The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin

public square of Wilkes-Barre, in the middle of which is situated the Court House. O

Coal Barons' syndicate relieves the young lawyer from the payment of rent. For the convenience of having a shrewd attorney always at his beck and call

vania, Gorman Purdy is "trying him out" with an entirely different object in view. He desires to test the young man's mettle as a man even more

ousand dollars, being the amount of his salary from the coal company for two months. In hi

will put her

ehanna. He sees the mountain beyond and the column of steam rising from a more distant breaker, half way up the slope-a

way, chattering their grievances to one another. The widow and her boy bring up the re

e serfs of the coal seams. Harvey Trueman has been a deep student of the teachings of that convention. On the shelves of his library are the well-thumbed

eprived of her miserable shelter, not fit for a beast of burden, by the richest coal corporation on earth. Why? Because her abject misery is a lesson too graphic in its horrible details to be constantly before the miners. Allowed to remain there, the widow will breed trouble among the men who are all risking their lives every minute of every working day, even as her husband riske

Trueman knows of these things. He has a mind that pierces the thin walls of

e other women give her. But in a month she will be married again. If she had recovered a thousand

it for the third time. Then he fold

wing up legal barricades to prevent the miners from approaching too near to the coffers of the Paradise Coal Company. If

reat corporation flippant about such matters, but in spite of himself his heartstrings tighten.

sed in a gray cutaway business suit and wears a silk hat. His neckscarf is of English make, his collar is of the thickest linen and neatest pattern, and

d States Senate-is that this man's daughter, Ethel Purdy, renowned in more than one city for her beauty, may become his wife. Indeed, the hope of th

trouble with the men." Purdy dr

n there and at Hazleton hold a meeting to-night to decide whether or not they w

rleigh and Hazleton men go out. We must get an injunction to prevent the committee from the affected mines from visiting the ot

rueman replies, "but what effect will it ha

ng in the Hazleton armory. We can put three hundred men in the f

ent's pause, "but I would not advise calling out the Coal and Iron Police until some act

of the Pennsylvania coal region need a wholesome lesson. They have no respect for property rights

ers and company stores are no playthings for the whimsical notions of so-called labor leaders who do not kno

kers! They'll be sacking our homes next. Already their attitude is almost insufferable. People beyond the

. It is fortunate that we have a sheriff who has the grit to stand his ground. He says a telegram or telephone message w

o then will be l

at Purdy several seco

ution in placing Sheriff Marlin in command of the Coal and Iron Police. While you may be correct in saying we must a

men gather on mischief ben

erious face, which has grown suddenly pale. It is the first ti

ith impunity. Fight these men with the law. It's all in your favor! Sheriff Marlin could not step

es from his chair. He is displeased beyond

aradise Coal Company, and a man who marches along the highway with a revolver in one hand and a torch in the other, his cowardly heart filled w

lness, and wise beyond the years of the man about to utter them. Each man has discovered that w

unceremoniously opened,

r you promised me at breakfast you would not? Our ride was fixed for thr

ring a gray felt hat of the rough rider type, gracefully poised on one side of her head, smiles