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He apparently welcomed the opportunity to tell of the famous crime from his view point. , '» ft’ V* -V " > • TTTF ATLANTA GEORG-TAN ANT) NEWS. LEO FRANK AS HE TOLD HIS STORY ON WITNESS STAND Frank appeared perfectly calm and collected as he went to the witness chair in his own behalf. Continued From Page 1. breakfast, and caught a Wash ington Street or Georgia Avenue car I don’t really remember which, at the corner of Washing ton and Georgia avenue, and ar rived at the factory, Forsyth street plant, at about 8:20. ‘‘Upon my arrival at the fac tory I found Mr. Holloway, the day watchman, at nis usual place, and I greeted him in my usual way, and found Alonzo Mann, the office boy, in the office. Opened Desk and Went Went to Work. “I took off my coot and hat and opened my desk and opened the safe, and removed the various books and files and wire trays containing the v -ious imporant papers which were placed there the evening before and distribut ing them in their proper places about the office. I then went out to the shipping room and con versed a few minutes with Mr. Irby, who was at that time ship ping clerk, about the work he was going to do that morning. “According to my recollection, we did no shipping that day, ow ing to the fact that the freight offices were not receiving any shipments, due to the fact that it was a holiday. “I returned to my office and looked through the papers and sorted out those which I was go ing to take over on my usual trip to the general manager’s office that morning. “I then turned to the invoice covering shipments which w«r® made by the pencil factory on Thursday, April 24. and which were typewritten on Friday, April 25, by Miss Eubanks, who was the stenographer who staved at my office. She had hurried through with the offioe work on the day previous, so that she could go home and spend the hol iday in the oountry where she lived. But I didn’t get to check over the invoices on the shipments on Friday, due to the fact that Mr. 8chiff and myself were com pletely occupied the entire day. So we left the factory with the payroll. So that naturally, these invoices covering shipments which were made on April 24, ought to been sent to the customers, got right to work checking 1 have these invoices here The accused man urged his lawyers to let the Solicitor and his aides cross-question him freely. BEST WITNESS TELLING DIRECT DETAILED STORY (taking up the papers and ex hibiting them to the jury). These papers have not been exhibited to you before, but I will explain them. You have seen some simi lar to these. “Of all the mathematical work in the office of a pencil factory, this very operation, this very piece of work that I have now be fore me is the most important. It is the invoices covering shipments and i« sent to the customer, and it is very important that the prices are correct, that the amount of goods shipped agrees with the amount which is on the invoices, that the terms are cor rect. and that the price is correct. Also, in some cases, ther were freight deductions, all of which has to be very carefully checked over and looked into, because I know of nothing else that exas perates a customer more than to receive invoices which are in correct. “Now, with reference to the work I did on these orders—that is not such an easy job as you might be led to believe. Here are initials. They represent the sales man who took the qrder. Some times I have to go through a world of papers to find out to whom to credit these orders. “I notice that one of the or ders to R. B. Kindele calls for a specialty. That has to be care fully noted and recorded. One column represents the shipping point, another the date. etc. “The next step is to fill in the orders on this sheet. Op this sheet I must separate the orders into price groups. Evidently no work has been done on this sheet since he went away. The reason this is done —in the pencil busi ness as in all manufacturing businesses—it is advantageous to sell as much of ths high-proiced goods as possible. “This sheet is the only means of telling how much of the va rious goods we are retiing. It is ths barometer of our business and i requires most careful work. Declares He Wrote Financial Sheet. “After I have finished that work I have had to do this, and not withstanding any insinuations that have been made, I wrote these requisitions.” Frank read the name on each requisition, which were the same as the names on the orders. “Now that is all my handwrit ing, except what as written at a subsequent date to April 26.” “Well, moreover, this operation this morning took me longer than it usually takes the ordinary per son to check invoices beoause usually one calls out and the other checks, but I had this work all myself that morning. As I did this work this morn.ng I saw that Miss Eubanks had evidently sacrificed accuracy to speed, and everyone of them was wrong. I went over the invoices to make the corrections, figure them out, correct them, and make deduc tions, if