In a Midwestern city at the turn of the century, a young man from a struggling working family slides into theft and then into the machinery of the law, while a prosperous lawyer’s household watches from the other side of town. Through station houses, courtrooms, and the penitentiary, the novel follows how justice is dealt out to those who cannot buy it.
Written in 1907 by Toledo’s reform mayor and dedicated to his predecessor Samuel M. Jones, a forceful protest novel about crime and punishment. Download the free EPUB.