The evening world., 1894-09-21
HOT SHOT FOR BOLTE.
Banker VOlpe Denounced the Civil
Justice in His own Court
Repeatedly Adjourned His Cases
Without Apparent Coed Reason.
Yesterday He Had to Attend Boss
DIVERS Sons Wedding.

The attaches of Civil Justice Herman
Boltes Second District Court, at Centre
Market, witnessed something of a scene
there yesterday, In which the Justice
himself and an irate complainant were
the principal characters. The latter
thought himself aggrieved. He com
planned that 1t was impossible to OBJ
tain justice there. and concluded a Bit
ter TRADE by denouncing the Court and
everybody connected with 1t as a gang
of Tammany heelers, working in the in
terest of Tammany and utterly regard
less of the rights of citizens.
Justice Bolte, by the way, is the par
ticular protege of Police Justice Pat
rick Diver. and the latter's son is
clerk Of the court. They are members
of the Diver Club, as Is also Lawyer
James Walsh, nephew Of the ex-Warden
Of the Tombs. Both Justice Bolte and
the lawyer are said to have been two
Of the men who went before the Grand
Jury and denied that Diver, p. j., or
any one else, had offered prizes or po-
stions for the district captain showing
the most votes for the Democratic
ticket in the last election. All of the
parties named figure to some extent in
this story. which serves in way to
demonstrate how justice is admins
tered in that district court.
The complainant in the case, who had
the run In" as those who heard 1t call
It, with Justice Bolte, was Vincent
Ps psnrs Of and the farm IF l. bro Nkope
Of 70 Mulberry street. Although an 1tal-
ian by birth he has been an American
citizen for oyer twenty years; He Is one
colony, and until this year was a fire.
many clubs. Now, however. II is differ
thing to the Wigwamites., He is a mem
the city, and is working with the re-
formers This Is the story Of the th,, scene
an Evening World reporter:
When the city acquired all the houses
around Mulberry Bend for the purpose
'the. officials advertised for bidders for
the houses. The terms were that no
yearly leases would be given; but that
@onth TRs de BE- as f'fnasde sy hs
was that the houses might be torn
down at any time to make way for
For some of the houses I was the
highest bidder, and at a rental of 1880
i got them. My bidding was simply a
speculation. l hoped to rent the houses
Justice Bolte / am out on this month
alone over 5000, and altogether am out
$500, but IL / can find any law to make
him psyy for it. will certainly avail my
Among the houses which I rented
from the city was the one at IS Null
berry street. The tenants had all agreed
to pay their rents. but when rent day
came, on the FIRST of this month, they
refused to do SO, claiming that the city
owned the property.
''In order to establish my position, as
well as to recover the rent, j brought
suit against the tenants In Justice
Boltes court. The cases we're set down
before him for Sept. 7.
When that day came around and
appeared in court ! found that the
tenants had engaged Lawyer James
Walsh. a member of the Diver Club. as
their counsel. However, that did not
worry me. but when Justice Boite said
he could not try the cases that day, as
he was preparing for the Diver parade,
! was astonished. He set the cases
down for Sept. Is.
We'll, that day came around. and
Justice Bolte was not ready. He said
" had no time then to listen. ! told
I'm that every days delay meant money
me, as could easily get other ten
ants for the house. He Insisted, how
ever, that he had no time. He said
would have to be satisfied to have the
cases tried on the 18th.
Tuesday came" and Mr.. Volpe's in