The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-09
JUDGES DEMAND EVIDENCE
PROTEST AGAINST ATTACKS nv
STREET CROWDS.

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Magistrate O'Rcniy I'm Brooklyn would
IAke 60 Got Hold OF those vino Have
Bcon fncttfng StObs-sfaststrste
Keruochsn Discharges Prisoners.
Magistrate Kernochan OF tho night court
discharged last night three men brought be-
fore him on tho charge Of annoying girls.
He said that In no case had there been
sufficient evidence to warrant arrest. and
he added that the hysteria over the So
called wave Of crime had resulted In too
many charges being made without cause.
Louis Prester of 255 East Forty-ninth
street, one Of the men. had been accused by
the mother OF seven-year-old Rose Wallace.
who lives at 7sS Third avenue. of attempting
TO drag the girl into q doorway on Third
avenue near Forty-ninth street. Prester
denied that he had approached the girl
and said that the cause Of he complaint
was probably the fact that b children In
the neighborhood. who had been in the
habit OF teasing him. always ran at his
approach on his way home from work.
Since the woman's statement had been
made on the word of her little girl. and thor
was no other evidence against Prester.
Magistrate Kernoohsn discharged him.
Joseph Ssccita. an employee Of the
American Tobacco Company. had been
arrested on the charge Of Grace Mcdonnell
of 32s West Sixteenth street. who complained
that he had ollowed her on Ninth avenue
near Twenty-third street and laid his hand
on her shoulder. Rose Mcdonnell sup
ported her sisters story. but Magistrate
Kernochan decided hat the evidence did
not warrant him in holding the prisoner.
Nicholas Maroto. who was kiccused OF
annoying Sadie Hayes of 81 New Chambers
street. was beaten severely by a crowd ut
Peck Slip before being rescued by police
man. The girl, who is IL and a deaf mute.
had approached William Harrison OF 50
Chambers street about 0 o'clock and handed
him a slip Of paper on which was written
This man is following me-"
She pointed out Maroto, who was some
distance behind her. and Harrison made
for him. A crowd gathered and began TO
pummel the Italian. Before Patrolman
Dunn Of the Oak street station could get
him from the crowd he had been badly
mauled.
Magistrate Kernochan decided that in
view of the insuficiency OF the evidence
against him the prisoner had received
sufficient punishment and discharged him.
When Rosario Bernardo. an Italian OF
Williamsburg, was arraigned yesterday
In the Manhattan avenue police court on a
charge Of attempted assault on fourteen
year-Ol0 1etIa marcus OF 200 rloyu 5JTeet
Magistrate O'Reilly. after learning the cir
cumstances, said:
These cases make me tired. One can
not look at a child any more without being
mobbed by an excited lot of hysterioal
lunatics. would like to get hold Of some
OF the people who have been melting these
riots and | would send them away instead
Of defendants"
The girl had told the Magistrate that the
Italian had laid hands on her while she was
returning TO her home on Wednesday night
from a school. She screamed and a crowd
followed Demardio, who was saved by a
policeman. After making his criticism
Magistrate 0'Reilly adjourned the hearing.
Antonio Salo, an Italian, was accused in
the Lee avenue court. Brooklyn, of having
attempted to assau lt Emily Bogart, IA
years old, a nurse girl. In order that the
case could be disposed Of without having IL
sent to Special Sessions Magistrate Hig-
ginbotham had the charge changed to dis
orderly conduct and sent Salo to the peni-
tentiary for six months.
Abraham Haber. a young man who runs
a candy store at 1877 Avenue G, was arrested
on Tuesday on the complaint of Estelle
Powell, 8 years old, Of lis East Eleventh
street. She had told her mother that she
was buying candy in Haber's store when
he patted her on the head. He was held in
81, 500 bail and the girls mother said she
would produce witnesses against Haber.
None appeared at the examination yester-
day and az there was no evidence that
Haber had lone more than pat the girl, who
had been a customer OF his. he was dis
charged.