New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-05
Him the pocomPEce and the tool Of their own folly,
stupidity or paEgnity. -
RRCORDER BARNARD.

In an article describing Recorder Barnard's mode
Of administering justice, published in this paper on
the 10th of July last we held the following Ian
guage;
example Of .hs Recorders mode Of doing business
and IL case 10 which would call Gov morsanS s'enuon
Ia. n. .t.e the following prcula Some months ago. abea't
IN human shape arrested for variety and succession o. OIL
lenses 10 which decent language gives no name ~" victims
were for the most part young iris on her return no." soDoo
AID the direct evidence osau him poured In with
HE strength The nan Of this rusn IVES Thomas D.
Deo ocratc poiticiap Democrats exmemoer OF A"emoiy
Democratic er for State Senator and now %
anpon,ueut Of Aid VIM j. Peck Democratic CLERK Of o'n
District Court sting his right to an Office worm ou OF
thousand dollars year This villain being indicted TOT nus mann
fold oaeuse the District Attorney, about ten or twelve o'
since placed the the calendar Tor 's
sousbert the Recorder announced that uIdays case was
aread, disposed of'-the filthy isuo" having eneieu p
,v which the Recorder had accepted without sentencing
a. from the Clerk the Court twas found that tue pies
had beer so privately made that the Clerk had no
hi, books and from that day to this Thom1s j. uno n
bes roaming srge around city his plea Of guy pVa'
" accepted by the Recorder, ana ho' ono ''s F '
either to sentence or punish him.
The paragraphs quoted give but o remote mint at
,bs oogravatoDs and enormities surrounding the
case. The decent mind has no capacity to COM
nrebend the brutishness and vice which were re-
realed. on evidence not admitting question 10 the
| course of the primary examination. And yet' 10
this day, Thomas j. Munday, thanks to his frlena
| the Recorder roams at large among the pubic,
and is at berty-is in fact invited-to perpetuate
similar outrapes BY the impunity which has beenex-
| tended to HIM from the Bench.
Fancy the Recorder of this city, on the day the
plea of guilty was to be made, watching until the
Clerk of the Court of Sessions had his back turned
and then giving the wink to this beast to approach.
Brutal. and leering, and bold, We may imagine
Thomas j. Munday parading up to the seat OF
| Justice. He shakes hands with the cheerful En-
mine. who whispers: "How do you say, Tom;
Guilty or Not Guilty The beast pushes his
hot lips close TO the Judges ear, and mutters,
Guilty" "All right, old fellow, then" re-
plies the smiling Ermine; "you may be OIL with
g Yourself now, and when want you with
wink) III send for you"
II is horrible to picture this scene; but, in view
of the facts, and the careful suppression OF all
records, we are driven to fall back on some such
conjecture. The Clerk of the Court knew moth
ing of the matter nor was it intended that he
should know: and the District Attorney so little
suspected foul play that he ordered the case to be
called up for trial nearly fortnight after the Re-
corder had thus amicably and secretly disposed
ofit
From that day to this, the Recorder has refused
to sentence the important prisoner Two sessions
have passed, and till he is at large among the
wives and daughters of decent meu. Perhaps
and it is likely copjecture-he may, at this very
moment, be electioneering for his friend the Re-
corder, who is now VIGOROUSLY candidate for the
| Democratic nomination as Judge of the Supreme
Court. This is chapter in the politics OF the
| CITY deserving the most serious attention.