The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-25
LAWYER
L looked UP.
John Costello Of New York
Displeased NeVin by
Prompting Hen
bricks.
INTERRUPTED The COURT
Proceedings Against the
Six Italians Arrested
For a Time.
INTERRUPTED The COURT

Material for another exciting chapter
in the story of the arrest and locking up
of six italian duarrymen for reckless
blasting, at the foot of the hill, IN the
vicinity of the Laidlaw avenue steps, was
furnished in the Second Criminal Court
yesterday afternoon and this morning.
Lawyer Hendricks carried out his threat
and succeeded in having the men liber-
ated yesterday on a writ of habeas cor
pus, issued by Judge Blair, on the
ground that the men had been commit
ted without written complaint.
Acting Justice of the Peace Macs yester-
day fined the men 500 apiece. Police JUS
tice Nevin who had been i'll for the past
weke, appeared in, court just as the case
was being disposed Of He consented to
reopen the case and he claims that
Lawyer Hendricks agreed that the men
should be held until this morning for ex-
animation. All of them had admitted hav-
ing violated the ordinance in not properly
covering the blasts.
When Justice Nevin heard yesterday
afternoon of the liberation of the prison.
ers he was very wrothy, and meeting
LAWYER Hendricks upbraided him for in
terfering with the course of justice and
accused him of having broken faith with
him. A few hot words followed. Mr..
Hendricks is said to have acted in a more
or less disrespectful manner towards the
Justice.
1t appears that when Acting Justice
of the Peace Macs learned of aLwyer
Hendricks intention to take advantage of
+ tl,l ont rlf
prison through writ of habeas corpus,
he sent for William Crowley, of No. 2lO
Palisade avenue, the verbal complainant
and had him sign complaints. These he
had in his pockets when Judge Blair is
sued the writs of habeas corpus for the
mems release under the impression that
no written complaint had been made.
Justice Nevin, as soon as he heard OF
the mems release, issued warrants for
the men to appear in court this morning.
in an entirely separate case. The orig
inal charge was that they violated the
law on Friday. The last complaint spec
flied that the ordinance had been violat-
ed Thursday He says he is determined
to put an end to dangerous blasting all
along the Hill
The warrants were not served. They
were issued too late to catch the men who
had left their quarries and gone to Hobo
ken, where they reside. But A. Monaco,
who produced the men in court yesterday
consented to try and induce them to ap-
pear in court this morning. He succeed
ed. Monaco is specially desirous of not
being considered padrone.
He was the interpreter in the case when
the men were first arraigned and claims
he is acting mutually as a friend of the
defendants and of the Court But it was
he who secured the services of Lawyer
Hendricks when he found the men were
locked up.
Lawyer Furey appears in the case Tor
the State through permission of the
Court. He is interested in ascertaining
who is responsible for the blast that sent
a ten-pound rock along with a shower of
stones into the sky and which fell and
tore hole in the roof of Mrs. Schoders
house, No. 21O Palisade avenue. Mrs.
Schoder is the mother-in-law of the COM
plainant.
AS stated above, Monaco produced the
released men in court this morning When
Lawyer Hendricks began to conduct the
case in a manner that was offensive to
the Justice the Latter claimed and did
exercise the right to de Y him the privi-
lege.
Mr.. Hendricks was accompanied in court
by Counselor John Costello, of Ner7 York.
He took a seat among the witnesses and
spectators in the second row. He began
to prompt Hendricks or at least TO talk 10
him over the heads of the people in the
'front.' row. At times he had difficulty in
catching Lawyer Hendricks attention.
The Court was annoyed and called Mr..
Costello to order The Court did not
know the New York lawyer, who resented
the Courts remarks. Justice Nevln
raped for order He told Costello to- sit
down and told him if he did not sit down
and stop interrupting the case the Court
would have him locked up as disorderly
person. The Court ordered Sergeant
Riortv to see that Mr.. Costello sat down.
The court officer walked over to Co.'S
tello and put his hand on the New York
lawyers right arm. The lawyer brushed
the officers hand off and said
Don't you lay hands on mel!
Justice Neyin then ordered Mr. Costello
taken below and booked as disorderly
person. He was booked on the returns
below. and subsequently brought into
court and arraigned before the Justice.
Meanwhile Counsellor Hendricks had
called upon Counsellor Mervyn Arm
strong who had entered the court on other
business to conduct the Italian case for
him to which the court consented
Counsellor Armstrong said that Mr..
Costello was an old friend of his and he
was sure that he did not intend any
wrong.
The Justice said he har no desire to h.l-
initiate Mr.. Costello, and added that if he
would apologize for having interrupted
| the Court he would discharge him and
destroy the record against him.
Mr.. Costello replied that having COM
mitted no wrong he had nothing toapolo-
| gize for
| Through the efforts of Counsellor Arm
strong, who saw that things were looking
serious for the New York lawyer, Mr..
Costello consented to make an apology in
| these words
IF 1 have done wrong-if the Court says
| I Interrupted the proceedings, I humbly
| apologize u... ..v-