1685 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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MISS NELLIE WOOD, Witness for prosecution in rebuttal, was
then sworn.
DIRECT EXAMINATION.

Questions by Mr. Dorsey:
Q. What is your name? A. Nellie Wood.
Q. Miss Wood, where do you live? A. I live at 28 Orme wood Park.
Q. Are you acquainted with the general character of Leo M.
Frank? A. No sir, not knowing him but two days. I didn't
know him but two days.
Q. That's what people say about his general character, what
people say about him that is prior to April 26th, 1913.
Were you acquainted with his general character on Leo M.
Frank? A. Just answer the question, yes or no, whether much or little.

(Mr. Arnold:--Now, if the Court please, she says she didn't
know it.
Mr. Dorsey:-- She hasn't answered the question yet.)

Q. Are you acquainted with the general character of Leo M.
Frank? A. No sir, I only knew him two days. No sir, I
do not know it.
Q. Miss Wood, you had a conversation--------

(Mr. Arnold:--Now I object to that, Your Honor.
Mr. Dorsey:-- I have been misled by the witness.

I told the Solicitor-General before he put me on the
stand that I was in the office of Leo M. Frank on one occa-
sion when the said Frank made an indecent proposal to me. My
experience as a trained nurse enabled me to fully understand
and know what the said Frank intended. His language to me on
that occasion was about as follows:
He said, "You know I am not like other people", and draw-
ed his chair closer up to me; says, "I don't think you will
understand me", and put his hands on me, and I resisted and
got up and opened the door. He said, well he wasn't going to
hurt me anyway, says, "You don't understand what I mean", and
then he tried to pacify me, and convince me that he didn't
mean it the way I had taken it.

Soon after I appeared as a witness on the trial of the
case of the State vs. Leo M. Frank, some man, whose name I do
not now know, came to see me. Afterwards C. W. Burke came to
see me. The first man who came to see me came in an automo-
bile which I recognized to be the same automobile that C. W.
Burke visited me in. C. W. Burke did not himself ever offer
me any money to swear for Leo M. Frank, but the first man who
approached me, the man who came in the automobile in which C.
W. Burke visited me in.

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