The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin

corridor, on the second floor of the Court House at Wilkes-Ba

f rough dressed miners-Polaks, Magyars, and here and there a man of half-Irish parentage, whose Irish name is all that

thing he is about to do. Cruel? He asks himself if the sanctity of the law does not make the contemplated move right. Harvey Trueman has a code of morals, an au

her young men-parted on the side and brushed back. He has thin lips and a mouth of unusual width. His mouth-line is as straight a

rge nostrils and clean shaven upper lip that is abnormally long; cheek bones that stand out prominently; gray eyes set rather deep in his head for so young

to read character, Harvey Trueman has been pronounced an unflinching tool of the coal

ge. But he has upheld the law for the proprietors of the mines when the men have made a fight against the "company st

art and parcel of the law, and all law is regarded by them as

tle has placed in the hands of the young lawyer ammu

s his case won, he feels half humiliated. In the court room, occupying a front seat whil

upon which were two loaded coal cars, he was crushed to a pulp. His widow is suing for damages for the death of her husband. In the front seat with her, in the court room, is her five-year-old boy, whom

that a new one was needed. But the poor Magyar at the bottom of the shaft did not know it. He had in no way contributed to the negligence which brough

he lawyer surmised that the Magyar was never naturalized. If he was not naturalized, his widow has no standing in the court where the suit has been brought. In that case, it belongs to the Federal

in the Clerk's office that his suspicion is well founde

, perhaps. The law is

ense!" Trueman murmurs

agyar bore none of the

is, share in the prote

a affords h

one of the half-Irish, half-Italian miners, whose elb

O'Connor once in

as not na

nnor. "The mine boss has said he will put her out i

he has not heard O'Con

ne of the

k glance catches the bent form of the woman in the front seat,

s off an affidavit containing the facts he has discovered, and a formal motion to dismiss. The Judge hears t

wailing that echoes through the whole Court House. In the hallway, the bunch of miners from Shaft Fifteen gather about the weeping woman as

hose first and last lessons in life are to read correctly the checks of the time-keeper and the figures on the "company store" checks w

toast his toes on a winter's evening. His life's work was to help keep the American public warm. In return, all h

the miners' union has ordered a strike in Carbon County, adjoining, unless the Paradise Co

in their rough way, they form a grim procession and trudge back over t