New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-01
THEY DRANK WITH JURORS.
TALK ABOUT THE ACTION OF FRANK ELL
SONS COUNSEL
MR. BROOKE AND DR.. o'sULLIvAN SAY THE
MEETING WAS CASUAL AND NOTHING


WAS SAID ABOUT TIE TRIAL
,ice orestion about the ethics and law on the
s,,,,icct If n lawyers intercourse with jurors III
tho ease in which he appears has arisen III 'no
,r,a, ~ Frank Ellison for his assault on W. H.
,,,o,as Recorder Smyth held a night session
90 the case In General Sessions on Friday lasting
mill nearly IL o'clock. Soon afterWaru |harleS
W Brooke and Dr. w j. O'SulliVan' counsel io'
,hs defence and r. W. Knox were seen IN 'he care
~ the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Chambers-st anu WEST
,,roadway drinking with three jurors in the case-
I,ha,,es de Medici. author, No. 90 West twenty
second-st: Henry Tucker. real estate NO. loi West
one-hundred- and -eighteenth-st. and Louis Cas'"-
,.,atta OF No. Isl Amsterdam-aVe' All u wv
marty went uptown together on the elevated ro"u
Recorder Smyth. in dischargng the jury ioi '',
night admonished them not to talk or 10 ieau
about the case or to allow any one to speah ~
tbem about IT, Nothing said, however ABOUT
conversng with counsel. Recorder Smyth ves'el-
d,v declined TO say whether the meeting between
the lawyers and jurors would affect the '''a''
MR. wELLMAN's VIEW.
Assistant District-Attorney Weman said:
THE three Jurors who were taihns WIN W.
brooke have impressed me during the tria as very
,orscertious and intelligent men. and cannot for
a moment believe that they would tax over inc
evidence with the counsel for the deiehce Vi any
one else Very likely they are unaccus'oheu u
act as Jurors. and did not appreciate the lnpIo-
pfietN
he said of MIR Brooke, who has been thirty-hVe
.oore at the bar There could be only one object
On his part in entertaining jurors in the progress
81 the trial Mr. OSullivan Is not so huch ~
blame in my opinion he has had so little expert
ence in this country He is rather doctor imam
a lawyer ,,
Mr. brooke and Dr. O'Sullivan were seen in their
office in the Trinity Building. They said the al
fair was really of little consequence. MI. BROOKE
thus told the story of the meeting:
"Dr. OSullivan. T. w. Knox and started to so
un,own together The doctor and had had hard
dav were very tired and needed drink badly. l
stopped at Broadway and Chambers-st. few
minutes talking with Fatty Walsh the ex-wardeh
of the Tombs. Then left him and walked TO
the cafe of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, that being the
only place open in the neighborhood at that hour.
String at a table were three men drinking did
not recognize them at first. but then saw they
were jurors.
THE INVITATION FROM THE JUROR
.One of them came up and asked me to have
drink Inst then Dr. O'Sullivan and Mr.. Knox re-
,oined me and they. too were invited to JON the
,,ror in a drink. We all sat down where ahypoo!
could hear all that said. / took whsKey anu
Dr. OSullivan took ginger ale The doctor sat OPP
posite Mr.. de Medici and the TWO thKeo ABOUT
or;ar,al law and the effect of some law or other
ON the exiles of Siberia. Not word was sald ABOUT
Ellison or anything connected with the case except
that we did talk about the ventilation OF the COURT
room"
DIR OSullivan broke in: you see. that SUBJECT
was broached in this way: One of the jurors was
drinking whskey, and l told him 1t would 90 MN
rood if he was going to remain in the courthouse
long He asked why, and l told him that 'he
Mace was full of malaria. Mr.. Brooke sald 'he
csrnets had not been taken up for year
TALK ABOUT THE COURTROOM
.-rba iuror said he supposed that the rooms up
e,airs were better but Mr. Brooke said they were
not-that all of them were just about as bad be-
cause the sewage was imperfect and the building
rotten"
Mr. Brooke then went on: THE juror wanted 10
know when the new building would be ready and
I told him in January Just then Assistant DIS
trict-Attorney Osborne came in. Whether ne was
watching us or the jurors / can't make out Nhy'
I have spoken to jurors for thirty years Every
LAWYER talks with them. Because man Is on the
3urv is no reason why he should be cut OIL So
ciallv If T meet a Juror in the corridor or the
Court House of course talk with hlIn
I'VE had two drinks. The juror para lot one one
and then j ordered the next ana pald LOT II. "
We're together only fifteen twenty minutes IA
the elevated train DIR. OSulliyan and MI ue Meu-
lei sat together talking about law ana DOORS MI
Knox and rode together and the otner TWO juror
talked with each other. At Twenty-third-st. one Oi
the Jurors left and the other TWO roue uptown
when DR.. O'Suvan, Mr. Knox ana got Out at
"Wiv" said Dr. O'Sullivan "in the Buchanan
case | prescribed for three of the Jurors. sd"
nothing wrong in that. -, 49,,
Ellison said when the reporters saw blIn az the
Tombs that he did not wish to talk about MS case