0758 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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I said "I got too hot in there," and he said "I see you are sweating", when he opened the door he was staring to step out and his eyes were looking large then suddenly look, and he jerked the door open and I was right in front of the door and them Mr. Frank said to me to sit down in a chair.

In the one that turns all-the-way-around-and when I sat down he told me to get up and shut the door that was the door between his office and the stenographer's office, and I got up and shut it and said "Jim can you write."

He was sitting down facing me and he looked back his hair and I said "Yea sir, I can write a little bit." Frank said, and then he give me a pencil that he got off the top of his desk, and there was nothing on it, he turned a sheet over for me to write, and-then he told me what to put on there, he told me to put on there "dear mother, a long tall black negro did this, he told me to listen when dear mother a long tall black negro did this, he said "a" and when I said don't put no period there, and he said that some negro and he said now don't put no period there, and he said "the" and he said "it means just one person like yourself" and he told me to write it again and I written it, and he looked at it and slapped me on the back and said "that's all right, boy."

Then Mr. Frank wrote it again in I written it for him three times.

Then Mr. Frank read the book in his chair and asked if I wanted a smoke and I told him yes sir, and he taken out a cigarette for himself and handed me the box and he sort of turned around when he handed me the box and I taken out a cigarette and lit it and saw some money that was all right to keep them, of cigarettes back and some money in the box and he said that was and I told him I have some tobacco in my pocket and he said "why should I hang, I have wealthy people in Brooklyn".

I didn't know what he was talking about, I was winking and rubbing his hands together and touching me on the shank with his foot and took a deep breath, he said "why should I hang" and shook his head and rubbed his hands together then he asked me where was snowball (Gordon Bailey) and I said "sir, I don't know sir" and he asked me did the night watchman personally, I told him by asking him and he asked me if I had seen him in the basement or any time and I told him no sir, that he would have to ask the firemen about that for he was down in the basement more than any of us was, and when I told Mr. Frank that he got stuck-one finger to his mouth and said "sh--sh" that's all right, and then Mr. Frank told me he was going to take that and had written and send it off in a letter to his people and he wrote, and recommend me to them because I was a good working negro around there, and he liked me, and when Mr. Frank said that he said "all don't take out another dollar for that watch you want to buy a watch, because that big fat wife of mine wanted me to buy her an automobile and I didn't buy it and she won't have nothing to put that for talking about me at first, and then Mr. Frank told me when he wrote that letter he would not forget about me and he said "well I will see you later after this" and I said "all right sir" and then he reached in his pocket and pulled out his watch and said "it is nearly time for me to be going out to dinner but I didn't love right now.

Then I asked Mr. Frank was that all he wanted with me and now and he said yes, and then I asked him if I could get a little money out of my wages but all the time though he was kind and dolling and going on with me and I began to think it was something, for a white man to but paying was right to the top of the house and said "why should I hang, I have wealthy people in Brooklyn".

I never did know where Mr. Frank's home was, in Brooklyn this was all the time.

Then Mr. Frank said "I