1570 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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For several weeks prior to April 1,1913, Mr.Leo M.Frank
paid me a dollar a week out of Jim Conley's pay on account for a
watch purchased by Conley from Patric & Thompson. I collected a
dollar in this manner on March 8,1913,March 15,1913,March 22,1913,
March 29,1913,April 5,1913, and April 19,1913. On April 26,1913,
I was unable to get to the Pencil Factory by one thirty o'clock
in the afternoon, it being customary for me to go to the Pencil
Factory by that time each Saturday to get the dollar and I did not
call at the factory that day. On the afternoon of April 26,1913,
after four o'clock in the afternoon, as near as I can recollect,
about four fifteen (4:45) o'clock and definitely somewhere between
four o'clock and four thirty (4:30) o'clock, on Saturday afternoon,
April 26,1913, I came upon and met up with Jim Conley on Peters
Street, near Gastleberry Street. I know Jim Conley well and that
Jim Conley was, on the afternoon of April 26,1913, between four
and four thirty o'clock on said Peters Street, and when I came upon
him, the said Jim Conley was standing leaning against a pole, and
then and there I and the said Jim Conley spoke to each other and
had a brief conversation. I asked Jim Conley for his weekly pay-
ment of a dollar on his watch, and then Jim Conley told me that
I could get the money that Mr.Frank had for me, and Jim Conley ask-
ed me whether or not I had been by the factory for the dollar,
when I told Conley that I had not, Conley merely said that he could
get the money from Mr.Frank. I did not tell these facts to anyone
at the time, nor immediately after the news of the Mary Phagan
death, but during the month of July, to the best of my recollection
I did tell these facts to Solicitor Dorsey, but I did not tell any
of the lawyers of Leo M. Frank, nor so far as I know, were these
facts ever communicated to them before the date of this affidavit.
My associates are G.W.Patrick, E.B.Durham and J.H.Hilley.
G.W.PATRICK, E.B.DURHAM, J.H.HILLEY, Sworn for the Movant.
We are acquainted with J.W.Boozer, and know that he has lived in
Atlanta and been in and about Atlanta for the past twelve months
and longer. He is a man of good character and credibility and we
would believe him upon oath.