PHILLIP CHAMBERS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 83rd To Testify

Phillip Chambers, 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)
Phillip Chambers, 15-year-old office boy from December 12, 1912, to March 29, 1913, worked every Saturday until 4:30–5:00 p.m. in the outer office.

Never once saw women, drinking, or C. B. Dalton.
Never saw the front door locked.
Conley and Snowball were banned from sweeping afternoons by Darley—gone by noon.
Never saw anyone guarding the door.
Frank’s wife visited once; Schiff helped on Saturdays.
Frank never familiar with women; never spoke to Mary Phagan.

Chambers lunched 1:30–2:00, ran 15-minute Montag mail errands, or fetched Bell Street payroll—always back by noon.
He and Frank were “good friends, like a boss ought to be.”
On cross-examination, Chambers denied knowing any Frank–Conley secret orders.
This teenage insider—alone in the outer office every Saturday—shredded Conley’s “watchman” tale.
No women, no Dalton, no locked doors, no Conley after noon—just Frank, Schiff, and ledgers.
One 15-year-old’s perfect memory turned the State’s “immoral Saturday hideout” into empty fiction.