K T THOMAS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 113th To Testify

K. T. Thomas, 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)
Civil engineer K. T. Thomas used a surveyor’s tape and stopwatch to demolish the State’s claim that Mary Phagan could not have reached the factory before 12:05–12:07.

Marietta & Forsyth → factory door: 1,016 ft — 4½ minutes at a moderate gait.
Factory → Whitehall & Alabama: 831 ft — 3½ minutes.
Factory → Broad & Hunter: 333 ft — 1¾ minutes.

Thomas declared that any adult walking slower than his pace would still cover Marietta & Forsyth to factory in under 6 minutes. Even at a leisurely stroll, Phagan could have arrived as early as 12:03½ if her streetcar reached Marietta & Forsyth at 11:59.
On cross-examination, Thomas conceded a brisk walker could shave another 1½ minutes, but no honest pace required the State’s inflated 6–7 minutes.
This engineer’s precision turned the prosecution’s “impossible timeline” into mathematical nonsense, proving Phagan had plenty of time to enter, collect her pay, and vanish—all before the factory clock struck 12:08.