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W. J. COOK.

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and nervous over the matter; it
had distressed him greatly. He
said he himself had been a very
bad man; that he had committed
every crime except murder; that
he lad left his home and father
when he was 12 years of age.”

Mr. Cooper. 1 object to this.
‘We wish to register an objection
to this testimony on the ground
they eannot put in a separate
and distinct offense against the
defendant other than the one on

“al

The Covrr. Tt ia not a sepa-
rate and distinct offense; I over-
rule the objection.

Mr, Adair. He stated that up
to about 6 months ago he had
been in the habit of drinking two

quarta of whiskey a day. I told
tim T didn’t believe a man could
drink two quarts of whiskey a
day.

Mr. Cooper. We object to
that and I make the motion now
to rule out about him being a
habitual drunkard or anything
of that sort. That is certainly a
separate and distinct offense.

The Courr. If anybody was
charging the defendant with
those things I would sustain your
motion, but the defendant is
talking about himself according
to this witness; I overrule your
motion,

Mr. Adair, Ho stated he got
to where whiskey didn’t have
much effect on him when he
would drink absinthe, which was
a a stronger drink, but be had tak-

@ ai nite an interest in the Billy
Sunday meetings and that he was
now trying to do right, and that
as he saw the right, his eon-
science had dictated_to him to
protect his friend Hirsch from
living with such a woman aa

Mrs, Hirsch was and that “If
Mr. Candler doesn’t do what I
told him to do, I have told the
old man what he has got to do,
if be doem't do it, I am going to
my friend Hiney Hirsch and tell
him about this woman” Mra,
Hirsch told me the first after-
noon at my offies that Mr. Hirsch
was expected back from Rome
that afternoon at 7. The next
day she told me he had not re-
tuned, ‘but thst ber busband
would be back on Fridsy after~
noon at 7, So at the time I was
having this talk with Mr, Cook
Mr. Hirseh was in_the city.
Cook told me Mrs. Hirsch had
‘been unture to her husband and
thst Mr. Candler had intereourae
with her in Mr, Candler’s offiee.
As I left him he put his arm up-
on my shonlder and says, “Now,
Forrest, you tell old man Candler
just to go ahead and do what T
have told him to do and then eat
a good supper and go to sleep
and not worry over this any
mores if be will do that, I will

forget everything I will not
even think, I will not tell it, I
‘won't even think it”? Mrs.

Hirsch had told me that her hus-
band would be in the city that
evening and was going to visit
Pittsburg, the home office of his
eompany; that he would be going
there Sunday on the noon train.
At 1 oelock Sunday Mrs.
Hirsch ealled me and said: “T
have just put him on the train
at 12'o'clock and he has gone to
Pittsburg and while he was here
T stuck to him like Grant sround
Richmond;” told her I would
communicate with her when T
wanted to see her again, Met
Cook again on the street on Mon-
day; Cook started in again tell-
ing me about what a bad man he

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