ARTHUR HEYMAN, Sworn In For The Defendant, 133rd To Testify

Arthur Heyman, witness for the Defendant in rebuttal, at the Trial of Leo Frank in the Fulton County Superior Court of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1913 (Testimony Portion From July 28 - August 21, 1913; Closing Arguments August 21-25, 1913)
Arthur Heyman, an Atlanta attorney with nineteen years’ practice, testified that he had known Leo M. Frank for three or four years and that Frank’s general character was good.
On cross-examination, Heyman admitted he had met Frank only seven or eight times in three years, five or six of those alone, and each encounter lasted fifteen to twenty minutes. He never heard any mention of Frank’s relations with factory girls.
This testimony was offered to add a respected member of the bar to the defense’s long parade of character witnesses, extending Frank’s good name into Atlanta’s legal community. The brevity of contact revealed on cross-examination, however, limited the weight of Heyman’s endorsement.