The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-09-05
COURTS WILL REOPEN.
Already the Busy Hum
of Preparation Is
Heard.
NO IMPORTANT BUSINESS.
What Prosecutor Winfield Has 10
Say About the Ballot Box
Cases and Other
Matters.

silent witness of so many comedies, dra-
no attic events and tragedies will, on Tues
day emerge from its summer quiet and
again become the centre OF animation and
activity. Hundreds of men will visit it
during that day. Some will go there full
of business, and ethers W ill, befofe they
leave, be full Of curiosity.
There will be judges, lawyers, grand
jurymen, petit jurors, court constables
and plain citizens. The judges will be
just as dignitied as the first day of the
September term of Court requires, and
the court constables will look absolutely
ferecious, as they always do on such an
occasion. The tipstaves will be as slow
as ever, and the lawyers just as impa-
tienG.
The Grand Jury will, as it has ON
many previous occasions, take the oath
doers to the Court, and Judge Knapp will
charge these gentlemen, call their atten-
tfon to violations of the law, define the
duties of the Grand Jury in all such cases,
as he has done four times year for
twelve or thirteen years, and Court Crier
"Wes'' Welsh will warble in his fascinat-
ing ChOctaw and Chinese lingo "Oh, yeZ,
Oh. yez. all those persons having business,
etc, etc.,, and then the September term
OF Court will have heen formally opened.
The machinery of the law Thus started,
will run without stop until the last
week in November.
The calendars, both in the criminalsand
civil courts, have no cases of unusual in
terest or sensationalism marked for trial,
but there are many cases of little
public Importance to require the atten-
tion Of the Court. For the first
time in great while there Is not single
murder case in the County Jail, except
during the last year. The only homicide
to be tried is a case of manslaughter that
was carried over from the last term.
There are no heavy defaulters, forgers or
frst-class defaulters In the jail to be pun
ished. or any perpetrators OF arson of
particular interest. But there are more
petty cases of offence to receive The at
tentlon of the Courts this term than ever
before in September Many of these
cases are hold overs from the April term.
BALLOT BOX CASES.
Foremost in rank OF Importance to the
community are the trials of the uncon
victed ballot box suffers. Although
twenty-seven ballot box suffers have
been convicted, and two are wearing
striped suits at Snake Hill, there remain
yet thirty indicted officers to be disposed Of
This work has thus far been grand one.
y leh0 bCOuuuTelS GuIOuS IL tuCiI dCbp tLduC
the name of Hudson county Democracy
thing of disgust throughout the entire
Sta,e, but, to the credit of the leaders of
the party, the actions of sthese pirates
have been denounced, the spotless repu-
tation of the party made manifest. and
twenty-seven OF the villains have been
brought to justice by Democratic court,
Democratic Prosecutor aud Jurors, the
majority of whom were Democrats. No
Democrat can be taunted with desire to
permit the ballot-box suffers to escape
the punishment they SO richly merit.
Prosecutor Winfield, when asked when
the next batch of these election officers
would be tried. said he could not say,
but he intimated that the Jail cases
would be disposed of first. He refused to
say positively that any trials of the ballot
box stuffres ould take place before the
decision in the Court of Errors is handed
down in November, in the case of Jake
Moschell and his three confederates.
HALLINGER's CASE.
The case of Hallinger will be determined
in Washington first and then Will be
taken to the Court of Errors of this State
Lawyer Peshall claims that if Hallinger
insists on pursuing the course he has that
permits him to apply to the United States
District Court for writ OF habeas corpus
each time he is sentenced. The Court
knowing there is no ground for the writ
has the right to dismiss 1t, as was done
recently Hallinger's lawyer appeals.
The case is taken to the United States
Supreme Court. Before it can be dis
missed there the day designated by Judge
Knapp on the resentence as the date for
Halinger'S execution will have passed.
The Court resentences again. another
writ of habeas corpus follows, another
appeal to the United States Supreme
Court comes In turn, the day for the
execution again goes by, and Hallinger is
vet alive. 1t Is claimed that this can be
done forever unless Congress amends the
existing national statute, 1t is almost
safe to say that Hallinger will not be
hanged for his brutal murder of his para
mour Annie Peterson.
BUSINESS IN THE CIRCUIT.
In the Circuit Court three suits against
the county for goods furnished have been
noticed for trial. Two are brought by
George B. Fielder, Register, to collect a
bill Of $1,21S for stationery used in his
office and procured in 1888, and the other
is bill for rebinding books at an ex-
pense of $6l8. Al, done in 1889. The third
suit is brought by Samuel j. Austin and
John Magii for $394.56 This Is also for
rebinding books,
A suit is noticed for trial which is
brought by Mrs. Emma Bentley, exec
utrix of the estate of her deceased hus-
band, Peter Bently, to recover $4,000 ad-
vanced to Charles B. Jordan on two
promissory notes. The notes fell due
soon after the death of Mr. Bently, and,
it is claimed, have never been paid.
The most Interesting case noticed on
the September calendar is the suit
brought by George A. Smith against the
Second National Bank to recover 1875
shares OF the capital stock of the joseph
Dixon Crncible Company valued at
$4,000. The papers in the case set
forth that the bank came law
fully possessed of the certificates of
stock, but unlawfully detains and
refuses to return them to their owner,
George A. Smith. Mr. Smith claims that
on June 10. 1890, he lost the shares OF stock
and the bank obtained possession of them
by finding" After setting fol tn his fire.
quent demands for the stock, Smith AYERS:
Yet the said defendant, well knowing
the said shares of stock to be the property
of said plaintiff, but conlriviDg and
fraudulcntly intending craftily and subtly
to deceive and defraud in this behalf,
hath not as yet delivered the shares of
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