Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
696 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
664 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.terested himself in it and said that for the first time in Will’s lifeshe had eeen him interested in something that was to his advantage.I called Mr. Cook up, at his mother’s solicitation, and asked himto…
697 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
HRS, HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 665eaid, “you ent it out and quit going to his office, now.” That waabefore I want the first time after I came ont of the hospital. Theyhavo said in their testimony that on Tuesday, the 4th…
698 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
666 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.80 alarmed at him seeing me that I grabbed the coat and bat andotber clothing from the table and started to run out of the door.I turned the thumb bolt from the inside and opened the…
699 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 667down to the train, which was due at 7 o'clock, When I got down to Mr.Hirseh’s office and opened the door, I went in, and when I did founda note that had been tueked through the…
700 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
668 ¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.the office and one in the publie phone and I have no private phonethere. The next morning, which was Thursday, about 11 o’elock Igot this message, that this lady wanted me, I went down and calledup…
701 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 669word. You'll be protected, and we'll stand by you, and we'll seothat you shail never be harmed, and you shall be taken care of.”I went to the bridge party and after leaving it returned to Mr.Adair’s…
702 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
670 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.because evidently he hasn’t,” and he said, “you are going to haveto go.”When I told Forrest Adair about my trip to the station with myhusband he took my hand and kissed it and tears came into…
703 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 671stand just what you want to convey.” “Well,” I said, “well, Ihave tried to do eharitable work here. I have visited the mill dis-tricts here, the different nurseries, visited through the AssociatedCharities and things of that…
704 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
672 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS."want to see me?” Ho said, “No, he doesn’t.” He said “Aunt Mar-garet, do you think Unele Herman ought to live with you now!”and I eaid, “No.”‘That afternoon I employed James BR, Bedgood to represent me.They…
705 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN 8. HIRSCH.673eng, asaistant solicitor, about myconversation with Mrs. Humph-Ties,Cross-examined. The Humph-riea woman hed been placed injail two days after Mrs, Hirsch;she gave no reason for Mrs,Hirsch’s alleged confession. Ihave no interest in the ease saveas an officer of…
706 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
674 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.up on the running board of anautomobile and she continued tohold my hand during the takingof the ‘pictures I held my handbehind my back aa T did notwant this to appear. While stillholding my hand Mrs,…
707 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS, HERMAN H, HIRSCH. 675THE SPEECHES TO THE JURY.ME, ARNOLD FOR THE STATE.Mr, Arnold. Gentlemen, in the brief space at my disposal,T could not possibly discuas all of the facts in this ease. Ithas taken over a day and half…
708 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
676 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.it ia not classed as such, I do not ask you to punish thiswoman. The question of her sentence rests with the courtand I do not desire her punishment. Ali I want is your dis-approval of…
709 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 677later that he had dropped the idea for a better money-makingplan, And that is the companion Mrs. Hirsch chose.But she says that Forrest Adair led her into all this. Thatis part of her game. One had…
710 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
678 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.a married woman guilty of the erime of adultery was stonedto death. That penalty was too severe, but ours is too mild.You see sitting before you a very dangerous woman. Asan actress she has got Sarah…
711 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSOH. 679Cook and it seared him. I don’t believe he would haveyielded to this woman’s importunities, but if he had theywould have pulled the blackmail stunt then.Let me detail some of the few things in the case…
712 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
680 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.ia old in Europe and the east. It is new in Georgia, becausewe have not had many rich people. After this prosecutionDlackmailers in this part of the world will roost lower.I doubt if Mrs. Hirsch would…
713 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
URS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 681tion after she had left town that Cook should join her and,my! what a time they would have had on that money! §o,when she thought that Mr. Candler was going to provide forher, Cook says, ‘‘Raise…
714 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
682 Y. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.gated the massacres of St. Bartholemew’s Eve. Some of themost 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…
715 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MES, HERMAN H, HIRSCH. 683known on February 6 or after Mrs. H. H. Hirseh neverwould have been arrested. If the prosecutor had been anordinary average citizen the trial would have taken its turnwith other misdemeanor cases, but on account of…
716 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
684 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.was guilty and didn’t want to talk to her s0 he brought For-rest Adair into the case. If I had done such a thing in myown office I’d have given her money. Mr. Candler admitsenough in…
717 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 685to cover, and not even Bishop Candler, who has been sittinghere so long, knows it better, I am no saint, but a sinner,but there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner thatis saved than over…
718 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
686 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.reparation to Mra. Hirsch can be made this side of the grave.Be kind, be charitable. Charity is the greatest word in theEnglish language. We don’t ask mercy. We ask justice,everlasting and eternal justice. Do unto her…
719 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN H., HIRSCH. 687dicted, is found in Section 118 of the criminal code of the |State. That section reads as follows:“See, 118, Blackmail Defined. If any person shall, ver-pally, or by printing or writing, accuse another of a crime…
720 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
688 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Dlackmail was not committed either through accusation ordemand. Candler admits she’s been to his office a numberof times. Have you any realization just how busy a man theMayor of Atlanta, with all the huge business interesta…
721 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
URS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 689a scheme, Only that he suspected one. If there had beenone you may be sure he’d have done more than merely ‘“‘sus-pect it.’ When she met Forrest Adair in his private officethat poor woman stood no…
722 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
690 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.said, ‘I knew you couldn’t impeach me in Falton County.”There is the gauntlet that he flings down to the State. Iknew you couldn’t impeach me. Did they accept the chal-lenge. No one was introduced to try…
723 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS, HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 691Gentlemen, you can’t select as the State would have youdo the evidence you wish to believe and that you wish toclass as false. On one side in this case stands reputation,power and wealth. On the other…
724 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
692 &, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.woman was in the hospital and the raffle was over, the neces-nity of being with her was past, yet day in and day out hevisits the hospital and carries flowers and fruit. After sheig out of…
725 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 693mysterions eyewitnesses is a lief Why don’t they produce_ their witnesses? The reason is Cook just picked the namesLee and Smith. If there ever were such men they have con-siderably more brains than Cook, for he…