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Maybe this one? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Butler_%28British_Army_offi...

I think it might be the Richard J. "Big Dick" Butler who wrote this autobiography "Dock Walloper: The Story of "Big Dick" Butler." archive.org/details/dockwalloperstor00butlrich He was the President of the Longshoreman's Union in New York and a state assemblyman. I can't find another photo of him except the drawing in the book but it looks like it could be the same man. He was in the news in 1913 when he helped Harry Thaw escape from Matteawan State Hospital. In 1915 he was tried for conspiracy in the escape and acquitted. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70C13FE3B591673...

Also, I think the building he is standing in front of is the old New York Criminal Courts Building. You can see the same wall and railing in a few other Bain News photos of other trials www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2765464748/ or www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2496407997/

Other Bain photos related to the Thaw escape Howard Barnum www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/7073604895/in/s... witnesses William Gordon and Gordon Dike www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6927524482/in/s... witness William Gordon www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6927523980/in/s...

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Typo in caption, Angel s/b Angle. Mrs. Helen M. Angle was on trial in March, 1915, for manslaughter in the death of her friend Waldo R. Ballou in Stamford, Connecticut in June, 1914. Helen was divorced from her husband of twelve years, Frank W. Angle. Her father was Leonard Blondell, a wealthy former Stamford Councilman who was retired from the coal and road contracting business Waldo Ballou was was a friend of her fathers, and a leading Republican politician and Stamford business man. Helen met Waldo in 1911 after his wife died. Waldo proposed to Helen several times, but she said he was too old. He was 69, she was 40. Mrs Angle took the stand in her own defense, and told her version of what happened on the night of June 23, 1914. More than 500 people were turned away from the packed courtroom. After a twelve day trial the jury deliberated for one hour and forty-five minutes before returning a verdict of not guilty, after three ballots. Judge William H. Williams presided. Eight months after the trial, Helen remarried her former husband, Frank Angle, a foreman at Union Metallic Cartridge Company in Stamford. It was said that during her trial Mr Angle's sympathies were aroused, and he was a frequent visitor in the court. [1] [2] [3]  

For a while I felt sorry for them because they stole to stay alive (hunger). Looking deeper into it they were starving because they rarely attended their regiment (free food) and because of this had no money for food outside their regiment.

I'd rather be in prison than on the western front. If I'd been them I'd have considered assaulting the magistrate, just to make sure.