New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-29

In the recent examination conducted by Coroner
MESSENGER into the killing Of Mrs Levy by the Twenty
thrdst. c0mpanys car. the officers and counsel OF
the corporation have behaved in a manner that can
only DO properly characterized as impudent They
,cblv deserved the sharp treatment which tine Coroner
accorded them The company has an accidcnt-book
in which, as its secretary admitted IN his testimony
s recorded an account Of this particular affair The
District Attorney demanded its production and Mr.
Dennison the company's lawyer, in a speech which,
had been the Coroner, should not have tolerated
refused TO bring It into court The sdmissDliiy OF
this books record not only evidence but the very
hes. evidence cannot be questioned The authority
of the Coroner TO compel its production equally GER
tain. In his defiant remarks. Mr.. Dennison went be-
vord all right all law and all proprety, and the
-oroner WIS exceedingly amable In not directing HIN
10 take his 1t IS quite astonishing what thnsS
a lawyer who is paid to support a bad cause THINKS
himself entitled say. II is also Interesting TO OBJ
serve how he will buster and swell before pcIty
magistrate All then bend IN lowly homage before
supreme CONT Judge. And yet a Coroner las the
same processes al hand by which to uphold his dignity
and authority that are available the superior judges
notice that the superintendent Of this road, whose
name IS Terry. says in Interview In The Tribune
speaking OF the public feeling excited against his com
many: Ii Is one Of those crusades, you sec" Ihis
contemptuous way Of looking at It characterized
Terrv's evidence and manner when he was before
and he sat in the chair with an Indifferent
sunc,4or sort OF air "a If he thought The inquest
a spccles of formal nonsense which had to be
zone through with but which wasn't OF any I'M
ror,ance-to him at all events. No, he had had no
conversation with anybody about the accident TO
be sure he was the superintendent, and his Office was
IN the stables but he asked the driver whose car ran
over the woman and killed her questions at all
He went 10 the police court and signed as surety on
N inouire how the accident happened Yes, he read
tho nexypsners: and he had read their accounts OF
the affair He knew they laid the blame on the bob
tail system, on the fact that the driver was MAILING
change when he should have been mindng the horses
bu; notwithstandirg what he read he did not inquire
q, ANYBODY a. TO whether or not the facts IN the case
Justified such criticisms. And then Mr. lerri
,ho,,r,t no would deliver himself OF a clever and
original blow at the newspapers with show OF
cortempt which even his late master. Jacob sharp
.,,,1 |carceIv have produced. he said But we all
Inow how the newspapers get things. They are
,Iways making up facts TO suit themselves
A. an active newspaper man. have had long eN-
or,enee with every conceivable phase OF tho public
r,,tsance whose offences have touched every denl-
ger,.ouayer in the long eamut Of misconduct from
,,.positlon ard tickcIy up 10 capita! crime, ana
havo vet 10 meet representative OF this numerous
nrser who filled to sympathlze with Mr Terry In HIS
oninou Of the press. For my part, would not have
Z, o.beru5se ard whenever / hear rogue or hum
hur mr. a criminal or even official Of greedy cor
roration which holds public rights in contempt SPEAK
ng IN ugly terms about the press, always print his
obseTv aiions In full
Pol,ce Justice Ford should not. for hts Own sake
have neglected the opportunity Afforded him by inc
case against Major Downs. TO render decison which