1217 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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She had left the plant hardly five minutes when Lemmie Quinn, the
foreman of the plant, came in and told me that I could not keep him away
from the factory, even though it was a holiday; at which I smiled and kept
on working. He first asked me if Leo Frank had come down and I told him
he had not and he turned around and left. I continued work until I finished
this work and these requisitions and I looked at my watch and noticed that
it was a quarter to one. I called my home up on the telephone, for I knew
that my wife and my mother-in-law were going to the matinee and I wanted
to know when they would have lunch. I got my house and Minola answered
the phone and she answered me back that they would have lunch immediately
and for me to come right on home. I then gathered my papers together and
went up stairs to see the boys on the top floor. This must have been, since
I had just looked at my watch, 10 minutes to one. I noticed in the evidence
of one of the witnesses, Mr. Arthur White, she states it was 12:35 that she
passed by and saw me. That is possibly true; I have no recollection about it;
perhaps her recollection is better than mine; I have no remembrance of it;
however, I expect that is so. When I arrived up stairs I saw Arthur White
and Harry Denham who had been working up there and Mr. White's wife. I
asked them if they were ready to go and they said they had enough work to
keep them several hours. I noticed that they had laid out some work and
I had to see what work they had done and were going to do. I asked Mr.
White's wife if she was going or would stay there as I would be obliged to
lock up the factory, and Mrs. White said, no, she would go then. I went down
and gathered up my papers and locked my desk and went around and washed
my hands and put on my hat and coat and locked the inner door to my office
and locked the doors to the street and started to go home.

Now, gentlemen, to the best of my recollection from the time the whistle
blew for twelve o'clock until after a quarter to one when I went up stairs
and spoke to Arthur White and Harry Denham, to the best of my recollection,
I did not stir out of the inner office. It is possible that in order to answer
a call of nature or to urinate I may have gone to the toilet. Those are things
that a man does unconsciously and can not tell how many times nor when he
does it. Now, sitting in my office at my desk, it is impossible for me to see
out into the outer hall when the safe door is open, as it was that morning,
and not only is it impossible for me to see out, but it is impossible for people
to see in and see me there.

I continued on up Forsyth to Alabama and down Alabama to Whitehall
where I waited a few minutes for a car, and after a few minutes a Georgia
Avenue car came along; I took it and arrived home at about 1:20. When I
arrived at home, I found that my wife and my mother-in-law were eating
their dinner, and my father-in-law had just sat down and started his dinner.
I sat down to my dinner and before I had taken anything, I turned in my
chair to the telephone, which is right behind me and called up my brother-in-