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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

she pnght to have a sum of
mone’ ey or securities, bonds, that
would yield her at least $3000.00
a year. She explained she had
an engagement to go that after-
noon to a card party with a lady
who had heen # very dear friend
of hers, and that she would come
back to the office after. That
broke off the conversation, She
claimed Cook came upon her and
Mr. Candler in a compromising
position. I asked her what it
meant, if Cook had merely inter-
rupted them in the affico when
they were sitting talking, and
she said, they were not sitting
talking, but that after she got
into the room that Mr. Candler
began to fondle her and that had
gone along until she had removed
a pair of silk bloomers that she
had on, and that she was tying
on the couch in the office; that
they were having intereourse;
sho said she went to the door and
turned the knob and just as sha
turned the knob Cook pushed in.
She didn’t give any explanation
why she opened the door, and let
Cook in. The next meeting was
that evening when she came back
from the card party; she said she
had been thinking the matter
over and that it was all right;
eke would do what Cook had de-
manded and leave the city pro-
vided she was furnished with se-
eurities or bonds that would yield
her the sum of $3,000 per year.
We asked her then if she simply
wanted au annuity at the rate of
$250.00 a month, and she said,
No; that for several reasons she
didn’t want that—if she left At-
lanta she wanted to leave no mail
address; she wanted money or
bonda and that if she got an an-
nuity Mr. Candler might die in
8 or 12 months and the annuity

stop and she knew Mr. Candler
with his philanthropic spirit and
nature would not want her to
leave her husband and after do-
ing so want her to go to work
again or live in a hut; that she
was 38 years old and probably
would not be able to get herself
provided with another home and
that she would insist upon the
principal of that sum being paid
to her in cash or bonds. She said
she had been noticing Mr. Cand-
ler for years very closely and
that she had admired him for the
great things he had done; that
she had cut ont of the papers
clippings about him and she ap-
preciated how much he meant to
the city of Atlanta and to the
state of Georgia and the South,
and that if anything happened
and Mr. Cook should tell Mr.
‘Hirsch and make this publie that
it would burt Mr. Candler very
greatly—not only socially and
politically, bat in # business
way; that Mr. Candler had been
very prominently connected with
the church and in every way and
for that reason Mr. Candler
should deal with her very liberal-
ly in this matter. I called Mr.
Cook Saturday and told him T
would like to see him again. He
first said he would not see me,
but Anally agreed I should coma
by Thrower’s office for him when
T got back into the city after 2
o’slock; wa walked down Forsyth
street to a point opposite the fre
department where we sat down
upon a stone and talked. I told

ir. Cook he waa doing wrong
and that I wanted to see if there
was not some way to get him to
drop the matter and not insist
upon Mr. Candler sending Mrs.
Hirseh out of the city, Mr. Cook
said “he was very much worried

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