688 Page – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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656 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

(Cook, having been tried separately and convicted, see ante, p. 654) was placed on trial today.

For the State:

John A. Boykin, Solicitor General, and Reuben R. Arnold.

For the Prisoner:

Richard B. Russell, John R. B. Cooper, and James S. Bedgood.

The following jurymen were selected and sworn: R. L. Crawford, W. H. Blackstock, L. C. Berry, J. T. Carroll, W. L. Holcomb, V. R. Hollis, C. A. Meager, J. R. Lee, M. B. Hinton, Jacob Heiman, J. T. Stark, H. L. Dewell.

THE WITNESSES FOR THE STATE:

Asa G. Candler:

His evidence in chief was substantially the same as that given on the trial of Cook. (See ante, p. 629.)

**Mr. Russell:** Did you buy any chances on the automobile raffled by Mrs. Hirsch?

**Mr. Candler:** Yes, I took several chances at her solicitation, though I do not remember exactly where or when I bought them, but my impression is that I bought them at the Rotary Luncheon in the Piedmont Hotel. Do you recall Mrs. Hirsch laughingly making the remark to you in your office, when you bought some of the tickets, that you were an accessory before the fact?

**Mr. Candler:** I do not. When Mrs. Hirsch spoke to you on James Street, in front of the Candler building, wasn’t she...?

**Mr. Candler:** Yes, I think she was. Did you not cross over and tell her you were glad to see her out of the hospital?

**Mr. Candler:** I think I did cross the street, and I might have made some such remark. Did not you tell her you had tried to call her on the phone while she was in the hospital?

**Mr. Candler:** I did not; I never telephoned her, or wanted to telephone her, on any occasion; my recollection is that she always did the calling. When Mrs. Hirsch called at your office in the Candler building on Wednesday, February 6, did you ask her to sit down?

**Mr. Candler:** Perhaps I did. Didn’t you remark that it was warm, and ask her to remove her coat?

**Mr. Candler:** I did not.

**Mr. Russell:** When she called...

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Richard Brevard Russell:

Born in Cobb County, Georgia, near Marietta, 1861; graduated from the University of Georgia, 1880; admitted to the Bar, 1880; Solicitor General of the Western Circuit, 1888-1896; Judge of the Superior Court, Western Circuit, 1898-1906; Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1906-1916; member of the Legislature, Clark County, for a number of years; he now resides at Winder, Georgia.

*See ante, p. 625.
*See ante, p. 189.
*See ante, p. 628.
*See ante, p. 628.

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