The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-16
HOT WORDS.
Judge Lippincott's Wrath
Finds Expression in
Court.
SCORN FOR LAW OFFICERS.
He Sentences Three Men, But Wants
Their Principals Before
Him.

Judge Lippincott scored certain officers
OF the law this morning in manner
which would have made man with any
respect for himself, vince. The occasion
which afforded the Judge an opportunity
to free his mind was the arraignment of
Morris Campbell, Henry Taber. August
Seaman and Moses Asken, for sentence
for selling policy slips.
Ex-Reformer Rankin made an appeal
for Aspen, and the Judge said:-"The
Court has learned that you were merely
the agents and servants of others, and
that it is the custom for proprietors cot
liquor and segar stores t o permit slips to
be left in their stores by the dealers. The
Court has kept you in Jail some time
in order that the Grand Jury
might indict your principals;
yet they are still permitted to carry on
their business. The Court has the ut
most scorn for such an administration of
the law and for the officers, whether they
be Grand Jurors or others, who are re-
ssponsible for such administration. And
It should earn the contempt of all good
citizens. The Court has no sympathy
with those who allow them
selves to be deluded and cheated
by the policy dealer, bur it does sympa-
thize with the young people, the rising
generation, young men and girls, and
even children of tender years, who are
brought into contact with these demoral-
izing practices often with the consent OF
their parents.
! THE BUSINESS PROTECTED.
''It has come to the knowledge of the
court that this business is protected. The
names OF the proprietors have been re-
vealed III open court and the court has
waited for the Grand Jury to act. But it
can wait no longer and must punish you
although In doing SO 1t realizes that it Is
administering but partial Justice"
Judge Lippincott then sentenced Faber
and Seaman to pay a fine of 500 and costs
and Asken to pay fine OF $50 and costs
He then asked Campell what he had to
say Campbell replied that he had given
up the business and WAS not engaged in
it when arrested He ackn owiedged,
however, that he was in the bu siness for
four months.
STRANGE THEY CAN'T FIND THE PRINCE
PALS.
1T is strange thing" said Judge
Lippincott, that the officers can find out
wh4nthe agents and servants are and
make them the scape goats. while
the principals are allowed to go free.
The quicker this system of administering
the laws is abolished the better wilt il
be for the community, and if it cannot be
abolished any other way, 1t will be abol-
ished by force
9 y AZ this point the Cerrt's Indignation
was so aroused that the Judge could
hardly speak, and when he recovered he
continued his denunciation OF the officers
who so shamelessly and vilfulIy neglect
their duty. He then gave Campbell some
good advice about his future course dur
Ing which he said that it was easier to
make money by illegitimate means,
especially where you can get in the ring
and be protected" !"
Campbell promised the Court that he
would not engage in the business again
and he was sentenced to pay a fine OF 500
and costs. He had been previously SEN
fenced to q fine of 500 and three months
Imprisonment in the penitentiary, but as
he is the support of a widowed mother
that sentence was reconsidered.