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680 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

ia old in Europe and the east. It is new in Georgia, because
we have not had many rich people. After this prosecution
Dlackmailers in this part of the world will roost lower.

I doubt if Mrs. Hirsch would have admitted the figures
about her husband’s debta if her notations on the margin of
The Constitution had not been kept. She wanted half a mil-
lion for herself and $5,000 for bim! Think of the way that
husband has been treated. How would any man feel in like
circumstances? He must have the patience of Job.

Mrs. Hirech is a dangerous woman. She is liable to get s
dozen men killed. If Candler had been hot-headed he might
have shot Cook or Cook might have shot him, if he had re-
sisted Cook’s entrance. Or Mr. Hirsch might have gone gun-
ning for someone if he had learned of the affair. A woman
like this can cause more tragedies than anything I can
think of.

‘We all want to look at the facts. Southerners are never
going to hurt a woman unjustly. We put her on a pedestal
‘because we expect much of her. But we do not if we know
she is running around to offices for immoral purposes. No
good woman loses her virtue so easily at 38 years of age.
According to her own statement she only had to be asked.

From Thursday to Monday Mra, Hirach raised her de-
mand from $3,000 a year to a lump sum of $500,000. Don’t
you know that Cook and she were together in that time?
They were pleased with their success. Didn’t expect it to
be so easy. Cook probably said, ‘Don’t be a piker; put it up
to half million.’’ That’s the gambler’s game, all bluff, and
Cook is a gambler through and through. Mr. Hirsch is a
high-class man in a high-class position, and I don’t believe
what she told the Humphries woman about his complicity in
the affair was true. I am going to ask the court to charge
you that the blackmail charge is true, even if Mrs. Hirsch
was caught in the act.

Mrs, Hirseh, when she believed they would take care of
her, decided to get all she could. She and Cook got together
and Cook says, ‘Where do I come in?” It was their inten-

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