Book Excerpt: false pretenses, tricks and devices, flimflams--practised most successfully by well-dressed gentlemanly crooks of polished manners."By this time the kettle was boiling cheerfully, quite as if no such thing as criminal law existed at all, and Miss Wiggin began to make the tea."All the same," she ruminated, "people--particularly very poor people--are often driven to crime by necessity.""It's Nature's first law," contributed Tutt brightly.Mr. Tutt uttered a snort of disgust."It may be Nature's first law, but it's ...
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Book Excerpt: false pretenses, tricks and devices, flimflams--practised most successfully by well-dressed gentlemanly crooks of polished manners."By this time the kettle was boiling cheerfully, quite as if no such thing as criminal law existed at all, and Miss Wiggin began to make the tea."All the same," she ruminated, "people--particularly very poor people--are often driven to crime by necessity.""It's Nature's first law," contributed Tutt brightly.Mr. Tutt uttered a snort of disgust."It may be Nature's first law, but it's about the weakest defense a guilty man can offer. 'I couldn't help myself' has always been the excuse for helping oneself!""Rather good--that!" approved Miss Wiggin. "Can you do it again?""The victim of circumstances is inevitably one who has made a victim of someone else," blandly went on Mr. Tutt without hesitation."Ting-a-ling! Right on the bell!" she laughed."It's true!" he assured her seriously. "There are two defenses that arRead More
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