Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case.
Atlanta Georgian
Wednesday April 30th, 1913
Previous to Watchman Newt Lee’s testimony, three police officers, who were called to the pencil factory when Mary Phagan’s body was found, testified. Their testimony, with the exception of such parts as were unfit to print, follows:
W. T. Anderson, police call officer on duty Sunday morning, was first witness.
“We went over in an automobile to the pencil factory and the negro took us into the cellar where the body was found,” he said.
Anderson told of the location of the scuttle hole, from which a ladder led to the basement, and of the location of the body. Continue Reading →