J Q ADAMS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 107th To Testify

J. Q. Adams, 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)
Professional photographer J. Q. Adams (20 years’ experience) took 86 courtroom photographs that visually demolished the State’s two strongest props:

Albert McKnight’s kitchen spy-story,
Conley’s ever-shifting basement tale.

Selig kitchen (Exhibits 62–63)

From the back porch: zero mirror.
Standing in the doorway: mirror still invisible.
Only by stepping inside does one inch of mirror appear—no table, no chairs, no seated man.
Adams: “A slight tilt of the mirror would be required to see anything.”
Result: Albert could not have watched Frank refuse dinner, pace, or leave after ten minutes. Impossible.

Factory tour (Exhibits 64–86)

Safe-door views: Frank’s inner-office desk, telephone, and windows vanish behind the safe—no one outside could see him working.
Basement: exact spot where Conley claimed he “found” the body; cotton-sack closet; elevator shaft rubbish; back-door exit.
Metal-room doors: glass panels, no working lock—anyone could see straight through.
Lathe & chipped floor: exact locations of alleged blood and hair.
Elevator box & wheels: noise path proven inaudible from fourth floor.
Third-to-second-floor sight-line: a man walking from metal room to elevator is plainly visible—contradicting Conley’s “nobody saw me” claim.

On cross-examination, Adams stood firm:

Mirror tilt was never present on April 26.
All 86 photos were taken one month ago under identical lighting and angles.

Adams handed the jury a pocket-sized crime scene. Jurors could hold the factory in their hands, walk every footstep, and see for themselves that:

Albert lied,
Conley’s route was lit like daylight,
Frank’s office was a fishbowl.

The State’s verbal house of cards collapsed under 20 years of photographic truth.