RICHARD A WRIGHT, Sworn In For The Defendant, 124th To Testify

Richard A. Wright, 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)
Richard A. Wright, a consulting engineer from Brooklyn, New York, testified that he had known Leo M. Frank for seven years—four years at Pratt Institute and three years at Cornell University. Wright declared Frank’s general character was good.
This testimony was offered to extend Frank’s impeccable reputation to his pre-Atlanta educational life, presenting the sworn endorsement of a successful New York professional who had studied alongside Frank at two prestigious institutions—further countering the State’s portrait of a lifelong moral degenerate by showing Frank was respected by peers in elite academic circles long before the factory.