1748 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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interviewed one Albert McKnight in the Gould Building, in the City
of Atlanta, Georgia, and the result of my interview with Albert Mo-
Knight appeared in the Sunday issue of the Hearst's Sunday American
of February 22, 1914, and said interview correctly appeared therein.
I closely questioned Albert McKnight regarding the affidavit re-
ferred to, and McKnight stated to me that the affidavit made to C.
W. Burke, a notary public for Fulton County, Georgia, on January 19,
1914, was in every way the truth. I asked him if C.W.Burke or any
other person offered him any inducement or reward for the making
of said affidavit, and McKnight stated to me that he made the affi-
davit of his own free will and accord, without any promise whatso-
ever from C.W.Burke or any other source, and he made it simply be-
cause it was the truth. C.W.Burke was present and did not in any
way interfere with my examination of said Albert McKnight. Mo-
Knight stated to me repeatedly that he regretted that he had utter-
ed lies against Mr.Frank and expressed himself as anxious at the
time to rectify the wrong he had done Mr.Frank and set himself
straight in the eyes of the world. I have read a copy of Albert
McKnight's affidavit, dated January 19, 1914, which is hereto at-
tached and marked Exhibit A, and identify it as an exact copy of
the original affidavit which I read to said Albert McKnight and
which McKnight identified as his own affidavit.
Exhibit A referred to above is as follows:
"State of Georgia, ) Fulton Superior Court to July Term, 1915.
vs. ) Conviction of Murder, New Trial.
Leo M. Frank, ) Extraordinary Motion for new trial.
Personally appeared Albert McKnight, 21 years of age,
residing at rear of 17 Georgia Avenue, in Atlanta, Fulton County,
Georgia, who deposes and says:
Deponent says that the present time employed at the store of
Beek & Gregg, and deponent says he was at work through most of the
month of April, 1913.
Deponent says he was a witness for the State in the case
of State of Georgia vs. Leo M.Frank, and testified to a story
that had been prepared for him by R.L.Graves, a white man employed
by Beek & Gregg.
Deponent says that the story prepared by R.L.Graves was
not the truth and that the evidence deponent gave at the above
named trial was not the truth; deponent now says that it is true
that his wife Minola was employed at the home of Mr.Selig - where
Mrs.Frank resided, and it is true that on Saturday, April 26,
1913, deponent went to the Selig home to see his wife, but deponent says
that he heard the 6:30 home a little before 12 o'clock noon and
that he heard the 12:30 home whistle at the Southern Railway
Shops and also heard the 12:30 o'clock whistle at the Empire
talking with his wife; and deponent says when he heard the 12:30
whistle blow he left the Selig home and walked up Georgia Avenue
to Pulliam Street, then up Pulliam Street to Bass Street and
his own home, which at this time was in the rear of 261