forgotten.

In this way justice is often thwarted and the law cheated of
its victim, but unless fortune favors him, sooner or later the
indicted man must return for trial and submit the charge
against him to a jury. But if this happens, even if he be
guilty, all hope need not be lost. There are still "tricks of
the trade" which may save him from the clutches of the law.

AT THE TRIAL

What can be done when at last the prisoner who has fought
presistently for adjournment has been forced to face the
witnesses against him and submit the evidence to a jury of
peers? Let us assume further that he has been "out on bail,"
with plenty of opportunity to prepare his defence and lay his
plans for escape.

When the case is finally called and the defendant takes his
seat at the bar after a lapse of anywhere from six months to a
year or more after his arrest, the first question for the
district attorney to investigate is whether or no the person
presenting himself for trial be in point of fact the
individual mentioned in the indictment. This is often a
difficult matter to determine. "Ringers"--particularly in the
magistrates' courts--are by no means unknown. Sometimes they
appear even in the higher courts. If the defendant be an
ex-convict or a well-known crook, his photograph and
measurements will speedily remove all doubt upon the subject,
but if he be a foreigner (particularly a Pole, Italian or a