1613 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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RUTH ROBERSON, Sworn for the State. I worked at the National
Pencil Company for three years and was working there during the
year 1912, up until the middle of April, 1913, just a few weeks
before Mary Phagan was killed. I have known Mary Phagan ever since
she has been a very little girl, having known her in Cobb County,
where we both lived. I knew Leo M.Frank. I have had read to me the
evidence that I gave on the trial of the case of the State vs.
Leo M.Frank. Every word of it is absolutely true. I did see
Frank at Mary's machine, talking to Mary and I heard Frank call
her "Mary". I heard it many times. Frank was at Mary's machine a
great deal more than there was any need for him to be there. Mary
had worked at the Pencil Company a good long time and understood
her business, and did not have any need for anybody to be there as
much as Frank spent at Mary's machine was not a machine showing her anything, because Mary needed no anybody
to show her how to operate the same or how to do her work. I have
seen Frank go to Mary's machine three and four times a day. Some-
times he would remain as long as fifteen or twenty minutes. Frank
did not very often pay any attention to the work being done by the
other girls on that floor, other than Mary. I have seen Frank, in
showing Mary about her work, take hold of her hands and hold them,
For a while I did the same work or work that Mary did. It was
simple and easy as it could be. Frank's visits to Mary and talks
with her and assistance given her became more frequent and more
constant during the time that I noticed them which was from about
some time during the summer or fall of 1912, and continued continued
until the time I left there. I have forgotten the exact date, but
the very last day that I worked at the National Pencil Company's
place of business I saw Frank talking to Mary. I heard him call
her Mary. I have read ground 9 of the extraordinary motion for
new trial of Leo M.Frank, as filed in the clerk's office on the
16th day of April, 1914. I have just this minute been introduced
to a lady who goes by the name of Mrs Maggie Nash and who says that
she was Miss Maggie Griffin. Miss Maggie Griffin when she came
into the room stated that she did not know my name. She thought
after looking at me she had probably seen me but she was not posi-
tive about that. She denied in my presence that she had ever check-
ed me or talked to me about the Frank case or my evidence on the