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...Ephraim Tutt is one of the few fictitious characters who has ever written his autobiography. Yankee Lawyer is a genial hodgepodge of fact & fiction, includes almost everything a reader needs for a good time: human-interest stories from Mr. Tutt's legal life; anecdotes about Mr. Tutt's nonfictional contemporaries ("Teddy" Roosevelt, Richard Harding Davis, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes); and Mr. Tutt himself, as American as a Stephen Foster song...
...Lawyer Tutt, the ramshackle figure in a rusty frock coat, stovepipe hat, stand-up collar and string bow tie, the canny mind that slyly wrenches law into justice, first came to public attention in a story written by Arthur Train in the Satevepost of June 7, 1919. Illustrating the story was a drawing of Tutt by Arthur William Brown (for which Frank Wilson, a retired actor, posed...
Since then Author Train has written almost a hundred Tutt stories. Some of them (says Tutt) have become as familiar to lawyers as folk tales, have been cited from the bench as quasi-legal authority, have helped many a candidate pass his bar examinations. In fact, like Sherlock Holmes, Ephraim Tutt has become more famous than his creator. So by writing Lawyer Tutt's autobiography, Author Train was able to achieve more than by writing (or rewriting) his own (My Day in Court...
...Tutt v. Train. By complaining that Train in his stories sometimes twisted the facts for literary purposes, Autobiographer Tutt is able to retell many of his most famous exploits in rescuing justice from the technicalities of the law. He also tells plenty of new stories about murder trials, contested wills, many another social ill the law is heir...
...writer, he has authored 40 books from love stories (The Needle's Eye) to firsthand reporting of his police and court experiences (Courts, Criminals and the Camorra). But most people know Arthur Train as the creator of tall, gaunt, kindly, shrewd, humorous, cigar-smoking Lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who by using the tricks of the law to outsmart the tricks of the law, manages to evoke a brand of justice that, if not strictly according to Blackstone, is humane and just...