1712 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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after he had pretended to talk over the phone - that the detective
chief said that wasn't the only case that they had against me; that
they had me also for perjury in the Phagan case. Kelly said the
chief of detectives said to keep me there till he came. Then both
Kelly and Terry commenced talking to me and they pretended to
wait for the chief of detectives.
"After awhile somebody came in that they said was the chief of
detectives. He didn't have any uniform. The best description I
can give of this man who pretended to be the chief of detectives
is as follows:He was a tall man, about like Mr. Pat Campbell, whose
beard came down to a sharp point and whose moustache was clipped off
short. All three of them then began to talk to me about the Frank
case and what I had sworn on the Frank case. All three of them told
me I had sworn a lie and had to come up and tell the truth or go
to jail. I said I had told the truth about it. He said No, I had
not told the truth and if I did not tell the truth about it, I
would go to jail. I said 'I told the truth and that is all I know.'
He said 'You know you never came to town with Mary Phagan on the
car.' He said 'You know that Black put you up to this, and we are
going to make it hot for him.' He rung a bell down stairs and they
brought writing paper and a pencil and the chief of detectives com-
menced writing, and wrote three pages and then read them over to me.
He commenced talking to me and told me I was going to have to say
this and if I didn't stick to it, I would have to come back to Bir-
mingham and serve a sentence there. About this time he said he had
to go home and get his breakfast; that he would see me after break-
fast and bring a stenographer.
"This was in November, 1913. I got to Birmingham about 3
o'clock in the morning and they kept talking to me and did not let
me go to sleep all night. Terry then took me out to get something
to eat and told me to go ahead and stick to this story; he was go-
ing to take me to New Orleans and they could not bother me after
I got out of Birmingham. He took me on down and got me something
to eat and brought me back up to the Birmingham hotel. This time
the chief of detectives brought a man, a stenographer, with him.
I didn't say anything, but the chief told me to listen; that I was
going to have to say that. He said he was going to have it copied