I had become intimate with the Paulist Fathers while I was Police Commissioner, and I had grown to feel confidence in their judgment, for I had found that they always told me exactly what the facts were about any man, whether he belonged to their church or not.

In this case the convicted man was a strongly built, respectable old Irishman employed as a watchman around some big cattle-killing establishments.

The young roughs of the neighborhood, which was then of a rather lawless type, used to try to destroy the property of the companies.

In a conflict with a watchman a member of one of the gangs was slain.

The watchman was acquitted, but the neighborhood was much wrought up over the acquittal.