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tion after she had left town that Cook should join her and,
my! what a time they would have had on that money! §o,
when she thought that Mr. Candler was going to provide for
her, Cook says, ‘‘Raise your figures.” She did, all right.
She lived with her husband from Friday until Sunday after
all this had happened, yet carried in her bosom all the time
the purpose to wreck and ruin him, desert him and destroy
all worth while in life for him for money.

J have fall sympathy for anyone if there is any room for
sympathy. I feel sorry for all men in the penitentiary and
for those going to be hung, but we cannot tear down the law.
If we do we become like Russia today, helpless because we
have thrown law overboard, a giant at the merey of Germany.

Mrs, Hirsch’s statement was a better speech than all the
lawyers could make put together. We are not in her class as
speakers. Two hours, without a note. Tt was a wonderful
mental feat and it is a pity that she can’t put her talent to
Detter use than she has done in this case. If I were in
Hirsch’s position I would do exactly as he would—‘Fold
my tent like the Arabs and silently steal away.’ J am sorry
for Hirsch, for the man she has ruined and disgraced and
made a laughing stock of before his friends.

I don’t care if the judge puts her on probation like the
Humphries woman, but I do want the jury to find the true
verdict and not to sanction the defendant’s crime in order
to stamp this monster of blackmail for the sake of ourselves,
our wives, and the future of our race.

Let us hold high the standard of our womanhood and let
other cities say that Atlanta has the brave and proper idea
for handling such eases.

I don’t care a rap what her two able lawyers will say.
Solicitor Boykin ean answer them. I am relying on you. I
know man’s weakness when woman is tried, but some of the
greatest criminals of history have been women. Lueretia
Borga was the most famous of murderers. Mra, Guinness,
of Indiana, murdered scores and it was a queen who insti-

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