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MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 685

to cover, and not even Bishop Candler, who has been sitting
here so long, knows it better, I am no saint, but a sinner,
but there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that
is saved than over ninety and nine that went out astray.

Arnold is not a gentle man. He says that he is bigger than
all the lawyers and the legislators of Georgia because he
criticizes them when they make blackmail a misdemeanor
and says it ought to be a felony, That man has got so much
sense that he is dangerous. I wonder all the hair doesn’t
eome off his head. The great lawyer hears the dollars rat-
tling in the pocket of the proseeutor. He is not representing
the State of Georgia, he is representing money, T have a
great respect for Solicitor Boykin ; he is a mild mannered man
and s nice man. Arnold, like myself, has never been hon-
ored by any office in the gift of the people. He must change
his ways if he ever wants to get to Congress or on the beneh.

T believe that the vindication of the defendant, of Mrs.
Hirsch, is near at hand, I believe you are going to turn the
seales in her favor and end her suffering. God knows she
bas suffered untold misery. Mrs, Hirach had the court house
eleared on her own motion when she made her statement. It
‘waa not on the advice of attorneys and it is to her eternal
eredit that she didn’t want the public to hear what she had.
to say. She made the best statement that ever fell from the
lips of a prisoner charged with crime. It brought tears to
the eyes of all in the court room except Mr. Arnold. Sha
made a statement no lawyer could have prepared. The only
preparation which could render such a statement poasible
was that every word was the truth. It would be impossible
for any man or woman to tell a lie for two hours without
notes, with no contradiction. I was ready to close the case
then, but we saw ft to put up evidence.

Let us end this thing here by a verdict of not guilty, for
there is a court higher than the State, a court in Washington,
There is nothing higher than that except the court of God,
where all the trath will be known. Cook’s testimony clears
her and you ought to turn her loose on his evidence. No

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