1671 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Kate Allen testified by affidavit as follows:
I am the wife of Aaron Allen. I now live at No. 9
Piedmont Ave. I am personally acquainted with Jake Jacobs,
a man who runs a pawn shop at 120 Decatur street, Atlanta,
Georgia. I personally know that my husband, Aaron Allen, has
been pawning things with Jacobs at 120 Decatur street, Atlanta
Georgia, for about two or three years. Sometime about six
months or more ago, I have forgotten the exact time, Allen
left Atlanta. He was sick in Indianapolis, and wrote me he
wanted to come home. I lost the letter that he wrote me. Some-
time about March 29th, I will not be certain about the date,
but probably a month or two months ago, I took this letter
and showed it to Jake Jacobs at 120 Decatur street, and told
him I wanted to make some arrangements to get some money to
bring Allen home. Jacobs told me that he would bring him
home. I didn't have to pay him any money and I didn't have
to pawn anything. I didn't ask him how he was going to bring
him home or why, but I stated to him that if he brought Allen
home I would see that he got his pay. I did not know anything
more about the matter until I saw Allen on last Friday April
24th at about 12 o'clock.

Aaron Allen testified by affidavit as follows:
I am making this affidavit for use on the hearing of
the extraordinary motion for new trial of Leo M. Frank. I am
a negro, having been born in Alabama. I lived in Atlanta, Ga.,
off and on for the last nineteen years. I have done some
work as a detective for the police officials of the city of
Atlanta, and am well known to Chief Lanford, Mr. Harry Scott,
the Pinkerton man, and Mr. John Black, city detective, put
me soon after Mary Phagan was murdered into the cell with Newt
Lee, and instructed me to do all I could to find out who
murdered Mary Phagan. They wanted to know what Newt Lee knew,
and told me that if Newt Lee was guilty they wanted to know
it. They said to be mighty particular about everything I did
or said because they wanted nothing but the truth and didn't
want to swear anybody's life away.