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

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On February 6 or after, if the facts had been known, Mrs. H. H. Hirsch would never have been arrested. If the prosecutor had been an ordinary average citizen, the trial would have proceeded like any other misdemeanor case. However, due to the fact that Mr. Candler is the Mayor of the city and a multi-millionaire, the defendant was indicted at a special session of the grand jury. Regardless of his financial or political standing, the defendant still has rights in a courthouse before a jury. She has the right to an unprejudiced trial.

No case has been made against the defendant under the law. If a trap was set for her by Forrest Adair, as he himself stated on the witness stand, then he should also face consequences if she does, as an accomplice. I want to know why they were trying to settle the case with Mrs. Hirsch through Forrest Adair’s agency if Mr. Candler was not guilty of improper relations with her. Why did he employ the shrewdest lawyer in Atlanta, many detectives, and the great blackmail expert, Forrest Adair, if there was nothing to it?

I am surprised that you, Mr. Arnold, would so abuse and abase a woman; it will not add any honor to your name. I wouldn’t make a speech like that for all the money in the world, because someday I have to die and face my judgment. I have to face Him who, when on earth, said, ‘Let him who is without fault among you cast the first stone.’ I am no saint myself; I am a poor sinner and would plead guilty before the bar of God, but I would not try to crush the character of a poor woman as you have done.

I know Mr. Candler values a dollar more than anything else in the world. Who is hurt and injured in this case? Not Candler, but the defendant at the bar. Not a dollar has parted from Candler, nor has she demanded anything of him. Mr. Candler himself swore that the defendant had not made any demand of him for money, and when he said this, he undermined the state's case. Forrest Adair is the entire case for the prosecution, and he is as guilty as the defendant in leading her and making the first suggestion of money to her. Candler knew he...

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