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other official favor, and a month later, meeting him on the
street, made an appointment with him to receive her the
next Monday about a complaint which she had made against
an officer of the Humane Society. When at three in the after-
noon she entered the office, she complained of the heat, took
off her hat and coat and sat down in a chair near the Mayor.
Very soon she jumped up and said there waa a man at the
window. The Mayor said it was probably a window-washer;
but she replied, ‘"No, it is a well-dressed white man.’’ Then
she went to the door and tet in an individual whom the Mayor
had never seen before, and who, as he entered, called out, ‘‘Ah,
Honorable Mayor, this is nice.’ Observing that Mra. Hirsch
was erying, and, feeling that a trap was being laid for him,
Mayor Candler ran out and down the stairs to the floor below,
where one of his sons had his office, and in a couple of min-
utes was back in the room, accompanied by his son. Mrs.
Hirsch was still erying, but the man had disappeared. To
the Mayor’s question, ‘“Who waa that?’’ she replied, ‘That
waa Mr, Cook, who visits at my mother’s, where I sometimes
see him. J think he is in the real estate business.”? With this
she left the room and the building.

The Mayor at once telephoned for his friend and confiden-
tial advisor, Mr. Adair, who came at once. He had just
arrived when the Mayor was called-over the phone by Mrs,
Hirseh, who said she was at her husband's office, and wanted.
him to come there. The Mayor therenpon authorized Mr.
Adair to represent him, and refused to see Mrs. Hirsch, and
did not see her again until she appeared in court in March.

Mr. Adair answered Mrs, Hirsch, and told her Mr. Candler
‘would not see her, but he would if she would come to his office,
to which she agreed, and came there in a few minutes, She
related to Mr. Adair the incident of the man at the window,
and Cook’s coming into the office, and said that when she got
to her husband’s office, she found a note there from Cook, ask-
ing her to call him up before he went home. She said her
husband was out of town, but would be back that evening, and
if he got that note he would probably kill her, or Mayor Cand-

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