ANNIE HIXON C, Sworn In For The Defendant, 66th To Testify

Annie Hixon (colored), 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)
Annie Hixon, cook and maid for Mrs. C. F. Ursenbach (Lucile Frank’s sister) for two years, testified that on Saturday, April 26, Leo Frank telephoned at 1:30 p.m.

Message: “Tell Mr. Charlie I can’t go to the ball game this afternoon.”
Hixon delivered it to Mrs. Ursenbach.

Sunday morning at the Ursenbach home (after 9:00 a.m. breakfast):

Leo and Lucile Frank arrived—their usual Sunday visit.
The couple laughed and talked with the family—no tension, no nerves.
Hixon: “They were all laughing together… nothing unusual about him.”

On cross-examination, Hixon confirmed:

Franks visited every Sunday.
Frank laughed freely—zero signs of guilt, bruises, or distress.

Hixon’s 1:30 p.m. phone log placed Frank at home, planning leisure—not fleeing a crime scene.
Her Sunday laughter snapshot—heard from the kitchen—shredded the State’s “drunk, battered, sleepless” portrait.
A trusted family servant became the final, domestic eye-witness to Frank’s perfectly ordinary weekend.