0761 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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got a piece of cloth, and I got a big wide piece of cloth and
come back there to the men's toilet where she was, and I tied her
up, and I taken her and brought her up there to a little dressing
room, carrying her on my right shoulder, and she got too heavy for
me and she slipped off my shoulder and fell on the floor right
there at the dressing room and I hollered for Mr. Frank to come
come down there and he was too busy at his work, and Mr. Frank
down there to me and he was were standing at the top of the ladder
the feet, her head and feet were sticking out of the cloak room by
then we brought her on to the elevator, nor Frank carrying her by
the feet and me by the shoulders, and we brought her to the elevator
and then Mr. Frank says "Wait, let me get the key" and he went into
the office and got the key and come back and unlocked the elevator
door and started the elevator down.
Mr. Frank turned it on himself.
and we went down to the basement and Mr. Frank helped me to take
it off the elevator and he picked it up and put it on my shoulder again,
and Mr. Frank he went around like he wanted to see the trap door to
see if anybody was coming.
I taken her back there and taken
the cloth from around her and I taken the trap and taken
them up upstairs right where her body was lying, and brought
them down and untied the cloth and brought them back and throwed
them on the trashpile in front of the furnace, and Mr. Frank was
standing at the trap door at the head of the ladder.
He didn't
tell me where to put the things.
I layed her body down with her
head towards the elevator, lying on her stomach and the left side
of her face was on the ground and the right side of her face was
up, and both arms were laying down with: her body by the side of
her head.
We came on back in the first floor.
I stopped where
Mr. Frank was and I says to him that it was mighty hard to go through
all that way from where she was lying to where I got to where
he was, and he said "get that was a tiresome job, because I had to tote it
all the way from where she was lying to the dressing room, and in
the basement from the elevator to where I left her.
Then Mr. Frank
hops off the elevator before it got even with the second floor
and he makes a stumble and he hits the floor and watches with
both hands, and he went on around to the sink to wash his hands, and
I went and cut off the motor and I stood and waited for Mr. Frank
to come from around there washing his hands, and then we went on
into the office and Mr. Frank couldn't hardly keep still, he then
was all the time moving about from one office to the other, then
he come back into the stenographer's office and come back and he
told me "Here comes Emma Clark and Corinthia Hall, come here and he opened
the wardrobe and told me to get in there, and I was so slow about
going he told me to hurry up, damn it, and Mr. Frank was who ever that
was come in the office, they didn't stay so very long till Mr.
Frank was gone about 7 or 8 minutes, end I was still in the ward-
robe and he never had come to let me out, and Mr. Frank come back
neck and I said "Godness alive, you kept me in there a mighty long
time" and Mr. Frank said "Yes, I see I did, you are sweating" and
then me and Mr. Frank set down in a chair, Frank swearing and
cigarettes and he give me the box and asked me to smoke a
ette and he handed me a box of matches and I handed him the cigarette
back, and I handed him the cigarette box and he told me that was
all right, I could keep that, and old Jim some money in
it and he told me what was all right I could keep that, and Mr.
Frank then asked me to write a few lines on that paper, a white
scratch pad he had there, and he told me what to put on there,
and I asked him what he was going to do with it and he told me to
just go ahead and write, and then after I got through writing Mr.
Frank looked at it and he told me that I had, am I write looked
as the body of the note and it was all right, then Mr. Frank looked
he told me that was all right ah out me.
for me to keep my mouth
shut.
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