The evening world. Newspaper, July 10, 1903, Page 2

% ---tion. a Iabor in endeavoring to ascertain some | “YHE WORLD? FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1908, JEROME'S STAB CHAMBER Peter A. Hendricks, of Counsel for Murphy, Cram and Meyer, Demands in Court Their R ight to Public Hear- ing, While Comptroller Grout, as a Citizen, Condemns Secret Hearings. From two distinct quarters to-day ome unmeasured condemnation of the oourse of District-Attorney Jerome in Prosecuting behind closed doors his in quiries into the conduct of the old ‘Tammany Dock Board and the Aque- duct Board. LAWYER HEN PLEA While Comptroller Grout was prepar- Ing a ublic st ment a lawyer and a eltizen” protesting against this mode of Inquiry fn the Aqueduct matter, la | yors were arguing in court in suppor an application of appile: hearing in the Doi 1g % Board in- DRICKS’S FOR PUBLICITY James A. Deering and Peter A. Hen- dricks, lawyers representing Charles F. Murphy, J. Sergeant Cram and Peter F. Meyer, of the Van Wyck Dock) Board. appeared before Justice Mayer] In chambers this afternoon and cemand ed that the so-called Dock Board John Doe proceedings’ be made public procerd- | ings. In the course of his Wendricks said: "I appear here on behalf of Charles F. Murphy, one of the defendants named in this proceeding and against gehom this proceeding is pending and ‘being conducted. It appears, I assume, that there 1s information lodged with the Court. “There argument Mr. replied Justice Mayer, ‘but X eannot state what it is.” xamine. urt a ‘I produce before poena,"” sald Mr. Hendricks, “dir. @ witness to appear in this Investigation | sup ng in a proceeding against Charles Murphy and others. I ask that Mr.) Murphy be accorded his constitutional d his legal rights to appear on this| mination, to be confronted by tne| witnesses against him and to be ac- corded his legal rights to the cross- examination of these witnesses. His Pightt will become evident by an exapi- {nation of the Jaw.” | Justice Mayer interrupted by saying: “As far as I am personally concerned I should be more than glad If It be shown to me that this examination can may be held in » and that the clisnts for whon you appear may -examina- Baye the opportunity for cros The only difficulty under which I method whereby it can be held in pub- lis ts that there is nothing before me} up to this time showing that a crime has been committed. su as to justify me fa ‘esuing any warrants. A Nice Point of Law. “There is an information before me, ‘the contents of which at this time I am mot permitted under the law, as I un- derstand !t, to disclose, Now, the only other proceeding which seems open before m magistrate ,which has no statutory force and which Is a mere in- vitation to come to the magistrate, which ifivitation may or may not be ac- eepted. “Now, if you can point out to me how T may lawfully hold this proceeding in Public and permit your client to be rep- resented by counsel, and to examine and cross-examine witnesses, I say in all sincerity that 1 will be very glad to aaxeo “Not only was Mr. Murphy mentioned in the subpoena as defendant.” replied Mr. Hendricks, “but me was publicly rared District-Attorney Jerome in the newspapers as a defendant jn the Proceedings. The only object of a sv- called ‘John Doe’ proceeding Is where there has been a crime committed, or the Magistrate has reasonable grou to believe so, and for him to proceed 5; JEROME’S SE Comptroller Grout issued a statement to-day expressing disapproval of Dis- trict-Attorney Jerome's star-chamher methods in the investigation of the Aqueduct Commissioners. The Comp- troller declares the proceedings are an injustice and dangerous, and calls upon the press to denounce the “oppressive | and unlewful proceedings.” Among other things the Comptroiler | says: “Bummonses have been served entitled “In the criminal proceeding prosecuted by the People of the State of New York.’ But notwithstanding that nothing ‘s more thoroughly settled in the laws of this State, or in the history of every Bnglish-speaking people, than that all legal proceedings shall bo public, this legal proceeding is held tn secret, and the defendants are not allowed to be Present either in pecson or by coutsel when the witnesses against them are ex- amined, and have not a chance ¢o co front the witnesses or to cross-examine them. Offense Aguinst Law. ‘i*As if this were not offense enough @gainst the Jaws of this State. the com- plainant and his representatives and this agents are permitted to be present, the proceeding known as a summons ie | Secretly in order to find out who the eriminal 4s, | Where Right to Secrecy Censes. But when the Attorney comes into court an here is the erimiral, Charles F, Murphy {= the man,’ that moment the right of secrecy | ceases. Mr. Murphy from that moment