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Arthur Train

The "Goldfish"Arthur Cheney Train The «Goldfish» / Being the Confessions af a Successful Man "We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. We have lost the power of even imagining what the ancient idealization of...

Courts and CriminalsArthur Cheney Train Courts and Criminals CHAPTER I. The Pleasant Fiction of the Presumption of Innocence There was a great to-do some years ago in the city of New York over an ill-omened young person, Duffy by name, who, falling into the bad graces of the police, was most inco...

The Confessions of Artemas QuibbleArthur Cheney Train The Confessions of Artemas Quibble / Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalit...

By Advice of CounselArthur Train By Advice of Counsel The Shyster Shyster, n. [Origin obscure.] One who does business trickily; a person without professional honor: used chiefly of lawyers; as, pettifoggers and shysters.—CENTURY DICTIONARY. When Terry McGurk hove the brick through the window of F...

Tutt and Mr. TuttArthur Cheney Train Tutt and Mr. Tutt The Human Element Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of great design as of chance.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. "He says he killed him, and that's all there is about it!" said Tutt to Mr. Tutt. "Wh...