Train, Arthur Cheney, 1875-1945 / 2008-06-19 00:00:00

EBOOK COURTS AND CRIMINALS ***






COURTS AND CRIMINALS BY ARTHUR TRAIN

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These essays, which were written between the years 1905-1910
are reprinted without revision, although in a few minor
instances the laws may have been changed.
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CHAPTER I

The Pleasant Fiction of the Presumption of Innocence

There was a great to-do some years ago in the city of New York
over an ill-omened young person, Duffy by name, who, falling
into the bad graces of the police, was most incontinently
dragged to headquarters and "mugged" without so much as "By
your leave, sir," on the part of the authorities. Having been
photographed and measured (in most humiliating fashion) he was
turned loose with a gratuitous warning to behave himself in
the future and see to it that he did nothing which might gain
him even more invidious treatment.
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