1745 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Atlanta,was the man who induced him, McKnight, to swear falsely.
I heard C.W.Burke tell McKnight to explain to all present what, if
any,offers said Burke made to him in order to secure his affidavit
and McKnight replied that Mr.Burke had made no offers to him of any
kind, and further said that Mr.Burke had not talked religion to
him,and that he had only told Mr.Burke the truth. Before affixing
my signature hereto I have carefully read the original affidavit
signed by said Albert McKnight,dated January 19,1914, and recognize
in the contents thereof precisely the same statement Albert McKnight
made to me and others on the date referred to above in the first
paragraph of this affidavit.

JOE THOMPSON, Sworn for the Novens,on Sunday, March 22,1914, I was
a patient at the Fairhaven Infirmary, 34 West Mitchell Street, in
the City of Atlanta, Fulton County,Georgia. I distinctly remember
that Dr.Hancock,and three other gentleman visited Albert McKnight
at the hospital above referred to,where I occupied the same room
with said Albert McKnight. I heard one of the men referred to
above, whom I afterwards learned to be Detective Burns, talking to
Albert McKnight with reference to an affidavit he had made with
reference to the case of Leo M.Frank, and I heard McKnight state
that the affidavit he had made to one of the men who was present at
the time of the conversation referred to, was the truth in every
word and respect and that the said McKnight told Detective Burns
that the testimony he gave on the witness stand at the trial of Leo
M. Frank was not the truth and that he had been induced to tell
lies at the trial by some man with whom he was at work in the city
of Atlanta previous to the trial. I also heard one of the men ask
Albert to tell all that were present what promises had been made
to said McKnight to make said affidavit, and McKnight stated that he had
been made to him at all and that he had made the affidavit referred
to of his own free will and accord. After the gentlemen referred to
left the hospital, I talked with McKnight about the case of Leo M.
Frank and about the affidavit which McKnight had made to one of
the men present on the date of the conversation referred to, and
McKnight told me that the affidavit which he had been talking about
with Detective Burns was the truth in every respect, and he also