1622 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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leaving this out of court, but unless I did, they would bring it up
in court against me, and I told Lonnie that he was the foreman
there and ought to know whether we got drunk or not, and he said
he didn't know anything about it. We went out there and somebody
had a half pint he got at the club, and another girl and I slipped
around and got it and two more came around and drank some of it.
At that time I was only 16 years old and the girls who drank this
with me were fifteen or younger. It was stolen as a joke out of
the pocket of one of the boys working there; we drank it publicly
and with the knowledge of everybody and as a joke. There was no
secret about it. We made no effort to keep it secret. None of the
girls were in the least bit under the influence of it. The incident
caused a good deal of fun and that was all there was to it. I never
heard any remarks made about it until Lonnie Quinn brought it up.
Lonnie Quinn, in his talk with me, made it appear that Frank's side
were going to make a big scandal out of it and it had the effect
of scaring me, because I did not want my name made public in con-
nection with that, unless all the facts were truly shown, and I did
not wish the names of the other girls connected with it made public.
Lonnie wound up his talk with me by insisting that I should go to
see C.W.Burke and at last Lonnie went and told somebody and in a
few minutes C.W.Burke came to see me. Lonnie got up to drinks and
Burke talked to me. Burke wound up the conversation by asking me to
come up to the office of Rosser, Brandon, Slaton & Phillips on the
7th floor of the Grant Building. I didn't go. Afterwards Burke met
me on the street and again wanted to see about my working for him.
The result was that I consented to work for Burke. I was not a sten-
ographer, and could not write on the typewriter. Burke stated
that he only wanted me to work during the afternoons, and he paid
me $2.00 per day for the afternoons. I worked for him about a week.
Burke wanted me to go around and see the girls who had sworn for
the State on the trial of Frank, about his general bad character, and
he wanted me to talk to them and report to him what they said, and
see if they would not change their evidence. He then told me that
what I swore on the stand didn't amount to anything because I wasn't
cross examined, and said it was not recorded. I saw several of the
girls among them Helen Ferguson and Carrie Smith, and they told me
they would not change their evidence because what they swore was