1476 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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on this extraordinary motion, says however, that it is nothing, but
right and proper that the Court should be informed as to what Frank
himself said in the evidence on the hearing before the Coroner, as to
where he was at the time Pardee and Green now say they saw him at the
corner of Alabama and Whitehall Streets. On page 55 of the stenogra-
pher's minutes of the Coroner's inquest, as reported by Harvey L.
Barry, Official Reporter of Fulton Superior Court at that time, and as
filed, as required by law, in the Clerk's Office of the Superior Court
of Fulton County, the following questions were put by Coroner Paul
Donehoo, who was examining said Leo M. Frank at that inquest, and the
following answers were given, viz: "Q. What time do you say it was when
you left the building? A. It might have been a trifle after 1, two or
three minutes, four minutes; it was a trifle after 1." On page 59,
occur the following questions and answers: "Q. When you went out of
the office, 5 minutes after 1 o'clock, tell us where you went, just
what direction you took, etc.? A. I went up from the factory, to Ala-
bama Street, went up Forsyth to Alabama, down Alabama to Broad and
Alabama, and I think I caught a car there. Q. Do you remember the car
you caught? A. I think it was a Washington Street car. A. It came
first? A. I don't remember which came first."

In connection with this alibi evidence, and in connection with
the evidence as given by Leo M. Frank before the Coroner's inquest,
and on the trial of the case, the State insists that this evidence
quoted immediately above, where Leo M. Frank states at the Coroner's
inquest that he caught the car at the corner of Broad and Alabama
streets, is very material, in view of the evidence now given, or said
to be obtainable from Pardee and Green, that they saw him at the corner
of Whitehall and Alabama. It will also be observed that, when Frank,
after having sworn as above indicated on the hearing before the Coro-
ner's Jury, as to where he boarded the car, and what car he boarded,
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