Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-19

led building If Cook wanted to COM
init burglary, is that any proof that
ne and Mrs. Hirsch were plotting
against Mayor Gambler?
They say the door between Cand-
ler's office and the stenographers Of
flee was unlocked, but there is a strange
contradiction between the testimony OF
Miss Faust, the stenographer, and the
testimony of Asa G. Gambler, Jr. She
swears positively that he went through
her office into his fathers office, in re-
Spouse to his fathers call for assist
ance, but he declared on the stand that
he did not go through the stenographers
office, but went through the door lead
ing into the hall.
William Gambler Episode
And now let's take up the episode
related by William Gambler. who claims
that Mrs Hirsch pursued him. Why
was it that William Gambler did not
warn his father against the woman who
had tried to get him to come to her
home while her husband was out of
town.
At this point Judge Hill called Judge
Russelrs attention to the fact that he
had only five minutes left.
"I can't 90 into further details IN
five minutes" said Judge Russell. I'm
this case, on one side Of which is a
man powerful in finance and social in
fluence, and on the other sideN lone
and defenseless woman, 1 ask you to see
that she is given fair and just com
sideration. Before you convict her, look
at the case like you would if she was
your own daughter or mine. she has
fallen, but you must give her the bene-
fit of the doubt, which unquestionably
exists. l have never heard a more
pathetic story than she related on the
stand here yesterday"
Shaking his finger at Mayor Cand-
Ter, Judge Russell said: Il would be
ashamed TO vindicate my character at
tie expense of a wOman's crushed and
bleeding heart.
We base our claim for acquittal on
the statute which requires the state to
prove its case beyond a reasonable
doubt.
"If there be any other reasonable
hypothesis consistent with the evidence,
it is your duty 10 acquit her"
Solicitor John Boy1in commenced the
closing argument for the state imme-
dlately at the conclusion of Judge Rus
sells speech. He had thirty minutes,
Attorney Arnold having spoken an hour.
Cook is a man without a job began
the solicitor. I'VE find him last fall
giving his time to Mrs. Hirsch in the
Red Cross automobile rattle. Even when
the rattle was over, and the necessity
for meeting and conferring with her
was past we find him visiting her in
the hospital and filling engagements
with her in various restaurants. All this
time he was framing up with her TO
blackmail Mayor Gambler. He was learn
ing the mayors habits. He knew what
the mayor did every hour in the day.
That's why he was hanging around the
office of NJ. c. Kiser when Mrs. Hirsch
went to the mayors office in the Cand-
Ter building. The Kiser office is near
the mayors Office, and it furnished Cook
with a good vantage point for spying
OF the mayors visitors. That's why
we find him hanging around NJ. L.
Thrower's office when Mrs. Hirsch> meets
Mayor Gambler on Forsyth street Isn't
il plain that he instructed her where
tc be at certain times?
Not Good Woman
This woman doesn't act the part
OF a good woman. Don't you know
hat even a woman of the street would
net have opened the door to let Cook
catch her in a compromising position
with the mayor, unless she wanted to be
caught and was planning to be caught?
There wasn't any man at the window
That was just a trick to throw the
she could jerk off few garments and
throw open the door. If Lee and Smith
saw, the things Cook saw, why don't
they come into court and corroborate
his testimony? They are gone, but Cook
was boneheaded enough to stay and
think he could carry through his bluff
against an honest man.
I'm not hard on any woman, but God
knows 1 hate sham, and here's sham
mihg, pretending. scheminS, blackmail-
ing woman, smiling one minute and
weeping the next at the top of her
voice, slipping around to cafes with
Cook, plotting against a man whose
very name stands for honor, integrity
and philanthropy in Georgia.
IF she could have landed 100000,
she would have gone away with Hand
some Bill Cook, but Handsome Bill
would have returned to Mayor Cand
Ter and demanded more. He would have
kept on bleeding the mayor as long as
the mayor submitted to it. She tells you
she had good influence over Cook.
Then why didn't she use her tears on
him and try to persuade him not TO
tell her husband. Why didn't she APP
peal with her tears and sobs to Forrest
Adair to see Bill Cook and beg him
not to wreck her home by telling her
husband? You know she didn't do these
things. She doesn't claim she did these
things, which were the natural thing
for a good woman to do in her unfoT-
tunate circumstances. That wasn't her
game. Her game was to impress on
Ada1r that she had to get out of town,
ana that she was going to he well
heeled financially before she went
Then she went to a card party, and
when she came back she had decided
to raise her figures from $500 a month
to $500, O0o. Counsel for the defense
has cited to you the Biblical reference
to the words Of Christ: Go, and sin