The cotton coat has been washed clean, the stump of a tallow candle has been applied to the shoes, and if so fortunate as to possess a rimless or a crownless hat, it is placed jauntily on the head.
Early in the evening of September 15, 1910, a lean man with iron-gray hair and slate-blue eyes behind rimless glasses was making his way through the crowd at the Taylor Opera House in Trenton, New Jersey.