Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case.
Atlanta Constitution
August 16th, 1913
Joseph Stelker, an employee of the National Pencil company, followed the Montag’s credit man to the stand.
Stelker was questioned closely about conditions at the factory, and while he was on the stand both sides again took up the much-discussed question of whether or not Frank had a raincoat with him on the day of the murder. Stelker, in his testimony, made the spectators laugh when he told of how Jim Conley had swindled him out of a half a can of beer. He also remarked that he thought Jim was a better negro for having served in the city chaingang.
“Where were you on the day the little girl was killed?” asked Mr. Arnold on direct examination.
“I was at home.”
“Did you see the spots said to be blood and also the white stuff partly covering them?”
“Yes.”




















