The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07
LETS AUFOTl OUT OF JAIL
JUSTICE CLARKE HALTS LONG
SENTENCE FOK SPEEDING.
Grants q Certificate Of Reasonable Doubt 90
Rene Collin. a Chauffeur. Who FOR His
Firth Offence. Got n I'D Ds; Sentence-H
Had served a Week of u I'm Broosslya.


The release on bail OF Rene Collin. a
chauffeur. on a certificate Of reasonable
DOUBT signed by Supreme Court Justice
Clarke. has broken up the run OF the first
big sentence imposed for violation Of the
automobile speed avs in the city. Collin 4.
which is the name he has used most often
when arrested. was sentenced on Juns ~
by Ju~stice~O'Keefe in Special Sessions in
Brooklyn TO thirty days in the county jail
after ri arrest on May "a for driving thirty
miles an hour On the Ocean Parkway at
Neck road. II was the fifth offence for
Collin.
The card index system for chaufeurs
at Police Headquarters has not been work.
ing very long. so that Sergt. Ben Mallam,
who is in charge Of il. does not know whether
Collin was arrested before November IA
Of last year. On that date. however. he
was arrested at Broadway and Forty-ninth
street charged with violating the speed
laws and with having no chaufYeur's license.
Ne gave the name Of his employer as william
Iaimbeer of is Broad street. Collin was
held for Special Sessions.
Before hat case came up Collin was
arrested again. This time il was on No
vember % at Eigbty-first street and Broad
way and the charge was Of speeding at
twenty-five and n half miles per hour.
He then gave his license number as 2it3.
which the police say is correct. His en-.
ployer's name he gave AS william Lambert
Of 81 Fast Thirtieth street. The car license
number was the same as in the first arrest.
The hearing in Special Sessions IN the
second offence came up first and through
the card index system it was made clear
ekA& L. .,,. .at a.. A. R.. I,a,.,.
1eller on November 30 fined Collin SIS.
1t was not until the following month that
the first offence case was tried. Justice
McAvoy in Special Sessions fined Collin
$50 for that violation Of the law.
The chauffeur kept clear of the law until
January 20, when he was driving for another
owner, l.. l.. Benedict. Then he was ar
rested at I2Sth street and Second avenue,
charged with going fifteen miles an hour.
On that occasion he gave his name as Morris
Collin, although he offered the same chauf-
feur's license number, 2i43, as in the other
case. Tn case came up in Special Sessions
on March IA. Justice Deuel.. in spite Of the
previous convictions, suspended sentence
on the chauffeur, possibly because Of the
low rate of speed charged
On April ~, while acting "a a driver Tor
Thomas Hodgens, the automobiles once
more ran foul Of the police. Al Sixty
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rested, charged with running his car at
twenty miles an hour. This time he gave
his name as Maurice Collin and said that
he had no license number. The chauffeur
again was held for trial and came before
Justice Zeller again. This time on the
two charges he was fined 800. That was
on May 10.
just eight days later Collin, still in the
same employ, was taken in on the Ocean
Parkway at Neck road. The charge this
time Waa nf OOinU Mt the rafQ nf thirty
mikes an hour. This in the latest card that
the Headquarters Office has. This time the
driver gave his name az Reney NJ. Collins
and his license number as 2i43. the same as
in the other cases where he admitted he
had a license. IL was his first arrest in
Brooklyn, but the Police Department OBJ
tanned certified copies of the disposition OF
the other cases and forwarded them to JUS
ticc O'Keefe in Special Sessions i'm the bor-
ough across the bridge.
The chauffeur did not deny that he was
the person mentioned on the cards in the
other cases, but commended that owing to
the sparsefy populated condition Of the
section in which he was driving he was per-
mitted to go at twenty miles an hour, which
was the speed he believed he was making.
Two policemen made the arrest on the
Ocean Parkway. Sergt. Samuel johnson and
Patrolman William Culbertson, the latter
attached to the borough headquarters
squad. making corroborative evidence.
The police point out hat Collin was not
entitled to go 20 miles an hour anywhere
In the city and certainly not ten miles faster.
Justice O'Keefe imposed sentence OF
thirty days in Jail, the severest penalty
thus far in this section for speeding an
automobile. After serving up to Friday
Collin was admitted to bail. The police
expect that the attempt to prove reasonable
dpubt will fail.
The attention OF the Police Department
has lately been directed to Section 800 of
the Penal Code, which reads: Where
a person ia hereafter convicted Of a misde-
meanor who has been already FIVE times
convicted in this State of a misdemeanor,
ne may be ad:Ldged by the Court. In ad-
dition to any other punishment inflicted
upon him. to be an habitual criminal"
Section 691 reads: The person Of an
habitual criminal shall be mt all times sub
ject to the supervision of every judicial
Magistrate of the county nj Of the super
visors and overseers of the poor OF the
town where the criminal may he found. to
the same extent that a minor is subject to
the control OF his parent or guardian"