Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
mrs. H|RSCH ADMITTED
PLOT, SAYS WITNESS
Accuser's Testimony Behind Closed
Doors Is Given Out for
Publicity.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, March 16.-The trial
of Mrs. Margaret A. Hirsch. accused in
an indictment of attempted verbal
blackmail of Asa G. Gambler, mayor of
Atlanta, out Of 100000, was resumed
in superior court here today. Indica-
tions were that the case would be given
to the jury before night.
The hearing before Judge Ben Hill.
before whom Mrs. Hirsch is being
tried, Of a motion of J. w. Cook, al
legged accomplice of the defendant, for
new trial. was set for today. Cook,
who was jointly indicted with Mrs.
Hrsch, was convicted recently and
sentenced to serve a year and a day
at hard labor, and to pay a fine of
$1,000.
When court convened today Judge
Hill said that in ordering Rosa Hum
phries. one of the defense witnesses,
back to Jail yesterday for refusing to
had been too severe and for that rea-
son she was released last night.
The first witness called today by the
state was Deputy Sheriff ]. ID. Baze-
more, who, the HUMPHREYS woman testi-
fed. told her if she made an affidavit
against Mrs. Hirsch she would be re-
leased from Jail and given a sum of
money.
Told Him of Plot, Says Witness.
Bazemore testified Miss HUMPHREYS
told him that Mrs. Hirsch told her there
and Mr.. Hirsch to extort money from
Mayor Gambler.
Miss HUMPHREYS was put in the
hospital ward with Mrs. Hirsch a few
Il a
Deputy Bazemore. John Thompson, a
prisoner charged with murder, in
formed me that Miss HUMPHREYS told
him she knew all about the Hirsch
case. l asked Miss HUMPHREYS what
she knew, and she told me Mrs. Hirsch
had confessed to her that the whole
thing was a plot between herself, her
husband and cook, and that it was
planned for Hirsch to be in Pittsburgh"
Forrest Adair, called back to the
lieved Mrs. Hirsch's story, and also
denied her claim that he suggested
paying her $3.50 per month to leave
the city and her husband.
A verbatim transcript of what purported
to be the testimony given on the witness
stand behind closed doors by Mrs.
Hirsch was made public today.
Mrs. Hirsch's Testimony.
The alleged transcript, which con-
tains more than 10000 words, describes
in detail the circumstances leading up
to Mrs. Hirsch's acquaintance with
Mayor Gambler. of her visits to his Of
flee and of their alleged improper rela-
tons in Mr.. Gamblers private business
office on February 6. 1t was on that
date that J. w. Cook, alleged accom-
plice of Mrs. Hirsch and jointly in
dicted with her, swore in testimany at
his trial he had seen Mrs. Hirsch and
the mayor in Compromising position"
in the mayors office.
The statement then described the al
legged actions of Mr.. Gambler, and later
her conferences with Forrest Adair. who
told her, she said that Mr.. Gambler had
made full and complete confession to
him. In these conferences with Adair.
the statement says, he inquired con-
corning her husbands salary, after
which he remarked:
We'll, If we were to provide for you
with an amount equivalent to Mr..
Hirsch's. salary and give you this much
would you be willing to leave here-(he
even suggested Denver as the place to
which I should go)-and leave a note to
your husband suggesting to him that
you are tired of him or something like
that"
Mrs. Hirsch declined to accept the
proposal. according to the statement.