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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

the next Wednesday, the 13th,
he walked up to ihe Mayor's
desk. I said, “What do you
want?” He says, “You are trif-
ling with me, I have given you
reasonable time, now I will give
you till Friday, if this thing bas
not been done, I will expose you
and the whole of it,”—the thing
of getting Mrs. Hirsch out of
town. F said, “That is not an
easy job, separating a man from
his wife.” He said, “E will take
the blame,” and I told him to go.
I then immediately communi-
eated with Mr. Arnold, and I told
him to do what he was going to
do to prosecnte the case imme-
diately.

‘Mr. Cooper. 1 object to that
and move tp rule out the com-
munication between lawyer and
client, the advice he gave, it is
against public policy.

The Court. Objection over-
ruled,

Cross-ezamined. I don’t re-
member saying to Mrs. Hirsch
the picture would not be com-
plete unless she was in it, or tell-
ing her to come beside me. I
don’t remember seeing this pie-
ture before; that is my picture
beside Mrs. Hirsch, taken in
September, 1917. There are two
men standing there, General.
Swift aud young Willis Tim-
mong, president of the Rotary
Clnb, who presided over the
meeting, I did not any any-
thing to Mrs, Hirseh that caused
her to come to my side. I didn’t
have anything to do with arrang-
ing the picture; have no recolles-
tion of removing a badge from
my coat and presenting it to
Mrs, Hirsch; don’t believe I did,
I might have. Remember she
told me her physician advised
her she would have to go to the

hospital, that was before Christ-
mas. I didn’t see her then until
January when I met her on the
street. She spoke to me as she
came out of the Candler build-
ing. I don’t think my hand was
on her shoulder; might have told
her I was glad to see her, it
would have been courtesy to
bave ssid something of the kind.
She visited my private office in
the Candler building, before the
first of January, not since she
came out of the hosptal; visited
it ones or twice on Red Cross
missions; never took liberties
with her; never kissed her and
bugged her; never tried to per-
auade her to have intercourse
with me on any occasion; took
no liking to the woman, she was
pleasant, attractive. Both times
she was wanting me to assist in
these things T have just told you;
never told her she was the main
woman in the Red Cross mission,
or best worker. I think I said
something about her working too
much, and had worked herself
down, it would have been uat-
ural for me to have said so, when
she told me she was going to a
hospital; never made a speech at
her request at some elub about
raising money. I did not intro-
duce her; introduced Mra. Atkin-
son and Mrs. Atkinson intro-
duced Mrs. Hirsch, I did not
sey in introducing her to the
Rotary Club, “Thia young wom-
an is the flower of Southern
womanhood.” I made an en-
gagement with her to come to
my office on February 6, at four
o'clock. No one wea in my of-
flee when she eame; did not lock
the door when she came in; the
door was shut. There is a ledge
to my window outside, eo one
could walk around, There are

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