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Boy Sweetheart Says Girl Was to Meet Him Saturday

Atlanta Georgian

Wednesday April 30th, 1913

G. W. Epps, Jr., 14 years old, of 248 Fox Street, who lives just around the corner from Mary Phagan, and who was her boy sweetheart, testified before the Coroner's Jury this afternoon that Mary Phagan had asked him to come down by the factory and go home with her a few days ago. She told him, he said, that Mr. Frank had been in the habit of going down to the front door and waiting there until she came out and looked suspicious at her and winked. He was asked:

Q. When did you see Mary Phagan last?—A. Saturday morning. We came to town on the car together. We got to town at 12 o'clock. When we got off the car she told me that she was going to the pencil factory to get her pay and would meet me at the (Falkin?) Drug Store at Five Points to see the parade at 2 o'clock. I looked for her all around at that time. I could not find her. I stayed there until about 4 o'clock selling papers. She never appeared. There wasn't much of a crowd and I would have seen her if she had come.

Q. Where did you go at 4 o'clock?—A. I went to the ball game.

Q. Where did you go after that?—A. I went home, reaching there at 7 o'clock.

Q. Did you go over to Mary's house?—A. Yes, I went over there immediately.

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Atlanta Georgian, April 30th 1913, "Boy Sweetheart Says Girl Was to Meet Him Saturday," Leo Frank case newspaper article series
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