The hue and cry had been raised and we were to be harried out of town and into prison.

At every turn we were forced to pay out large sums to secure the slightest assistance; our clerks and employees refused longer to work for us, and groups of loiterers gathered about the office and pointed to the windows.

Our lives became a veritable hell, and I longed for the time when the anxiety should be over and I should know whether the public clamor for a victim were to be satisfied.
Gottlieb and the lawyers fought stubbornly every inch of the defence.
First, they attacked the validity of the proceedings, entered demurrers, and made motions to dismiss the indictments.

These matters took a month or two to decide.

Then came motions for a change of venue, appeals from the decisions against us to the Appellate Division, and other technical delays; so that four months passed before, at last, we were forced to go to trial.