ALFRED LORING LANE, Sworn In For The Defendant, 122nd To Testify

Alfred Loring Lane, 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)
Alfred Loring Lane, a Brooklyn resident, testified that he had known Leo M. Frank for fifteen years. The two had been classmates for four years at Pratt Institute and remained friends after Frank’s graduation from Cornell University. Lane declared Frank’s general character was good.
This testimony was offered to extend Frank’s impeccable reputation to his pre-Atlanta New York life, presenting the sworn endorsement of a lifelong friend who had studied alongside him daily at Pratt—further countering the State’s portrait of a lifelong moral degenerate by showing Frank was respected by peers in his hometown educational circles long before the factory.