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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

the Davis-Fisher Sanitarium for
one week, in December, 1917;
Mr. Cook ealled on her every
day during the week I was nurs-
ing her, except one.

Jean C. Waldron. Am a trained
nurse; nursed Mrs, Hirsch at
the _Davis-Fisher Sanitarium
last Deeember, for four days;
Cook came to sea her twice out
of the four days during which I
nursed her. °

R, A. Gordon. Know J. W.
Cook; about two months ago he
came to my office and told me ke
was going to Cincinnati, and
wanted an introduction to some
wholesale whiskey houses up
there; he was going to bring it
back here and sell it; saw him
again about a week after that,
and asked him if he had been to
Cincinnati; be said he bad a
better scheme than the first ono
to make money.

Al H, Martin. Run a soda
water and cigar stand and cafe
opposite the court house; on the
day this indictment waa found,
February 14th, was at the county

jail, I saw a lady in the office of -

the jail talking to a reporter;
they said she was Mrs. Hirseh;
also saw Mr. Cook in the office
in the game room; had a conver-
sation with him; I says, “Cook,
they've kind of got you messed
up, haven't theyt” he says,
“No”; he asked me what the
comment was in regard to his
ease; I says, “I don't know,
Cook; I have been very busy and
haven’t had time to read the pa-
pers”; he said he had got Mr.
Candler—eaught Mr. Candler;
had him dead to righia, or some-
thing to that effect; I asked him
if the woman in the office there
waa the woman he used to come
in my store with; he said she

‘was not; up to about three
woeks before this indictment I
had seen them coming in my
store, Cook and Mrs. Hirsch;
they were in the store a great
deal for a period of two or three
weeks; sometimes they would
come together, and sometimes
they wouldn't; sometimes they
would sit over in the far corner;
have seen them sit in other
places at tables, always in that
baleony; the balcony is eonsid-
erably more private than the
belance of the cafe; they have
to go upstairs to get to it; I
have seen them during the din-
ner hour, somewhere in the af-
ternoon about this time, come
and sit quite a while; sometimes
they would come in to supper
and sit quite a while; I have
mown them to come as late as
four or five o’clock in the after-
noon, and stay until eight and
nine at night.

M,C. Kiser. Am in the real
estate business; know Cook; #
week before this indictment had
a conversation with him; he seid
he was going to build some
houses, make somes money or
bust.

Cc. H. Hicks. I formerly
worked in Al Martin’s eafe; re-
member Cook and Mrs. H, H.
Hirsch stayed at our cafe one
Sunday night until after 9
o'clock, almost the time we close,
which was 10; they were up in
the baleony of the cafe.

Bilt Baldwin. Am a taxicab
driver; know the defendant, J.
W. Cook; on the 26th of Jan-
nary, 1918, he had occasion to
ride in my taxicab; Cook asked
me to get him a master key for
the second floor of the Candler
building in Atlanta; he offered
me $200.00 to get the key for

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