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682 Y. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

gated the massacres of St. Bartholemew’s Eve. Some of the
most eruel criminals have been women.

‘When some women begin to lead a life of shame they be-
gin to prevaricate. They will not tell on each other. Mrs.
Humphries would not tell on Mrs. Hirach. There is a code
of ethics among them.

T have diseussed this case as best I could. You are the final
arbiters. The Jaw has fullest confidence in you and expecta
you to observe your oath to try men and women alike. Put
it on record that you cannot approve of acts such aa those of
Mrs, Hirsch, the defendant. .

‘MR. COOPER, FOR THE PRISONER.

Mr. Cooper. You have just heard what is perhaps the
most remarkable speech in a court house in Georgia. I have
never heard such a speech against a poor woman fall from the
lips of mortal man in twenty-seven years’ experience. If
this case is going to be tried on oratory we will lose. No
map can compete in that respect with Brother Arnold. Dur-
ing the trial of Cook, Mr. Arnold said that the woman waa
insane. He seems to have changed his idea. (Mr. Arnold
here interrupted with an objection on the ground that no
reference could be properly made to anything which had oc-
curred at any other trial unless it had been introduced in
evidence in the present case. The objection was sustained.)

He says in this trial that the defendant has even got Sarah
Bernhart skinned. I have never heard a woman abused so
in my life. I am sick and tired of this abuse of witnesses and
prisoners in the courts of Georgia and pray for the day when
‘we will be able to bring it to an end.

This is perhaps the most important misdemeanor case ever
tried in Georgia, I have never seen such interest in a mis-
demeanor case before. You, gentlemen, are asked in this
important trial to decide whether or not a defenseless woman
can get justice or whether a man powerful in the eommu-
nity with great character, reputation and millions of dollars
can win against her, I ask you to rise above the influence
around the proseentor’s table. If the real truth had been

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