, what Frank and this woman were doing in there, but I do know that they were in that room which was supposed to be used only by the girls as a dress room, and I don't know of any business that could have been carried on in that room by Frank and this woman that was right and proper or connected with the National Pencil Company's business. The key to this room was carried by the woman I saw go into this room with Leo M.Frank. It was her uniform practice, as soon as the girls were dressed for work and went to work, to lock this room and put the key in her pocket. I don't know whether Frank, when he and this woman were in that room together, whether the door was locked or bolted. I never did try to go in there when they were in there, and so far as I know no one else tried to go in there. I have read, myself, ground 8 and 9 of the extraordinary motion as filed on behalf of Leo M.Frank in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court on the 16th day of April 1915. The original paper is before me at the time I sign this affidavit. The statements contained in ground 8 are absolutely false in every particular. I have not made any affidavit to anyone with reference to my evidence as given on the stand. I have not made any statement to any person contrary to what I swore on the stand the evidence I gave on the stand is the truth in every particular, and I here and now re-affirm and re-assert the evidence as given on the stand and I now say that Leo M.Frank is a man of general bad character and reputation, both generally and in reference to his relations with women. I more knew Dewey Howell. I never talked with her in my life except the day she was up in the office of the Solicitor General, Hugh M.Dorsey, and she then voluntarily told me what she was going to swear on the stand. She told me she was going to swear exactly what she did swear. I did not approach her or suggest anything at all to her with reference to the evidence she swore. Dewey Howell told me she had seen Frank talking to Mary Phagan and had heard Frank call her "Mary". Dewey Howell also told me that she saw Frank one time on the 4th floor of the National Pencil Company's place of business, with his arms around a woman, off in a dark place near the stairway. She said she didn't know who this woman was, but she got a good look at