Two days in the week I work for
the A's, two for Mr. B.--he ain't exactly my boss--and then for
myself. The A's pay me $6, Mr. B. pays $3, and then I make $7 or
$8 myself interpreting. I'm saving it up to go to law school.
In three years I graduate. They are going to hold it up against
them boys, their records, and I am going to deny it. It ain't
right. I was talking to the detective that arrested X. and I
says to him, `Look here, you took the knife. What right have
they got to take in one fellow without the little fellow?' I
want to represent this case myself.''
Adolf has worked for law firms and aided at times as an
investigator of criminal and vice situations. Occasionally he
has been much worried about his own court record. He did not
want it to stand against him. He thought he could get his sister
to swear that he never quarreled at home. Shortly afterwards he
served a short sentence for stealing from a law firm. Later he
came in and said he had a job in the legal department of a large
concern and that he had changed his name because he believed his
old name was ruined. ``I'm determined to be a lawyer. Ever
since a little fellow I have wanted to be--ever since I have had
an understanding of what the law means.
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