0755 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 37.

STATEMENT OF JAMES CONLEY OF MAY 24,1913.

STATE OF GEORGIA,

COUNTY OF FULTON.

Personally appeared before the undersigned, a Notary Public, in and for the above State and County, James Conley, who being sworn on oath says:

On Friday evening before the holiday, about four minutes to one o'clock, Mr. Frank come up on the fourth floor where I was coming to his office.

That was the Isle and asked me to come to his office.

That was on the fourth floor where I was working, and when I went down to the office he asked me could I write and I told him yes I could write a little bit, and he give me a scratch pad and told me what to put on it, and told me to put on there "dear mother", a long tall, black negro did this by himself," and he told me to write it two or three times on there.

I wrote it on a single rule pad.

He went to his desk and pulled out another pad, a brownish looking sort of pad, and looked at his pencil while I was writing, but when I wanted yes, but they didn't have any smoking in the factory, and he pulled out a box of cigarettes that cost 15¢ a box, and in that box he had $2.50, two paper dollars and two quarters, and I taken one of the cigarettes and he had some money in the box, and he said that was all right I was welcome to that for I was a good working negro around there, and then he asked me where Gordon Bailey (Snowball they call him) was, and I told him on the elevator, and he asked me if I knew the night watchman, and I told him no sir not much.

I didn't know him, and he asked me if I ever saw him down at the building on Forsyth Street, and I told him yes I seen him down there, but I couldn't tell him more about that then I could on the office, and Frank was laughing and jollying and going on in the office, and I asked him not to take out any money for that watch I owed, for I didn't have any to spare, and he told me he wouldn't, but he would see me getting some money a little bit later.

He told me he had some wealthy people in Brooklyn, and then he held his head up and looking out of the corner of his eyes and said "why should I hang" and that's all I remember him saying to me.

When I asked him not to take out any money for the watch he said you ought not to buy any watch, for that wife of mine wants me to buy her an automobile, but he would loan me money any time.

I never did see his wife.

On Tuesday morning after the holiday on Saturday, before he was locked up, he come up where I was sleeping and held his head over me and whispered to me to be a good boy and that was all he said to me.

(Signed) James Conley

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of May, 1913.

(Signed) G.C. February, Notary Public, Fulton County, Georgia.

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DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 39.

STATEMENT OF JIM CONLEY, MAY 28, 1913.

STATE OF GEORGIA,

COUNTY OF FULTON.

Personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, in and for the above State and County, James Conley, who being duly sworn on oath says:

I make this statement, my second statement, in regard to the murder at the National Pencil Factory that I want to the pencil factory.

(Signed) Jim Conley