Slippery Jim's Repentance
In a court room, filled with spectators, witnesses, lawyers and officers, Judge Ford, stern, merciless but just, sits on the bench. Slippery Jim, poorly dressed, with hang-dog air, is in the... Read allIn a court room, filled with spectators, witnesses, lawyers and officers, Judge Ford, stern, merciless but just, sits on the bench. Slippery Jim, poorly dressed, with hang-dog air, is in the prisoner's dock. His mother, an old, feeble woman, is watching the judge anxiously. The j... Read allIn a court room, filled with spectators, witnesses, lawyers and officers, Judge Ford, stern, merciless but just, sits on the bench. Slippery Jim, poorly dressed, with hang-dog air, is in the prisoner's dock. His mother, an old, feeble woman, is watching the judge anxiously. The jury enters and renders a verdict of guilty. Jim grasps his chair with a gesture of despair... Read all