In a dingy courtroom stinking of vermifuge, at Mays Landing, N. J., last week, two petty criminals stood before the bar of justice. The man was convicted of bookmaking (horse-race betting), sentenced to a year in prison, fined $1,000. The woman was found guilty of running a disorderly house, given three years imprisonment, also fined $1,000. The cases of the gambler and the procuress did not excite Atlantic County interest as examples of routine viciousness, but as the first definite results of an unusually elaborate crusade conducted by a newspaper.
Seldom does even the most sensational journal concern itself with corruption outside...
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