0159 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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certain that this girl either came to her death orpossibly
the blow on her head at any rate, a very short time, perhaps
three quarters of an hour or half an hour or forty minutes,
or something like that, before death occurred. I then began a
number of experiments with some gentlemen who had normal stom-
ache with a view of judging of the time.
" I had the mother of the girl to cook some cabbage and it
was given to people with absolutely normal stomachs; that I
know from investigations of their stomachs.
" I will state in general terms there were only four persons
experimented upon, and two of them were experimented upon twice
in this connection, and in every single instance the effect on
the cabbage was practically the same, that is it was almost
entirely digested, notwithstanding the fact that I had those
men given some pieces just as large as were found in Mary Pha-
gan's stomach, and I took pains to see to it that they did
not chew this cabbage, but they ate it very rapidly, in three
or four minutes, gulped it down, so that we would have as near-
ly as possible the conditions that I was certain existed at
the time Mary Phagan ate her last meal. The result of this,
you gentlemen have seen.
The witness here was permitted over objection, as above stated
to exhibit several small glass jars containing what purported
to be partly digested cabbage, resulting from experiments
made.
"Now I know from my observations of the cases that I present
here that the digestion of these persons was normal. I did not
make a microscopic examination of the stomachs of the gen-
tlemen experimented upon, but I made an examination of their
stomachs to see how they secrete their food, which is the only
way we can tell. You can take the fluids and tell, whether the
stomach is normal, it is the only way we possess.
"I merely wish to call attention to the fact that I made
experiments which varied in the time that the contents were
in the person's stomach, from 38 minutes, which was the time
the contents were in the stomach of the boy 14 years of age,
to 70 minutes, in another one of my cases, and the results