is guaranteed by law his right to appear before the Court he moment his name ts disclosed it was a secret proceeding here. tofore or not. ‘The Instant the prose- cuting officer elects to say here 1s the man m we accuse of this crime’ that moment he is entitled to ve repre- wenied by counsel. ow this ts an important question @ question that involves the con- wi siitutional right of a man, and one that in re i the question of legal proceedings of the Di ves decency Ott ney’s office, It involves the substantial constitutional rights of a man. Mr. Murphy is accused day after day vy the District-Attorney of ‘being a crimt- nal Criminal Proccedings Pending. “Proceedings are now pending against him as a erjminal, He famed in the process of this court as a criminal, and if there be no crime committed, ‘or If he used of a crime, the pro- tess should not be issued against M Murphy. and the District-Attorney should not tll up, day after day, the aaipers with ‘statements and ine dew sl is that he Isa eriminal. n the question of law we will aa brief that T think will rin your mind as a lawyer this rigt.”” District submit 't be conel that he Assista Att Kroto) He has a right to} HIS SATANIC MAJESTY --HOME WAS NEVER LIKE THIS,” Uf Mh lf SHIPPING NEWS, SIXTEEN DEAD, MANY STRICKEN) ~ ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. 4.37|Bun sets... 7.32/Moon risea.. 7. THE TIDES. High Water. dy Hook. 5 COontinued (fromyNlrstie ase.) Governors Tales $22 8.30 ~ Hell Gate Ferry......10.15 10.23 ‘districts in the pale moonlight were reminded of Rudyard Kipling’s de- scriptions of summer nights in Calcutta, The tiny rooms in the towering hives were like miniature furnaces; lungs worked convulsively in the effort to catch and purify the stilling alr; hearts pounded in the vain endeavor PORT OF NEW YORK. ARRIVED, 57 to circulate the blood properly and the gasping populace fled to the streets Liverpoal and open places. wea uate It was just as hot in the long, cool avenues and the wide cross streets} eacialreston of Harlem as {t was in the crooked canyons of the lower east side. It was just as hot in the suburbs of Brooklyn as it was down by the Navy-Yard. {It was just as hot at the seashore as it was along the Harlem River. The vagrant breezes appeared to be infected with the prevalent languor, and Pov Tries Vortigern INCOMING STEAMSHIPS. one migbt listen under a tree with all earnestness and fairness for hours DUE TO-DAY. “Mining? Witness Appears, | i Island, Christiansaad, Philip Donohue, the “mysterious man” |#2d never hear the slightest rustle of a leaf. ' Eanaiber, Re Hens saoneietianeene, SUBD E I connection with the dock in- Perhaps !f one could have gone high above the roofs of the eity and Germante, Liverpool. P 5 Gibraltar: the iver ean remained there all night listening there would have been one sound ap- ae pean 7 | ieee veaton, nt of Chases Murohy’s | parent, rising, falling, but always in evidence—the walling of babies. The) Fur pismarck. Taekson ie, ( i 1. Without waiting for|ery of the innocents was net stilled throughout the night, nor was it ——; Went ta the Districr etertay oMUe | stilted to-day. Some uf them died in their mother’s arms, but most of OUTGOING STPAMSHIPS. to-day and asked If the utor de-|them lived and suffered--and cried, It is a pitiful time for the babies, SAILED TO-Dar. sired to interview him. Donohue holds oy a se of the bath-nouse at Arabic, Liverpoo). eared a fo! ud Fitty-Afth street and be ye willingness acquisition but also all se property, ax ne Smith, from whom ho ‘obtained FO an Evening World reporter Dono- nue sald: old Assistant District. | Attorney’ Kro: at T now tell| you. F ts » Wa | Heights considered that the ba © there was dilapidated. Tealled on D Commissioners Cram and Munphy and spoke to them about t, ‘They granted for # bath-hou f $150 a 1 have ne bath en a grea nie we that neighbor time that Tam wanted ANAble privilege nected with the of the sale me no CRET METHOD, and each day at the close ceedings to detall, by statements to the Press, various accusations and alleged testimony said to have been brought out at the so-called hearing. ‘T Justice's attention ts calle: tion he comm of the pro- n wh nthe | 1 to this situa. {ts the additional absurdit of threatening to punish the people way make public tho things which cht to have been public thro: The whole t tice and Much more dangerous as a public of- fente than the sum total of all the thi charged against the Aqueduct Bio2 | vrotest against it as ® as a citize and as a member of ¢he bar, and tne ¥ elty, watchful of the right OURS not to per Unlawful legs 16."" pi wno if true, hout. m. rpess of th pe of thi ne to con b He furth no warran adds: ‘There ts abs lw for the conduc tely dangerous permit uni, nal proc teense sa under s Mr. rout Is at paltry: ine n y mission, He