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He apparently welcomed the opportunity to tell of the famous crime from his view point. TPK ATI ' VTA GEORGIAN AND NK1\T5. LEO Frank appeared perfectly calm and collected as he went to the witness chair in his own behalf. FRANK RETAILS Continued From Page 1. books and files and wire trays containing the various 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 •hipments, 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 were 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 stayed at my office. She had hurried through with the office work on the day previous, so that she could go home and spend the hol iday in the country where sho lived. But I didn’t get to check over the invoices on the shipments on Friday, due to the fact that Mr. Schiff 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 have been sent to the customers, and I got right to work checking thorn. Shows Invoices to Jury First Time. “Now I have these invoices here (taking up the papers and ex hibiting them to the jury). These papers have not been exhibited to you before, but I will explain explan them. You have seen some similar 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 the invoices covering shipments »•<; ent to the customer, and •• *"hy important that the prices are correct, that the amount of goods shipped agrees FRANK AS "HE TOLD HIS STORY ON WITNESS STAND The accused man urged his lawyers to let the Solicitor and his aides cross-question him freely. FRANK MAKES HIS II 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 reoeive invoices which are in correct. “Now, with reference to the work I did on these orders—that •s not such an easy job as you might be led to believe. Here are initials. They represent the sales man who took the order. 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. On this sheet I must separate the orders into prico 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 the high-proiced goods as possible. “This sheet is the only means of telling how much of the va rious goods we are selling. It is the barometer of our business and 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 i nsinuations that have been made, I wrote these requisitions.” Frank read the namd on each requisition, which were the same as the names on the orders. “Now \'nat i s all my handwrit ing, except what as written at a subsequent date to April 26.” Frank went back to the stand. He was handed a glass t of water as he resumed his seat, but de clined it. “Miss Hall left my office” he continued, “on her way home at this time. There were then in the building Arthur White, Harry Denham and Mrs. White. It must have been from ten to fifteen minutes after that this little girl whom I afterwards found to be Mary Phagan came in. She asked asked for her pay. I got my r.ash box, referred to the number and gave her the envelope. “As she went out, she stopped near my outer office door and said: “‘Has the metal come?’ Sound of Voice Made Little Impression. “The safe door was open and I could not see her, but I answered ‘No.’ The Iasi I heard was the sound of her footsteps going down the hall. But a few moments after she asked me, I had the impres sion of a voice saying something, but it made no impression on me. “The little girl had hardly left the office when Lemmie Quinn came in. He said something to me about working on a holiday and went out. A few minutes before 1 o’clock, I called up my wife and told her I was coming to lunch at 1:15. I then went up stairs to where Denham and White were working and found they had a bit of the floor taken up and were sawing. “I explained to them that I was going to lunch and would look the door when I left. Mrs. Whit® left at this time. Some lady said that at 12:35 o'clock she found me in front of the safe. It is bare ly possible that she did. I don’t recall her being there. Her mem ory probably is fresher than min© on this jjoint. ‘When I went up stairs I asked Mr. White i.f his wife was going to stay there with him. She saia no, that she would go. She left and then I got mv nat and coat and left, locking the outer door. “Now, gentlemen, to the best of my recollection from the time the whistle blew until I went up stairs to see Mr. White, I did not stir out of my office. I went on home. “I called up my brother-in-law, Mr. Ursenbach, to tell him I was unable to keep the engagement to go to the ball game. The cook answered the phone. “My wife and mother-in-law were going to the opera. My fa ther-in-law and I ate lunch. He went into the backyard while I lit a cigarette and lay down for a moment. “I left and while passing the home of Mrs. Wolfsheimer, saw Mrs. Michael on the porch. I went in to see her and saw Mrs. Wolfsheimer, Mr. Loeb and oth ers. Watched Parade When Street Cars Stopped. “To catch th e next car I ran down to Glenn street. On the car I met my wife's cousin, Mr. Loeb. The car was blocked at the cor ner of Washington and Hunter streets. I walked up to White hall street and stood there possi bly for fifteen minutes watching the Memorial Dav parade. “As I walked down Whitehall street I met Miss Rebecca Car- son. This was