New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-12-18

Inotify him that said writ had been obtained
| No writ was served upon the District Attorney
but was served upon the Deputy ATTORNEY -oe .i
eral by abraham Levy counsel t9[ 'h hea va
/ when the Warden orally sent us word tnat ne
had received a writ returnable In the Supre.ne
! Thfs ONCE never had any OF the papers required
T, by the writ OF certforari. This SHOWS ene
groundless nature of the charge. me ps,ons'
| went direct from the Court CT Speciai Sessions
! clerks Office TO the Supreme Court .
In the order which tine Deputy Attorhey
General subsequently procured in that case ne re
cites that both himself aud the District Attorney
appeared although this office took no part VIVA -.
ever in the proceeding. and specially staseu -
the Court that the reason therefor was the ACT
mentioned.
NV instructions to the professional staff have
been uniformly in all possible ways 10 facilitate
! The Deputy Acknowledgement in the disposition
Of such matters. i have never had the slghtest
/ properly executed. On the contrary they nave
been as am assured and believe, FUZZY carried
ont in this behalf with the implicit attehIon
10 my wishes and to duty as they nave ever
shown in every other particular Neither nor
they know personally anything about tnese
cases as they have been exclusively IN the haioS
of the Deputy Attorney General
PLEADS PRESS OF WORK.
We have had an enormous amount OF bust
ness to transact here for October ana NoVeth-
her with a large accumulation OF prison casts
and witnesses in the House OF Detention, anu anu
the accumulated bail cases or the three months
summer vacation, which, under reputation VI
the Judres OF the Court Of General Sessions,
are not placed before grand or trial Jurles our
sltboueh reeoenizing the Importance Of the
election cases. still the public interests Woult t
not permit prison cases TO pc ighoIeu' oI "a
moment 10 the people OF this county, anu M tu
early disposition of which was necessary 10 the
proper conduct Of the criminal business Oh the
county. 80, ,,,,ss
were the Black Rabbit cases, constituting lhe
worst phase of human depraElitSy eaes ICES Witch
had come from the Justices OF the supreme COuIt
for prompt action; also, the Musher I orSetS
cases in which the defendant was eAua"lteu
from London and had forged paper 70 thS -, 70
teYt Of 100000 ard the Mather S2OOUO necklace
case who was extradited from the StaIe "a
washington upon the warrant Of our Cover
nor. and in whose speedy trlal the eI'I'e '~
~ trade OF New-York was concerned. 1900
However as to such special cases conIerehCe
was always had with the deputy A,'o osnf:t-
General and with the Court by the trlal ASSIST
ant before they were placed on the DOCKET pur-
suant TO mutual agreement 4. l.,
AS far as l can make out the conplalnt, II Is
that some of our cases all of which resulted IN
conviction, took too long for trlai' oReI m"
we. OF course, had no control nsSes Which
suited I'm all the above mentioned cases: WHICH t
were tried by this office, and Tor which tlIe
county is to be congratulated. healS, an
pIairt Is n appears TO be the individual act
Of Mr. Hammond. who not alone is the peIlIIoH tt
in the proceeding. but who also appears upon 'Ae
petition his own counsel
MR.. UNGER's DEFENCE
Assistant District Attorney Unger spoke OF
the charges after they had been given out
In relation 10 the charge that we refused
to give the Grand Jury subponas for witnesses
that is true" he said. We have to be very
careful to whom we give blank subpenas. But
on the statement OF the ttorney-General we
gave him subpeaas. In relation to our putting
on other than election cases in Part II OF Gen
erai Sessions. one case was that OF ChaILes =
attle Wash for stealing $4,000 worth OF Jew
elry. The case was prosecuted by assistant
District Attorney McClelland. win the coise ei
of Deputy Attorney General Hammond anu the
consent OF the Court. II resulted IN cohNiI e
ton of grand larceny in the first degree. II
took two DAYS and a half. thought IT was eN-
pected il would take less than day
The patronage in the District Attorney OnICe
is greater at present than II ever mas Del Del
District Attorney Gardiner has made MS stan
large and expensive, and has reached out lot
additional room in the Criminal Courts buin9 -
ing. driving out the Health Departinent' v M NJ
formerly occupied many coveted rooms IN me
building. His chief assistants are the Iollo"ihs'
Name and position a. sslsE AIRY;
lanes Osborne Assistant District Attorney. 800
James MeCesnd. Assistant District attorney !s
lanes j. walsh Assistant Distriet Atorney..- 500
Charles b lie Barber Assistant District Attorney 1900
James nandsay GORDON Deputy Assistant District
Moses Herman Deputy Assistant district Attorney 1900
Forbes J. Hesnessy Deputy Assistant District Al ooo
Josn coWan Deputy Assistant District Attorney 1000
Gerald Hull Gray. Deputy Assistant District At ~
Charles E. u Mccain Deputy Assistant District 40
Thomas F. Byine Deputy Assistant Distric; AT 80
DANIEL Reilly Deputy Assistant District Attorney 1000
Maurice B. Blumenthal Deputy Assistant District ooo
Cornelius r. Collins Deputy Assistant District At
Ro ROBERTS Honey Deputy Assistant district
Michael j. sullivan Deputy Assistant District At
John schwar1iopf Deputy Assistant District Al
James Dickson Carr Deputy Assistant district At
william j McKenna Chief Clerk . 1000
Andrew Fay Deputy Chief Clerk. 700
Edward T. Flynn Pardon Clerk Ssoo
There are twenty-seven clerks in the Dis
trict Attorneys office all drawing good salaries:
librarian, interpreter. seven stenog-
raphers, thirty-eight detectives and thirteen
messengers. The salaries Of the District AttOr-
ney's office amount TO nearly S25OOOO a year.
YORK APPEALS TO WHALEN.
CORPORATION COUNSEL IS ASKED TO DE-
eide ON DEVERY's POWERS.
In pursuance of his contention that Chief Devery
transcribed his powers in removing the former
Deputy Chief Of Police of Brooklyn and putting
new Deputy Chief in his place, President York has
the following letter Corporation Counsel
Whalen. asking for an official opinion:
Hon. John Whalen Corporation Counsel. Borough
Sir: Section 800 Of the Charter in part provides:
"A Deputy Chief Of Police shall be assigned to
in the Borough Of Brooklyn and in the discretion
Of the Police Board Deputy Chief of Police may
the other boroughs'' Section 2s2 of the Charter
in part provides: THAT the Chief of Police shall
police force and shall have power to change such
aasssignmentsi from time to time whenever. in his