The law is a conundrum, the law is a maze, a sea of contradictions, a wall, a labyrinth, but at the end we are better off with it than without it.
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| Crowds standing on a street corner across from a courthouse during the Leopold and Loeb murder trial. [Source: DN-0078046, Chicago Daily News collection, Chicago History Museum, 1924] |
All we have is our lives to live. Even the most powerful, the Governors, the Generals, the most beautiful, those walled up in their castles—they only have their one life to live.
If lucky, perhaps a few choices. And someone to help.
I wasn’t always Factory Inspector. There had to be a Governor John Peter Altgeld to appoint me. And I would not have met him, without Henry Demarest Lloyd and Jesse Brosse who opened their home to the world, and where I met John Peter Altgeld.
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| Governor John Peter Altgeld (1847–1902). Historically, Altgeld is remembered chiefly for pardoning the three surviving men convicted in the 1886 Haymarket bombing [Source: Wikipedia, Public Domain] |
Florence Kelley speaking, live from 1890s Chicago
Homicide. Killing, for the sake of killing, making someone feel badly, ashamed, for no reason is never all right.
Nor can there be a reason which makes it all right.
Some things never change.
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| The killing of suspected anarchist, Lazarus Averbuch, by Chief of Police George Shippy in 1908. Source: ICHi-52216 |