New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-06
FL1CK md TIE SUPREME COTRT

FL1CE md TIE SUPREME COtRI.
II is important to ascertain If sheriff flacN
is so mighty in this community that, having
committed an outrageous fraud upon our courts
he can sit in the Sheriff. office and DEFY them
"a bring him to Justice Well does this boss
ridden town know for often and sadly has 1t
learned. the power of It's Democratic poll
ticians. They may look like orans- outansS
and talk like pick pockets, but they always act
like dukes 1t isn't for nothing that they " be-
long to Tammany Hall" While they belong
10 Tammany the city belongs to them. + lack
isn't the olly rascaly politician who has beaten
the courts and laughed in dcriSion at tie com
munity, but we do not happen to recall another
who has done so while remaining an officer OF
the courts. in the same building with their
Judges. and after having not only disgraced
the city, but corrupted the machinery OF JUS
tjce. Though in law an officer of the court,
though hi, crime was that of having trlckcd
and corrupted justice. he quietly holds ms
Office and in effect tells the court to do what
ii can.
flack is not Il magician. so far as we know
Neither is he sovereign with armies ana
navies at his call. His name does not suggest
social scientific or other cmncncc. lie Is SIM
ply a boss politician, one of class of men more
or less peculiar TO this town, who are Impor-
tant because they are not fit to be rs much as
for any other reason. We are curious to know
how far this city j. at the mercy of Flack ana
his kind. The facts in his ease are notorious,
Infamous and wholly uncOntradctcd lie
wanted to get rid of his wife. She stood IN the
way of arrangements which he desired 70 per-
feet with another woman. He didn't wish 10
kill her. and the only other way o. escaping her
was 10 secure divorce. He went TO his AT
torncy. retained him on his wifc'S behalf and
together they got up a fraudulent complaint
in which he accused himself. The case was
sent 70 referee. and upon his report amended
TO satisfy Judge Book>taycr's prcjudiccS. a
divorce was granted These facts are ahso-
lutcly convicting, but still Flack IS sheriff OF
the city and county of Newly orll, and when
any effort is made 70 bring him to trial for his
offences looDholc through the web OF justice
always appears and out he slips.
The latest Of these loopholcs was the alleged
lines, OF his wife a chief witness for the state.
Colonel Fellows appeared in court on Monday
with the complaint that he could not serve her
with subpoena, and, in proof Of her condi-
tion he produced physicians certificate How
he got it he didn' say, but having been all the
week before ruSticating in North Carolina. the
suspicion may occur to some people that rack
obtained it for him. 1t did not take Judge
Barrett long to prove that the certificate was
Misrepresentation, and that Mrs. TlacI could
be served if the officer sent to perform that
duty wished to perform it. The physician sent
by the court to examine her has reported that
she is in good health, and the officer who ac-
cOmpaniod him has summoned her TO appear IN
court next Monday morning. The situation
becomes exceedingly interesting. To commit
fraud upon Judge who is willing to be i'm
posed upon is one thing. 70 attempt fraud
upon Mr.. Justice Barrett IS quite another
IJ.sc.s audacity must end in the subiugation
Of the Supreme Court or in his going to prison
We are curious to know which is going to hap