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692 &, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

woman was in the hospital and the raffle was over, the neces-
nity of being with her was past, yet day in and day out he
visits the hospital and carries flowers and fruit. After she
ig out of the hospital, he spends much time with her at res-
taurants, dining and talking. They meet by appointment in a
clandestine manner. They sneak inte the restaurant, some-
times one first and sometimes the other, but always waiting
until the other arrived. What does the testimony show? On
at least one oecasion Mrs, Hirsch waited for an hour until
Cook arrived. The waiter solicited her order and she said,
“I won’t order until my friend comes in”? And who is her
friend? W.J. Cook They talk in subdued tones upstairs
in the baleony of the restaurant, where they are away from
the regular customers and ean confer in secret.

Cook’s story about: the real estate business he claims to be
engaged in is all a bluff. He never worked in real estate.
He admits he has not worked for Thrower, in the Grant
building, at least for many years. But he starts his pot early
and beging by hanging around Thrower’s place. He makes
it an evident habit to use the Thrower office as a headquar-
ters or loafing place. Why! Because he knew it was Mr.
Candler’s duty as mayor to frequently visit the city hall, and
he wanted to learn the ways of Mr, Candler and the hours
at which he went to and from his office. He could see Mr.
Candler’s moves as he went daily to the city hall through the
window of the Thrower office.

Then, does Mrs, Hirach act the part of a woman trapped
on that fateful day, on February 6? With all the crusading
which has been going on in Atlanta against vice, until they
even have to hire jitney busses to conduet the business, with
Chief Beavers, the terror of prostitutes, in office, even a com-
mon street woman would not let a man come in the door and
catch her in the act in an office with windows open to specta-
tors in a hotel across the street.

Don’t you know that the man at the window was a myth!
The words, ‘‘I saw a man looking in the window’’ were
signal to Cook. Don’t you know the whole story about these

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