The evening world., 1888-02-21
THE PEOPLES OWN COURT.
PHASES OF EVERY DAY JUSTICE DEALT OUT
IN THE FOURTH DISTRICT.
Justice steckier Distinguishes Between the
Just and the Unjust with Rigid Impair
tiality-A Waiter Who Claimed n Very
Big Tip-Two Johns In n Dispute-A Cape
Coated Man Taking Sketches.

standing Room Only" should have been
posted outside the Fourth Judicial District
Court, for inside the awe-inspirin
room of justice all the seats were taken by q
gay and truly festive crowd of east-siders.
Some of them, though, were not
festive, for they were figuring in the suits to
he tried as defendants, and if Judgment
should be found against them it meant that
various and divers shekels would have to DO
paid out of their Golfers.
At9o'clock Justice Steckler, as 8 his pleasant
custom on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays,
got into his pulpit. A brilliant idea struck
Prof. MacNichol. and he rose to address the
assembly. With an appropriate speech, full
of sentiment and dry humor, he limited that
court was open. Down comes the gavel Of
the Judge. and q large hunk of silence evinces
itself.
Schneider vs.. Horn" is the first case, and
Henry Schneider, a baker, and o Horn,
proprietor of a bakery, take q front pew.
Henry Schneider is q horny handed son Of
toll, and he is glad of it. Some time ago, he
states, he was employed by John Horn as q
baker at a salary of $15 a week, which he cal
culated to put into his inside pocket every
Saturday night. He was doomed to dlsap-
pointment, however. for on the third day he
| NuD llChNO tbO ohAbs
Mr.. Horn, though, deems it advisable at
this juncture to make a few disclosures as to
how Schneider fell from grace. He acknowl-
edges that he employed him at $15 o week,
but the man did not do his work in a fitting
manner. Furthermore, it was to his great
modification and embarrassment on the third
night-save the mark-to find the festive
Schneider in a very uppish state, brought on
Were you drunk ?" asks Judge steckler
NO. Your Honor. I was not" was the
why" explains Mr.. Horn, "he and two
other men worked the growler eleven times"
-Four, Your HONOR interrupts the plain
tiff.
Some dry statistics about the exact number
of GROWERS worked follows, in which the dis
closure comes out that MIR. Horn hadtaken o
Well" says Judge steckler, III decide
this case later in the day"
The next case had to be handled with e1-
IRENE delicacy.
John Lang, a crayon artist, sues Mrs. Annie
Seike, a middle-aged woman, for $12. the
value of two life:size crayons OF Mrs. Seike
and her late husband. MIR. Lang takes the
stand.
de told how the crayons had been ordered
at So each, and he produced them to show
that they were good likenesses. AS Mr..
Seike was dead he saw plainly that 1t would
be out of the question to show that 1t was
life-like picture, so he furnished o photo
graph of the late Mr.. Seike.
Mrs. Seike was in Court. and although she
protested with flat irony that the picture was
q caricature, most of the art critics present
thought that twas a pretty good likeness. John
Lang went on to say how Mrs. Seike had offered
him 80 each. as she asserted that she was Q
business woman and positively, knew her
business. He had scQrned the paltry offer.
Mrs. Seike, when her turn came, asserted
first that the pictures were wretched and that
the artist had agreed to give her an elegant
likeness. hence she declined to pay for them.
| INDIGNANT waS 1afarra6 in this casa. Th0
principals to the suit went away In q state or
awful suspense.
The drama of the Two Johns" was next
enacted. Joh Williams sued Q Malone
to recover $50 pounds of brass fittings, valued
at $3.50. Williams is a dealer in brass goods
in West Thirteenth street. Three boys in
his employ-Fred Brouman, Adolph Brou;
man and Rudolph Kramer-with q natural
bent for industry, conceived a brilliant
money making scheme.
They appropriated at various times $50
pounds of brass fittings, and sold them to
Mrs. Junk Dealer John Malone at the ex-
tremely reasonable price of four. cents o
pound. AS the true value of the brass was
between 25 and 40 cents a pound, it will be
The boys all testified under oath that they
had stolen and sold the brass to Mrs. John
Malone. When the head of the house of
Malone was put on the stand he testified that
he had not bought the brass, had never seen
the boys, and if the brass was bought by Mrs.
Malone it was without his knowledge or con-
sent. Judgment was found for the defend
ant.
About this time a yellow plaid cape over
coat, with O young Englishman inclosed IN
y, came in and sat in the lawyers de1. Hs
at home and proceeded to observe and trans
fer to paper his picturesque u~rroundlngs..,
A $50 tip is all that Waiter Robert Deid-
for Christian G. Fraish, a wine dealer and
restaurateur at Coney Island. One day o
man who had been to the races came In. He
brought with him quite a comfortable load OF
spirituous liquors, which he had deftly con-
cealed within his ample frame.
Some one prompted him to give the waiter,
Robert Deidrick, $3.50 as q tip.
This was somewhat more than Robert nae
fused it. The loaded stranger insisted, how
ever, and 30 he took the roll Of bills. he
gave them in charge Of Proprietor Fraish,
and now regrets it, for the proprietor declines
In his w defense Mr.. Fraish stated that
he knew the inehriated stranger, not by name.
but had seen him often. He knew that he
was in business about Fulton Market and he
was keeping the money to turn over to him.
He doubted the statement that the money
was given as q tip and believes that 1t was
merely given over for safe keeping. Justice
steckler agreed with him and decided against
-. Waiter Robert Deidrick.
I That great American institution, the Irish
servant girl, came to the front in the next
case. Mary Walsh, O domestic, sued MRS.
Mary Lee, who runs a boarding house, for
$9, one months wages. She had worked for
= Mrs. Lee for twenty-seven days, then, owing
to sickness, she had left.
3 Mrs. Lee told q story of another hue. She
arose to remark that Mary was q frivolous
girl and was fond of going out nights. She
0 did not attend to her duties properly and had
been warned many q time. She poisoned the
mind of the cook and made her leave. To
wardst the last of the month she grew still more
frivolous, and three days before the month
was over concluded to take an extra night