The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-24
SURPRISING NEWS.
Special Master Isaac S. Tay-
1or Bars Reporters from
a Divorce Hearing.
AN EXHIBITION OF TEMPER.
Chancellor McGill Will Investigate
the Matter-Counsellor
Seguine's Advice.

The divorce suit of Mrs. Ona Dolan
against her husband, Peter Dolan, formerly
of Bayonne, referred by Chancellor McGill
to Special Master Isaac S. Taylor, revealed
yesterday highly ridiculous assumption on
the part of that individual. According to
Mr.. Taylor, court proceeding may be, for
the convenience of the judge, held in bis
private rooms, and the public excluded.
When the testimony was begun in this
casea representative of the JERSEY CRY
NEWS presented himself at Mr.. Taylor's
office on Washington street to report the
evidence offered.
He at first sought information from Coun-
sellor Ezra Seguine, of counsel for Mrs.
Dolan, as to the time of the hearing. That
gentleman courteously gave the reporter the
leading facts of the case. But Master Isaac
s. Taylor brusquely intimated to the re-
porters who called that they could not be
present during the hearing.
COURTEOUS CHANCELLOR M'GILL.
THE NEWS representative then waited
upon Chancellor McGill and asked him
whether or not outsiders had any right to
hear the case.
Certainly, SIR" replied the ever courteous
Chancellor; ''such proceeding is public"
privacy Of Mr.. Taylors Office, and whether
or not that person could refuse admittanco
to his chambers.
The Chancellor replied that if a master
felt any Inconvenience arising from the pub
lie entering his offices during the hearing,
he, Mr.. Taylor, could use the Court of Chan
Gerry Chamber, as other masters are continu-
ally in the habit of doing
Armed with the opinion Of so eminent an
authority as Chancellor McGill, The NEWS
representative called at Mr. Taylor's Office
yesterday afternoon, few minutes before
timony. Mr.. Taylor last week fixed the
time.
When the reporter asked him when the
hearing would take place, Special Master
Taylor's memory suddenly left him, and he
replied he didn't know.
ThenIin the rudest and most ungentlemanly
manner he said it was none of the public's
porter informed Mr. Taylor that
the Chancellor had given permission
for newspaper men to be present;
but Mr.. Taylor angrily replied that
he didn't care he would not have reporters
in his Office and worked himself into such a
fury that a fit of apoplexy seemed imminent.
sYou are only coming to bother me and
make me angry" he whined, 'tand | don't
care what you report. There is nothing in
the case that the public have any night to
know"
TAYLOR DOESN'T CARE.
1t was useless to remind the irascible law
yer, whose manner to his visitor was as. re-
mote from the conduct of gentleman as it
could possibly be- that permission had been
given by the Chancellor for representatives
of the press to be present
81 don't care, Mr.. Taylor returned, "you
can't come here.n
The interview with the hot-headed lawyer
was duly reported to the Chancellor this
morning, who listened with his accustomed
politeness to requests of newspaper men, and
said simply that he would look into the mat
ter.
When THE NEWS man left Taylor's, Office
that individual pitched into Counsellor Sc
quine for giving out to reporters the time of
the hearings, but in Mr.. Sequine he met his
match. The latter waited until Mr.. TaFlor's
fuming fit was over and sailed in to admin
ister Mr.. Taylor lesson on the propriety Of
minding his own business.