1716 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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did witness tell Wrenn he had told some lienor that witness had been made to tell the lien by detective John Black. Witness did not tell Wrenn that he was going to take a hobo trip; that he was in bad with the Probation officer and the detectives and that witness was afraid of John Black. Witness did not promise to make any affidavit for Wrenn anywhere or say that he was afraid to make an affidavit in Atlanta.'

"Each and every statement charged by Burke in his affidavit of May 5th, 1914 as having been made by deponent to Jimmie Wrenn in Atlanta, is absolutely and unqualifiedly false. And if Jimmie Wrenn made these statements to C. W. Burke as coming from witness, said Jimmie Wrenn was "stuffing" said Burke with falsehoods which he, said Wrenn, manufactured. Witness's affidavit given to Hugh M.Dorsey, Solicitor and sworn to and subscribed before an officer on Monday, May 4th, 1914, is a true statement of witness's dealings with Jimmie Wrenn."

John R. Black testifies in affidavit in substance as follows:

"On the first day of the Coroner's investigation into the death of Mary Phagan, Mr. J.W.Coleman, step father of said Mary Phagan, told me about 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon that there was a boy down in the lobby of the station house who had told him on Sunday and Monday nights that he had gone to town Mary Phagan on Saturday, April 26th, 1913, and that this boy told him he sat on the same seat with Mary. Mr. Coleman also stated to me that this boy down in the lobby had described to him Mary's leaving the car at Marietta and Forsyth streets, her going south along Forsyth St. toward the National Pencil Factory, her conversation in which she told him she was afraid of Leo M. Frank, etc.

"Mr. Coleman and I went to the lobby and talked to the boy who was George Epps, later a witness in this case, - and George Epps, admitted to witness the things Mr. Coleman had communicated to witness. George made a statement to witness embodying what he later testified in the case. Witness called the coroner out and George Epps repeated the same things to him.

"The next I heard of said George Epps was the next day when George called me up by phone and asked me to come to the Spring

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