Author: Mary Phagan


L M CASTRO, Sworn In For The Defendant, 114th To Testify

L. M. CASTRO, sworn for the Defendant.I walked from the corner of Marietta and Forsyth Streets to the upstairs of the National Pencil factory on S. Forsyth Street at a moderate gait.It took me 41/2 minutes.I walked from the same…

PROF GEO BACHMAN, Sworn In For The Defendant, 115th To Testify

PROF. GEO. BACHMAN, sworn for the Defendant.Prof. of Physiology and Physiological Chemistry Atl. Col. Phys. & Surgeons.Bomar says it takes 4 hours and a half to digest cabbage.That's for the cabbage to pass from the stomach into the intestines.The gastric…

DR THOMAS HANCOCK, Sworn In For The Defendant, 116th To Testify

DR. THOMAS HANCOCK, sworn for the Defendant.A doctor for 22 years. Engaged in hospital work 6 or 7 years. Have treated about 14,000 cases of surgery. Have examined the private. parts of Leo M. Frank and found nothing abnormal.As far…

DR WILLIS F WESTMORELAND, Sworn In For The Defendant, 117th To Testify

DR. WILLIS F. WESTMORELAND, sworn for the Defendant.DIRECT EXAMINATION.A practicing physician for twenty-eight years, general practice and surgery.A professor of surgery for twenty years, and formerly president of the State Board of Health.If the body of a girl between thirteen…

DR J C OLMSTEAD, Sworn In For The Defendant, 118th To Testify

DR. J. C. OLMSTEAD, sworn for the Defendant.Practicing physician for 36 years.Given the facts that a young lady 13 or 14 years old died and 8 or 10 hours after death the body was embalmed with a preparation containing 8%…

DR W S KENDRICK, Sworn In For The Defendant, 119th To Testify

DR. W. S. KENDRICK, sworn for the Defendant.I have been a practicing physician for thirty-five years.I was Dean of the Atlanta Medical College.I gave Dr. Harris his first position there.If a young lady between thirteen and fourteen years of age…

JOHN ASHLEY JONES, Sworn In For The Defendant, 120th To Testify

JOHN ASHLEY JONES, sworn for the defendant.I have known Mr. Frank about a year or eighteen months.His general character is good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I am resident agent for the New York Life Insurance Company.I don't know any of the girls at the…

DR LEROY CHILDS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 121st To Testify

DR. LEROY CHILDS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a surgeon.If a person dies and the body found three o'clock in the morning,rigor mortis not quite complete,embalmed the next day about ten o'clock,the body disinterred nine days later and a post-mortem…

ALFRED LORING LANE, Sworn In For The Defendant, 122nd To Testify

ALFRED LORING LANE, sworn for the Defendant.I am a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y.I have known Leo Frank about 15 years.I knew him four years at Pratt Institute which we both attended.I also knew him after he returned from Cornell…

PHILIP NASH, Sworn In For The Defendant, 123rd To Testify

PHILIP NASH, sworn for the Defendant.I live in Ridgewood, N. J.I am connected with the New York Telephone Company, in New York City.I knew Leo Frank four years at Pratt Institute.I was in his class.His general character is good.PHILIP NASH,…