W. C. Dobbs — Sworn in for the State — 178th Witness to Testify

W. C. Dobbs, witness for the State 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)
W. C. Dobbs testified that two or three days after the murder, streetcar motorman Matthews told him that Mary Phagan and George Epps had boarded his car together on the morning of April 26, 1913, and disembarked at Marietta and Broad Streets—near the pencil factory.
On cross-examination, Dobbs confirmed that Sergeant L. S. Dobbs (a previous witness) was his father.
This second-hand testimony was offered to corroborate George Epps’s account that he accompanied Phagan into town, establishing her arrival near the factory around noon and supporting the State’s timeline of the murder.