1658 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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want, or more than you will ever be able to dispose of. Do you ever
go to talk with Jim Conley, and I says I am on my way there now.
And he said I want you to do something for me. I want you to go and state your own
price. I am dangerous, don't let get about you and put a drop in his
food and give it to him and I will guarantee you will have a pot
of money and will be a free girl before tomorrow night, and I said
he aint done nothing to me and he said I know, but it is our man
he has got and what do you care about a negro hanging, all you want
is money, and I said I don't want the money and he said if you
refuse the money you are a damn fool and walked off. I don't know
his name, but he comes up there with Elkin boys. He has black
hair and his hair stands up and his hat pulled down on one side.
JAMES CONLEY, Sworn for the State. I am now in the Fulton County
jail, where I have been ever since the trial of Mr. Frank in July
of last year. I am located in the wing on the North side of the jail
on the first floor. No other person is kept in there with me. I
know Annie Maud Carter, who was a negro woman prisoner and who stay
ed in the jail for a few months. The first time I saw her was
upon one occasion when I was carried up to the court house for
trial. I was not tried at this time, however. I saw her in the
jail a number of times after that. I never talked with Annie Maud
Carter about all of my affairs. I never discussed my case with
Annie Maud Carter. At one time she did come talk to me about the
case and asked what I expected they would do with me, and I told her
I didn't know. It is not true that I told Annie Maud Carter that
only God knew who did the murder; nor did I tell her that I was so
near guilty that I felt lost and that I had lost all hope. I did
not have all confidence in her, nor tell her any secrets. I was
warned by a negro named Fred Pirkerson, who was also a prisoner in
jail, that Annie Maud Carter was crooked. She had told me that she
first man she ever had anything to do with was a Jew and that she
could count the negroes she had ever had anything to do with. She
did suggest to me that she would marry me right here in the jail if
I would consent. She talked to me usually through the bars of my
cell door, which was usually kept locked. It is not true that during
Christmas week that I had told her that I would make any statement
to her if she would marry me. I did not tell her that I murdered
Mary Phagan; nor did I tell her that it was so plainly shown on Mr.