The Washington times., 1938-10-18
By CHARLES McGUIRK


" only daughter of Judge
Harvey Corraine, was the
flower of an ancestry which
reached back into the pre-ReVo-
lutionary war days. The fam
lily tree on which she bios
somed bristled with leaders In
the arts of peace and war.
Unlike most Of the flowers on
these old trees, Glenna was war
ranted not to stop clock or cause
one to wonder why a body SO Ill
made could be persuaded to go at
all.
HER LIFE WORK
She had a fine brain, keen and
serene. It was ballasted with good
Judgment. There was nothing neu-
rotic about Glenna. Given prob
lem, she attacked it face TO face.
All Of these qualifications
pointed her for the work she re-
garded as her life work, the re-
demption Of fallen men, men who
had come into conflict with the
law and who had suffered in their
war. She was probation officer
of the same court in which her
father handed down his decisions.
Her failure" to find mate puz-
zled the people who knew her. Her
beauty and charm, even her brains,
had drawn many men to her.
And then the case Of the People
VS.. Richard OakeS was SplaShed
upon the court calendar and Glen
ma Corraine, for the first time. was
confronted with problem which
had in it more emotional dynamite
than any other she had ever been
called upon to attack.
TOOK THE MONEY
In the case of the People VS..
Richard Oakes, the defendant was
brought into court to fight the
charge of forcing John Hayes, his
uncle, to pay him $4,000 after a
hard beating. Technically, the
charge was robbery.
Richard Oakes was 20. Gradu-
ated from one Of the great East
ern universities with an A. B., he
had no special training in ny pro-
fession. When he was going through
school, his family was worth mil
lions. The family's plan for him
was to dawdle through life, con-
serving the fortune and having q
good time. But the depression took
care Of both the family and the
fortune. A year after he was gradu-
ated, Dick found himself broke.
At the trial, it was brought out
that John Hayes, hitherto consid-
cred by the family as a poor rela-
ton and treated as such, really
owed the Cakes estate the two
thousand dollars. Dick had gone to
him repeatedly to get it from him.
Hayes, bitter at the memory Of the
way the Hayes family had treated
him and hating Dick in particular,
had kept putting him off.
Finally, on the night Of the
crime, Dick locked both Of them in
the living room of John Hayes
home and punched him black and
blue. Hayes, thereupon got the
$4,000 from a small safe in his
home and gave it to him and, as
soon as Dick departed, notified the
police.
Dick, knowing that John would
do something like that, had hur-
ried1y left town. When the police
of Chicago picked him up six
months later, his money was gone
and he was brought back to Han
nibal, N. j., where all the prin-
cipals lived, to go to trial for the
crime.
When the trial opened, Glenna
was one of the interested Specta-
tors. Her interest rose from the
fact that she had known Dick
OakeS all her life but UP to that
time had thought very little Of
him. He had been wild youth,
spending his time and money In
carousing. Glenna had diSap-
proved of him.
SHARP CONTRASTS
Jim Spinnet, the prosecuting
attorney, thoroughly agreed with
her. He had known Dick all his
life and hated him. He hated him
especially because he loved Glenna
and he suspected Dick did, too.
AS he told Glenna before the trial
started, he was determined to
teach this ne'er-do-weil lesson.
He was glad when John Hayes
scornfully refused $4,000 offered
by Dicks lawyer in full reStitu-
tion on condition that he drop
the charge against mis- nephew.
Sitting in the back of the court
room, Glenna couldn't help but
contrast the two men, Dick, the
defendant, and Jim, the proSecut-
ing attorney.
Dick was tall, careleSSly good
looking, athletic and scornful. Jim
was pudgy, pale, stern-lipped and
nearsighted. His voice, when ex-
cited, rose to a squeak. He went
to work on Dick with all the joy
q righteous man feels when he
has an evil doer on the rack.
He brought out all of Dicks
roisterings, his hard drinking, his
affairs with women, his gambling.
Over repeated objections of Dicks
attorney, he proved that Dick had
always been a thoroughly diSrep-
utable person, and he urged the
jury of stern-faced farmers to
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