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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
655 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ROBERT McCONAGHYI changed and hid them; the money, shot-pouch, and the tin, I hid on the north side of Jack's Mountain, half or three-quarters of a mile from the path on the left-hand side,…
654 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:622 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I was waiting for the old woman to come out. She came near the door, and I shot at her and hit her in the arm—and she ran about the…
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…
656 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THE TRIAL OF W. J. COOK FOR BLACKMAIL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 1918THE NARRATIVEAsa G. Candler, Mayor of the City of Atlanta, Georgia, a man of substantial wealth and a noted philanthropist, was approached one day…
653 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ROBERT McCONAGHYOn Friday, November 16, 1840, you will be hanged by the neck until you are dead—dead—dead. And may God have mercy upon your soul!THE EXECUTION AND CONFESSIONThough repeatedly urged by the clergymen who…
651 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ROBERT McCONAGHY, 619Even if a human being (of which the court and jury have knowledge) is clear of suspicion, it still lies with the Commonwealth to satisfy the jury by the evidence that the…
650 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:618 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS."It was not." After this, he accounts for himself by stating that he was in the woods sitting on a log, on Clear Ridge. When it remains necessary for a…
652 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:620 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.You followed the child—seized and choked him until life was extinct. You returned to the house. There, your aged mother-in-law was engaged in baking, and you struck her senseless, and…
648 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:616 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The defendant testified that he traveled in company with Fisher and saw and spoke to several persons on the road, reaching his own dwelling around 5 o'clock in the evening.…
649 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ROBERT McCONAGHY. 617Robert McConaghy left his wound undressed. Many men were questioning whether he knew who shot at him. To some, he answered "no," while to others, he stated that the prisoner was the…
645 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ROBERT McCONAGHY, 613The law states, "If any person be found guilty of murder, the jury must ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder of the first or second degree."The indictment, in the first…
646 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:614 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He could not say whether there were two balls in the gun—the hole was larger behind than in front—but he stated that it was immaterial, as such a wound would…
647 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ROBERT McCONAGHY, 615There is no doubt that the crime was committed "wilfully, deliberately, and premeditatedly," as stated in the indictment. The consensus is unanimous. The crime, in its wickedness and atrocity, is unparalleled in…
644 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:612X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I saw the way he was tied; I slackened the rope a little on his arms. I asked Lightner if he thought that was a bullet mark in Brown's cheek; he…
640 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:608X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Brown said he did not know what injury he had done to the folks that they should kill off his family in that way. About ten or fifteen minutes before Brown…