1616 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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of her affidavit. Directly after the murder, knowing that my daughter had been working at the pencil company's place of business, I talked to her about the same and she told me exactly what she said on the stand, namely that Leo M.Frank knew Mary Phagan, that he had called her "Mary" and that he spent a good deal more time than was necessary at Mary's machine talking to her. She also told me that this man Leo M.Frank was a man of general bad character, though she did not tell me of the incident with reference to Frank's trying to give her seven dollars and arrange for her to see him the next week, until she told it today in the office of the solicitor general, as set out in her affidavit which she signed and which I have seen. I did not know that she would be a witness in the case, and I did not know that she had been a witness in the case until I saw it in the paper.

RUTH ROBERTSON. Sworn for the State. I made no affidavit in connection with this case, except the affidavit that I made in Mr. Dorsey's office. I have made no affidavit such as the one which is set out in the extraordinary motion for new trial, in which it is represented that I have made a great many statements. I have had exhibited to me by detective Bass Rosser, what purports to have been an original affidavit and I have carefully examined the signature, and I swear positively that same is not my signature thereto and that same is a forgery.

S. L. ROSSER. Sworn for the State. I am a city detective. At the direction of Solicitor General Dorsey I procured from Hon. Stiles Hopkins, one of Mr. Frank's attorneys, the original affidavit offered by Mr. Frank upon a hearing of the extraordinary motion for a new trial of Miss Ruth Robertson. I immediately carried same to Miss Robertson and exhibited same to her and she carefully examined the signature to same, and said affidavit is the one referred to in the above affidavit of Miss Robertson which I have read.

MRS. MAMIE EDMUNDS (formerly Mamie Kitchen) Sworn for the State. Attached, marked Exhibit "A" is the entire evidence, questions and answers, chief examination and cross examination, which I gave on the trial of the case against Leo M.Frank. I have read over this evidence carefully and now state that every word was testified to by me is true and that the attached exhibit "A" is a full, complete