declares > about the merits knows nothing charges ale in the year nip there to susalcion of he 16 LL SLEEPWALKER AND NOT A BURGLAR. Man Found Under Piano In House Convinces Magis- ably discharged by Magistrate Poo} In the Yorkville Court to-day. Ma sald he must have gone into the house by climbing from the sill of the house next door while he was ep, Fred Maxiner, of No. 401 East Seven- Jty-aixth street, testified that he in jvited Maley home to spend the night with him, He sald Maley retired and Was asleep when he last saw him, Maley, who liven at No, 1251 First ave- nue, bears a good reputation and Mag- “y f Was honor- {strate Pool after hearing goth stories Maley had deen walking in his sleep and discharged aim {| PHILLIPS, CHARLES, of five: | bes till in tlt. ay wri nal Anne. Me To-Day’s Heat Prostrations (Continued from First Page.) McGARRY ‘THOMAS, thirty-three yenrs old, No, 78 Second avenue, prostrated at No, 237 Fast Sixty-seventh street; Pi terlan Hospital. M'DONALD, JOHN, twenty years oid, No. 154 Bast Elghty-elghth street, pros- trated at Eighty-seventh street and Madison avenue; broke leg in fall; Pres- byterian Hospital twenty years old, No. 1 Attorney street; Gouverneur Hospital, |SHARP, BERNARD. thirty-elghr years old, Jeannette Park, Hudson Street ‘Hos pital {SMITH JOU rs old, No. 238 Pacifle street | at No, 65 Hester street No. 3 South street, prostrated tn Brooklyn, prostrated . thirty-two y attended and taken home. JACOR, forty-five years ok, No, 4) Kast Sixty-elghth street. prostrated at No. S87 East Sixty-seventh street; Presbyterian Hospital TOLAN, A IB, No. 232 East Twenty-second street. prostrated in Stuyvesant Park before daylight; Bellevue Hospital |VAN DYDE, HENRY, thirty-two years old, No, 2% North William street, pros- trated In City Hall Park; Hudson Street Hospital WALSH, JAMDBS, sixty-two years ol], No. 66 Washington street, prostrated at} . North River; St, Vincent's Hospital. WILLIAM, thirty-elght years old, ; Roosevelt Hospital. BACK 10 GERMANY, NO STAN ON KAME very little “ Shortening, No. 4% West Tuairty-fourth father his trunks wore redeemed. And now for Germany, where there Is not the strenuous life as Friedburg found it In New York. HANGING DELAYED FOR COURT ACTION, Friedburg, Who Pawned Board- 8rief Respite Granted Prisoner While His Lawyer Tried to Save ing-House Blanket to Buy, Him on Technical Plea, Medicine for Sick Wife, Is Ab- | tixcou + Neb, July 10.—The hang- common flour, ling of Wiillam Rhea, which wi ° solved from Larceny Charge. | ivve taken place at 129) wrelock vorday, | WAS postponed thirty minutes pending a decision of the Supreme Court on an|/ Kurt Friedburg, who left the German application for an injunction to prevent, jarmy to make his fortune in the Untted the hanging. The action before the court | on his honorable name he will rejoin the | | iihaont army. He was discharged from cus- ; Aas fa | tody to-day and absolved from the) 0) Ereornays, for the pilechey arevads PRATER oer young, came here! tence for hanging tn that it apecited | in January with his wife and many SA CHUALIOE, AlNa eS Or eso |t¥unks and much money, Gradually the | ° Supreme Court denied the appli- |money went; then the trunks went, | a0: MUD GupT bute Cx preRed| | Finally the young man found himself granting of @ reprieve by with a sick wife in the boarding-house und) a further hearing the of the application’ could be made. ny rotona Governor and Chief Justice Sullivan, of Supreme Court, chen went into con- tation regarding sich action, of Mrs avenue, He was absolutely penniless. His wife | needed medicine. He took a. blanker *4 ought medicine for his’ wite. Mic Engel had him arrested and he was ar-|Tepreve and ordered the Sheriff to p Julta Engel, No. 2101 C; taleneditor trial: ceed with the execution, The clroumstatices were brought to the on a attenuon of the Magistrate, who directed Schoolship St. Mary’ The Board of Education recelved cablegram from Cherbourg to- stat~ permisnion to withdraw Ing that fog Benoglans as then dis- arrived at Cherbourg. money received from his well. 57 Probationary OMcor, Eliott to investigate, day that Friedburg hu He was given his plea of gu charged, Wii Graveur and Miss They reported o- 4 told the truth. ‘ail oa boa aad rt tbarie! Ke. ke Drugs in Your Pastry. Bd OMMON Baking Powders are half Corn starch, the other half being Acid-phosphate, or Alum. Some of these are said to be very injurious, and quite unreliable, Good Baking Powders are one-fourth Rice Flour, one-fourth Soda, and one- half Cream of Tartar. These cost 13 cents per pound to manufacture, but you must pay fifty cents per Ib. for them, at retail. And it takes $4.40 worth of this Baking Powder to make a $6.00 barrel of Flour into Tea Biscuits! “PRESTO” quick - flour needs no Baking Powder, and ~ Itis the finest flour milled