The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-12-14

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Now, in the ordinary way of police
work, when man is suspected, mag
istrate's warrant is issued, the police
arrest the accused, take him to the
police station, and enter upon the charge
sheet the charge made against him.
Now, it is the law of England that
when once charge is made against q
man upon the charge-sheet, the case
must be settled before magistrate, and
in open court.-in other words, charge
once entered, the enquiry into that
charge must be heard publicly; and
therefore, reports appear in the papers,
and the accused is, to certain extent,
publicly disgraced, even though the
charge be not proved against him. For
it is very evident that though rnagis-
trate may say man leaves the court
without the faintest blot on his charac-
ter, the man is not any the less received
with sort of awkwardness by his
friends. Therefore, it can readily be
understood that the police are particu-
larly cautious before charging man of
apparently spotless, or almost spotless,
character with dreadful crime.
So it happens that more frequently
than the public is aware of, private
inquiry is made, apart from the charge
sheet altogether out of court, and either
in the magistrates retiring-room in
connection with the court, or at his own
chambers or house.
In the first case, that of a solemn
charge, after hearing evidence, the mag
istrate asks the prisoner If he has any
thing to say, warning him carefully that
whatever he thinks fit to say will be
taken down and used in evidence against
him. Sometimes magistrate will go
out of his way guardedly to advise
prisoner that the less he says the better
it will be for him.
But in the second case, where the
magistrate considers himself justified in
making an inquiry privately, the indi-
vidual being in his presence, the justice
still warns him to be careful, but at the
same time invites him to make such
explanations as may free him, the mag
istrate, from issuing warrant to arrest
him. In such case as this no evidence
is taken down, and whatever the pris-
oner says is looked upon as quite con-
fidential
By the time that certain magistrate
had decided that the aspect of things as
against Austin Sivory did not justify
him in having the man arrested, but
did justify him in making a private
inquiry-by this time, be it said, bets
were numerous on the Stock Exchange,
as to whether or not the assassin would
be discovered.
Furthermore, some intimations of the
suspicious brought against Sivory had
got into the papers.
When the detective charged in chief
with this affair called upon Mr.. Sivory,
that gentleman received him with per-
feet GOODNESS, exhibited some natural
astonishment at the officers statement,
and then at once offered to go down
to the police-court with the officer and
offer all the explanations of which he
was capable.
The room in which the metropolitan
magistrate was waiting the arrival of
the suspected man was arranged like
most rooms of a similar character. AT
one end door opened upon the court,
at the other was the door terminating
the passage by which the magistrate
reached his court upon leaving his car
riage while couple of entrances on
one side of the chamber led to small
minor offices. The other side of the
apartments gave it light through the
medium of several large windows; and
it was opposite these windows that a
chair was placed for the suspected indi-
vidual. The magistrates chair was
itself in shadow-a well arranged plan
SO that he could at once see any change
upon the DEFENDANTS face, while his, the
magistrates, own features remained, to
great extent concealed.
The magistrate who made the follow
ing inquiry has already quilted this
world. During his life he never hesi-
tated at bringing home prisoners
guilt; equally, he never fiinched in try
ing to save an accused whom, in his
own mind, he knew to be innocent.
1t is a week since the discovery of the
crime, about three in the afternoon, and
Mr.. Caellem, the magistrate in question,
is standing near the fire, talking grayely