688 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

656 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.
(Cook having been tried separately and convicted, see ante,
p. 654) was placed on trial today.

Jokn A. Boykin, Solicitor General, and Reuben R. Arnold,‘
for the State.

Richard B. Russell John RB. Cooper* and James 8. Bed-
good" for the Prisoner.

The following jurymen were selected and sworn: R. L.
Crawford, W. H. Blackstock, L. C. Berry, J. T. Carroll, W.
L. Holeomb, V. R. Hollis, C, A, Meager, J. R. Lee, M. B.
Hinton, Jacob Heiman, J. T. Stark, H. L. Dewell.

THE WITNESSES FOR THE STATE,
Asa G, Candler, (His evidence across the street from yout

in chief was substantially the
same as that given on the trial of
Cook, See ante, p. 629.)

Mr. Russell. Did you buy any
chanees on the automobile raf-
fied by Mrs. Hirschf Yes, I
took several chances at her solic-
itation, though I do not remem-
ber exnetly where or when I
bought them, but my impression
is that I bought them at the Ro-
tary Iuneheon in the Piedmont
hotel, Do you recall Mra.
Hirseh laughingly make the re-
mark to you in your offiee, when
you bought some of the tickets,
that you were an accessory be-
fore the fact? I do not.
‘When Mra, Hirsch spoke to you
on James Street, in front of the
Candler building, wasn’t she

* See ante, p. 625,
4 See ante, p. 189,

Yes, I think she was, Did you
not eross over and teil her you
were glad to see her out of the
hospitalt I think I did cross
the street, and I might have
made some such remark. Did
not you tell her you had tried to
call her on the phone while she
was in the hospitalf I did not;
1 never telephoned her, or want-
ed to telephone her, on any occa-
sion; my recolleetion is that she
always did the calling. When
Mrs. Hirseh called at your office
in the Candler building on
‘Wednesday, February 6, did you
ask her tositdownt Perhaps T
dd. Didn’t you remark that
it was warm, and ask her to re-
move her coat? I did not,

Mr, Russell, When she called

® Russet, Ricnarp Brevarp. Born, Cobb County, Georgia, near
Marietta, 1861; graduated, University of Georgia, 1880; admitted
to Bar, 1880; Solicitor General of the Western Cirenit, 1888-1896;
Judge of Superior Court, Western Cirenit, 1898-1906; Associate
Judge Court of Appeals, 1906-1916; member of Legislature, Clark
County, for a number of years; he now resides at Winder, Georgia.

* See ante, p. 628,

7 See ante, p. 628.