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W. J. COOK. 647

Honorable Mayor! You are a nice pair!” 1 saw this bundle lying
on the floor with her coat and hat, and I reached down and got it,
and walked out and went by her husband’s office and left him a note
to see me before he went home or to call me, I didn’t hear anything
from him, but I heard from Mr. Forrest Adair. I went over to Mr.
Thrower’s offtce, and Mrs. Hirsch called me up from Mr. Candler’s
office, and says, “Mr, Cook, won’t you please come back up here—
‘Mr, Candler wants to talk with yout” I says, “I have no business
up there,” and hung the phone up in ber face. It wasn’t long until
Mr. Forrest Adair called me, Says, “Cook, can you come over to
my office?” I says, “Why, certainly!” I went over there, When I
saw what be wanted, I says, “I refuse to diseuss another man’s wife
with you or any other man.” He asked, would I talk to Mr, Candler,
and 1 finally told him I would. I met Mr, Candler over there. I met
Mr. Forrest Adair twies after that. Every time that I met either one
of them was at Mr. Forrest Adair’s solicitation, I never at any time
in any place in any way tried to communicate with tham or made any
demand on them for anything whateoever; and, gentlemen, I am not
asking for mercy, but strict justice. I thank you.

THE SPEECHES TO THE JURY.

Mr. Arnold. Gentlemen of the Jury: ‘You are trying now
the man responsible for this sad affair, The woman is almost
as much of a victim as is Mayor Candter—for she was simply a
tool in the hands of the prisoner, and for that she deserves our
sympathy. It would have been ridiculous for a man to have
committed the act the defense accused Mr. Candler of, with
both blinds to his office up and an open mail slot in his door.
Although Cook had named two mysterious men as witnesses,
in his statement to the jury, the defense has not placed these
men on the stand ag witnesses, or produced them at all. Where
are this Lee and Smith, who went with him to climb outside
of an office building window and watch and eavesdrop? Even
Mrs. Hirsch does not take the stand to sustain him. There
she sits, with not a word to say.

This man Cook claims to be so tender with ‘‘his friend’’
Hirsch, yet he arranged an audience for two strangers for the
violation of his friends’s wife. The trath is, the plot is yet
on. Mrs. Hirsch is wildly infatuated of this man Cook, and
this, gentlemen, is the use he has been making of her. Selling
her purity to make money. Of course, she was the one who
made the demands. Cook is too wise to make them himself.

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