"Old Casselli was an immigrant and an honest fellow.

But he had the bad judgment to make some money in the junk business, and sent his son to college.

The son, after the old immigrant died, took to spelling his name Cassleigh, and the grandson is the prize snob of the town." "And Bayliss's father was indicted by the grand jury, seven or eight years ago, for bribery in connection with a trolley franchise," muttered Greg Holmes.
"Also currently reported to be true, my infant," nodded Dave sagely.
"But the witnesses against the elder Bayliss skipped, and the district attorney never brought the case to trial.

Case was quashed a year later, and so now the Baylisses belong to the Distinguished Order of Unconvicted Boodlers.

That trolley stock jumped to six times its par value right after the case against Bayliss was dropped, you know." "And, from what I've heard Mr.Pollock say at 'The Blade' office," Dick threw in, "the fathers of one or two of the other soreheads got their money in devious ways." "Why, there's Whitney's father," laughed Dan Dalzell.