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652 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Toney has been passed in this case. Even Mr. Adair admits
that there was no demand made for money either by Mrs.
Hirsch or Cook. That clears Cook. What will we do with
him? Release him! I’m not surprised you won't try the
woman. You would have little enough sense to try her, for
you know there’s not a jury in Georgia that would
convict her. What act can they show against Mr. Cook
that constitutes blackmail? None! What overt act have
they shown that Cook has done to make him guilty of black-
mailf ' None in the world! There’s a great deal of difference
between blackmail money and hush money. We have heard
& great deal from Forrest Adair about hush money. He
trapped this woman when he held out great amounts for her
to leave her husband, and as soon as she agreed the books
were closed and the law set upon her. If that was not a trap
to catch her, I don’t know what I am talking about. The
woman is the only sufferer in this ease. Her home has been
destroyed, her husband—I don’t know what he thinks about
it—but her conscience hurts her when she thinks of him.
They say it doesn’t make any difference if Mr. Candler eom-
mitted this act, they have got a case against her and Cook
anyhow.

Do you think (holding up the photograph) that he was
a party to thatt And when he told her, ‘‘Come in here, this
picture won't be complete without you,”’ I don’t blame him
for saying it—TI like her myself. I like any pretty woman.
I’m no saint. I’m just a plain, ordinary citizen. I’m tell-
ing you, gentlemen, Candler was caught. Because of his
standing and reputation in this community, something had
to be done. Candler was ill advised. When they had the
grand jury called in special session and had these people in-
dicted in 4 misdemeanor case, he was ill advised.

T was & witness to a lynching once in a Georgia courthouse.
I was engaged in the Rawlings case in Valdosta in 1906. I
did not want to see anything like that repeated in a Georgia
courthouse, and that’s why I asked for a change of venue
this morning.

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