in America, being rich in Gluten (muscle-former) with a comparatively low per cent- age of Starch (fat), while Baker’s Flour, for instance, is chiefly Starch, with little Gluten. “PRESTO” quick-flour has the exact proportions of Cream Tartar, Soda, and Salt, that such flour needs, al- ready blended uniformly into it, by machinery. These chemicals are the purest made, mixed with the | flour: when they are fresh and strong, and then sealed up in air-tight packages that Grocers retail at 10c and 25c, The very best flour, and the purest Cream of Tartar and Soda are thus sold in “PRESTO,” at the price of ombined with Baking Powder, — why ? Because—" PRESTO” carries only a «Miller's profit on the whole product, instead of a Druggists profit on the Baking Powder, or 44 per cent. portion. Then, there's the great labor saving, and the certainty . | States, will sail for Germany to-mor-| was brought in view of the reprieve ‘4 aoe - row with his wife on the steamship! granted Rhea by ex-Gov. Savage. The of results, to consider in its valuation, Pennsylvania, and as there ts no stain: reo mieve imposed “hard labor” upon Rhea “ PREST! " makes the quickest, surest, lightest, whitest, and most economical of cakes, biscuits, and pastry. See comparative costs in other advertisements. WANTS TO BREA NTO SING SIG Former Policeman Masterson Waits in the Tombs and Aches to Begin the Service of His Prison Sentence. NO MORE STAYS FOR HIM. Justice Who Granted One to Him In the Springtime Gone to the Coun- try to Hunt Cool Spot While Pris-, oner Perspires in the Tombs. There wouldn't he an Inmate In Sing Sing Prison in half an hour after a chance had arisen to get away from its walls, but think of a man trying to break Into the weary dungeon! And in this weather, too! Former Policeman Eugene A. Master- fon, under a sentence of five years, !s chafing fretting in a cell in the Tombs because he can’t get into the Penitentiary. He has two months ahead of him and probably three to spend therein and all that time will not count as against the penalty inflicted upon nlm in April, Masterson was convicted of abducting Annie Berkeley, a fifteen-year-old girl, and sentenced by Justice Davis, of the criminal branch of the Supreme Court. It was spring then, and the defendant thought he'd take a whirl with the technicalities of the law before he went “up State.” We caused his counsel to procure a stay and a certificate of reasonable doubt from Justice Greenbaum. latter promised early decision, but he must have forgotten the case, for he left the city on a long vacation without rendering one. Summer came on apace and Masterson was congratulating himself until to-day that he was not in Sing Sing. “Better off here,” he told a trusty, Even if I don’t win S I'll have had all this time running against my sentence; one summer will have deen escape: “Forget {t.” sald the trusty, “The time you put in here doesn't count at all. T've been in the pen, and Tive tried stays, and 1 know all about tt.” Masterson was dumfounded. | He sere for his attorney and confirmed what the trusty had said, “Get me out of here and let me get up Ing Sing." he bemged. “T'll try to help you if T can find Jus- ce Greenbaum,” was all the comfort he got ‘The Justice cannot be found. He has lost himself for the summer and no one knows where to look for him: SHAMROCK IIL GETS NEW COAT OF PAINT | Challenger Will Be Ready to Race) On Monday Over Sandy Hook Course. / Shamrock III. was taken into dry dock to-day and her underbody sand- papered preparatory to giving her a new coat of paint. The paint had par- tlally peeled off, probably affecting her speed somewhat. The painting will not be finished until to-morrow and the malin in dry dock until Sunday and will go down to Sa ° Mo! I > ndy Hook either Sunlay nday morning. Shamrock rie Basin and will not challenger will re- | /1596 Fulton St, | OHEAFES! CREDIT HOUSE. tie civ, | We sell an Iron Bed with |Tlen’s Suits from $6 up. | | West LITTLE BABY BOY Badly Afflicted with Eczema, Face Covered with Sores, Scratched Constantly, CURED BY CUTICURA “My niece's little baby boy, two years old, was so badly afflicted with eczema that he needed constant watch- ing. It was all.over his face and he scratched the sores constantly. Morn- | Ings-his clothes would be stained with | blood, and his face and hands would be | covered. His family never could take | him out, as his face was always fall of large sores. They had medical treat- ment, and tried everything they heard of. She commenced using the Cutioura Remedies last spring and found that at lust she had a wonderful healer. The | sores left his face and he was entirel} cured, and now his face is smooth and rosy as though no sore had ever been there to mar It.” Mrs. L. J. Root, Jerusalem, N. Y. 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