Francis Worcester Doughty

“ I've got you now, you rascals;" and I saw the muzzle of a gun appear. "Stay where you are if you value your lives! A dozen spring guns are concealed just there, and a single step may discharge them all." ”

“ The rascals could not be held and punished because it could not be proved that they had intended committing a robbery.
Men cannot be sent to prison for intention of wrong. They must be proved to have committed the wrong. ”

“ When Woglom was in the house, he had made use of a "crooked" man's never-absent companion, a screw-driver.
With this he had loosened the screws of the iron buttons which secured the cellar windows, which were then left so poorly secured that a slight push would be sufficient to open them. ”