0660 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Virgind. I chatted with them a few minutes, and I noticed
that the people who were going in to see the body were standing
in line and moving in, and that others from the factory were
going in and I thought I would go in too and pay my respects,
and I went and stood in line, and went into the room again and
staid a few minutes in the mortuary chamber; the little girl
had been cleaned up, her hair had all been cleaned and smoothed
out, and there was a new white sheet over the rest of her
body. I returned to the front of the undertaking establish-
ment, and stood chatting with Herbert Schiff and Mr. Darley
until the party with whom we had made the arrangements
came up, and we gave them the keys with instructions as to
watching the plant that night. Then Mr. Darley and Mr.
Schiff and myself went down to police headquarters and went up
into Chief Lanford's office, and the three of us stood talking
there, answering all sorts of questions that not only Chief
Lanford, but the other detectives, would shoot at us,
and finally Mr. Darley said he would like to talk to Newt Lee;
then he went into another room, and I presume they brought
Newt Lee up from the cell, so he could talk to him. After
Newt Lee was gone, the detectives showed us the two notes and
the pad back with still a few unused leaves to it, and the
pencil that they claimed they had found down in the basement
near the body. Of course, Mr. Schiff and myself looked at
those notes and tried to decipher them, but they were written
exceedingly dim, and were very rambling and incoherent, and
neither of us could recognize the handwriting (State's Ex. Y)
sense out of them at all. One of these notes was written on
a sheet of pencil pad paper, the same kind as that of this
sheet which still remained on the pad back; the other was
written on a yellow sheet