About the book: 1915 / There was an unusually lively atmosphere in the preliminary hearing room of the New York District Court that April day. The announcement of the cases scheduled for hearing took a whole hour, as it was interrupted by endless disputes and proposals for postponements or postponements. The lawyers, raising their voices almost to the point of shouting, reached altercations in which logic gave way to emotion. Judge Frazer Manton restrainedly interrupted these desperate debates in their midst. It seemed that this man was literally created in order to dispense justice.