1659 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Frank that I let it go that waynor did I tell her that I and Mr. Frank both had connection with the girl;or that I lied when she claims that I said that Mr.Frank had connection with the girl. I did not make any statement like that to her, nor did I tell her that I done it all by myself, and never to say anything about it. Nor did I tell her that I first choked Miss Mary Phagan,and after she was unconscious, I had connection with her, or that she was young and never having had anyone that I had to tear her privates; or that I was sitting on the box when the girl came down; nor that I had called her and when she turned back that I then struck her with my fist knocking her down and dragging her back where they put rubbers on penicilies is not true that I told Annie Maud Carter that finding Mr.Frank absent, I dropped Miss Mary Phagan through the hole and that I then took Miss Mary Phagan around by the furnace and started to put her in the furnace but that my conscience would not let me do so; nor did I tell Annie Maud Carter that I put Miss Mary Phagan down there to make people believe that Newt Lee done it; nor that afterwards I found a piece of blank paper and tore it in two and picked up a pencil and put the paper on the cellar door and wrote the notes that were found by the body of Miss Mary Phagan; nor did I tell Annie Maud Carter that I first took the notes and put them in Miss Mary Phagan's bosom, and that I then took them out and layed them over her side; nor that I then took a thing and opened boxes with and pulled the staple out of the back door and went out of the door, going over to Broad St. to get a glass of beer; nor is it true that I told Annie Maud Carter that I went back to the factory to make people believe that I was innocent but that the truth must come to light; nor that I wanted to save Mr. Frank by saying that I helped move the body of Miss Mary Phagan, but that I knew that would not work; nor that afterwards I went and got drunk and started to leave town and that I knew that that would not do, and that I stayed in Atlanta to show that I was not guilty. It is not true that I told Annie Maud Carter not to say anything about this, that I wanted to serve my twelve months and be free, and that if I could not get Annie Maud Carter, that I would go North and marry some white woman around Cincinnati. It is not true that I told Annie Maud Carter that I kept the money that was in