Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15

come TO my Office from her husband 5
office, where she had seen a note adj
dressed to her husband and signed by
Cook, asking Mr.. Hirsch to please call
MIN on the telephone.
'She said it was a fortunate thing she
had gone by and got the note, because
if Mr. Hirsch had found it there would
have been trouble" At this point Mr..
Adair identified the note. which was
introduced in the trial of Cook few
days ago. Continuing. Mr.. Adair said:
Il called Cook on the telephone and
asked him to come over to my office.
He arrived in about ten minutes Be
fore he came, my brother, George Adair
had come into the office, and 1 took
him to the room where Mrs Hirsch
was seated. Cook was also taken to
that room when he arrived. He sat at
table for few moments, then got
up and said: I had no idea this was
what you wanted to see me about, or l
wouldn't have come here He then re-
fused to discuss the matter and started
towards the door. but as he went out
he nodded his head for me to follow,
and went after him out of my private
office
What Cook Said
81 said: Cook, what is it you want?
What is this we're up against? He an
swered: 1 don't want to discuss this
matter in her presence, or with any
body except Mr.. Gambler. / am a great
friend of Mr.. Hirsch, and 1 am very
much shocked by what has been going
on. Asa Gambler is an old hypocrite,
and l will talk with him and nobody
else, I'll tell him what he has got
to do
II told Cook 1 would try to have MI
Gambler in my office the next morning at
$50 o'clock, and Cook agreed to be there.
The next morning l called Cook and
told him H-. Ofndler was in my office.
-115oK then stated that he had changed
his mind and didn't think he would come
oyer to my office / suggested that we
shouldn't discuss the matter over the
phone. and that he meet me on the
Whitehall street viaduct. When 1 got
there he was waiting. He said he had
made up his mind he would not meet
Mr.. Gambler at my office or Mr. Cand-
ler's office, but would meet him at
some place to be agreed upon. He said:
Mr.. Gambler has made a hell of a mis-
take in telling so many people about
this affair, and taking so many people
into his confidence
After some little conversation, how
ever, he finally decided to come to my
office and talk with Mr.. Gambler. He
and Mr.. Gambler went into my private
Office and remained together some little
while. When Cook left he went our
through the door into the hall and
did not see him leave. About IL o'clock
that day Mrs. Hirsch called me on the
telephone, as l had asked her to, and
she came to my Office. Upon her ar
rival nay brother, George, being present,
/ told her Cook had demanded that Mr..
Gambler send her out Of town. She said
it was a pretty hard thing to ask of
her, to leave her husband, her home and
her friends. 1 admitted that while it
might be hard, it was what Cook had
demanded. She cried some and seemed
to be wrought up, but she Gained down
in few minutes and said:
IF 1 do have to leave my husband
and leave the city. 1 ought to be well
provided for. My husband makes a
good salary, about $500 per month, and
in addition he has private income. He
is a good provider and spends nearly
all of his money on me. If 1 have to
leave, the city under these circumstan
it might be hard for me to get another
home Mr., Gambler ought to provide
for me handsomely. / might even be
mercenary and require bonds and securi-
ties that would yield me at least $4,000
year
Wanted to Sever Ties
'She said she didn't want an annuity
because of she left Atlanta she wanted
to cut off all ties not even leaving an
address, Also she pointed out that Mr.
Gambler. might die and the payment of
the annuity might be stopped So she
wanted a principal in her own hands
that would yield the income necessary
to provide for all her needs. After we
had talked along this line for quite
while she left to go to a card party.
"A little after > o'clock she returned
to my office and reiterated her demand
for the principal. She stated, further
more. that her husband owed some mon
ey and she didn't want to leave him like
piker, explaining that she wanted
enough to pay his debts also. 1 asked
her what kind of A man her husband
was an dshe said he was a cool, nervy
man. and If he had got the note written
by Cook he might have shot her and
then gone after Mayor Gambler. Or. he
might sue her for a divorce and name
the mayor as correspondent. bringing
disgrace upon him.
ION the next Saturday 1 again saw
Cook We took a long walk down Ala
bama street and sat down on stone
retaining wall We went over practical
ly the same ground that Cook had gone
over before. That is Cook demanded
that Mayor Gambler send Mrs. l1irsch
out of town, or he would go straight to
her husgand and disclose the whole
affair. The talk ended up by Cook
throwing his arm over my shoulder ami
saying:
Now, Forrest, you tell old man
Calder to do the things 1 have told him
to do, then eat hearty supper and go
to bed, and I'll never breathe 1T to a
SOUL
Hirscn visits wife
'Mr. Hirsch was in town that day,
having come in the day before, and was
expected to leave Sunday morning for
Pittsburg. on Sunday morning Mrs.
Hirsch called me over the telephone and
said she had seen her husband off at
the station. she said she had been with
him all the time he was in the city,
sticking to him like Grant around Rich
mond.'
ION Monday morning 1 called by NJ.
l.. Thrower's office for Cook. and he
and I walked down Walton street to-
getIer. He began talking about his past
life, telling me what bad actor he
had been, especially with the women.
He said he was intimate with a mar
ried woman before he was twenty years
old, that he had once been arrested on
a charge of criminal assault, and was
caught with the wife of a prominent
railroad official in Tennessee. He said
when her husband came into the room
he put a pistol in the husbands face
and backed him out.
"1 am getting damned tired of all
this talking COOk said Il have told