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Contents

CHAPTER 1

The Adenville Academy 3

CHAPTER 2
Tom and the Wild Jackass 22

CHAPTER 3

The Train Robbery 46

CHAPTER 4

Tom and the Numbers Trick 61

CHAPTER 5

Tom the Magician 78

CHAPTER 6

Puppy Love 100

CHAPTER 7

The Wheel of Fortune lit)

CHAPTER 8

The Game of Outlaw and Posse 131

The Return of
The Great Brain

CHAPTER ONE

The Adenville Academy-

DURING THE FIRST WEEK of August in the year
1898 a trial was held in Adenville, Utah. The defendant was
my brother, Tom Fitzgerald, alias The Great Brain. He was
only twelve years old, but he was charged with being a con-
fidence man, a swindler, a crook, and a blackmailer. The
judge was Harold Vickers, who was sixteen. And I guess I
must have been the youngest district attorney to ever try a
case, because I was only ten years old.

I hated to put my brother on trial, but it was something