human
Even if my clients wanted to be lenient, they could not, in justice to the stockholders. It is purely a business proposition. The losses have been very heavy.
gpt
Are you asking his honor, I said,
human
Our whole force, he said,
gpt
Your honor, I broke in, thoroughly angry,
human
This is utterly unfair. He whines because the employees are not loyal. How much loyalty do they expect to buy at six dollars a week? They figure out just how little they can pay their people and keep them from the necessity of stealing. This time they figured too low, and are trying to put all the blame on the girl. If they paid honest wages they might have some right to come into court. But when they let their clerks starve they ought not to put silver in their charge. Its....
gpt
Hold on, officer, Ryan interrupted,
human
There’s a great deal in their point of view. Our whole penal system is built on the deterrent idea. The state does not inflict penalties to repay the wrong done it by an act of crime, but to deter others from committing like crimes. As long as the complainants take this view of the case I cannot let her go without some punishment.
gpt
Punishment? I broke in again.
human
I hope we will never be punished so bitterly. The shame of her arrest and imprisonment is already far in excess of her wrong doing. The firm did not lose a cent and they want her sent to state prison.
gpt
I won’t send so young a girl to state prison, the judge said,
human
But I cannot let her go free. I’ll send her to one of the religious disciplinary institutions.
gpt
The delay would be useless, the attorney put in.
human
My clients have no personal feelings in the matter. It is simply a carefully reasoned business policy.
gpt
Remanded till tomorrow morning.
human
Its useless,