Attorney Says Miss Cole Stopped Writing to Ormond After He Wrote Her Father, Oct. 24, 1925

Brooks Clears Point in Famous Cole Case. . . Denies That Miss Cole Wrote to Ormond After the “Slander Letter” of February

Tom Bost in Greensboro News

Raleigh, October 23—Aubrey L. Brooks of Greensboro has been in Raleigh doing some little preliminary work in the A. and Y. case, attending the Wright-Everett wedding, and talking the Cole case in which he came out with immortal honors without convincing a very substantial portion of the public that even Union County jurors are omniscient.

Mr. Brooks did one thing, however, which deserved to be published immediately. He sat at rest among those with whom he strove in argument, the story that Miss Elizabeth Cole continued to correspond with Bill Ormond after the famous “slander letter,” which produced such wide sobbing amongst the unwritten lawyers.

The impression has been very nearly universal that Miss Cole continued to write to the writer of the “slander letter.” Of course, nobody could explain that. Nobody would have tried to do so. It set the girl in an awful plight sentimentally. Here was everybody believing that the letter did not offend the girl and that in defiance of her father’s furious anger over it she continued to see Ormond. Mr. Brooks banished that, and he did more for his cause than he could do as an attorney for Mr. Cole.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, October 24, 1925

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