1674 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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His voice was loud. "Why, Mr. Jacobs says he has known you
from five or six or ten years and never known you to have over
$20.00. Now, Mr. Allen I am sorry I said what I did but if
you will you can state the truth and nothing but the truth,
and that is what we want out of you". He didn't say the de-
tectives gave me the money, then, but he said: "You know some-
body gave you that money to leave town with and you are a
liar every time you say they didn't do it".

When Mr. Jacobs left Mr. Burns had a talk with me pri-
vately. He asked me what did I know of the Mary Phagan case. I
replied: "Mr. Burns, do you want me to tell you the truth or
to tell you a story?" He said: "Mr. Allen we don't ask any-
body to tell us lies, but the plain truth". He said: "Now,
Mr. Allen go ahead, just state to me what you know about it".
I replied again: "Mr. Burns, truth is the light, ain't it?"
He said "Yes". I said: "I knows nothing at all about the lady
getting killed, no more than I just heard". I says: "I was
one time asked by Mr. Black, a city detective in Atlanta, Ga.,
and also Mr. Harry Scott, a Pinkerton man. I was charged to
go down and get in the cell with Newt Lee and find out what
Newt Lee had to say fully and in detail. I told him Newt said
he was innocent. Then I went into detail and told him what
happened about as follows:

"When I got in the cell with Newt Lee in the city of Atlanta,
I was in there about 20 minutes, and I spoke to Newt Lee
first. I asked him what was his trouble. He replied to me
that he had no trouble whatever. I says "Why are you in here?"
He asked me had I knowed about the white lady had got killed
at the pencil factory. I told him no, that I was a stranger
in town. In order to get in with Newt Lee I told him a false-
hood about killing a white man. Newt Lee told me that he hadn't
done nothing and that he was innocent. Lee told me that he
knowed nothing in the world concerning what he was put in
there for. I told him if I was him I would tell the truth. I
wouldn't lay here in jail. I would tell just what I knowed
about it. I said, "If you thought or knowed that white man