1644 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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been talking with Duffy just a moment before and Duffy had said: "Yonder's a Yellow I don't want to see." Eubanks asked him "Who is It?" Duffy replied, so Eubanks told me: "Hewt Garner, and Duffy replied "I'm going' to beat it," and immediately left. For three quarters of an hour I searched around among the box cars looking into many empty box cars, and hoping to find Duffy, but finally I left without finding him.

ROBERT L. WAGGONER, J. H. DORAL, Sworn for the State. We are detectives of the city police department of the city of Atlanta. We are acquainted with J.E.Duffy. Several months ago we saw Mr.Duffy in the office of the detective department. We do not know whether or not he came to the office upon his own initiative, or whether or not someone requested him to come. The first time we saw him was when he was there and talking about what he knew about his hand getting out at the National Pencil Company. Mr.Duffy stated that he had heard that it had been stated that the blood found on the factory floor possibly came from his finger when it was out. He stated that this was not true, that it could not have been possible. He stated as his reason the fact that he had some waste in his hand at the time his finger on his other hand was out and that he caught his finger at once in his other hand with the waste around it and held it tight catching whatever blood came from his hand in the waste and holding his finger tight with the waste so as to impede the flow of blood, and that he held in his hand in this way he went immediately out of the room and on into Mr.Frank's office.

H. E. DUFFY, Sworn for the State. I am the father of J.E. Duffy. About one month ago I was walking home from the Southern Railroad yards with L.P.Eubanks and L.P.Eubanks said to me: "We are getting your son, J.E.Duffy, have money, and we are taking his notes for it, but that don't make any difference, he will not have to pay it back."

H. A. GARNER, S. L. ROSSER, Sworn for the State. We know J.E. Duffy and together with the walked with Mr.Duffy, at the office of the Solicitor General, a short time after the murder of Mary Phagan and Mr.Duffy told us that when his finger was out at the National Pencil Company, that he had some waste and that he immediately wrapped it around his finger and held the waste and the injured