Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-06
ACCUSED On
STREET At
Ito, SAYS
AFF|ANT
Woman Tells of Seeing and
Speaking to Prisoner at Al
legged Time of Crime.

Intimation that the defense of
Leo NJ. Frank has other evidence
fully as important as the affidavit
of Mrs. Ethel Harris Miller, Of
Chattanooga, who has sworn that
she saw Frank at the corner Of
Alabama and Whitehall streets
at 10 O'Clock, on the afternoon
of the murder of Mary Phagan,
was given by attorneys for the
condemned man Friday The
time for resentencing Frank was
still being kept secret Friday.
THE affidavit of Mrs Miller" said
Attorney Leonard Haas, OF Franks
counsel, is one of the strongest links
in the chain of evidence with which
we are establishing an alibi. 1t COR
roborates in every detail the tesh-
mony OF Miss Minnie Kern, who
swore at the trial that she saw Frank
at the same place at the same time
ct proves conclusively that Frank
was not at the factory at the time
Jim Conley says he murdered the lit
tie Pbagan girl Mrs. Miller's affida-
Wit will form one of the strongest
contentious that we will present 10
Judge Hill in the motion for a new
trial. and there undoubtedly will be
other evidence presented that will
bear out and strengthen the alibi
which we regard as proven"
Verifes Girls Testimony.
Mrs. Mller's affidavit is Fridays
sensation in the Frank case. 1t IS
conceded to have important bearing
on the case inasmuch as it verifies
to the minutest detail the testimony
Of Miss Minnie Kern who was an
important witness during the trial In
addition to Mrs. Miller's affidavit, the
defense also has one made by Maier
Lefkoff. who swears that Mrs. Miller
was on the corner of Whitehall and
Alabama streets at the time she
claims. Lefkoff says that he does not
know whether he saw Frank, as he is
not acquainted with the accused man.
Mrs. Milers affidavit was sworn 10
before Leonard Haas several months
ago, but has been withheld by the
Frank defense as an emergency weap-
on Mrs. Miller now lives in Chatta-
nooga. at No 502 Poplar street but at
the time OF the murder of Mary Pha-
gan was living in Atlanta.
In her affidavit she says that on
the afternoon Of the murder she went
to the j, P. Allen store on Whitehall
street in company with Mr. Lefkoff 70
meet her sister, Miss Florence Harris,
who is employed there. She sWears
that she met her sister about o'clock
and that he trio then walked down
Whitehall TO Alabama and up Ala
.bama to Forsyth street, where they
caught a Magnolia street car home.
when we reached the corner os
Whitehall and Alabama streets" Mrs.
Miller's affidavit says, II saw Mr. Leo
Frank standing on the corner, and |
spoke. and Mr.. Frank bowed and
raised his hat. My sister does not
know Mr. Frank, and of course does
not know whether she saw him or not.
This happened between / and Ito
o'clock"
Went to Meet Sister.
In a statement issued shortly after
her affidavit became public, Mrs. Mill
er gives a more extended account of
her movements on the day of the
murder, when she swears she saw
Frank standing on the corner. April
&c was Memorial Day a holiday, AMI
she says her sister was released from
the days work at the Allen store
promptly at l o'clock. She says that
she. her sister and Mr. Lefkoff walked
without delay down Alabama street
and up to Forsyth, and that allowing