any were to be made, and then get the total shipments, be cause since these shipments were made on April 24, which was Thursday and the last day of our fiscal week, and it was on this week which the financial report which I make out every Saturday afternoon, which has been my custom, so that the total ship ments could be figured out, and therefore I could not let it go out at that, so I had to figure every invoice in its entirety, so I could get a figure I would be abl to “The first order here is to Hil ton. Hart & Kern Co., Detroit, Mich. Here is the original or der, which exists in our files in our’ office. Here is the original transaction which was made March 18, but it was not to b« shipped until April 24. This is a small order, 100 gross of Number 2; and here is an order of th# Packard Motor Car Company for 125 gross of No. 3, and 150 gross of No. 4. Those figures repre sent the grade of hardness of the lead in the pencil.” Explains How Orders are Filled. Frank thereupon explained how such orders were usually filled, whether in part or In whole, and how the shipments were made, and continuing, said: “In investigating shipments made by the pencil company our method is as follows: We make them in triplicate. Our first original is a white sheet that goes to the customer; the second is a pink sheet that goes over to the general mapager’s office and is filed sefially, that is chronologic- allv, that is. one date after the other, nad from that the charges are made on the ledger, and the last sheet, the third sheet, or vel- low sheet, which is here (exhibit ing it) and those are placed in the files in my office, and are filed alphabetically. These yellow sheets that I have here are not the yellow sheets I had that day, because they have sinoe been cor rected. and I am just taking the corrected sheets I made the cor rections and Miss Eubanks cor rected them on Mondav by the corrections I had on the white sheet from the corrections I made and I presume at that time made that correct.’’ Mr. F ran k exhibited to the jury various orders similarly written, to H. W. Williams and Company, of Fort Worth, Tex.; The Fort Smith Paper Comoany, of Fort Smith, Ark.; S. O. Bar- num &. Sons, of Buffalo, N. Y.; F. L. Schmidt and Company, of Chicago, and H. S. Kress and Company, of New York. “Now, there is an order that takes a great deal of study (re ferring t othe Kress order) be cause in common with these five and ten cent syndicates, there is a great deal of red tape. These are invoices that were typed on April 25. Friday, and were shipped on April 24. It was the date on which the shipment was made irrespective of the date there, (referring to the date on the letter) and these were typewrit ten. In other words, shipments took place April 24, and that date was at the top, typewritten and •tamped bv the office at the bot tom, April 24. Among other things that the S. H. Kress Com pany demand on their orders, we must state whether or not it is complete, must give the case number, and must tell by which raiiroad the shipment goes. Checking W'ade Hard By Much Red Tape. “Here is one for F. W. Wool- worth and Company, Fort Wayne, Ind., which shows 35 pounds, less 86 certs’per 100 pounds credit. In other words, we had to find out what was the weight of that was on a basis of 86 cents for every The eyes of L,eo M. Frank's wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Emil Selig. were constantly upon Mm as he sat in the witness chair talking conversationally with the jurors. His mother seldom looked at him, main taining her usual attitude, looking slightly downward and tow'ard the judge’s bench. Frank had been talking only 10 minutes when he unexpectedly was interrupted by a heated argument be tween the opposing attorneys over Frank's explaining the time slips, including the one which the defense claims was taken from the time clock Sunday morning following the finding of Mary Phagan’s body. Frank had mentioned the time slips and was undertaking to make an explanation of the manner they are 100 pounds shipped. Then here is another one of our large dis tributors in New York. They have a freight allowance of 86 cents a 100 pounds also, and their shipments amounted to 618 pounds on Thursday, April 24. “I started on this work. As I said, I have gone into it in some detail, to show you the careful ness with which the work must be carried out, and I was at work on this until about 9 o’clock, as near as I remember. “Mr. Darley and Wade Camp bell, the inspector of the factory, came into the outer office and I stopped what work I was doing, which was this work, and went to the outer office and chatted with Mr. Campbell for ten or fifteen minutes, conversed with them, joked with them and while I was talking with them, I think about 9:15, or a auarter after 9, Miss Mattie Smith came in and asked me for her pay envelope, and the envelope of her sister-in-law. I went to the safe and got out the package of envelopes that Mr. Schiff had given me the eve ning before, and placed the two remaining