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known on February 6 or after Mrs. H. H. Hirseh never
would have been arrested. If the prosecutor had been an
ordinary average citizen the trial would have taken its turn
with other misdemeanor cases, but on account of the fact
that Mr. Candler is the Mayor of the city and a multi-million-
aire the defendant is indicted at special session of the grand
jary. I don’t care how he stands, financially or politically,
the defendant still haa some rights in a court house before a
jary. She has the right to an unprejudiced trial.

No case has been made against the defendant under the
law. If a trap was set for her by Forrest Adair, as he stated
on the witness stand himself, he should go to the chain gang
also if she goes, as an accomplice. I want to know why they
were trying to settle the case with Mrs. Hirsch through For-
rest Adair’s agency, if Mr. Candler was not guilty of im-
proper relations with her? Why did he employ the shrewd-
est lawyer in Atlanta, many detectives and the great black-
mail expert, Forrest Adair, if there was not something to it?

I am surprised that you, Mr. Arnold, would so abuse and
abase & woman, it will stick no feather in your crown. I
wouldn’t make a speech like that for all the money in the
world, because some day I have got to die and face my judg-
ment. I have got to face Him who when on earth said, ‘Let
him who is without fault among you cast the first stone.’?
I am uo saint myself, I am a poor sinner and would plead
guilty before the bar of God, but I would not try to crush
the character of a poor woman as you have done.

I know Mr. Candler thinks more of a dollar than any-
thing else in the world. Who is hurt and injured in this
case? Not Candler, but the defendant at the bar. Not a
dollar of money has parted from Candler nor has she de-
manded anything of him. Mr. Candler himself swore that
the defendant had not made any demand of him for money
and when he said this he knocked the siate’s case to the
ground. Forrest Adair is the whole case for the prosecution
and he is as guilty as the defendant in leading her and mak-
ing the first suggestion of money to her. Candler knew he

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