1677 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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him. After he had teased me along, he told me he was just
teasing and joking with me, and he was going to tell me the
facts and the truth, and he was working for Mr. Burns, and
asked me why did I leave Atlanta. I told him I left there of
my own free will. He says, "They all say around there that
you was paid to leave Atlanta, two or three hundred dollars,
is that the fact?" I told him, "No, sir". He said, "No need
of lying to me. He and you have been friends; I have done you
plenty of favors, and you have done me some, how come you
can't tell me the truth? He says, "I don't want you to tell
nothing but the truth. You know you was in the cell with
Conley. We want you to tell the truth about being in the cell
with Conley". I told him, no, I was not, I didn't know Con-
ley, never had seen Conley. "Well", he says, "to make the
story long and short, I'll tell you, Allen, let's get down
to business. You know Jim Conley, and he has already got a
year conviction, and that Jew is already convicted to break
his neck, and between you and me I'll tell you what they
heard down there, whether it be true or not, that you did
find out from Conley in the cell, that he did tell you he
killed that girl, and your statement was going to be against
Conley, and they gave you three or four hundred dollars, and
run you out of town. Is that true or not?" I told him, "No
sir". He says, "Have you ever told the truth?" I
told him yes. "Did you ever tell a lie?" I hemmed and hawed
and finally I told him I had told funny tales, but when it
come to swearing a man's life away I wouldn't like to tell a
lie and no other science business". He told me, "Well, you
have told a lie, and it didn't hurt you. I want you to tell
this lie, but I am trying to show where, if you told all
kind of lies in this case, it wouldn't hurt you but would get
you money". He says, "It is a feather in your hat, would be
a feather in my hat; probably you will have a job as long as
you live with these people at the rate of $120 or $125 a
month, and maybe I will, too. If I was you, I would go on
and tell, because this man Frank aint never going to walk on