240 Sheet – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

We closed the office at 6 o'clock. We never had any women up in the office. We paid off the help on Friday, April 25th; I remember paying Helen Ferguson that day. Nobody came up to ask for Mary Phagan's pay. We had posters all over the factory that Saturday would be a legal holiday and the factory would be closed; I intended to come back to the factory Saturday morning, but I overslept.

**Cross-examined.** Mrs. Frank, when they telephoned him about the murder, asked if there had been a fire at the factory; the reason, he said, was that he was nervous, he hadn't had any breakfast, and he wanted a cup of coffee.

**Joel C. Hunter.** I am a public accountant. I have examined the financial sheet said to be made by Leo M. Frank; to find out how long it would take a person to make out these reports, I went through the calculations. I found them correct within a decimal. The quickest possible time to make out this report, balance the cash, make out the comparative statements, and the copies of which they furnished me, is 150 minutes.

**Cross-examined.** A man's familiarity with a special class of work will aid materially in making it up. If he had had to get up the information which was furnished to me, it would take him a good deal longer than it did me, for the information was already furnished to me; I have allowed for his experience and familiarity with the business, in the way of saving time, in making my estimate; I have tried to make my figures sufficiently conservative to make allowance for a man in charge of the work; I think it would be wonderful to make it in less than that. A man who could make it out and verify it as he went along would take the whole afternoon.

**C. E. Pollard.** I am an expert accountant; I was called in for the purpose of seeing the length of time it would take to gather these figures and get the result on the financial sheet and other papers that were furnished to me. The minimum time that I could do that work in, I found to be 3 hours and 11 minutes.

**Hattie Hall.** I am a stenographer for the National Pencil Company in the office of Monteg Bros. Whenever it is necessary, I go down to the National Pencil factory and do work there; I saw Mr. Frank about 10 on April 26th at Monteg Bros., when he asked me to come over and assist him at his office. I went over to the factory between 10:30 and 11. Several people came in while we were working; two men, one whose son worked there, came in and spoke to Mr. Frank about the boy's being in some trouble in the police court. They went into the inner office to talk to him, and he came out to the outer office with them. Miss Corinthia Hall and Mrs. White also came in there in Mr. Frank's office, and I talked with him. These eight letters were dictated to me Saturday morning by Mr. Frank, and I typewrote them there in the outer office. I did not see any little girl come along about that time.

**Corinthia Hall.** I work in the finishing up department of the pencil factory; I am a forelady; I was at the factory on April 26th; I got there about 25 minutes to 12; Mrs. Freeman was with me; we went after her coat and to telephone.

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