ISAAC HAAS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 103rd To Testify

Isaac Haas, 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)
Isaac Haas, a five-year acquaintance of Leo M. Frank, testified that Frank’s character was very good.
On the morning of Sunday, April 27, Haas did not hear the telephone ring in his bedroom. The instrument stood 22 feet from his bed. His wife answered, then woke him.
On cross-examination, Haas confirmed his wife roused him immediately after picking up the receiver.
This testimony was offered to corroborate Frank’s account that he was home asleep when police called at 7:00 a.m.—not pacing nervously or destroying evidence as the State implied. Haas’s measured distance and wife’s prompt wake-up proved the call reached the household exactly as Frank described, bolstering the defense timeline and quietly dismantling the prosecution’s “guilty conscience” narrative.