The Jersey City news., 1891-09-08
OPENING THE COURTS.
Judge Knapp Charges
Briefly and to the
Point.
NO IMPORTANT CASES DOCKETED
Dates Arranged to Suit Counsel s
Far as Possible-Arraign-
ments and Pleas in
Sessions.
10 IMPORTANT CASES DOCKETED.

fOr nIty-One years at The Oiu COurb
House on the Hill has three times year
been enacted the Same scene that today
took place-that is, the formal opening
of Court.
The old building presented slightly
cleaner appearance today than it did
when the April Term closed, for the
Freeholders had caused the car
pets to be taken up, cleaned
and relaid, and here and there
could be noticed the application of the
paint brush. This was true of both court
rooms. and the benches and floors had
also been scrubbed clean, and few
sit inside the railing.
Judges Knapp and Lippincott and Lay
Judge Paxton were early in Court. but
Lay Judge Hoffman was absent. Clerk
Gritten, of the Circuit Court, and Clerk
Kelleher, of the Court Of General Ses-
sions, were on hand to receive them, and
all looked much benefited by the summer
vacation.
Among the lawyers present were no.
ticed many young practitioners, and as a
matter of course, their comments on the
business in the court were more profound
and profuse than those of such expert
enced advocates as ex-Judge Bedle, ex-
OuduCGllOE w C<A-OOA POhopAOtA
Counsel w. A. Lewis, ex-senator w. II.
Brinkerhoff. ex-Mayor Gilbert Collins,
Charles and William Corbin, ex'
Senator w. D. Edwards, District
Attorney Winfield. ex-Speaker Robert,
S. Hudspeth, Messrs. Babbett and Law
renee, ex-United States District Attorney
A. Q. Keasbey. James Vredenb burgh, ex-
Judge Garretson, Senator NJ I. Barrett,
of Newark, Judge Henry Puster, Judge
w, D. Daily, ex-Mayor Henry Traph-
agan, Asa Dickinson, Charles Thomp-
son, E. S. Cowles. Warne Smgthe'
Corporation Attorney j. +. Minturn,
OF Hoboken, William S, Stube. Merwyn
Grath, James Benny, John G. Besson.
John A. DENIM, Samuel McEwan. James
p. Northrop. Norman l.. Rowe, Max
Rosenburg, John Griffin and Warren
Dixon.
OF the cases noticed for trial on the cal
endar Collins & Corbin lead the list
with nineteen, Vredenburgh q Garretson
are next with sixteen, and Wallis, Sd
wards & Bumsted, Bedle, Muirheid, Mo
Gee & Bedle, Babbitt 81 Lawrence, DiCk-
inson e. Thompson and Randolph, CoDdit
g. Black have about the same number.
JUDGE KNAPP's CHARGE.
When Judge Knapp addressed the
boquet that Old Pop Cook had orna--
mented the Bench with, he made per-
haps the shortest charge ever delivered
in this county. He said:-
'Gentlemen Of the Grand Jury;-In the
list of criminal cases submitted to me,
find some names in pencil. These you
need not investigate. They are Special
Sessions cases, and the defendants have
made applications for trials in that
court. You will inquire into the rest of
the cases. Court will adjourn today until
next Tuesday, and If you desire to ad-
journ until that time, the Court will have
no objection.
Foreman Larry Pagan, of the Grand
Jury bowed his head when the charge
was finished, and the Jury filed out of
Court accompanied by Court Constable
John H. Masker, Peter III. DAILY, John
Reese, Godfry Gillowav, Jumes Dunn and
Richard Garrick. who will attend the
Grand Jury during the term.
The Court constables appointed to the
Circuit Court room are: John Mcgowan,
John Heating, Michael Dewitt. Enoch
Ryno, Peter Quinn, Thomas Lynch and
George Stanton. Those appointed
to the Sessions Court are:
William Wise, Frederick Budden,
Michael Carroll. Edward Corrigan,
Boland and William Henry. These con-
stables are all under the Instructions of
John Zoeller.
While Judge Knapp WAS busy with the
lawyers making dates for trials to take
place. Judges Lippincott and Paxton
were hearing arraignments made by Dis
trict Attorney Winfield.
ARRANGEMENTS AND PLEAS.
These persons were arraigned aud they
will be tried Thursday:-ADram Krouse,
entering and larceny, pleaded guilty;
William Coughlin,:petit larceny, pleaded
guilty; Edward Harrigan. alias Harrna-
ton, pleaded non vult; Thomas Daily,
petit larceny, pleaded guilty; Thomas
Fitzgerald, petit larceny, pleaded not
guilty. Il. Giblin, breaking and entering
pleaded otguilty; Charles Bowen, break
ing and entering, pleaded guilty; John
Schenck. petit larceny, pleaded guilty;
Michael Degaro, petit larceny, pleaded
terry, pleaded not guilty; Carl Hubner,
breaking and entering. pleaded not
guilty; George Rudolph, petit lar
ceny. pleaded not guilty; Henry
Davenport. larceny from the per-
son. pleaded guilty; George Wiley enter
Cronin, grand larceny, pleaded guilty;
Thomas Clark, grand larceny.
pleaded not guilty; William o'Don-
nell, breaking and entering, pleaded
guilty; Bertha Sivan, grand larceny,
pleaded guilty; Mary Minister, petit lar
ceny, pleaded guilty; Richard O'Neil. as
SAUL and battery, pleaded Ia non vult;
pleaded guilty; Michael Naugle. as
sault and battery. pleaded not
guilty; Stephen Paris. grand larceny,
pleaded guilty; Relnhardt Pfuge. dis
orderly house, pleaded not guilty; Hen
rietra Byron, disorderly, house, pleaded
not guilty; Kate Schneider, grand
larceny, pleaded not guilty; Peter
Reilly, petit larceny, pleaded guilty;
William Kennedy, assault and battery,
pleaded guilty; Peter Voss, three
charges petit larceny. pleaded guilty; os.
car, pleaded not guilty and Albert J.
Vreeland, grand larceny pleaded not
Those who admitted their guilt will
probably be sentenced Friday