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MRS, HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 691

Gentlemen, you can’t select as the State would have you
do the evidence you wish to believe and that you wish to
class as false. On one side in this case stands reputation,
power and wealth. On the other side stands a poor, ruined
woman, When the whole world is fighting for democracy,
when the guns are roaring and the swords flashing, see that
she has a fair trial, Before you convict, think how you
would consider it if she were your own daughter. If it is
tane that she has fallen, don’t you think she has had punish-
ment enough for that offense? On the evidence submitted,
yon are obliged to have doubt as to her guilt, and remember,
you cannot find her guilty unless you are sure beyond a rea-
sonable doubt.

And then son William. Ever after, as he says, this de-
signing woman had pursued him and he had nobly resisted
in the summer of 1917 when he saw his father and her to-
gether in pictures in the newspapers and saw them in public
together, he never warned his father, I suppose he gave her
the benefit of the doubt. Gentlemen, you do likewise.

Asa Candler, Sr., has a magnificent reputation, and no one
stands higher in their community. But if I were he I would
be ashamed to admit thet my character needs the bolater of
the fallen pedestal, of a crushed and bleeding woman’s heart.
Gentlemen of the jury, can’t you see the future of your own
little one, and the possibilities of life as it stretches its vista
towards a dim horizon!

“That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.”

THE SOLICITOR GENERAL, FOR THA STaTE.

Mr, Boykin. First, Gentlemen of the jury, let us look into
the situation of the parties involved. The evidence shows
that for several months Cook spent a large part of his time
soliciting the sale of tickets for the automobile raffle for Mrs,
Hirech. Why was he able to do this? Because he was a man
without a job, without means of support, Then, when the

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