The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-08-19
HIS TESTIMONY
IS CONCLUDED
HIS WIFE AND MOTHER WERE IN
TEARS AS HE LEFT THE
STAND.
ADMITS He WAS NERVOUS
Hurried From Bed, in Early Morning,
and Rushed in Automobile, to View
Body of Little Girl, Who Had Been
Murdered the Day Before.
(By F. C. Gilreath).


Atlanta, Aug. 1S.-Leo NJ. Frank,
protesting his innocence, concluded
his statement to the jury at five
minutes past six o'clock His wife
and mother were in tears as he
left the witnes stand. Court imme-
diaely adjourned until Tuesday morn
ing at o'clock.
Frank looked upon the body Of
Mary Phagan twice on the Sunday
following her death, contrary to the
states contention, was his statement
to the jury this afternoon.
The accused superintendent of the
pencil factory told the jury that early
Sunday morning he was carried to
the undeertakers by Detective Black,
and as he looked upon the body tho
light was suddenly flashed on.
Concerning his nervousness, about
which so much ha sheen said during
the trial, Frank admitted he was ner-
yous and that after seeing the body
he was unstrung.
He turned to the jury and declared
that anyone, hurried from bed early
in the morning and rushed at high
speed in an automobile to the under
takers and there view the body of
a little girl who had been murdered
would have become nervous.
He described the condition of the
body wounds and even avs dust in
the dead girls mouth. His second
sight of the body was that afternoon
when he visited the undertaking es.
tablishment with Darley
Frank took up the time slips which
he had taken from the punch clock
at the factory and told the jury that
he had written on one of them the
hour which he had taken the slip
from the clock on Sunday morning.
He declared that the writing had
been erased and also said that after
taking the slip out he had turned
it over to Chief of Detectives New
pert Lanford
Frank also declared that the date
of January, 1911, visible on one of
the notes found ythe girls body
has been partially erased and that
the papere on which the note was
written wa san old form and that
the serial number had been partially
worn off.
The accused told the jury of the
association in the case of Attorneys
Hosser and Haas He was at the
police station on the Monday follow
ing the murder, being summoned
there by Chief Lanford. when Attor-
ney Haas came in, and Attorney
Rosser arrived later, about ten
o'clock. Frank said he was taken
into talk with Lanford.
While in there he heard Mr.. Ross
er make demand that he be allowed
to- enter.
He declared that someone outside
shouted "wh ythe man who commit
ted this crime would be bloody all
over" and that he thereupon exhib-
tied his clothes to the police and
Mr. Haas suggested that a search of
his home on George avenue be made.
He said that was his first knowledge
of the fact that Attorney Rosser was
to represent him.
Frank thought he heard Mary Pha-
gan leave the pencil factory after he
paid her, on April &c, the day she met
her death, according to his state
ment to the jury this afternoon. The
accused man declared that as the girl
left. he heard femenine voices as If
one were leaving the entrance and
starting down the street.