The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-04
IN TIE new COURT.
Col. Fellows Opened Part L, Cen
eral Sessions, with a Speech.
Grand Jury Roll Call the First
Business Transacted.
Date for the Formal Dedication Not
Yet Fixed.

The new Criminal Court House filled
up early this morning with lawyers and
signtscers and busy court officials and
cit" employees. They wandered around
in the corridors and poked their heads
into the sacred precincts Of the Judges
private chambers, and got into rooms
that they didn't know how to get out of
aLain. Everybody was lost in the new
building. and each was asking the other
how TIC get somewhere the locality of
which the other had not the slightest
idea.
At 1890 o'clock batch Of thirty-three
prisoners were marched across the
Bridge OF Signs over Franklin street
from the Tombs to the new Criminal
rt-House and locked up in the pris-
oners' pen at the Court House end or
the bridge. They were the first batch
OF prisoners 10 make the trip which for
many years to com, will be taken by
criminals OF all sorts and conditions.
They were IN couples-handcuned to-
gether-and they. were led by a burly
negro. james johnson, accused OF as
sault. and Raphael Aretino, also ac-
cused OF assault. The prisoners were
m charge of Deputy Sheriffs Dalrymple.
Burke. Murray, Brown and Kelly:
l. Of the Court of General Sessions had
filled up with those lawyers who had
succeeded In finding it. Among them
in the practice OF criminal law in this
city. and many who have grown white
haired In the service. Fully fifty law
firms were represented. Together with
the Grand .Iurymen yet to be sworn in
and a favored few spectators, they filled
the larg1 room.
1t was LIE. o'clock when the court
officers called for silence and hats
or and then Recorder Smyth and
walked INFO the courtroom from the
Fellows followed them and took his
place in front of the bench. surrounded
by his assistants, Davis, Mcintyre. Bat
tie. Lindsay and Townsend.
As soon as court was opened District;
Attorney Fellows rose and addressed
the four Judges. lie said:
Your Honors. 1t Is proper in my
buiiiiing such as this which is destined
perhaps to be the scene of the criminal
business of this county for a century to
come, appropriate ceremonies should be
ceremonies should take place to-day.
There are certain formalities which are
not vel, completed, and which are nee
Gated for all the public purposes for
which 1t Is to be used. At that time
there will be formal and appropriate
Col. Fellows asked that the Judges and
jurymen would excuse any confusion in
the court proceedings during the next
few days. as the papers and records IN
the Distrlct-Attorneys office were still
in a mixed up state. owing to their re-
moval to the new building.
Recorder Smyth rose to reply to Col.
all that the District Attorney had said,
and that he hope1 when the proper time
should arrive there would be formal
which the Mayor. the Supreme Court
Judges and other Judges would honor
the occasion by their presence.
Judges MARITIME, Cowing and Fitzgerald
then LEFT the courtroom and the roll oil
the, Grand Jury for the September tern
was called. this being the first real court
business ever transacted in the new
The first lawyers fee to be paid in the
Friend. Of the. firm of Friend & House
by ex-Sergt of Police James w. Jordan
diately after the Grand Jury roll was
called. Mr.. Friend promptly invited 4
few few, 81, friends r , across the street ant
William j. Berry, librarian of the
Bar Association. was CHOSEN foreman OF
the new Grand Jury. and all hands went
upstai re- to their fine new room at Al
The first man indicted was John ID
Cameron, a telegraph operator. He was
indicted for grand larceny for stealing
$3.50 from Leander j. Howell, another
Cameron was recently arrested in He
! lena, Mont. and an officer will be SEN
| from here to bring him on.
Judge MARITIME presided over Part II
of the Court of General Sessions. The
first man to plead was Lloyd Rogers
OF l25 Greenwich street. He pleaded
guilty to burglary in the third degree
Judge MARITIME accepted his plea ant
suspended sentence, owing to the pre-
vioLs good character of the prisoner
| and the delicate state OF the health OF
his wife, who Is dependent upon him
| for support.
| In Part III. two jures were impan
! elled to try cases. but Judge Fitzgerald
| adjourned the court before either of tn,
trials was begun.
All OF the General Sessions Judges
went at IL o'clock to the office of tn,
| Commissioners OF Jurors to arrange tn,
panel OF Grand Jurors for the fiscal yea