The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-05
KEPT THE SLEEPY COPS AWAKE
roof TALKS TURKEY WHILE
"THE WATCH" WATTS.
Tom Hong and Fons Jung. Tom Bird and
the scrappy Sisters Take Precedence
over DRINKS and the Code OF Pro-
oedure-JeiTerson Markets. Easy Day

oedure-.Ienerson Markets Easy Day
For the first time In the memory of the
Oldest policeman present the fixed order
OF police court procedure was reversed
Yesterday by Magistrate Pool at Jefferson
Market. Instead of hearing new cases in
accordance with the provision of the code
which requires the arraimment of prisoners
az soon as possible after their arrest, MaRis-
trate Pool ordered all the adjourned cases
10 be brought before him frat The DRINKS
and other offenders Of -the watch" as the
last nights prisoners are called, we're kept
! locked in their cells. Their captors, the
| policemen, some of whom had been on
duty all night, fretted and fumed in tho
! back rooms and in the corridors Mean
! while the first two hours were taken up
with the hearing of three adjourned cases.
/ The extraordinary nature Of these hearings
and the magnitude OF the issues involved
| fully justified the long time devoted to each
! case.
First came the arragnment OF two China
men, Tom Hong and Fong Jung, charged
with keeping disorderly houses at 4ss and
500 Sixth avenue. Detectives O'Brien and
Hannah of the Tenderloin, who had made
the arrests, were not in court at 0 O'Clock,
having worked nearly all night.
We will hear the defence now said
Magistrate Pool. -and then. II the COM
plainants are not here soon, We will dismiss
the case
Tom Hong stood before the bar with a
Chinese interpreter beside him. Magis-
trate Pool fired questions at John Foley.
who passed them along to the interpreter,
who projected them in Celestial syllables
into the pgtailed prisoners ear
This performance gives mo the tooth
ache remarked John Foley in his own
language.
We're there any bad women in your
interpreters.
No, said Tom Hong.
Did you ask the women that came in
there II they were bad women?' continued
the triple catechism
NO"
If they had been bad women would you
have done anything to themY'
Tom Hong shook his head and the in
terpreter said
Yes
DO you feed chop suey to bad women''
do not feed bad chop euey 10 women.
That answer appeared to sntisfy tho
Magistrate and he told the defendants 10
sit down. Later, when the detectives
appea red. the Magistrate heard their testi-
mony. which included very definite de-
scription Of the behavior Of women seen
in the Chinamen's place.
Why didn't you arrest the womeni'
asked the Magistrate.
We waited til we could get warrant
as we have been told to do in these cases,
replied one OF the detectives.
Prisoners discharged said the Magis-
trate
A wordy quarrel between two sisters
came next Magistrate Pool told them that
he thought equally little of them both and
directed both to report their conduct to
him once in two weeks for a month
These were mere curtain raisers The
real long delayed American drama had for
its subject the great American turkey
Martin Manning of $50 West Forty-nlnth
street was accused Of stealing turkey from
the stock Of r II Wheeler. 50 and 81 Tenth
avenue. George r. Van Nest an ON
plovee Of Wheeler was the complainant
You charge this man with stealing your
turkey said the Magistrate to Van Nest
How do you identify it,
There was one tom turkey short in the
barrel, replied Van Nest.
How can You tell that 1t was a tom
turkey
our man said So
Mere hearsay,T declared the Magistrate.
seriously. This question Of identity Is
most important. Was IT a black leg or a
rcd leg turkey
Il think it was black leg. said Van Nest.
with some hesitation
i don't think it was. disputed the Magis-
trate Then a sudden fear showed upon
his earnest countenanCe.
did you put the turkey on ice2" he asked
DCltporpap hpialObu Who had ma Ia
arrest.
on being informed that the bird was in a
cold cold place the Magistrate became
cooler himself Then he administered this
oath TO witness George W Hornbeck Of
1897 West Fourteenth street
DO you swear to tell the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you
God in the matter where the defendant
ia charged with stealing tom turkey
Hornbeck swore
30 YOU know all about turkeys?"
No" said Hornbeok. with caution;
no man knows everything. That's too /,
much TO say.
He qualified. however, as nm expert.
Il saw the defendant take a turk tes- |
tilted the witness, from a box. II weighed |
about IS or 20 pound.
1t must have been a gobbler, declared |
Pool.
Then fivo or ten minutes was devoted to |
a discussion OF price and weight.
Pool. whether this is the fictitious price Of |
the dealers or the real value.
As TO weight. the canny Hornbeck warned !
the Magistrate against taking any casual
estimates.
Il might say the expert volunte cred, |
that we gues ,ed on a calf the other day,
and it was only lbs pound. But one man
guessed 800 pound and no was a butcher.
hawl Hawl Haw.T
where is this turkey?' asked the Magis-
.rate suddenly.
Across the street. the policeman said
Officer, take this man across the street
and let him identify the bird If he can.
Hornbeck objected 10 this.
Il couldn't ever say any more than can
now" he declared ITO sum it all up. my
honest conviction in this case is that this Is
he man and that Is tho turkey.
No, not that il the turkey Don't go Z
Is far as that, - warned Magistrate Pool
Then he inquired If 1t would DO possible
10 get more witnesses The policeman
and Lawyer Sullivan spoke hopefully, and
he Magistrate adjourned the case for an
lour. At noon the turkey was still keeping
,ool and the Magistrate was trying 10.
The patient DRINKS and impatient police
non were then hustled out OF the way at
bout three a minute Finnlly. a long
ought jerks was dragged into court. He
old the Magistrate that he had known
Manning, the turkey prisoner. for fourteen
,ears and worked with him for seven vCara I