Speculating about Wallace's motives in asking to see her father, Carlton wrote that Wallace may have suspected that the city's local government establishment wanted to protect the son and nephew of one of their own, and that the case against him was brought to do just that.
自分の父に会わせてくれと頼むことのウォーレスの動機を推理して、カールトンは、ウォーレスは、その都市の地方自治体体制が、彼ら自身のうちのひとりの息子で甥を守りたがったのではないかと疑っていたかもしれないと書いた。