PROF C D ALBERT, Sworn In For The Defendant, 128th To Testify

Prof. C. D. Albert, 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)
Professor C. D. Albert, holder of the chair of machine design at Cornell University for five years, testified that he had known Leo M. Frank for two years while Frank pursued his mechanical-engineering degree. As instructor in the mechanical laboratory, Albert came in daily contact with Frank and declared his character was very good.
This testimony was offered to push Frank’s impeccable reputation back to his elite Ivy-League college years, far from Atlanta and the factory, and to present another distinguished Cornell professor—second in the trial—who personally supervised Frank and found nothing amiss. It reinforced the defense narrative of a consistently upright young man and countered the State’s portrait of a lifelong predator.