1527 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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light to be the hair of Mary Phagan. Attested by Geo. Burke

E.F.HOLLOWAY, L.A.QUINN, GRACE HIX, MARY PIRK, Sworn for the movant. We are acquainted with Miss Alice Marjorie MoCord; that said Alice Marjorie MoCord was well acquainted with Mary Phagan during her lifetime. She could well know the color of Mary Phagan's hair and she was in a position by reason of seeing the hair claimed to have been found by the witness Barrett upon the second floor of the factory, to determine whether the hair found by Barrett looked like the hair of Mary Phagan and was, thereby, enabled to form an opinion as to whether the hair of Mary Phagan and that found by Barrett was identical. Attested by Geo. Burke as Notary Public.

E.F.HOLLOWAY, LEONARD JACOBUS, R.P.BUTLER, EULA MAE FLOWERS, Sworn for the Movant. We know personally Miss Alice Marjorie MoCord and some of her associates are Mary Pirk, Mrs. G. Denham, Jimmie Mayfield, Mrs. O.Johns. We know that Miss Alice Marjorie MoCord is a person of good moral character and credibility, and we would believe her on oath in a court of law. Attested by Geo. Burke as Notary Public.

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ALBERT McKNIGHT, Sworn for the Movant. I was a witness at the trial of the case of the State of Georgia vs. Leo M. Frank, and when placed upon the stand I testified to a story that had been prepared for me by R.L.Craven, a white man, under whose direction he worked at the store of Beck & Gregg. The story prepared for me by said R.L.Craven was written by Mr.Craven and witnessed by Emmett H. Pickett, and Angus Morrison, Jr., and both of whom are white men, and also in the employ of Beck & Gregg Hardware Company at their store. These witnesses told me that I would be obliged to stick to the story prepared by Mr.Craven as they had witnessed same and that in the event I undertook to deny the story they would send me to the chain gang, and explained to me that the word of three white men would be taken in preference to that of any negro. Since the trial of said Leo M. Frank I have always been sorry for the false part I played in it and since I have had time to reflect on the great wrong that I have done I am determined to tell the truth and now say that the story prepared for me by