The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-02
Put Out the Rebels!
LEGAE. INTELLIG ENCE
Court Of Quarter sessIons-.Iudge Brewster.

Court of Quarter sessiOns-Judge Brewster.
This morning Judge Brewster opened the August
term OF the Court and as an evidence that he means
business may be mentioned the fact the docks were
nled with prisoners brought up for immediate trial.
which is rare circumstance for the first day of
Thomas Devices, ESQ.,, living in Ludlow street,
Grand Jury, and the gentlemen composing that
body having been sworn, received from the Judge
the following brief but model instruction:
Gentlemen OF the Grand Jury The prison calen-
dar for this session contains over 100 Names 1t Will
therefore be necessary for you to act promptly upon
the bills which may be laid before you by the District
Attorney. Where twelve of your number are salts
fed by the testimony OF single witness that there is
probable cause for further inquiry you will return
examine all the witnesses endorsed except where
the Commonwealth fails to make out her case.
agree to return true bill, the indictment must be
endorsed 'Ignoramus," and il it charge misde-
meanor, you must note whether the county or he
prosecutor hall pay the costs.
In cases which concern the public, and especially
IN h0mcides you should be stern in your vindicaton
OF the law. In bills charging murder you have no
hing TO do with the question of degree. On no
count lend yourselves to that mawkish sentiment
which sympathiZes with all criminals in exact pro-
portion to the enOrmity of their ofTenses, which has
but little pity for The ordinary thief yet lavishes its
tenderness upon the assassin. By far the largest
number of cases which will be submitted to you be-
long to the class originating in private spite. With
these public justice has no concern.
Criminal courts were not created to foment or to
nander TO either malice or eXtOrtiOn. They do not
sit for the collection OF bad debts the accumula
CORY should be promptly ignored, and the prosecu-
tors ordered to pay the costs.
| recommend you to inquire into the abuses of
our license laws, whereby many escape the payment
OF Just taxes to the encouragement of all who obey
the statutes, and to the great prejudice OF the public
treasury. 1t is also proper that your attention
should be called to the long-standing evil OF the
want of House OF Correction.
DESPERATE CASE.
During the last term two men, John Outen and
Robert Evarts, committed by Alderman Sterne of
FranHford, were tried upon the charge OF attacking
one BuZby while drunk in the street. When the case
came to trial. 1t appears that the only witness exam
ined gave no information against the defendants,
and they were therefore acquitted. Alderman
SteTne, feeling that the evidence given
before him was sufficient to have
convicted Them II heard by the jury, called the at
tentiOn of the Court to the matter, and submitted
the testimony upon which he committed them to
prison, which so far persuaded the Court, Judge
Perce sitting in this particular case, that the de-
PENDANTS had been concerned in the offense that
Notwithstanding their acquitta he required them to
give security in $1,000 bail to keep the peace.