1662 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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to him. I saw Dr.Wren at one time give Annie Maud Carter a note or rather he throw her one from the second floor and she carried this same note that Dr.Wren had thrown her and she pitched the note into Conley through the door to his cell wing. Last night after I had gone to bed,Dr.Wren came to my cell and called to me and got me to get out of bed and come out on the outside. He asked me what I was doing and I told him nothing and he told me that he had a little job for me to do, and that he wanted me to come to his house in the morning, and he gave me 20 cents car fare to come on. This morning Dr.Wren was at my house before seven o'clock He had a long white paper, and wanted me to sign it. I cannot read or write and I told him I wanted to wait and see what the paper was, he wanted me to sign. He said it was a paper that I had carried notes from Conley to Annie Maud Carter. He said well you cant write, and I will write it for you. I told him not to do it, that I wouldn't authorize any one to sign for me until I knew more about it. He gave me 20 cents so that I could go and get him and I a drink of whiskey and when I got it he wouldn't drink and he told me he didn't believe he would drink any as he didn't want the boys where he worked to smell it on him, and he told me to drink both drinks for myself. I drank them both and then he took me up with me the question of signing the paper, which I refused to sign as we came around the house, we met another man, with some other men. He is a bailiff in the Thrower Building, Mr.Bass Rosser, the city detective, said he was a Mr. Gooding. He did not have anything to say to me and I do not know what he knew what Dr.Wren wanted with me. He told Mr.Rosser the detective, that the men with him were prisoners he had arrested. While I was still talking with Dr.Wren, detective Bass Rosser walked up and told me that Mr.Dorsey, the solicitor general wanted to see me at his office, and I left and went with detective Rosser to Mr.Dorsey's office, where I am now and make this affidavit.
ELLEN SIMS. Sworn for the State. I am acquainted with Annie Maud Carter. She is my cousin. She was at my home a few days after she got out of jail, and talked to me about seeing Jim Conley she was in jail. She said she had talked to Conley. I asked Annie Maud Carter whether or not she had got Conley to talk with her about the murder. She said he would not talk with her about that case and all she could get him to say was that he had told the truth. When she