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690 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

said, ‘I knew you couldn’t impeach me in Falton County.”
There is the gauntlet that he flings down to the State. I
knew you couldn’t impeach me. Did they accept the chal-
lenge. No one was introduced to try to impeach him. It is
cowardly to attack a man’s character as Arnold did Cook’s,
when the challenge for impeachment has been made and they
haven’t attempted to accept it. Cook is a stranger to me, but
Bive him fair play.

There is no conspiracy shown by the State. They say that
Cook: displayed an undue interest in Mrs. Hirsch after he
had suspected her and Mayor Candler. Why undue? Didn't
he have a right to find out the truth, He wouldn't want her
to continue going with his mother and sister if what he sus-
pected turned out correct, would heft But his motive might
be jealousy, as they say. Or it might be curiosity. Man is
80 constituted, you know, that when there is that kind of a
spectacle in view he will go two miles to see. Then Cook says
that Lee and Smith saw the act, too, but that they cannot be
found now, The lady who kept the rooming house where
they lived says they have mysteriously disappeared, too. The
two young lady clerks at their office say they have gone, no
one knows where. Detective Starnes says he eannot find
them, although he talked to Lee on a recent Sunday. In the
name of God, why have they gone!

Gentlemen, if your mind wavers in arriving at your decis-
jon, it is your duty to acquit. Unless you are sure of the
guilt of the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt you. must
find a verdict of not guilty. Then the testimony of thia taxi
driver, Bill Baldwin, They state that Cook asked him to se
eure for him a master key to the offices in the Candler build-
ing. What are they trying to prove, burglary? This piece
of evidence, however, is one of those little things that either
proves nothing or too much. If they wish to prove burglary
it means nothing, but if their idea is to prove conspiracy it
Proves too much, because if there was conspiracy between
Mrs. Hirsch and Cook he would by their own contention need
no key to get in the office.

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