A JUDGE OF GOOD CHARACTER
Known for his integrity, Granville Gaylord Bennett was a celebrated jurist among the denizens of wild and woolly Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Though resolved to sentence a man to life at hard labor, the judge never sent anyone to the gallows. “Whether or not a man deserves death,” he said, “is a question for God alone to decide.”
Judge Bennett would never separate a child from its mother, however disreputable she had become or how much her reputation had suffered—whether merited, out of prejudice or spite, or simply from idle gossip. “I believe that the Lord knows where He sends children,” he said, “and it is not the intention of this court
