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678 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

a married woman guilty of the erime of adultery was stoned
to death. That penalty was too severe, but ours is too mild.

You see sitting before you a very dangerous woman. As
an actress she has got Sarah Bernhardt skinned. The empty-
ing of the court room for her atatement and her tears are all
acted, what difference does it make when it is all going to
be made public on the records. She laughed and cried at
will. I would love to try her before a jury of good women.
There would be no crying then; only weak men are affected
by this.

There are too many coincidences in this case, What a
marvelous coincidence that Cook came out of the Grant
building when he did. That she ‘“‘happened”’ to come out of
the Grant building shortly before. That Cook ‘‘happened’’
to hear the two fateful words ‘‘Wednesday afternoon’’ and
no more of the conversation. Then something happened to
frighten her while she was in Mr, Candler’s office on Febra-
ary 6; that Cook happened to come into the office. The truth
is Cook was mad. He was infatuated with her. He wrote
a note to his “‘dear friend,’ Hirsch, whom he had only met
twice alone, on street corners each time and he couldn’t even
remember the conversation at those meetings. He loved his
friend, Hirsch, so much, yet he called his friend’s wife Peg.
Hirsch has a mighty poor way of showing his friendship for
his friend Cook, I must say. He never even attended Hand-
some Bill's trial.

T am glad Hirseh didn’t get that note. Mrs. Hirsch was
right on the spot and she phoned Mr. Candler. You know, in
some senses this plot was tolerably slick, but in some it was
a rotten bungle. They didn’t expect Mr. Candler would ever
have grit enough to come to court. They thought all they
would have to do for the rest of their livea would be to clip
coupons.

William Candler is young and they planned to work a
blackmail scheme on him at the ladies’ rest room at the Fair.
They would have had to work quickly, but then he is young.
They allowed more time for an older man. Williem saw

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