envelopes in my cash bax, as I considered they might come in and I wanted to have them near at hand so that I could r ay them off when they came in. keep my cash box on the lower side of my desk. After Miss Smith had gone away with the enve lopes, in a few minutes Mr. Darley came back with one of the enve lopes, and pointed out an error in one of them, the one of the aister- • in-law of Mias Mattie Smith, who had gotten too much money. “When 1 took the amount which was too much, that amount bal anced the error in the payroll that I had noticed the night bo- | used when Attorney Rosser called i the slips for Frank to explain i before the Jury. Solicitor Dorsey made an instant objection, arguing that the slips had | not yet been placed in evidence. All four of the principal attorneys inter- j ested in the case were on their feet | at once, two and sometimes three I of them, were talking at the same I time. Papers Withheld. I Judge Roan was compelled to cau tion them to proceed parliamentarily. His ruling was that Frank might refer to them as much as he pleased, but that he must not go before the jury with them until they had been properly identified and offered for evidence. The same situation de veloped when Frank sought to ex plain the details of his work by means fore, and left about five or ten cents. Those things generally right themselves, anyhow. I con tinued to work on these invoices when I was interrupted by Mr. Lyon, the superintendent of Montag Brothers, and he brought me a pencil display box. He seemed to be in a hurry, and I told him if he would wait a min ute I would go over with him, but he passed out of the office, and then I found a stopping place in the work I was working on, and I put on my coat and when I got to the outer office I found that Mr. Lyon had already left. “Mr. Darley and I left about 9:35 or 9:40, and we got out of the factory and stopped at the corner of Hunter and Forsyth streets, where we each had a drink at Cruickshank’s soda foun tain, and I bought a package of my favorite cigarettes. “After that conversation there I left him and went alone to Montag Brothers, where I ar rived about 10 o’clock or maybe a little* after. I entered Montag Brothers and spoke to Mr. Sig Montag, general manager, on bus iness, and he brought the pa pers which I collect and laid them on his desk, and I then took the papers out, thrust them in the folder and took the other papers which I had in my folder, and Continued on Page 3, Column 1. BALTIMORE AND RE- TURN—$20.95. On sale August 22. 23, 24. Through steel trains. Seaboard. of papers and records of his office. He was allowed to sit in his chair and refer to them but not to ex hibit them to the jurors. Fearless and Direct. Frank taked to the Jurors directly and fearlessly. There was no trace of uncertainty In his voice or in his manner. He appeared exactly as though he were in an informal con ference with some persons interested in the factory and was outlining his duties ^and leading up to some par ticular Incident that had engaged their attention and interest. He was entirely at ease. He as sumed an easy pose in his chair, gestured frequently as he proceeded with his narrative, and occasionally changed his position. His hands most of the time were clasped in front of him, except when he illus trated a point with an unconscious gesture. He found it necessary often to adjust his glasses which seemed not to fit him perfectly. Tells Complete Story. He touched only brifly on his early history, telling merely of his place of birth, his career in school and college, his short business exper ience after his graduation and finally his coming to Atlanta in 1908 to take charge of the National Pencil Factory. He began with Friday, August 25, the day before the crime and re counted his movements almost min ute by minute. Coming to the fatal Saturday, he told of leaving his home, reaching his office, talking with his employees and taking up the work of the day. He was given orders, records, ac- Funeral Designs and Flowers FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Atlanta Floral Company 455 EAST FAIR STREET. j$20.95 BALTIMORE AND RETURN VIA SEABOARD. On sale August 22, 23 and 24. Correspondingly low rates from other points. Through steel trains. a P-R-I-N-T-O-R-I-A-L-S w No. 220 Tbe ‘ 'Test of Advertising must be results!! 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Those that had been submitted In evidence he took before the jury and explained at length and in detail the amount of work required in getting these out. His Own Best Witness. Notebook in hand, Solicitor Dorsey took a seat almost directly in front of Frank, but this appeared to dis turb the prisoner not in the least. Through the major share of the remarkable address, with its clear-cut statements and explanations, there was little or no attempt at oratory, but the speech was unquestionably a most eloquent argument. As had been prophesied, Frank war- his own best witness. I PEACHTREE ST.. Near Wallos > R. R. FARE ALLOWED U MILES ■