Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-23
JUDGEE . BURPEE'S REPLY.
Will Not Allow F Politics to Inter- fere With Judicial Business.

Says He Had Not Heard Anything
 Connecting Court With Politics Un-
 til Attorneys D4arant Was gNeminat-
 ed-Story of Lost Warrant.
 Judge Burpee was asked today if the report that he was Investigating the conduct of Attorney Durant us prosecuting officer of his court was true, and he replied that it was not. But" said Judge Durpcc, Il natural ly have a great interest ill the conduct of all the officers of the city court, be ing the judge of it, and if any one can produce evidence that Mi Durant or any other officer Of the court is not performing his duties properly and honestly as the law directs, he shall be iminediataely dismissed, or some thing more serious may happen to him. It is true that l have heard stories Of one kind and another about Mir Dur ant since his nomination for senu Cor, but it Is my opnl,on that 1 would not have henrd of these stories ii:.d Ee not l Lecn nominated. Politics is the foun- da ton of all these stories ana re- lports.'
 The following story may reach the official attention of Judge Eurpce in q day or two. It is vouched fer by one of the ablcst and most conspicuous at tQrncys in the city and leaked out with a report that he intended qualifying for grand juror ill order to prosecute cases which Prosecutor Durant de- clined to take up or saw no just cause why they should be prosecuted. The story as told by the lawyer nllud- | ed to runs as follows: .. l "A young girl and her mother came in here few days ago and told me that MT Durant had refused to prose- cute certain young man against whom they had some cause. Invcsti- Satlon showed that while they were to some extent wrong they were also right to some extent in my opinion The facts as 1 found them were these: This girl did enter a complaint to Mr Dulant about this yudng man, who was employed at the Farrcl foundry 1 believe. His father is Il respectable and well known citizen. The com plaint was entered on Monday. Octo- bcr $, and it was OH the following Thursday that the girl came to me with her mother wanting to know why Ithe young man had not been arrested or something done in the matter. My inquiries showed that the complaint had been drawn up on the day it was made, but for some reason 1t had not got into the hands of tie police -!ntil after the bird had flown. The girl and hef mother, F-belieye,swent to see Mir DuPant. q second time, to see why the young man had not been arrested, and@as they were in his office Deputy | Sheriff RamcttiA entered and he was ], asked by MT Durant what he had done with the warrant. -Itametti produced Fit and it was taken to- the police Stas tion. where the chief of police said I "Where the deuce has this been all this time" and the reply was that l, had been mislaid. When the police
 man went to-. the shop where the young man was said to be employed
 he found he was gone. Now this gir and her mother. Mr Durant and Sher
 fir Rametti were the only people who knew of the existence of the warra mt
 The women say they didn't tell sou
 about it. Such are the facts as they came to me, and think they should
 be made public. If Judge Burpee
 wants to inquire about it we have go
 the names and all the informa ton her,
 ready for him. l don't say it has any
 political significance but it is strang,
 how the warrant got lost and til,
 young man against whom it was is
 sued got away"