657 Sheet – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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W. J. COOK. 625

A 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 had made against an officer of the Humane Society. At three in the afternoon, she entered the office, complained of the heat, took off her hat and coat, and sat down in a chair near the Mayor. Very soon, she jumped up and said there was a man at the window. The Mayor suggested it was probably a window-washer, but she replied, "No, it is a well-dressed white man." Then she went to the door and let in an individual whom the Mayor had never seen before. As he entered, the man called out, "Ah, Honorable Mayor, this is nice." Observing that Mrs. Hirsch was crying and feeling that a trap was being laid for him, Mayor Candler ran out and down the stairs to the floor below, where one of his sons had an office. In a couple of minutes, he was back in the room, accompanied by his son. Mrs. Hirsch was still crying, but the man had disappeared. To the Mayor's question, "Who was that?" she replied, "That was Mr. Cook, who visits at my mother's, where I sometimes see him. I think he is in the real estate business." With this, she left the room and the building.

The Mayor immediately telephoned for his friend and confidential advisor, Mr. Adair, who came at once. He had just arrived when the Mayor was called over the phone by Mrs. Hirsch, who said she was at her husband's office and wanted him to come there. The Mayor thereupon authorized Mr. Adair to represent him and refused to see Mrs. Hirsch. He did not see her again until she appeared in court in March.

Mr. Adair answered Mrs. Hirsch and told her that Mr. Candler would not see her, but he would if she came to his office, to which she agreed. She arrived there a few minutes later and related to Mr. Adair the incident of the man at the window and Cook's coming into the office. She said that when she got to her husband's office, she found a note there from Cook, asking her to call him up before he went home. She mentioned that her husband was out of town but would be back that evening, and if he got that note, he would probably kill her or Mayor Candler.