probably 3:10 or 3:15 o’clock. I greeted her and . walked on. I stopped at Jacobs’ Pharmacy and walked on. I went from there to the factory. "When I reached there I went upstairs and let the boys know I had returned. A minute later, I returned to my office and started to work on the financial sheet. "In a few minutes the clock bell rang and Arthur White came into the office to borrow two dollars. It was while I was at work on the sheet at probably 4 o’clock that I went to the toilet. "As I returned toward the of fice, Inoticed Newt Lee coming toward me from the head of the stairs. I told him he could go on off but to be sure and be back at 6 o'clock. I told him I was very sorry I could not let him know about the half holiday but that he was at liberty to enjoy himself as he saw fit, but that he must not fail to return at 6 o’clock. “The first night that Newt Lee came to work at the factory, I took him over the building, and stressed the fact that he must ao into the basement, especially tne dust bin, every half hour. “I told him it would be part of his duties to watch the back door. He was to malt: a complete tour every half hour and punch the clock. “Now, I will return to the work of the financial sheet. This sheet DIRECT DETAILED STOP! The eyes of Leo M. Frank's wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Emil Selig, were constantly upon him as he sat in the witness chair talking conversationally with the jurors. His mother seldom looked at him, main taining her usual attitude, looking slightiy downward and toward 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 on e 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 i used when Attorney Rosser called for the slips for Frank to explain 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 ested in the case were on their feet at once, two and sometimes three of them, were talking at the same time. Papers Withheld. 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 contains the cost o fall the pencils made that week. There are no names but this sample case will show you.” Evidence Excluded But Jury Sees It. Frank unfolded a sample case. Dorsey: “We object to this being used as evidence.” Judge Roan: "I sustain you." Frank placed the sample case to one side. “Well,” he said, “you got a suf ficient glance at those pencils to see there were a great many.” "In making up this sheet it was necessary to go through the list of all that were packed. Specials, of course, have to be figured sep arately. "For instance, there is a special 60-60-x pencil known as ‘Cr«ck- erjack.' Now I notice that the two expert accountants reported two errors. While they were un important, I wish to explain that those errors were not mine. They were made by Mr. Schiff. I never checked his figures. I checked over mine, but not his. “Now the next is ‘jobs.’ The accountant found the only error in my finanoial sheet there in the item ‘jobs. It was not an error, as I will show you. He did not know my method of figuring. “Two iterrtf her© are totals. The total gross amount is 791 aross._ the total value amount $396.75. In figuring the average I obtained $50.01. In that average he discovered an error. It was not an error. | simply did not go as far into the decimals as he did. One-tenth of a cent was close enough for my purpose. “Now some of the items in her# are taken from the reports of the foremen of the different depart ments.” Frank then exhibited a report from the foreman or forewoman of each department and explain ed it. “Then there is the report of Mr. Schiff, showing the gross of pen cils shipped each day of that week —that week was an exceptionally heavy one. “Now there is a little report here that constitutes one of the most difficult calculations. It i> from the packing room. We have a trick of the trade to put the pencils that do not sell very fast into fancy packages to make them go. “Now, very often these pencils are taken from the shelf, where they have laid for more than a year, and repacked in the fancy cases. I made all the calculations on this that afternoon, despite everything that has been said here to the contrary. “Now here is a little sheet that deals with the grades of the pen cils. It shows the totals for each class of pencils shipped that week. This data sheet—we have had very few clerks at the For syth street office capable of keep ing it, because it requires rather advanced mathematics to reach the totals.” 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 th e 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 knowledgment of orders, record sheets, financial sheets and all the other minute details that are involved in the work of the office. 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 Owin 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 addness, 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 was his own best witness. Funeral Designs and Flowers FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Atlanta Floral Company 455 EAST FAIR STREET. * i$20.95 BALTIMORE AND RETURN VIA SEABOARD. On sale August 22, 23 and 24. Correspondingly low rates from other points. 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