OCR Text |
Show Now that t he secretary of the American Amer-ican Sugar Refining company has been found guilty of defrauding the customs we may expect his lawyers and friends to advance any number oi pathetic excuses and pleas why he should not go to prison. They will speak of broken health, gray hairs, sensitive spirit, humiliation, shock to bis family and many other similar things, f-uch as are always brought to the front in tb case of an influential and wealthy criminal, but which are seldom if ever heard when the offender offen-der is a poor man. It is a curious fact that tbese many physical and other iDfirthitiea da not usudlly exist until the transgressor is in the clutch of the law. Then they multiply withpu,t number, |