1650 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Q-You do not know anything you want to sell do you? A. No sir,
indeed I don't.
Q. You have told us everything that happened? A. Yes sir, as far
as I know.
Q. You were on the floor above the office floor? A. I am on the
very top floor of the building.
Q. Your little daughter says she heard you talking about Mr.Frank?
A. She is sadly mistaken. My little daughter is not responsible
for what she says.
Q. How old is she? A. No sir.
Q. What is the trouble? A. She tells little
tales.
Q. What makes her tell them. A. I don't know.
Questioned by Mr.Rosser:
Q. How is it you should be the first person to come here and talk
like you do when there are a dozen others tell the same thing your
daughter did? Are they all telling a story? A. I cant help that.
Q. You are a married woman and know about things. You never
saw any of these foremen tell or the girl's legs? A. I have seen
them laughing and talking with their hands on the girl?
Q. Have you seen any of them with their hands on the girl? A. I have seen
them jolly her.
Q. What do you call jolly? A. Laugh and talk.
Q. Is this as far as they went? A. I didn't see any harm in that.
I didn't pay any attention to anybody's business but my own.
Q. What about when the girls sat down and ate their dinner, the
foremen and boys getting down to where they could see and peeping
up under their dresses at their legs? A. I haven't anything to do
about that; I am not taking care of other people's business.
Questioned by Mr.Dorsey.
Q. You say your little girl tells stories? A. She certainly does.
Q. When did she ever tell a story about A. I suppose that's my
business; it does not concern others at all.
Q. We want to know the trouble. A. I told you -
Questioned by Mr.Dorsey:
Q/ Hasn't she good sense? A. I suppose she has, but she don't use it.
Q. The people at the factory give her a good name. A. But you dont
know.
Questioned by Mr.Rosser:
Q. You mean your daughter is no account? A. I dont want that; I
didnt say those words.
Q. Just explain it your own way. A. I said she told stories.
PLENLE MINER, Sworn for the State: deputy sheriff of Fulton Coun-
ty, Georgia, and in making investigation with reference to the
death of Mary Phagan, I, in company with detective D.S.Rosser,
went to the Swift Soap Works and found Mrs.Maud Bailey,daughter
of Mrs.May Barrett at work there. She told us some things and also
said in substance as follows:"That her mother,Mrs.May Barrett,was
at work at that time at the National Pencil Company's place of
business and that she was at the National Pencil Company
on Saturday, April 26,1913 at some time. She said that her mother
knew a good deal about it,and that she knew a good deal more about
it than she would tell, and that she would gave to get something
out of it before she would tell." She said we would have a pretty
hard time getting it out of her, that she was mad at her (Maud
Bailey) because she had told it. I carried Mrs.Maud Bailey in my
buggy to the office of Hugh M.Dorsey, the Solicitor General, and
136 S.D.Rosser, the city detective,returned to the office on the street