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694 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

noble man of the world to go and see Bill Cook and persuade
him and do what he could to keep him quiet!

No. Her game was to impress on Mr. Candler that Cook
“thas eanght me red-handed, is going to tell my husband, and
T’ve got to get out of town’’—with plenty of cash!

You remember that she states that after Mr. Adair had
considered giving her an annuity of $3,000 a year she went
to a card party, and when she got back her figure was raised
to $500,000. Don’t you know that she met Bill Cook after
that card party and he told her te boost the price?

Gentlemen, counsel for the defense argue mercy; they
argue sympathy and eite the story in the Bible where Christ
forgave a harlot. The woman Christ forgave hadn’t sinned
against any one save herself. She hadn’t entered into a
malicious plot with a man like Cock to get money by evil
ways for their joint nse and purposes. She was not a black-
mailer, but only a woman who had sinned as a woman against
herself alone.

Your duty, gentlemen, in this case is great as men, and
‘tears and moans are nothing else but attempts to influence
you from your plain duty.

Some of the greatest outrages ever perpetrated in this atate
have been the turning loose of women as guilty as hell, The
record in this respect is a blot on the state.

Let the court settle the question of clemency, We are not
asking that the defendant be placed on probation or any-
thing else, but that you do your duty. Mercy but sanctions
wrong when a jury returns a verdiet that docan’t apeak the
truth.

You will have sanctioned blackmail if you bring in the
wrong verdict.

All through this event in Mr. Candler’s office Mrs. Hirsch
was acting her part to fit. She had agreed to let Cook in, to
ery there’s a man at the window as a signal to Cook to be at
the door so that she could let him in. She then goes to her
husband’s office and finds a note, and in lees than ten minutes
Phones Mr. Candler. What for? Not to stop Cook with Mr.

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