Townsend v. United States

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

The evidence in the two appeals sub judice reminds us of the famous description of the annual ball of the Mulligan Association. According to the well-known contemporary historian, M. R. Werner, a Tammany Judge at that fiesta “led through the happy mazes of the grand march a thousand pimps * * * and prostitutes, to the blatant crying of the band”, McClure’s Magazine, Vol. 33, p. 132; Werner, Tammany Hall, p. 501. We quote that phrase because the record discloses that the appellants do not cavil at the characterization. They concede, as we understand it, that three…