Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned - By John A. Farrell Page 0,257

notoriety for the paper and himself. I soon found out I was employed to sell newspapers … a disagreeable job.” They lost the case; Warren blamed Darrow and began to collect and distribute derogatory information about him. Debs warned Darrow that “many of your former friends have lost confidence in you” because he had “gone over to the other side purely for money.” When Darrow needed the support of the leading socialist journal, it would not be there. See U.S. Justice Department files, brief and correspondence on the Warren case, May 1909, National Archives, and also Debs to Darrow, Feb. 19, 1912, Warren to L. C. Boyle, Dec. 12, 1910, Eugene Debs collection, Indiana State University; Darrow to Caro Lloyd, Dec. 8, 1910, and Feb. 8, 1911, HDL. Myeroff v. Tinslar, 175 Ill. App. 29; Geoffrey Cowan, The People v. Clarence Darrow (New York: Times Books, 1993); Chicago Tribune, Nov. 3, 6, 12, 13, 1908, Sept. 25, Oct. 26, 1909, Feb. 10, 24, 25, 26, Mar. 4, May 9, 11, Aug. 4, 1910.

9. Edwin Maxey, “The Rudowitz Extradition Case,” The Green Bag: An Entertaining Magazine for Lawyers, Vol. 21, 1909; Frederick Giffin, “The Rudowitz Extradition Case,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Spring 1982; New York Times, Jan. 27, 1909; Chicago Evening Post, Dec. 6, 1908; Chicago Daily News, Dec. 5, 7, 1908, and Jan. 27, 1909; Chicago Tribune, Nov. 6, 14, 24–29, Dec. 1, 6, 10, 13, 24, 25, 27, 1908, and Jan. 4, 13, 14, 15, 27, Feb. 14, 15, June 17, 1909.

10. George Field was a man of old-fashioned values who saw moral decay everywhere, even in the celebration of Christmas. “Whipping, prayers, religion, dyspepsia part and parcel of memory,” Mary recalled. “Bible soaked into us.” When she got to college, “I knew nothing” about men, she said. She had been taught at home that “there was something nasty about sex.” Mary Field Parton journal and oral histories, MFP; Sara Bard Field oral history, University of California, Berkeley; Chicago Tribune, Mar. 28, May 1, 7, 1909; Randolph Bourne to Prudence Winterrowd, quoted in Christine Stansell, American Moderns (New York: Macmillan, 2001); Michigan Alumnus, University of Michigan Alumni Association, 1913.

11. Darrow was asked to join the cause, looked into the shooting, and decided that Chief Shippy was telling the truth. But he didn’t like the way that the newspapers and the police were whipping up fears about “anarchists” and worked to secure a platform for Emma Goldman when the police blocked her from speaking on Averbuch’s behalf. The Averbuch incident is covered in Mary Field’s taped oral histories and in Margaret Parton’s unpublished biography of her mother, Mary Field, along with the letter to Graham Taylor, MFP; see also Sara Bard Field oral history, University of California, Berkeley. See also Walter Roth and Joe Kraus, An Accidental Anarchist (San Francisco: Rudi Publishing, 1998).

12. The ritual was repeated on another occasion when Darrow asked Mary to buy Mother Jones a warm winter coat. “Let me see how much I have on me,” he said, hauling out a wad of bills. “Well, it is kind of messy, isn’t it? But it will buy something.” See Mary Field Parton oral histories and Margaret Parton unpublished biography of her mother, MFP.

13. Mary Field, taped oral histories, diaries, and letters and Margaret Parton, unpublished biography of her mother, MFP; Mary to Sara, correspondence, July 1909, June 1910, and August, 1910, CESW-HL; Sara Bard Field oral history, University of California, Berkeley; Darrow to Mary, Mar. 15, July 1910, CDMFP-NL; Karl Darrow diaries, KD; Henry Coit to Wood, June 14, 1910, CESW-UC; Darrow to Fremont Older, Sept. 21, 1910, ALW; Chicago Tribune, Jan. 4, Mar. 13, 14, 31, May 9, 1908, Sept. 11, Nov. 15, 1909, Sept. 4, 1910; Schretter, “I Remember Darrow”; Roger Bruns, The Damndest Radical (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001).

CHAPTER 11: LOS ANGELES

1. People v. Caplan, LAL; Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt, Thinking Big (New York: Putnam, 1977).

2. People v. Caplan, People v. Schmidt, LAL; The Fireman’s Grapevine, Sept. and Nov. issues, 1960; New York Times, Oct. 3, 1910; E. W. Scripps, I Protest (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966); grand jury testimony of John Beckwith, William Mulholland, Harry Chandler, Olav Tvietmoe, Earl Rogers, Anton Johannsen, and Lindsay Jewell, WD.

3. The ironworkers’ union considered Otis “the most unfair, unscrupulous and malignant enemy of organized labor in America.” Theodore Roosevelt thought him a “scurrilous blackguard.” See Roosevelt to Gompers, June 7, 1911, Theodore Roosevelt papers, Library of Congress; “General Otis, the