R L BAUER, Sworn In For The Defendant, 91st To Testify

R. L. Bauer, 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)
R. L. Bauer, a frequent Saturday visitor to the National Pencil Company for five years, testified that he had never once seen women in Frank’s office on any Saturday—summer 1909, 1910, or the dozen months before the murder.
Bauer detailed four consecutive January 1913 Saturdays while Schiff was away:

Jan 4, 11, 18, 25 → arrived 3:00 p.m., left 3:30–4:00.
Front door wide open, Holloway at his desk, Frank alone at his inner-office desk.
No stenographer, no women, no locked doors.
Bauer strolled freely, chatted 10 minutes, then watched Frank work.

On cross-examination, Bauer stood firm:

Two Saturdays a month average.
Always found Schiff (except January).
Every visit: open doors, empty office, Frank buried in ledgers.

Bauer’s five-year, 50-plus Saturday log turned the State’s “women every weekend” parade into phantom gossip.
A neutral outsider who dropped in unannounced proved the fourth floor on Saturday was exactly what Frank said: paperwork, not passion.