702 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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because evidently he hasn’t,” and he said, “you are going to have
to go.”

When I told Forrest Adair about my trip to the station with my
husband he took my hand and kissed it and tears came into his
eyes and he anid, “Little woman, my heart goes out to you; when
T came into this I came in as a friend of Mr, Candler, but I'm your
friend now, too,” and he said, “I’m so sorry for you, and my
brother, George, is just as sorry for you as I am,” and said, “we
are both your friends, too.” Then I told him about having fixed
some shirts for Mr. Hirsch that week, that I had made for him
some time before that—I said “I just feel I can't leave until even
his clothes are in good repair, beeause I have always taken care of
him so good.” Mr. Asa, Jr., aaid, “Well, it’s a shame that a woman
who is domestically inclined cau’t live with ber husband, thet that
brute has to make her leave him.” They said, “Now, we are pre-
pared to meet your demands as to an annuity, or as to this amount
that will give you an income of $250 2 month and it will be better
just for you to leave a letter for your husband telling him either that

ou have been untrue to him, or something like that, in a way that
he will never want to look you up.”

T said in one of the first visita that I had made to Mr. Adair’s
office he bad suggested that they give me money enough to go and
establish myself somewhere else. This was before the question of
the bonds came up, when we were speaking of an annuity, he said
“I would suggest that we not only give Mrs. Hirsch this annnity,
but that we give her money enongh to establish herself in = good
way wherever she is going--pay her expenses and any little ex-
penses she has here before she went.”

‘On this last visit I told him that I had mentioned, or was talking
to Mr. Hirsch about money matters when he was home before, and
he had told me that he owed a note in the bank for $1,150, part of
the money he had borrowed while I was ill in the hospital. I did
not say that the money was all for my illness or anything like that;
$1,300 was a note that be owed; $1,500 was mortgage on a bungalow
he owned—I have forgotten the other matters, but I did note them
down on the margin of a newspaper in the office of Mr. Adair. I
said, “when I leave here I feet that I want to leave Mr. Hirsch an
amount aufficent to square him up, for if anything will make him
forget me, or in a way, turn him against me, it will be
the faet that I have been able to give him that sum of
money, for he will wonder where I got it,” and I said, “If I leave
that amount to his credit he will know what I have done without
my writing and telling him. Part of these debts have been in-
eurred for me and I feel it is nothing more than right that he
should be given the money to liquidate all his debts, too, and if I
ean make my going easier for him in that way I would like to do it.”

I told them that I had another plan that I had thought of that
I would like to put to Mr. Candler himself. Mr. Asa, Jr., said,
“My father is not a man of the world and ¥ think you can talk to
me and I could understand anything and I’m sure that I'd under