1678 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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the ground no more now," says, "it is only just to save
neck, that is all. Don't you know I know that that man
never will come clear". He says, "why don't you just go ahead
and make them feathers for me and I will feel and go ahead and
get back up the country if necessary. Make an affidavit
and get hold of them feathers, and if you think it is wrong,
go down there and change it. Conley made 5 or 6 changes, why
can't you change them". I told him I would just be telling a
lie, because I had never seen Conley in my life. "If I was to
tell anything concerning Conley, I would be telling a story,
because I have never seen him." He says, "Is you going to
do it?" Says, "give me your hand". I says, "I will give you
my hand, I am going to tell the truth".
So he left me, and Mr. Burns told me "Mr. Leom says
that you are ready to tell the truth, and I am ready to talk
with you". He called his stenographer and started off. When
they got through dictating the matter he asked me, "What was
you scared to talk about, why was you scared to talk?
thought you was going to tell me something, and here you
come telling the same old story that was printed in the papers
and we knowed all that before hand, and you don't you know that
you are scared of them oily detectives. I know that every
colored man in the South has got to be humble and stay in his
place." Burns says to me, shaking his finger in my face, "You
know something". This was after I had told him twice al-
ready and told Leom and told all of them up two or three dif-
ferent times during all the five days that I stayed there,
that I didn't one thing in the world except what I know. He
said I knowed something, and wouldn't tell him.
When I got ready to leave, Mr. Burns told me, shaking
hands with me, that the only thing he regretted was, he had
handled two hundred thousand colored men, since he had been
in the detective business "and had never saw one what wouldn't
tell the truth but you". I shaken his hand, and told him,
"Well, Mr. Burns, if I never see you no more, I hope some day
that the Lord will show to you that I have told you the truth