National Affairs: The Right to Rob

In Chicago, one Lawrence OToole was last week cited for contempt of court. Reason: serving on a jury to try five boy gangsters who had held up a grocer and killed him for resisting, Lawrence O'Toole favored lenience on the ground that any "free American" should be "free to stage a holdup, if he could get away with it."

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