0652 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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and the man who I afterwards found out was detective Black,
hung his head and didn't say anything. Now, at this point,
these two witnesses, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Black differ with me
on the place where the conversation occurred,--I say, to the
best of my recollection, it occurred right there in the house
in front of my wife; they say it occurred just as I left
the house, in the automobile; but be that as it may, this is
the conversation: They asked me did I know Mary Phagan, I
told them I didn't; they then said to me, "didn't a little
girl with long hair hanging down her back come up to your of-
fice yesterday sometime for her money,--a little girl who
works in the tipping plant?" I says, "Yes, I do remember
such a girl coming up to my office, that worked in the tipping
room, but I didn't know her name was Mary Phagan." "Well,
we want you to come down right away with us to the factory,"
and I finished dressing; and as they had said they would
bring me right away back, I didn't have breakfast, but went
right on with them in the automobile, made the trip to the
undertaking establishment very quickly,--I mean, they made the
trip down town very quickly, and stopped at the corner of
Mitchell and Pryor Streets; told me they were going to take me
to the undertaker's first, that they wanted me to see the body
and see if I could identify the little girl. I went with them
to the undertaking establishment, and one of the two men asked
the attendant to show us the way into where the body was, and
the attendant went down a long dark passageway with Mr. Rogers
following, then I came, and Black brought up the rear; we
walked down this long passageway until we got to a place that
was apparently the door to a small room,--very dark in there,
the attendant went in and turned on the electric light, and
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