The Imprisoned Freeman. Helen S. Woodruff. New York: George Sully and Co., (1918). First editio
The Imprisoned Freeman. Helen S. Woodruff. New York: George Sully and Co., (1918). First edition. Original dust jacket.Crime novel exploring the life of a young American and his “experience with the terrible and utterly unjust dealings of ‘the law’…courageously exposing the real significance of some of our laws which admit of the perpetration of atrocities”. The novel itself revolves around the false arrest of a young man who appeared to be part of a highway robbery but who was actually only an onlooker at the wrong place at the wrong time. He is brought to trial and sentenced to ten years in prison, which he serves until his untimely death. -- source link
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