Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-11
HACKETT CASE
Judge Cowell's Warning to a Democrat
 Reporter.

z The weekly udIdliSuC liA eiiN
 court over the case of HacketC Ns Hackett took an unexpected and rath- CT surprising turn this morning al short calendar, Judge Cowell presld ing. In this matter John r. Hacketts ; mother Hannah, and his uncle, Pat rick. have sued him for money WHICH they claim they loaned him While ne ran a saloon on South Main street Attorneys Brett And Cassidy appear for the plaintiffs. and Attorneys keiiey and Lewis represent two creditors. They claim that the suit of the Hack etts is d put up job, q bluff and a fraud to freeze out their clients. On tIbe other hand Messrs Brett and Gas sidy assert their clients are honest and they are anxious to have the case tried as soon as possible and that they can legitimately prove their case. They say that Mir Reileyfs and MT Lewis's clients are merely playing Tor time and have no proper standing ID court, and that they did not comply with the statutes. Attorney Kelley 1 was real mad this morning and repeat edly asserted that the cause was fraud to freeze out his client. Neither side made any new claim. Their state memts were simply repetitions of what they stated last week.
 Attorney Kelley, however, was so persistent in his claim of fraud that Attorney Cassidy addressed the court to the effect that he was not speaking for publication, but he hoped the court would request the reporters present to not publish what was said, because attorneys often make statements in the heat of an argument that in cooler moments they would not say. Judge Cowell then addressed the only reporter present, the Democrats, to the effect that it was not the busi- ness of a paper to report everything it's reporters heard, and that it should not publish anything that would hurt the merits of case. Papers should be very careful, he said in publishing court news. especially about matters that have not been tried. In this strain the court spoke for minute or two.
 The arguments on the Hackett case were then resumed and the court de- nied the plaintiffs motion for execu, tion.
 Attorney Cassidy said the order was hardly fair to his clients after whar had been already done in the case. It was evident now that MT -leiley did not intend to try the case until nexr month, when it could easily be tried to the court next week.
 Attorney Kelley replied that Attor- ney Cassidy was merely putting up game of bluff.
 Attorney Brett said if Mir Reiley's clients were honest they would try the case next week. to which Mir Ret ley said that all he wanted was the Hacketts to prove their case. or course their claim may be proper, hut the manner of proceeding by their counsel subjected it to suspicion. At torney Cassidy asked why Attorney Kelley should be so anxious to have the case tried to jury. anyway. Was not the court competent to try 1t?
 Because" answered Attorney Ref ley, your claim has the ear marks of fraud. and 1 have instructions from my client to try it to the jury"
 Then followed few words between the lawyers as to their way of doing business, after which Attorney Reiley left the room fin evident anger and court was adjourned.
 The reporters then had their say with Judge Cowell. The judge tried to make 1t out that the reporters have not been using his court with proper dignity in their reports of it's opera tions in their papers, The reporters answered that they do not interfere with the merits of any case; they re- port merely what the lawyers say and do when conducting trials. and if dig nified reports of their actions must ap- pear in the papers reformation must begin with the attorneys who practice in the court