The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-02
100. - srRENUous.
The Many Sided Man Who is After
New Yorlr,s GambIers-

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I LAT occurs in the building happens
when this young mamie looks young
er than ne ls-strides to the entrance.
mans a cab and drives away. When
eiIdl happens m the course Of the day,
tHe Ran and the entrance fairly hum.
ana the frequenter nUdges the stranger
z lest the latter miss the significance OF
an incident Which mightnt appear
I worth noticing.
That's him, whispers the frequent-
now?"
And the stranger frequently 9huckles
IN reply something like, We'll he'll
I keep EN- moving.
Jerome" is His Honor William IRA
/ Vers Jerome. justice Of the court OF
/ special sessions, and as is generally
I known, at present a very sharp thorn
T IN the sides of the gamblers and the
/ poolroom keepers in this city The
! movements of his honor are Of the
! keeneSt interest to the ga milling fra
/ ternity and he is very. closely watched.
! recent events have made the spectacle
or ms honor IN cab a storm signal
! nlgnly important to law breakers with
f in the city limits, because it is good
| 70 know. If possible. when and where
ne lightning VIII strike next. Hence
/ the excitement which attends the jus
/ tees oUtgOiugs from the temple of the
/ law in Center street.
8 q q
In the criminal court they call Jus
! tice Jerome 1.-The strenuous. The opin-
? ion is general there that as a disciple
( of Theodore Roosevelt the justice ra tn
! er goes his master one better, but such
a view might be expected from persons
VINO IKE eight hours sleep a night and
( therefore object to q judge who seems
( 20 get along very Wen with three. and
{ on occasions takes no sleep atSaII and
doesn't seem to mind.
= But hard work seems to agree with
Q T.. las
has Workdays have averaged from fif-
( teen to twenty hours apiece. They
nave IL on record in his court that one
day recently he hustled for twenty
three hours at a stretch. And the JUS
4 ttce thrives on it,
Since the committee of fifteen began
! us raids on the dives ana gambling
oens of the city, some three months
/ ago, there are few rising men in whom
the average citizen is more Interested
than Justice Jerome, the judge who can
weld an ak and use pistol, and does
I both Public interest in the man whom
Deputy Police Commissioner Devery,
himself a judge in q smaller way of
( business, described as "a tin soldier
ralsin riot and rebellion in the streets
mas increased in proportion to the min
gied praise and ceuSure his actions
I nave aroused, and yet there are q lot
/ Of interesting points about the justice
which the public dOesn't know.
In crowd of ordinary business men
at a casual glance Justice Jerome would
not be likely to attract any attention
at all. AT second glance the Onlook-
ers- would probably decide that there
was a shreWd. energetic young man
who would be likely to push along any
thing he undertook. and a still closer.
scrutiny would confirm that opinion
with the reservation perhaps that the
young man wasn't so young as he
looked.
"A clean cut man without frills is the
justice, and every line in his face, from
his close cropped brown hair. with a
suspicion of curl in it steTnIy -
pressed, to his trim mUstache and
square chin means business. There is
often a twinkle in the shreWd gray
eyes behind pince-nez at that and ev--
erybOdy in the criminal court knows
that the Justice likes a joke and can
tell a good story better than most men. +
He is a New Yorker, born and bred,
and he is now ~, without looking It
His father was Lawrence Jerome, wit
and on yivant, and one Of his cousins
is Lady Randolph Churchill Young
jerome was named after his fathers
friend and boon companion, William r.
IraVerS, the suffering stock broker.
Ia the courts they tell q story which
Justice jerome, as ne wasn't present
on the occasion, cannot contradict, that
a toss Of coin settled his name for
him. According to the story, Lawrence /
Jerome and his friend Travers We're
dining together at DelmOnicO's soon af-
ter the birth Of young Jerome. and the
question of the baby's name was raised. /
.W-whatu you c-calI him?" asked
Travers.
That's it, Bill, said Mr.. jerome, Il
don't know. Shall he be Lawrence, jr.,
or shall I name him after you?"
''T-tOsS up, = suggested TraVers. And
the story goes that they did, with the
result thar the youngster faced the
world as William Travers Jerome.
They sent young Jerome to Amherst 1
After three years his health gave way
and the man whose endurance now
OutlaStS that Of any of his fellow work
erS IN the criminal courts had to leave
college, without graduation, to recuper-
ate. His college gave him q bachelor
degree later, and he went on to Colum-
bia law school and later was called
to the bar. Colonel Fellows made him
an assistant district attorney and he
hustled in the district attorneys Of
flee witch the same energy he has dis
played since. After that he was one
of the counsel who defended Carlyle 4
Harris and astOnished some of the eX-
perts by the knowledge Of chemistry he
displayed at the trial. Later he stood
with the present Recorder Golf in the
latter's defiance Of Recorder Smyth
in the Gardner case and was fined for
1T, but the fine was' RENTED. Finally
he acted with Lawyer Golf again ID
the LeXOw investigation and when
that was over became the campaign
manager for the committee of seventy,
AS a reward Mayor Strong made him
q justice Of special sessions
Had he been left to himself Justice
jerome. would probably have been an
engineer instead Of a lawyer, and some )
Of his friends think that he would have
made O. bigger reputation as an engI-
neer than he has done at the bar or
on the bench. The Justices hobby is
mechanics and lie is 4 mechanic OF no
mean ability.
a machine, any old machine, has a
remarkable fascination for the justice
His town house and his country home
al IakeNiIle, Conn, have each it's cleo /
trio plant. to furnish light and motive
power. Mr. Jerome built both plants
bimself and runs them himself without
assistance.
a late caller at the house in town,
anxious to elucidate a point Of law,
was astOnished recently to be received
with apologies by a very much be-
grimed judge IN Jumper and overaIs, (
who explained that he had been busy
fixing a little electrical difficulty but
was ready to give his attention to le-
gal affairs The caller wondered, but
che point Of law wasn't made any the
less clear for the justices temporary
.7Ie 9tion in mechanical affairs
That is one side OF Justice jerome
He is ~ nan Of MANY sides, He is q.