An incident that could have happened only to Mr. Darrow in our times occurred during the McNamara trial. He was almost out of mont having borrowed $20,000 from Chi-cage friends to defend the case. A telegram came to him, which read: "St, Louis, Mo, Carence Darrow, Los Angeles, Gal. I hear you have spent most of yður life defending men for nothing, and that you are now broke and facing another trial I will let you have all the money you need {or he case. Am now sending draft for $1000. Frederick D. Gardner."
Mr. Darrow did mot then know Gardner but they later became friends, Although Mr. Darrow considered himself a pacifist, the pict of Ger-{ran hosts marching a prostrate Belgium, turned his inherent sympathy for the weaker side toward the Allies. As an aftermath of the war, however, the plight of hundreds of political prisoners enraged him and he defended twelve members of the Communist Party, indicted under the Espionage Act. Theiz/tonvictions were upheld in the Supreme Court, but the Governor of Illinois pardoned nem before they began serving their sentences.
Only once did M Darrow volunteer his services in a case, that being
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