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MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 693

mysterions eyewitnesses is a lief Why don’t they produce

_ their witnesses? The reason is Cook just picked the names
Lee and Smith. If there ever were such men they have con-
siderably more brains than Cook, for he didn’t get out of the
way.

I do not wish to be harsh on a woman. A virtuous woman
is the noblest work of God, but the mould of virtue has been
lost in this ease, A scheming woman with a man like Cook,
hunting trouble for a 66-year-old man of the integrity and
character of Asa G, Candler deserves no consideration. The
very name Candler carries the highest honor of any name in
the State of Georgia. The men of that family have done
more for this State than any other, with few exceptions.
They were stalwart bulwarks in the reconstruction days and
since then have helped to build Atlanta. But slander loves
ashining mark. As good fruit is picked by the buzzard and
bird of prey so is a man like Candler picked as the victim of
unscrupulous criminals.

Let me show you the wide ramifications of their scheme.
First, they thought he would fall for the trick. They would
get all the money they could in the deal and Mrs. Hirsch
would leave the city temporarily. Shortly Bill Cook would
be back in town. He would go to Mr, Candler and say, “Old
man, we've got the goods on you. You paid her to leave her
husband and if you don’t come across with another million or
g0 we'll bring suit for alienation of affectiona.’? Could Mr.
Candler have refused their demands? Don’t you see the
deep laid scheme?

They would have had Mr, Candler and would have worked
on him until he was stripped of all his possessions.

Mrs. Hirsch says that she had a good influence over Mr.
Cook. His family courted her favor because she had such an
influence on ‘‘Handsome Bill.’’ Let us see.

Can you imagine 4 woman with better resources in the way
of tears and the influence of a marvelous actress. Couldn’t
she have used her tears and influence on Cook to have him not
tell her husband? Did she appeal to Adair as a good and

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