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Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902

"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"

Were they very bad? Did they tramp on your flowers, and
frighten poor old Russet [Russet was the cat] out of his fast
waning lives? It was a great pleasure to me to see them so plump
and brown, and I thank you for it. Their testimony in court was
really amusing, though at the same time pathetic. People tell me
that my speech was a good one. What is more surprising, they tell
me that I made the prisoner, and Mr. Bohlmann, the brewer, who sat
next to Dummer, both cry. I confess I grieve over the fact that I
was not prosecuting Bohlmann. He is the real criminal, yet goes
scot free. But the moral effect is, I suppose, the important
thing, and any one to whom responsibility could be traced (and
convicted) gives us that. I find that Mr. Bohlmann goes to the
same church I attend!"
His mother was not surprised. She had always known her Peter was a hero,
and needed no "York papers" to teach her the fact. Still she read every
line of the case, and of the subsequent crusade.


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