1635 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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photographs made thereof. From an examination of said note and the photographs made by the use of the color plate, in my opinion the number of the order blank note is "1818" Mr.J.H.Alexander,an attorney at law, in this city, showed to me the photograph of this note attached to a pamphlet which he has been distributing with reference to the Frank case, with reference to the notes found by the body of Mary Phagan. It is evident that this is a photograph of the original note, or of a photograph of the one which has been touched up in certain places. Mr.Alexander himself admitted to me that he had the engraving company to touch up the same in certain places. He said that this touching up was done for the purpose of eliminating the dirty background, and to bring out the writing more clearly.

(Exhibit "A" attached to this affidavit is a photographic copy of one of the original notes found by the body of Mary Phagan, which was written on an order blank. The order number is very indistinct on this. Exhibit "B" is a photographic copy of the same note with the order number brought out more clearly. Exhibit B being an exact copy of the State's Exhibit 2, appearing on page 252 of the Brief of the Evidence, filed in the Supreme Court.)

HENRY A. ALEXANDER, Sworn for the State. The engravers plates used in the printing of the pictures of the two murder notes in my pamphlets distributed to the public in February and March, 1914, were the identical plates without alteration, change or retouching of any kind whatsoever that were used in the printing of the same notes in the printed copy of the brief of evidence of said case filed in the Supreme Court of Georgia and accepted as correct pictures of said notes both by the defense and by the State. The picture of the yellow note on which the order number in question was shown appeared in said brief of evidence on page 253 of said printed brief. Said brief of Evidence was printed by the Foote & Davies Company, of Atlanta, Ga. prior to December 15, 1913, when it was delivered, and the plate of said yellow murder note was made by the Southern Engraving Company some time prior to that date. I had nothing whatever to do with the making of the photographs or of the plate of said yellow murder note. The pamphlet referred to was written and distributed in the months of February and March, 1914, a month and a half after said plates had been made. It was also printed by the Foote & Davies Company, and I simply got permission of the attorneys for the defense to use