Sifting the dirt. Illustration shows a hand labeled The Courts with a shovel labeled Criminal Proceedings scooping from a pile labeled Big & Little Crooks and tossing against a mesh labeled The Law; the fat capitalists, some with money bags and papers labeled Certificate of Reasonable Doubt, Change of Venue, Writ of Error, and Statue of Limitations are too large for the mesh and escape the law; the small-time crooks fall through and into a building labeled Penitentiary. Date 1910 January 19. Sifting the dirt. Illustration shows a hand labeled The Courts with a shovel labeled Criminal Proceedings scooping from a pile labeled Big & Little Crooks and tossing against a mesh labeled The Law; the fat capitalists, some with money bags and papers labeled Certificate of Reasonable Doubt, Change of Venue, Writ of Error, and Statue of Limitations are too large for the mesh and escape the law; the small-time crooks fall through and into a building labeled Penitentiary. Date 1910 January 19.