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THE TRIAL OF MRS, HERMAN H. HIRSCH
FOR BLACKMAIL, ATLANTA,
GEORGIA, 1918.

THE NARRATIVE.

Leas than three weeks after the conviction of her confed-
erate Cook (ante, p. 624), Mre, Hirsch was brought to trial.
Mayor Candler (ante, p. 629) and Mr. Adair (ante, p. 633)
repeated the amazing story which they had testified to on
the trial of Cook. And the other witnesses on Cook’s trial
gave similar evidence here. Then Mrs, Hirsch, the Court
having been cleared of all spectators, made a long statement
or address to the jury in which she stuck to the charge of
eriminal conduet which she had made against Mayor Candler
and in which she attempted to make it appear that the money
which was talked about in Mr. Adair’s office was not a demand
made by her but an offer on the part of Mayor Candler’a
agent to hush up the matter and keep it from the public.
But in Jess than half an hour after the Judge had charged
them on the law of the case, the jury came back into court
with a verdict of guilty and Mrs. Hirsch was sentenced to a
fine of $1000 and imprisonment for one year.

THE TRIAL.t

In the Superior Court of Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia,
March, 1918.
Hon, Bensaurs H, Oui? Judge.
March 14.
Mrs. Herman H. Hirsch, who had been jointly indicted
with W.d. Cook for blackmail, and had pleaded not guilty
‘Bibliography. The Atlanta Constitution, March 15, 16 and 17,

1918,
See ante, p. 628.

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