The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-12
CONSTITUTION In A BAD WAY.
rssEy MARKET COURT SEES IT'S
YJTALS PUNCTURED DAILY.

pu,bless suppression Of tho Cross.Ex.
animation Of q Guy With Bum Lamp
-Common Rights over Collarless Dogs
n,sreeartled--Crueity TO HOLSTERS
Ipheld-But the Bar Has Rallied.
Tho East Side Constitutional Club, OF
xhich Rosey the lawyer Is the president,
,ormally organized itself yesterday In the
Interests of Judge Parker and took other
action toward protecting the Constitu-
tion, Rosey was elected permanent presi-
dent: j. Choate Pearlman, vice president;
blackstone Kent Cohen secretary, and
snike Rosenblatt, assistant secretary.
The Essex Market Bar Association was
we'll represented at the meeting. Rosey
himself OF course, was the principal speaker
Gentlemen" he said, 4those downtown
lawyers must not be allowed to get all
the credit OF saving the Constitution. Us
lawyers over here have good reason to
know that we have suffered from q disre-
gard of the Constitution. Why, the other
day. in our dear old Essex Market Court,
Twas defending a man who gave bloke
black eye. When 1 asked the guy that
had the eye, which eye my client had hit
him in, the Judge ruled the question out
on the ground that 1t was obvious and i'm
material II had been let alone might
have got the guy to pick out the wrong
eve, and then the case would have been
thrown out. I told the Judge that the
Constitution protected mo In cross-examina-
tons and he replied by getting strenuous
with his gavel.
And how about that bulldog case Of
miner" remarked Blackstone Kent Cohen
my client stole the dog and II had no
collar on. The client put q DOLLAR on him
and the owner met the dog and had my
man arrested. In the court the dog ran
to the owner aud the Judge decided the case
by giving the dog to the owner raised
the constitutional point that dog running
wild was wild animal and any man who
him was the owner de facto. told the
Judge that Ii was the common English law,
and he chased me and the dog out Of court. !.
well, there was that oase Of mins, said
grudge against o restaurant keeper In East
Broadway, and as he wanted to get hunk
he hired me to get the restaurant man In
hook. took along two regular witnesses
one night and we ordered broiled live lob
sters which cost me Just t2.35.
1.-THE next day go to court and ask fol-
warrant for the restaurant keeper on the
charge Of cruelty to animals take my
law library along and want to show the
Judge that lobster is an animal and broil.
ing 1t alive Is cruelty. intended to In
woke my constitutional rights In this case,
but he ohases me. And on the way out
one of the hired minions OF the law remarks
that I'm the only lobster In the case.
THAT goes to show you,' observed Roeey
shat there is getting to be q disregard o
the Constitution, and IL ie growing ever
day. The minute us lawyers cannot bt
protected by the Constitution then vi
lose our identity. Without the Constitu
ton we have to get down to the level o
winking at the Judge or spending none,
TO pull off the complaints"
"Hurrah for the Constitution SHOUTS
Spike Rosenblatt carried away with en-
thusiasm, and the cheers were given Wit
will
Among the laymen not members OF tn
bar who enrolled In the club yesterda
were Pete the Barber, Fiddles Finkel
stein, Prof. Mendelsohn,. tho corn doctor
Long Reach Reagan. who only returnes
yesterday from the Sullivan chowder
Pigeon Miller, Stitch Mccarthy, Cross
eyed Senftman. Joe Cohen, president o
the Allen Street Literary Club; Diamon
Charlie Kramer, Capt. Charlie Solomon
Col. George Greenberg and Ginger McGin
mis-, the only Irish puahcart pedler on tn
East Side
The club will hold mass meeting In
few weeks In the rear Of Martin Engel
saloon IN Essex street.