Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-05
OVER IN EAST HAVEN.
Question That Seems to be Awaken.
ing Much Interest In the Town.

A Question That Seems to be Awaken.
ing Much Interest In the Town.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
The recent striking of Mr.. Gladstone In
the left eye with q piece of stale ginger
bread thrown for luck by an over-enthusi-
astic English woman will not give half
tho trouble as the faux pas made in East |
Haven in the late selection of jurors, and |
first citizens in rank and intelligence, |
s'sworn to deliver the truth in the various
courts of law for the year 1892 g."
1t is alleged that the chairman Of the re-
cent meeting of the civil authority has
been derelict in duty, inasmuch as he has
not forwarded by the first day or the first
Monday in July, as required by law, the
names of the jurors selected for the vari-
GUS courts to the clerk of the superior
court.
If this is correct, taken in connection
| will probably be no jurors dawn from
East Haven from September /, 1892, to the
same date, 1898. A high authority, Hon.
Luzon B. Morris, has within the last few
days given legal opinion in writing to
prominent citizen of East Haven that no
| jurors can be legally selected from East
Haven after September 1.
OF course this has only reference to the
eighteen men selected by the civil au-
thority at their late meeting.
John Smith Tyler, Reuben H. Coe. Horace
way, G. w. Bradley, Wilbur Curtiss Hall,
John futile, Gilbert Van Sickles, Henry
P Bradley, Eugene S. Thompson, II. Lin
coin Andrews, Willis Chidsey, Calvin G..
Kirkham, William H. Chidsey, Henry
Smith, Leander F. Richmond and Isaac
Hagerman were selected as the jurors.
1t is also alleged that the officers of the
meeting inadvertently allowed citizens to
mipgle with the selectmen. justices of the
peace, constables and grand jurors in the
meeting, and vote without warrant OF law.
1t is expected that meeting of the
judges of the courts with prominent law
yers with the representative of East Ha'
ven to the legislature will soon be beld in
the bar library in the county court house
and investigate the whole subject
It will be considered an unusual and G
, high Infringement of the privileges and
prerogatives of the eighteen men "good
and true" selected to serve in the courts
for this purpose of making deliver
ance" to be set aside as disqualified, ano
possibly very serious and intricate ques
l
} to the law on the statute book having {
bearing on this case.
| A good many learned and able expound
! ers of the law are of the opinion that Eas
Haven-in common with all the towns II
the county and state-must be in some
| way represented in the jury box.
How this can be done if the original go
lection was made in direct violation O
| law remains to be seen.
1 g, IL 81 %hof oft
> Der 1, 1892 no East Haven juryman cal
, take part in any case affecting the prop
erty and liberty of persons without run
, ming the risk of tainting the proceeding
with illegality.
In this connection it can he stated tina
i | there will no doubt be disintegration o
r | political parties in East Haven at the mex
annual town election owing to the division
3 of sentiment relative to the rebuilding o
the town hall, the matter of iurymen an
1 other complex and vexatious subjects
One faction, which has considerabl
strength, wants cheap one-story buildin
on the old site; another a two-story wood
+ en- building nearer the Kirkham property
. | with cellar for storage purposes; a third
| brick structure with basement, and q
y many stories as the town will vote, to b
placed on the old site; the fourth factor
or division, desires three-story buildin
on new site for the united purposes of
town hall and public school for the Unto
J, school district; the fifth division of vote,
aud taxpayers are of the opinion that th
necessities of the town do not require tn
immediate building of town hal
q sixth proposition, large and orna
g mental public building on the green. The,
: was an additional policy of insurance {
$500, making 81, 600 in all on the tow
hall, but somebody allowed it to lapse.
r 1t is rumoured in political circles tb.
i Charles T. Hemingway, the town cler
$ and who commands a strong person
d following, is reaching out for the nom
:, nation of the office of town treasure
which Ebenezer Gilbert now holds.