1234 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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from day to day. Now, I have very few clerks at Forsyth Street, or any-
where else, for that matter, who could make out this sheet (Defendant's Ex-
hibit 2) successfully and accurately. It involves a great deal of work and
one has to exercise exceptional care and accuracy in making it out. You
notice that the gross production here (Defendant's Exhibit 2) is 2765%. That
gives the net production. The gross production is nothing more than the
addition, the total addition, the proven addition of those sheets containing
the pencils packed. This other little sheet (Defendant's Exhibit 7A) behind
here represents the pencils packed the week of April 17th—that week's pro-
duction. Now, this little sheet I had to work on, showing the pencils that
were repacked, going into the display boxes, and the number, and sub-
tracted that from the total amount 40 from 2765%, which leaves 2719%; in
other words, I just deducted the amount that had been taken out of the stock
room and repacked from the total amount that was stated to be packed,
showing the amount of repacked goods. Now all I had to do was to copy that
off—it had been figured once. The value of the repacked was $70.00; that was
mere copying. Now, the rubber insertions, I got those that morning, the
number of pencils packed during the week ending April 24th; that is, Thurs-
day, April 24th; that insert rubber is a rubber stuck directly into wood with
a metal tip or ferret to hold it in. I have to go through all of this data, that
being an awfully tedious job, not a hard job, but very tedious; it eats up
time. I had to go through each one of these, and not only have to see the
number, but I have to know whether it is rubber insert or what it is, and
then I put that down on a piece of scratch paper, and place it down here,
in this case it was 720 gross. Then the rubber tipping, that means tipped
with rubber; that is the rubber that is used on the medium priced pencils
that have the medium prices, we ship with the cheap shipping. I had to go
through this operation again, a tedious job, and it eats up time; it is not hard,
but it is tedious. I had to go through that again, to find out the amount of
tip rubber that was used on this amount of pencils. Then I had to go through
the good pencils. Now, it has been insinuated that some of these items,
especially this item, if I remember correctly, that when I have gotten two
of the items, I can add it all up and subtract from the total to get the third
by deduction, but that is not so. Often I make that still remain unaccounted
for, there are many pencils that don't have rubber at all. There are jobs
that don't take rubber on them, plain common pencils; going pencils that
don't have rubber on them at all, and I have to go through all of that opera-
tion, that tedious operation again that gets up so much time. Then there is
the lead of the various kinds that we use; there is good lead, and cheap lead,
the large lead and the thick or carbon lead, and the copying lead. That same
operation has to be gone through with again. Now this sheet (Defendant's
Exhibit 3) (exhibiting) is where the expert accountant said I made a mistake:
I had to go through with each of these pencils to see if they were cheap rub-
ber or if they were good lead or copying lead. So I had to go through this
same operation and re-add them to see that the addition is correct before I