Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
History OF CiyLif e and the Men Who
Rule, Written by an Anthor Who Is Nez0
to the Readers Of the Magazine of The
Sunday Star-Another O. Henry
Memorial Az0ard Story NH Be Featured
IN The Star Magazine Next Sunday.

anything. He had made up his mind to that.
In due course he had a case against some
silk thieves: People vs. Camagno, Hartzen-
stein and Hickey. He had them convicted be-
fore he summed up, and he knew It; and I'm
his triumph he let himself go little:
Now, gentlemen Of the jury. These watch
men. They're old fellahs old broken-down
fellahs. You see them comm into-uh-com-
in into saloon in the early mornin' for q
drink, all cold"
(Here giggle from cidevant Phi Delt
with nothing to do at the present except listen
to another mans case.)
They're usually the remains of good men.
They're honest men, men that have worked
with their hands all their lives. that amt got
the brains or the crookedneSs to do anything
else. Well Here they are, all night, walkin'
up an down a string piece, tryin to keep warm,
tryin' to do their job. Fifty cents night they
get.
Along comes a lot of rats, lookin' for some
thin they can swi-steal. What do these old
fellahs do? There amt one out of fifty of
them won't put up his hands and jump at
them.
Now listen to me. These watchmen is COPS
Cops, see? You won't put enough cops on the
water front. You say we amt got enough cops.
All right! ALI right! You got to stand behind
your cops. You got to- You got to make this
water front safe. It amt safe. II tell you
you got to clean up this water front you're
going to have trouble. trouble for every one
Of you
What you gonna do huh? What you gonna
do? Here's grandpop with his back against the
spies battlin' against four rats. What you
gonna do? HUH"
II object" said Mr.. Goldfusz. Nobody has
said my clients attacked any watchmen."
Objection overruled."
Exception" said Mr.. Goldfusz plaintively.
WELL, as 1t happened, about week after
that the first Of the ripper murders oc-
CURED in the very district he was denouncing,
and the terror-stricken city began to clamor
for police action. Ahearn got plenty of work
and he retoiced in 1t. Few were laughing at
him now, certainly not the prisoners at the bar
He was bully, a torturer of witnesses, thun-
derer; he would hurl himself upon juries, rag
ing, painting, impatient of Subtleties beating
against them. If it had been histrionic it would
have been contemplate and many q jeer was
flung at him by opposing counsel, many a judi
cial reprimand, and not a few Of his convictions
were ultimately set aside. But he got convic-
lions and heavy sentences.
At the height Of his career as public prose-
cutor McGlynn sent for him. No strangers
were present at that interview which probably
took place in McGlynns house in Chelsea. and
no one else knows exactly what happened.
Never thereafter was it prudent to criticize
McGlynn to Daniel Ahearn.
McGlynn was breaking up then pretty fast;
he was drinking heavily, was almost never
sober after o'clock in the afternoon Ahearn
had the abstemiousness of his former business;
he had the body of roustabout; he lived vir-
tuously. McGlynn was So, cynic and a van
dial, as every one knows, worn out by his pleas
ures. What did they find to say to each other
the Senator, weaving in his chair little,
slow-spoken from the drink, gravely cour-
teous peering up with his satyr's eyes at the
sweating barbarian opposite him? Perhaps he
decided that the Behemoth of his creation
Perhaps he felt that charity which great sin
ners have for the fortnight virtuous. Perhaps
he was storing up in his befuddled brain recol-
lections to amuse him to frenzed laughter for
all his time on earth to come
At all events Daniel Ahearn walked out Of
that house In Chelsea a supreme court judge
just as surely as If McGlynn had thrown the
mantle about his shoulders And he walked
him. without a promise, without restriction.
Events proved that.
What Judge he was! Don't fool with
Ahearn," cagey old attorneys whispered TO
the fedglings. Particularly don't fool with
him in a fraud case or q criminal case. He'll
make you feel like 80 cents. That old snoozer
knows more ways Of getting you in Dutch than
you could count. Don't dig him up any new
thing to do with Aheam. You've got to prove
to him that your man is a prosecuted inno-
cent. It doesn't make any difference how
you do it. The next best thing is to make
him believe that you think so yourself. Ever
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