1673 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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to see me and how I was feeling. He asked me did I know
Mr. Jacobs of Atlanta. He asked me whether I was sick enough
to have a doctor, if I was he would have one come in right
away. I said "No, sir, not now". He went away Just then and
went in Mr. Jake Jacobs, a man who keeps a pawn shop at 120
Decatur st., Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Jacobs shook hands with me and
called me "Mr. Allen". (Mr. Burns called me Mr. Allen when
he talked to me too.) I asked Mr. Jacobs: "Why do you call me
Mr. Allen, now that you got up here too?" He told me I was
in a different country, and I was Just as much here as anybody
else. I told him "Well, I know that". He said my wife was
wanting to see me mighty bad. Mr. Jacobs asked me: "Why did
you leave Atlanta?" I said: "Why, Mr. Jacobs?" He said:
"Your wife told me that the detectives all told her to keep
Allen out of the city because they are wanting him here". How
come you to leave Atlanta", he asked me again. "I left At-
lanta of my free will", I told him Jacobs said: "You know you
are lying. I am a good mind to knock you over from this ta-
ble". I asked him "Why do you speak that way?" He answered,
"Because you know you are lying. You were paid to go away from
that place and you gave your wife $35.00 to pay her rent with
and you pawned your things to get away you left". He said,
"You know who gave you that money or you to leave town---
those city detectives---and you won't tell it because you are
afraid of them. You don't have to go back down there. You
are scared of them. How many times have I seen John Black say
'Come here, you black son of a bitch' and slap your jaws". I
told him it wasn't true that I had not been paid anything to
leave at all.

Before I finished talking with Mr. Jacobs, Mr. William
J. Burns came in. He said at first: "Mr. Allen, the only
thing we want of you is the truth and nothing but the truth.
You know when you said that you didn't know any of the par-
ties personally---Jim Conley or Leo Frank or Newt Lee---that
you is absolutely lying. You know when you say that you had
$320 of your own honest, clean money, that you worked and
shoveled and got hold of in Atlanta--- that you are a dam lie!"