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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

had been. He said, “I told you
Saturday I had committed every
crime exeept murder. I kept a
‘woman when I was 15 old,
working in the Southern shops.”
‘He says, “Before I was twenty,
I waa arrested in bed one night;
a fellow came in and caught me
with his wife, and I was arrested
for rape and carried to the sta-
tion house. I got out of it b;

being able to prove that the tek
low was never married to her;
he was keeping her himself; and
I got in a row with the master
mechanis about it; he was also
friendly with the woman; and it
resulted in my discharge by the
master mechanic; the higher
authorities investigated it, and
reinstated me and moved the
master mechanic up into some
other department; the master
mechanic took me into his room
one day and told me if T said
anything more about it I would
have to eat his gun; he would
kill me. I told bim, ¥ am not
afraid of anybody killing me;
start that right now”; he told me
about his experience with the
‘wife of another railroad official
in Tennessee, where he bad sur-
prised him one night in bed with
his wife; Cook had gotten hia
pistol and stuek it right in his
aye and backed him out of the
room, and he left there, and that
woman had followed him all over
the country; finally one reason
he came back to Atlanta, he knew
that woman would not follow
him to Atlanta; he finally grew
very impatient, and says, “T
don’t want any more arguing
about this damn case; it has wor-
ried me about to death; T cannot
sleep; T have to go to the bar-
ber shop every day and get my
hair shampooed and get my head

rubbed; it has worried me to
@eath thinking about my friend
Hiney Hirsch”; he says, “I saw
him and her together Saturday
night, and it wes all I eould do
to keep from going right up ts

an
ducked so he would not see me,
and got out of the way; I am
not accustomed to ducking peo
ple; 1 don’t want to hear argu-
ments from you; not another
damn word; I have made up m:
mind that haz got to be done;
told old man Candler I would
give him a ressonable time; I
think I have been more than rea-
sonable; if he don’t do it I am
going to hunt Hirsch up the min-
ute he comes back into this town,
and tell him what occurred in
Mr. Candler’s office”; I
then for another conference with
Mrs. Hireeh; had Mr. Asa Cand-
ler, Jr, to come to my office
Tuesday morning at 8:30, and
shortly afterwards Mrs, Hirseh
came in; she was at first very
much surprised, seeing Mr.
Candler there, and said sha was
not being treated right in draw-
ing so many people into it; Mr.
Cook had told me Thursday
moruing Mr, Candler had made
a hell of a mistake in taking «
whole lot of people into hia eon-
fidence and telling this thing
around, and he said, “The fret
thing you know, it will get out”;
I told him it would not ba talked
out through 1s; he asked me
how many knew it; it was a
great mistake; he would rather
have dealt with Mr. Candler di-
rectly, without bringing all these
people into it; she at first talked
a great deal about how hard it
wes for a woman to have to give
up her husband and her home,
and that the woman was usually

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