The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-17
JUDGE BARBOUR'S DIGNITY.
SWIFT PUNIsHMENT FOLLOWS LACK
OF RESPECT FOR II.

One Man Gets Five Days' imprisonment TOR
Puttinx on Hts Hat In Court and Another
| Fireen Days for Pleading too Loudly.
Hartford. Nov. 16.-sylvester Barbour.
Judge OF Hartford's police court. once sent
q man to jail for six month"; the extreme
| limit OF Police Court sentence for calling an
| other man q vile name, and at the same time
fined a man 81 for knocking his wife's teeth
| down her throat and otherwise maltreating
her. At another time o man who cast asper-
sons on the ancestry Of another man was sent
to jail for six months but another man. for
the same offence. was only fined 81.
The latest freak OF the daily police court
hippodrome was an order issued by the Judge
on Wednesday. He said that very frequently
| the spectators put on their hats before going
out Of the room and made considerable noise
In passing out He wanted them to understand
the court was In session so long as he remained
In the room. and If. thereafter. any one gave any
cause for complaint in the manner referred to
the offender would be brought before the
Court by an officer and dealt with. A man
who was In the court room when the order
was prom lgated was tho first to break II.
The man had occupied one OF the spectators
cents during the session Of the court and
when the door was unbolted to allow those
present to pass out. he. with the others, start
ed for the door with his hat in his hand. He
was the second man to reach tho door. and
Just before he did 30 he put his hat on and
passed out quietly into the hall.
Bring that man here who has his hat on"
ordered Judge Barbour sternly.
Court Messenger LAWYER hurried out into
the hall. took the man by the arm. hustled him
back into the court room again. and stood him
W. before the Court.
What Is your name.' inquired Judge Bar
michael Murphy" replied the man. With
o dSys or
Of court in putting your hat on" said the
I'M. twinkling Murphy was led to the dock
short time was behind the bars IN The ssyms
Barbour had occupied but a minute or two.
end as soon as he left the court room some
Judge to intercede for Murphy.
:, No, he must serve out his sentence" re-
piled the Judge and as in case Of contempt
prived OF his liberty for Ave days for falling to
keep his head uncovered in the presence Of
station just before going to jail. He was some.
p the change in his
Il did not know anything, about It being
/ never was in court in my lie before. and
never was arrested. should not have gone
lp w6u Finsa sdt 's Se5
Murphy 10 day laborer. works steadily. and
The arbitrary act Of the Judge aroused .
storm % Of indiEnstiSSn' and es.Lisut si
tute habeas corpus proceedings. and as Muir
ply Is British subject there was also talk Of
New York to the action Of Hartferds Polio az
In the mittimus Murphy is charged with hav-
supposed that a man did ali this BY the mere
to The amount Of which s added three days
to the term OF imprisonment making eight
Murphy was to-day taken from Jail on writ
Re Ss Court ausf
oc c Kin He t was rePressnted by ex-Leut-
the Court ordered his Imprisonment without
cause the mittimus is insuificiently stated. as as
It fails to show particularly the form and man
is imprisoned for another offence than con-
, Judge Wheeler then summoned Judge Bar
posed it was understood that any Judge had
ment should be imposed: it had been The GUS Gus.
tom n the past. he was sure. to impose one or
Ex- Lieut.. Gov. Sill. in reply, said that before
1885: the statutes read that for contempt Of
CouTt tne punishment WOulu Do me or I'M
prsonment. but in tho revision Of that year it
was made to read fine and Imprisonment, and
had been 80 left in all the later revisions.
That was the law. and. as Judge Barbour
violated the law. the prisoner should have the
benefit Of 1t.
Judge Wheeler overruled the second and
third demurrers. and snst aimed the first. and
ordered the discharge OF Murphy.
- In the police court this morning Norman 8.
to jail for fifteen days by Judge
Barbour for CONTEMPT Of court Wheeler was
CHARGED with supDOrt. and when ask ed n |
plead replied Not guilty" in loud voice.
Judge Barbour promptly imposed the Jail
sentence. Afterward. when the non-support
case was adjourned and Judge Barbour was
told by Wheeler that he was q merchant. he
remitted the Imprisonment and fined Mr..
Wheeler 81. which was paid.