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XZ. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

benefit of the Red Cross, and
had been told that it would be
ageinst the law, and they want-
ed anthority from me to go on
with it; I told them to go on,
that they would not be interfered
with, in my opinion; 1 saw Mru.
Hirsch later, at a loncheon given
by the Rotary Clob, to General
Swift and his staff; the ladies
were selling tickets to the mem-
bera for the raffle; there was =
photograph taken in which Gen-
eral Swift, myself and some of
the ladies appeared; I had no-
thing to do with this picture or
the arrangement of the fares;
after that, Mrs. Hirsch called on
me a time or two in my office in
the Candler building, wanting to
talk to me about the raffle, and
making some statement about the
difficulties she waa having in dis-
posing of the tickets; in all those
conversations with her when she
called on me, she never did any-
thing to indieate to me she was
other than ae Iady; last January
sha made visits to the mayor’a
office with Mrs, Rambo, end they
wanted to have a change in the
humane offer; this event this
indictment grows out of occurred
on the 6th of February; before
that time, had seen Mrs, Hirsch
twice; om February 4th I
walked to the mayor's offee and
got in front of where the old
‘Weinmeister hotel was, Mrs,
Hirsch spoke to me, coming out
of M. L. Thrower’s real estate
office, in the corner of the
Grant building; have understood
Mr, Cook stayed in that real es-
state office. Mrs, Hirsch asked
me could she see me in my of-
fice in the Candler building. I
told her I would not be there
that Monday afternoon, and my
future engagements were on my

memorandum bock and I would
look and see when I had leisure.
Ske saked me then if she could
see me Wednesday afternoon; I
stated I got back to the office
from three to half past three
oclosk; she said, “Must I eome
at four o'clock#” And J said,
“All right,” she said she wanted
to call about the Humane Soci
ety; did not see her any mors
until she came to my offies Wed-
nesday afternoon. I reached my
office somewhere about three
o'clock; she came in the front
door, there is 8 lock on the door
that locks from the inside, you
cannot open it from the outside,
when it is shut it locka, When
she eame in she complained of
being tired and hot and removed
her coat and sat down right near
me at my deak, There is a cen-
ter table in the middle of the
room. On the otber side of the
room from my desk is a settee.
Mrs. Hirsch suddenly sprang up
and said there was a man at the
window back of my deck; looked
at the window, but saw mo man,
T said it was probably a window
washer. She says, “No, it is
well-dressed white man.” No-
body was there that I could see,
T looked back at Mrs. Hirsch.
She had gone to the front door
and opened it, and in the mean-
time bad pulled her hat of.
When she opened the door the
man she called Cook walked in,
this defendant; had never known
him or seen him to my knowl-
edge. When ho came in he said,
“Ah, Honorable Mayor, this is
nice.” I said to Mrs. Hirseh,
“What does this mean?” Then
I rnshed to my son's office, I
did that because I was alone and
T needed somebody, or thought I
did. It looked very much like I

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