Leo Frank Case, Watson's Magazine Sept 1915, Part 5 of 13, read by John De Nugent

Harry Scott further continues his testimony by stating the fact that Leo Frank admitted that he was inside his office every single minute between midday and 12:30 PM on April 26th, 1913 - the day Mary Phagan was suspected of having been murdered and Harry also claimed that he found nothing of importance when he conducted a thorough search. Rosser, the lawyer for Leo Frank was doing his best to try and ensure that Frank would answer "No" instead of "I don't know" to the question posed by Mary about whether the metal for the pencils had arrived or not because his client's response would indicate that neither one of them ever had a reason to venture into the metal room in order to find out whether the materials had been delivered. The presence of the metal being delivered was a prerequisite for Mary to return to work the following Monday morning. The reason for the importance of the response to Mary's question would indicate whether she possibly went to the metal room to check for the presence of the metal if there wasn't a certainty about it being there. Frank's lawyer was trying to place Mary as far away from Frank as possible since a tress of hair was on the projecting crank of a bench-lathe and blood stains had been found in the metal room. This discovery would implicate Leo in the crime of raping and murdering Mary Phagan as the main evidence implicating Leo Frank laid in that one room.

Another witness that had appeared on the stand was a young girl by the name of Monteen Stover belonging to the same age demographic as Mary Phagan who claimed to be in Leo Frank's office at around the same time that the pencil factory manager was supposed to be there. She claimed to have been there at around 12:05 PM but didn't see Leo Frank at that particular time he was supposed to have been there. She also to his secondary (inner) office besides the outer one but didn't see or hear anybody in the building. She also claimed that the door to the metal room had been locked. Another one of Leo Frank's lawyers John M. Slaton claimed that the pencil factory manager was not in his main office room at around 12:07 PM when Mary Phagan had arrived to collect her pay. Rather, John Slaton, claimed based on falsified records that Leo Frank was inside the inner office room at that time when Monteen Stover waited for his client to come out and pay her salary. He provided a gubernatorial proclamation contradicting Monteen's personal and persistant account of Leo Frank not being in either his inner or outer office when she went to look for him at exactly that same time Leo testified towards being inside his office. Monteen's testimony was never faltered or buckled under pressure from Leo's corrupt governor cum lawyer John M. Slaton.