1724 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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"What did you call me, Kelly?" I said "No, I didn't call you Kelly; I called you Terry - the name you gave me."

Fred Perkerson testifies by affidavit in substance as follows:

"My name is Fred Perkerson. I am employed by Mr. J. J. Woodside. About the latter part of the summer of 1915, I was sentenced to serve a term in Fulton county jail for drunkenness on the public highway and I served this sentence at the county jail and for practically this entire time I was allowed the freedom of the jail as a jail trusty, as the prisoners serving sentences are used to do the labor around the jail.

There was also a white prisoner serving a jail sentence whom the prisoners knew as Dr. Wrenn, as he helped the county physician and gave the sick medicines and looked after them when the county physician was not present at the jail. I have seen several of his brothers visit him at the county jail but their names I do not know. I have shined their shoes for them when they visited him at the jail. I have seen Jewish friends of Mr. Frank give Dr. Wrenn cigars and buy him drinks and I have carried papers from the jail office up to Mr. Frank, and Dr. Wrenn would sometimes request me to ask Mr. Frank to let him have some of the papers to read, when Mr. Frank got through reading them, and I have told Mr. Frank of this request of Dr. Wrenn and have carried some of the papers from Mr. Frank's cell to Dr. Wrenn.

While I was there I often carried meals to Conley's cell and also cleaned up his cell for him. Dr. Wrenn has talked to me and Frank Reese, who was also serving a jail sentence and who was also a trusty and who had access to Conley's cell and who helped clean up his cell at times. Dr. Wrenn would talk to us usually when Deputy Gillisand would go to the front to get his dinner. Dr. Wrenn told us that we had good chance to make some money. He said that both of us could go into Conley's cell wing together and then come out and say Conley had confessed to us that he had killed the girl. He told us that we could get lots of money for this - that the Jews would pay us well if we would do this. He told us that we would get out of jail after Christmas at the end of our jail sentences and that we would have no money and that this was our chance to get some money."