T H WILLET, Sworn In For The Defendant, 108th To Testify

T. H. Willet, 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)
Pattern-maker T. H. Willet testified that he built Defendant’s Exhibit 13, a scale model of the National Pencil Company factory, from an official blueprint. The floor plans were exact; every wall, door, staircase, and elevator shaft matched the print.
On cross-examination, Willet admitted the vertical heights were not to scale (floors were compressed for courtroom display) and he did not install windows in Frank’s office section.
On re-direct, he confirmed he received no instructions except “make it true to the blueprint.”
This three-dimensional courtroom model let jurors walk the crime scene in miniature:

Sight-lines from Frank’s desk to the clock,
Distances from metal room to basement,
Impossibility of hearing the elevator from the fourth floor,
Exact placement of the dressing-room doors and scuttle hole.

Willet’s unimpeachable replica turned the State’s verbal timeline into visual proof that Frank’s story fit the factory, while Conley’s ever-shifting versions collided with walls.