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...soon happened. Rough ways, rough words were not unknown. Money was made, lost, quickly, loosely. Judge English became careless. He got into the habit of assigning lucrative bankruptcy cases to his good friend, Mr. Thomas. In court he was heard, allegedly, to curse, to refer to a man as a???. Slipshod, he never got rich, but when he needed money to pay for an automobile, Friend Thomas provided it. Enemies, easily and multitudinously created, whispered to the St. Louis Post Despatch, which, hot for a good story, spent a few thousand dollars digging up unlovely testimony. Finally, complaints reached Congress...
Customs officials found that she had been employed as a???rum runner. Her supercargo sold his alcoholic wars on rum row and decamped with the proceeds. For three weeks the Yankton had waited his return. Then with fuel and food exhausted she came into port and surrendered to her fate. She was offered at auction to pay the wages of the crew...