1711 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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were going to New Orleans. He said to go on over to the Terminal Station - that he had some girls to get. I went over to the Terminal Station and when I got there I met a man that had on glasses, who looked like a fellow I saw in Birmingham that passed off as Kelly. This fellow pretended he could not see good and asked me to help him down the steps. When Kelly and I got on the train, Terry was already on the train and pretended to get mad because I helped this man down the steps. Terry got off the train and told me to stay in there - that he would catch the train before it left; that he had some business to attend to. I went on in the train and sat down. Just as the train was pulling out of the Terminal Station, I saw this man Terry hop on to the train, but he did not talk to me until we got nearly to Birmingham. I do not know what became of the man who pretended to be blind and who looked like the Kelly I afterwards saw in Birmingham. I didn't see him after we got on the train. Terry then, when we got nearly to Birmingham, came in and began to talk to me. He said he was going to stay a week in Birmingham with the show. He did not stay with me long; said he was going back to stay with the show girls. I never saw any show girls.

"When we got off at Birmingham we was with Terry. When I got about two blocks from the station, the man that pretended to be blind, came up and grabbed me; but he had pulled off his glasses. I do not say positively that he was the same man I helped down the steps but I think so because it looked exactly like him. The glasses made the difference. Terry asked the man that grabbed me what his name was and why he was grabbing me, and the man - who afterwards passed off as detective Kelly - said to Terry that I had stolen $10.00 from the Miller Minute Messenger Service. Kelly said he was going to take me to the jail. Terry told him not to take me to jail; take me to the hotel, and said he would pay my expenses at the hotel. "Kelly" took me to the Birmingham Hotel and Terry was with me. After they got me up to the Birmingham Hotel in Birmingham, Ala. Terry then wanted to pay my fine and told Kelly he would pay it if he would let me go. Kelly then said he would call up the chief of detectives and ask if it would be all right to take the money. 197 He called him up, or pretended to call up, and Kelly then said -