0788 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Placed about, it is an absolute impossibility for the best glass in the world or the best trained deputies to know exactly what is going on at any and all times or any reasonable part of the time; that the keys to practically all of "the cell blocks are carried by "convicted criminals", known as "trusties", who turn in and out parties entering or leaving cell blocks, and while they have general instructions covering their work, it is an impossibility for the inside deputy to know whether he is discharging his duty properly at all times; that the legally prepared and distributed in the county prison itself and practically by "convicted criminals" whose disregard for law and principle is written upon the original known to saw through solid steel bars and chains and escape to freedom; that it would be easy for anyone to reach or harm Respondent or to poison him through his food; that "trusty turnkeys" who are convicts XXX can easily swear as to admissions against the interest of this Respondent, even through such admissions might not be made; that the friends of the defendant in this case are allowed to pour constantly into the jail at all hours of the day and up to a late hour of the night, and are in close touch with many of the "trusty turnkeys" who are constantly in the jail; that "trusty turnkeys" attach to the jail, while still temporarily in the possession of the person before his transfer to the city prison or some other county prison where he was not acquainted or desired; that among those visitors was one whom this Respondent has every reason to believe was working in the interest of the Defendant; that this party presented Respondent with sandwiches which this Respondent did not eat, that this same party also offered to present Respondent with whiskey; that Respondent was threatened with physical harm while in the county prison to extort a fair, relative to his taking his life; that he was denounced as a liar, relative to his testimony in this case; and this Respondent believes that the possibility of his testimony being changed or of the construction physically of the county prison and the inadequate force allowed the Sheriff to oversee and care for it that Respondent ent and believes that over one of the parties friendly to the Defendant.

Already priming himself to swear that Respondent made certain admissions while he was in the county prison, which this Respondent did not make and which testimony will be false, but will be given, if given to help the defendant and damage this Respondent.

That this Respondent was approached while in the County Prison, mostly over the cell blocks, which said defendant is now being held in Lodge among the most desperate criminals one even being under sentence of death, and willing no doubt to swear or do anything necessary to help sever or prolong his life; that these desperate criminals, with whom this Respondent was lodged, had admitted things most damaging, and which could be false and untrue and known by then to be false and untrue.

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That Respondent advised and believes that the sheriff of this County has publicly proclaimed that the Defendant looks him in the eye like an innocent man; that the sheriff has aided the defendant from his friends; that the sheriff has expressed himself as not desiring that nigger returned to the county Prison, meaning Respondent; that the sheriff appears to all the requests made by Respondent are meant as a reflection upon the sheriff, but same was not so intended to be construed, nor was same so represented to the Court at the time of the transfer, nor any such allegations made before the Court, at the time of the passage of the order transferring Respondent back to the City Jail, nor does Respondent believe that same was in the mind of the Court at the time of the passage of the order, but that the same was allowed the sheriff and the construction of the jail made this change necessary by some other way, and same was requested by Respondent and in the judgment of the representative of