1675 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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killed this girl with you working there, and had you to help him do away with her, I would go up and tell the detectives so they would turn you out". He said, "Lord have mercy, hush, you are trying to get me in a trap too, because I don't know nothing in the world about it, except than I found the lady, and I hope and trust the Lord will show everybody on earth who killed her. The Lord knows and detectives will know some day just who killed the lady, because I am a innocent man". I asked Lee who he thought killed this lady, asked why they had to arrest him, because he found her. He answered and told me he had no thoughts, and he didn't know, but he knowed one thing, that my boss, he was over me, he acted very strange. He told me to come back at half past three or four o'clock. I have forgotten what it was, half past three or four. I did so, as he asked me to, and I come back. He told me I was just a few minutes early, or late (I forgot which he said) but that was all right, and did not begin work I could go on out in town and come back. Well, friend, I will say to you it looks mighty strange that Mr. Frank called me up about 7 or 8 o'clock, and asked me how was everything. He had never called me and asked me before. I thought that looked mighty suspicious and strange, but that is what I know, brother-friend I don't know nothing, I don't know nothing. If they hang me, or kill me, or turn me loose, or do whatever they want to with me, it will be all right, because Lord knows, the detectives will know, everybody on earth will know that I know nothing concerning that lady getting killed". Next Lee was taken out of the cell from me, and when he come back I asked him where had he been. He told me they had taken him and put in the cell with Mr. Frank. I say, "Well, partner, you better make it up in your mind to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, because these white folks kill and lynch a nigger, whether he is guilty or not. If I knowed who killed her I would sure say so. I am going to tell the truth in my case". He told me he didn't know. He said, "I'll tell you what did happen. Mr. Frank told me if I kept talking so much