Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
666 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
634X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALB.ler’s office, he went down to herhusband’s offiee and that uponreaching her husband's office shafound a note, This is the noteshe gave me. (The note is datedFebraary 6,18 “H. H. Callme at Ivy 164, before you gohome…
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W. J. COOK.635he had ehanged his mind, andthat he had decided he would notcome to my office. I said, “Letus not talk it over the telephone;suppose you leave your office andmeet me on the Whitehall streetviaduet in 4 few minutes.”…
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636X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.she pnght to have a sum ofmone’ ey or securities, bonds, thatwould yield her at least $3000.00a year. She explained she hadan engagement to go that after-noon to a card party with a ladywho had heen #…
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W. J. COOK.637and nervous over the matter; ithad distressed him greatly. Hesaid he himself had been a verybad man; that he had committedevery crime except murder; thathe lad left his home and fatherwhen he was 12 years of age.”Mr. Cooper.…
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638X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.had been. He said, “I told youSaturday I had committed everycrime exeept murder. I kept a‘woman when I was 15 old,working in the Southern shops.”‘He says, “Before I was twenty,I waa arrested in bed one night;a fellow…
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W. J.cook. 639made the goat, but that Mr.Candler waa a good man, andshe felt very strongly and af-feetionately for him; she ad-mired Mr, Candler; she said shehad thought a good deal abontMr. Candler’s great work; thatshe had always had a…
672 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
640X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.called in to quash this matter orsettle it.The Count. Register your ob-jection, and register the fact thatib ia overruled.Cross-examined. I am in thereal estate businesa, and the firmof Forrest and George Adairdoes a great deal of business…
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W. J. COOK.641I stated to Mr. Candler in hiaoffice before he turned the mat-ter over to me that it was ablackmail scheme, I did notjemp at the conelosion they wereguilty of blackmail, I arrivedat the conclusion it was black-mail before…
674 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
642X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.When sho returned from thecard party, money was talkedabout then, She stated that ifshe left her husband and lefttown she would have to have agum of money or securities orbonds that would yield threethousand dollars per annum,‘After…
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W.d.COOK. 643On that occasion the purposeof the meeting was I was tryingto get Mr. Cook to recedehis demand that he had made ofMr. Candler, that Mrs. Hirach beforeed to quit her husband andJeave town. That would havehushed it up and…
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644X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.the Davis-Fisher Sanitarium forone week, in December, 1917;Mr. Cook ealled on her everyday during the week I was nurs-ing her, except one.Jean C. Waldron. Am a trainednurse; nursed Mrs, Hirsch atthe _Davis-Fisher Sanitariumlast Deeember, for four days;Cook…
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W. J. COOK.645him; the next morning he cameto me again, and again offeredme $200.00 to get him a masterkey to the second floor of theCandler building; he said thathe wanted to get_a paper in anoffice in that building; he saidthere…
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646 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.his arm around her before he closed the door. Well, I stopped; Ithought for a second I would walk over to his office door leading intothe hall, and he has a mail slot in bis door…
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W. J. COOK. 647Honorable Mayor! You are a nice pair!” 1 saw this bundle lyingon the floor with her coat and hat, and I reached down and got it,and walked out and went by her husband’s office and left him…
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648 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.No, he makes the woman do all the dirty work—while he oveu-pies the proud position of a friend of her husband’s, Cookand Mrs. Hirsch had made all arrangements. Cook wantedthem to “get her out of town,’’…
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W. J. COOKE. 649He makes a most remarkable statement, yet doesn’t pro-duce a witness, No one, on oath, you will notice, has daredto state that Mayor Candler and Mrs. Hirsch had these fre-quently mentioned improper relations. Here is Cook, whoimmediately…
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650 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.tributed to every philanthropic enterprise, and always stoodfor the highest and best things in public and private life.Shall we tear him down for 4 man who admits and boaststhat he has committed every crime on the…
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W. J. COOK, 651one is safe. But it is actions such as Mr. Candler’s whichmake it safer for others.‘The crime of blackmail does not depend on the truth of thecharge alleged by the blackmailers. Even had Candler beenguilty, the blackmailing…
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652 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Toney has been passed in this case. Even Mr. Adair admitsthat there was no demand made for money either by Mrs.Hirsch or Cook. That clears Cook. What will we do withhim? Release him! I’m not surprised…
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W~. J. COOK. 653Did you ever hear of a grand jury being called in specialsession in 8 misdemeanor case? This is an extra misdemean-or, because there’s millions behind the prosecution, I amrepresenting a poor man here today, bear hia call.…
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654 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.right to use any means within the law to find out the purposeof the accusations or threats, and the methods used would notaffect the innocence or guilt of the defendant.THE VERDICT AND SENTENCE,The Jury returned after…
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THE TRIAL OF MRS, HERMAN H. HIRSCHFOR BLACKMAIL, ATLANTA,GEORGIA, 1918.THE NARRATIVE.Leas than three weeks after the conviction of her confed-erate Cook (ante, p. 624), Mre, Hirsch was brought to trial.Mayor Candler (ante, p. 629) and Mr. Adair (ante, p. 633)repeated…
688 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
656 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.(Cook having been tried separately and convicted, see ante,p. 654) was placed on trial today.Jokn A. Boykin, Solicitor General, and Reuben R. Arnold,‘for the State.Richard B. Russell John RB. Cooper* and James 8. Bed-good" for the…
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MRS. HERMAN H, HIRSCH.657you on the telephone in regardto the Rotary elub luncheon,didn’t she ask you to speak#Perhaps, I don’t remember forcertain. And then dida‘t youtell her you would introduce herat the Rotary elub if she wouldeome by your office,…
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658 x.AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Candler; I did not set any trapfor Cook or Mrs, Hirsch, butsimply did all I could to developthe plot, which I believed hadbeen laid.Mr. Russell. Were you sorryfor her when yon eaid youwere? Yes, and I am…
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HRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH.659was a patient at the hospital;have seen a quantity of fruit inMrs, Hirseh’s room at differenttimes; she told me this fruit wastent her by Mr, Cook; Mrs.Hirseh said to me that should‘Mr. Hirsch ever come and findMr,…
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660 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.MRS. HIRSCH’S STATEMENT TO THE JURY.Mrs. Hirech. Gentlemen, I met Mr. Candler, being introduced tohim by a prominent lady of this city at his office in the city hall.Last summer the Atlanta Woman’s Club formed an…
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MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 661but was afraid to resent them, as I ahould have done, on aceount ofthe sutomobile raifle. He kissed me and put his arms around me;he pulled me down on his jap, and he made every advance…
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662 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.president of the Rotary Club. Mayor Candler introduced Mra.Atkinson to the club, and Mrs. Atkinson, instead of making aspeech, merely introduced me and I had to make the talk to thosegentlemen and tell them what we…
695 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN 4. HIRSCH. 663told him in my visits that my doctor had advised me to give up allcharitable work snd to go into the hospital, that I was in a veryserious condition and was nearing the verge of @…