Learn about the Trial of the 20th Century straight from the source - the Brief of Evidence. W E TURNER, Sworn In For The State, 162nd To Testify Reading Time: 2 minutes [349 words] W. E. TURNER, sworn for the State in rebuttal. I worked at the National Pencil Company during March of this year. I saw Leo Frank talking to Mary Phagan on the second floor, about the middle of March. It was just before dinner. There was nobody else in the room then. She was going to work and he stopped to talk to her