New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-24
SHARPS LAWYERS UNHAPPY.
THEIR BILLS SAID TO HAVE BEEN CUT.
". BoURKE COCHRAN WON THE OLD MANS HEART,
HOWEVER. AND GOT His FULL PAY.

W. BOURKE COCHRAN WON THE OLD MANS HEART,
HOWEVER, AND GOT HIS FULL PAY.
There Is the dickens to pay In the camp OF
Jacob Sharps lawyers; there Is hubbub,
rumpus, vertabe tornado among them. And
yet not a soul Of them will say word about IL
when he is asked to tell how why all Is trbula-
tion. The simple and unadorned fact Is that
Jacob Sharp has made horizontal reduction on
legal tariff for his defence. In plain English, he
has scaled his lawyers fees, reduced them to that
stratum OF equipoise which the promoter OF the
Broadway Surface Railroad considers reasonable.
When Jacob Sharp began engaging his lawyers
to defend him in his twenty-ene indictments, he
had great difficulty, at first, in persuadng certain
lawyers TO undertake his defence. lie succeeded,
however, at length in forming his Inc oI legaI
defence.
A LIST or THE SUFFERERS.
Chief and foremost was Albert Stickney Of
Stickney & Shepard, long attorneys for MIR.
Sharps railroad enterprises. He was the man OF
all who undertook the defence In O feeling or
friendship and personal regard for Mr.. Sharp.
Then John l.. Parsons. sldlful In pihng up
objections destined, if possible, TO upset the lower
courts when the case should be carried to appeal
Ex-Judge Homer A. Nelson was taken into the
case, presumably not because he was director
in the Cable Company. Mr.; SharRs old-tlme
opponent in Roadway. Peter Mitchell was taKen
when all these able lawyers had been W0rsted
that w. Bourle CO ckran, the Nigllant ana pel-
hgerent lawyer, was called IN To argue inc o"Se %
on appeRl-and use all the political influence he
possessed. ~.
According to tradition now current In this
town, there was not lawyer in the case who
with his head IN legal lore and his soul in Broad
way Surface Railroad secondhand " Doodle, dld
not see $4,000 looming up as his Zee I9r pre-
despised the Doodle" frst-hand, but they had m
idea that as fee it was absOlved of oil contam
mating influence. So they " went for It,
THE BIrTERKsT CUP HE TASTED.
After the battle over they sent In their
bills. Mr. Sharp had passed lonely summer In
the Ludlow Street jail and he had suffered severely
from the heat, from diabetes and heart disease
Yet it is said that all his fortunes combined dld
not move him to that heat of excitement which
came from his contemplation OF the sum tOt;iI oI
his lawyers bills. fle characterized them as
monStrouS Then he sized them them up .a,it .neh nn ne
them. The result was that a clear discount Oh
from 33 l-3 t. 80 per cent is going the rounds OF
as the cut on these bills
There is no doubt according to the pcSt au-
thority, that Jacob Sharp has " gone DacK on
three bills Of his lawyers all at least enCepS
thai of Mr. Bourke Cochran. MIR Sharp admlres
Mr Cockran's magnificent presentation OF the lacts
and the law in the case before the General Term
and the Court of Appeals, and considers tht ne
well earned his money. But the others, it is
currently reported, have come under the Khie'
But not soul will say word about u. Johh e.
Parsons preserves rigld sreHte &c 90 "rdcrTood
has not Jared so badly as the rest Peter MItch.ll
Is " kicking like steer But they 40 not IKE 70
talk about it, 1t is said that secret conierence l.H
of these lawyers is to be held at no late date,
when notes will he compared, ana II each mWyer
finds that all tine rest have been cut as badiy as
himself there will be union OF efforts to Pro-. 70
mote litigation under the statute providing Tor
the prosecution and Punishment OF those VINO re-
ccive goods under false pretences.