W W ROGERS, Sworn In For The State, 6th To Testify

W. W. Rogers, witness for the State, 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)
W. W. Rogers, former police officer (now Judge Girardeau’s court), testified:
Sunday, April 27

~5:30 a.m.: Starnes to Frank: “I’ll send automobile.”
~6:00 a.m.: Rogers & Black at Frank’s home—Mrs. Frank in bathrobe; Frank behind curtain, no collar/tie/coat.
Frank: Rapid questions, “Coffee?”, “Dreamt phone rang 3 a.m.”
Car: “Mary Phagan dead”—Frank: “Don’t know her.”
Undertaker: Frank glanced, stepped behind curtain—no clear view.
Factory: Frank opened safe, found Phagan slip—“$1.20 Saturday.”

Cross-examination

Frank: Cooperative; Mrs. Frank fetched collar/tie.
15–20 minutes at home.
Undertaker: Rogers blocked view—Frank never entered room.
Elevator: Noisy, auto-stop.
Basement: Excrement pre-elevator—smashed later.

Rogers’s “nervous Frank” became State’s “guilty panic”.
Defense shredded: Coffee, curtain, cooperation, blocked view, excrement timeline.
Ex-officer’s “jump” turned prosecution’s “smoking gun” into defense dynamite.