New-York tribune., 1907-08-04
NIGHT COURT CROWDED
PRISONERS COME FAST.
Majority of the 165 Cases Up to
Midnight Are Heard.

MAGISTRATE Kernochan made his first appearance
presiding judge at the Jefferson Market ponce
court last night. and he opened the 'niru hish.
session of the court to the biggest audience yet
present The lineup of prisoners was also the
largest
AS in all of the other night sessions Magistrate
House. president of the Board or MaSlSlra'es.
listened to all of the cases and closely followed
the workings of the court. When Magistrate her-
nochan opened session nine-seven prisoners
in the pens and seventy-fve OF these hslu
been prpared for arragnment. The auulehce -
pied all of the seats and the court o'lCerS duiiO
ted many could find standing room:
As the business progressed Magistrate t,ernoclah
found his gown telling him. for beads OF per-
spiration rolled down his forehead. and his moist
hands the blotter on his desk
The total number of prisoners had reached 80 at
10 o'clock but not one of these was woman OF
the streets.
Judge Charles s. Whitman. of General Sessions
father of the night court came in at 10 o cioch
and took a seat beside Magistrate kernochan
The latter did not go into any long examinatIolls
and when he found that such would De necessary
he deferred the hearings. -
Assenblyman Louis A CuvilIier OF the 18th As
semDIy District. stormed around the courtrop ON AZ
several minutes before opening tlIne, Dut MS "
nuncfations of the magistrates for keeping Only
one night open. were only interrupted py
gentle remonstrance from the officer at the gate
at is an outrage bring us all the way from
Harlem and The Bronx he said More courts
should he Opened Immediately. and IL they are not
something serious will happen. Policemen have 10
neglect their beats come here from Harlem anu
The Bronx and even further. and while ther
llAh4t''t'iA
portunity for burglars and sneak thieves 10 get
busy. They will find this out when the winter
comes The only solution Of the problem can see
to open night courts Immediately IN the west
Side and Harlem courts
BENJAMIN Manioff of No 1s1 Third avenue.
held on u charge of robbing the drug store at NO
20 Third The store Is owned by a man
named Schlesinger. and on Friday $50 in cash ana
s65 In checks taken from secret drawer
Detectives got hold of two women who allege that
they saw enter the store, and according
TO the police they picked the prisoner as one
Of the Ifc u
morning.
No II West gath street. arraigned on a charge
of anoying Erna GirOla, eight years DID, or NO i'i
Central Park West. No examination was gone
into, and he held In $1,000 bail for examina-
tion in the West Side court.
Only sixty prisoners had been arraigned AT u:lo
O'Clock. In the corridor leading TO the prison and
in the pen there were more than one huhdred
awaiting to be arraigned-
In the line in court there were thirty-three po-
licemen. One OF them left the West Tooth street
station 7:i0 o'clock and said that he left post
Of three crosstowu blocks uncovered
Magistrate Corrigan took charge OF the court
shortly after II O'Clock. and the first 10 be
called before him that of Abraham Gilland.
his wife and Louis Smoli. who lived at No 5oS
Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn. All We're arrested on
board the steamer City of Atlanta. OF the Savan-
nah Line. Just the steamship about TO sail
According the story which told 10 the
cIstrate. Gilland arrived the pier and found
his wife and SinoN. who boarded at his home on
board the steamship ready to sail With them was
Giland's hve-year- The two got into
a fight and the officers the steamship called IN
a policeman, who arrested all OF them on charges
OF disorderiy conduct.
n court GiIand told Magistrate Corrigan that he
had been married sixteen years and that his wife
running away with Simoli- He said that they
had taken his son and that he had FOUND them
together the boat.
Then the wife told her story. in which she said
that she not running away, but that she was
going South fer her health. Continuing she told
gistrate that she had not lived happily with
her husband and that she had instituted proceed
ings against him In the courts in BROOKLYN on
several occasions. She asserted. he had threatened
% kill her. The husband broke IN and remarked;
Yes she going to regain her health Why
sh. was going elope with that man who has
lived with US for some time. They only had one
stateroom."
The magistrate fined the husband s.. the wife g
and sent Stmol the workhouse- Husband and
wife paid their fines and LEFT the courtroom They
did not speak.
I'D to midnight there only one woman ar
raiEncd for d!sorderly acts the street She gave
her name as Molly Dumas. She sent 70 the
workhouse-
In all prisoners had been brought TO court UP
- midnight and the majority had been arraigned