One of them turned out
to be an ex-convict, a burglar. I often wonder where Guthrie
is now. He certainly cared little for his life. Perhaps he
is down in Venezuela or Mexico. He could never be aught than
a soldier of fortune. But for a long time the employers
thought that Guthrie was a detective sent by the unions to
compromise THEM in the very dynamiting they were trying to
stop!
I once had a particularly dangerous and unfortunate case where
a private client was being blackmailed by a half-crazy ruffian
who had never seen him, but had selected him arbitrarily as a
person likely to give up money. The blackmailer was a German
Socialist, who was out of employment--a man of desperate
character. He had made up his mind that the world owed him a
living, and he had decided that the easiest way to get it was
to make some more prosperous person give him a thousand
dollars under threat of being exposed as an enemy of society.
The charge was so absurd as to be almost ludicrous, but had my
client caused the blackmailer's arrest the matter would have
been the subject of endless newspaper notoriety and comment.
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