Author: Mary Phagan
657 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK. 625A month after receiving another official favor, a woman met Mayor Candler on the street and made an appointment with him to receive her the following Monday regarding a complaint she…
658 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:626 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mr. Adair, representing Mr. Candler, contacted Cook by phone and invited him to his office. Cook revealed that he was a close friend of Mr. Hirsch and had recently discovered…
659 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK, 627The charge of immoral conduct made by Cook and Mrs. Hirsch was absolutely denied. Mr. Adair followed, detailing the conspirators' demands as they were presented to him as the representative of…
660 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:628 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The jury very promptly returned a verdict of guilty on all the counts of the indictment, and the male blackmailer was sentenced by the judge to pay a fine of…
661 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK. 629Mr. Bedgood moved for a change of venue on the grounds of the unusual calling of a special session of the Grand Jury to indict the defendants when said jury had…
662 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:630XII. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I received a request to conduct a raffle for the benefit of the Red Cross. I had been informed that it would be against the law, and they wanted authority from…
663 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK.631I had been trapped. I ran to his office on the floor below and ran back with him; I was gone probably a minute. When I got back, Cook was gone; Mrs.…
664 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:632X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.On the next Wednesday, the 13th, he walked up to the Mayor's desk. I said, "What do you want?" He replied, "You are trifling with me. I have given you reasonable…
665 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK. 638There were two windows to that room. The transom was not closed over my door. There are shades to the windows, but they were up. She was not in my office…
666 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:634X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSIn Mrs. Hirsch's office, she went down to her husband's office and upon reaching it, she found a note. This is the note she gave me. (The note is dated February…
667 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK.635He had changed his mind, and he had decided he would not come to my office. I said, "Let us not talk it over the telephone; suppose you leave your office and…
668 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:636X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.She thought she ought to have a sum of money or securities, bonds, that would yield her at least $3,000.00 a year. She explained she had an engagement to go that…
669 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK637W. J. Cook was very upset and nervous over the matter; it had distressed him greatly. He said he himself had been a very bad man; that he had committed every crime…
670 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:638X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He said, "I told you on Saturday that I had committed every crime except murder. I kept a woman when I was fifteen years old, working in the Southern shops." He…
671 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. Cook, 639, made the claim, but that Mr. Candler was a good man, and she felt very strongly and affectionately for him. She admired Mr. Candler and said she had thought a…
672 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:640X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The Court: Register your objection, and register the fact that it is overruled.Cross-examined: I am in the real estate business, and the firm of Forrest and George Adair does a great…
673 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK641I stated to Mr. Candler in his office before he turned the matter over to me that it was a blackmail scheme. I did not jump at the conclusion that they were…
674 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:642X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.When she returned from the card party, money was discussed. She stated that if she left her husband and town, she would need a sum of money or securities or bonds…
675 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W.D.COOK. 643On that occasion, the purpose of the meeting was that I was trying to get Mr. Cook to recede from his demand that he had made of Mr. Candler, that Mrs. Hirsch be…
676 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:644X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Jean C. Waldron, a trained nurse, nursed Mrs. Hirsch at the Davis-Fisher Sanitarium for one week in December 1917. Mr. Cook visited her every day during the week I was nursing…
677 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK.645He came to me the next morning and again offered me $200.00 to get him a master key to the second floor of the Candler building. He said that he wanted to…
678 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:646 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He had his arm around her before he closed the door. Well, I stopped; I thought for a second I would walk over to his office door leading into the…
679 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK. 647Honorable Mayor! You are a nice pair! I saw this bundle lying on the floor with her coat and hat, and I reached down and got it, and walked out and…
680 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:648 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.No, he makes the woman do all the dirty work—while he occupies the proud position of a friend of her husband's. Cook and Mrs. Hirsch had made all arrangements. Cook…
681 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOKE. 649He makes a most remarkable statement, yet doesn’t produce a witness. No one, on oath, you will notice, has dared to state that Mayor Candler and Mrs. Hirsch had these frequently…
682 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:650 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Asa Candler has contributed to every philanthropic enterprise and always stood for the highest and best things in public and private life. Shall we tear him down for a man…
683 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK, 651No one is safe. But it is actions such as Mr. Candler's which make it safer for others.The crime of blackmail does not depend on the truth of the charge alleged…
684 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:652 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The testimony of Toney has been passed in this case. Even Mr. Adair admits that there was no demand made for money either by Mrs. Hirsch or Cook. That clears…
685 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:W. J. COOK. 653Did you ever hear of a grand jury being called in a special session for a misdemeanor case? This is an extraordinary misdemeanor because there are millions behind the prosecution. I…
686 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:654 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The defendant has the right to use any means within the law to discover the purpose of the accusations or threats. The methods used would not affect the innocence or…