1752 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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sworn to by the said Ruth Robertson before G.W.Burke,Notary Public
of Fulton County, a copy of which affidavit is hereto annexed and
made a part of this affidavit. When the said Ruth Robertson related
the facts and statements contained in the affidavit, she and I were
the only persons in my rooms at the said Hotel Weinhoff. I person-
ally wrote out her statement of facts in long hand as she talked
and later dictated them to a stenographer in the form of the affi-
davit that she later executed. The said Ruth Robertson met me in
the evening of the 20th of November,1913 in a drug store, the name
of the proprietor I cannot give,now the street address of the drug
store, though I could go to it and designate the place where she
met me. I at this time called the notary public, G.W.Burke, and
in his presence the said Ruth Robertson carefully read over the
typewritten statement which she then and there executed and swore
that the same was true. The said G.W.Burke was not at any time
present in my rooms at said Hotel Weinhoff during the visit of the
said Ruth Robertson when she related the facts of this said affi-
davit, nor was he present during the time that I dictated from my
longhand notes of her statement to the stenographer who later
transcribed his stenographic notes as signed and sworn to by said
Ruth Robertson.

(The affidavit above mentioned is as follows)

"State of Georgia,
County of Fulton

Personally appeared Miss Ruth Robertson, residing at
74 Walton Street, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, who upon
oath deposes and says:

I was a witness in the case of the People against Leo M. Frank, and on the morning of the day that I testified in the case
a police detective whose name I believe to be Bea Rosser, came to
my house and conducted me to the office of Solicitor Dorsey. This
was about nine o'clock. I met Mr. Dorsey in a room in a building that I believe is opposite or in the vicinity of the
building in which the trial was conducted. After being introduced
to Mr. Dorsey by the detective, Mr. Dorsey greeted me very effusively
and said he was glad I had come down to see him, and he was sure I
would make a good witness and would help him out in the Frank case.
He questioned and talked to me in the room alone for about a half
an hour, beginning at about eight thirty o'clock. As I remember it
there was no proceedings in court on that day and I later in the
forenoon, at nine o'clock, met Mr. Rosser and Mr. Arnold in the
office of Mr. Rosser. I was there questioned by the conversation with
Mr. Dorsey, he asked me to go ahead and tell him all I knew about
Mr. Frank and Mary Phagan. I told him I knew nothing against char-
acter of Mr. Frank, except that I worked for him and so far as I knew
he was a gentleman in every respect, or words to that effect. He
asked me if I knew Mary Phagan and I told him I did. He insisted
that as I had worked at the National Pencil Company for a consider-
able time, that I must know something