The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-28

ASpecial expenses In Part IT,, cry Court. SIS.
Down in one corner Of this voucher IL
written Court attendants In p, O. Other
vouchers approved by Mr.. Robinson read;
Special Exp. pt.-City Court $50. b Block
case. attendants a..
To expenses with Cal, clerk CITY Court t2j.
Special d sbursements at city Court, so.
Bschman.~ lioryay cases.
Brooklyn apparently declared in with this
voucher regularly approved, on July I 1899:
To amount OF special Expenses In Brooklyn
Court HOUSE, clerk, assistant clerk, &c, from
January I, 1890, to july |, 1879, $50,
On the anne date this voucher was APP
proved In reference 10 the New York courts:
To amount OF special expenses for clerks,
&C, In y, Y, district and municipal courts
from January /. 1899, TO July /, 1880, sljO.
There WIS a voucher, approved by Mr..
Robinson, for SO paid for special services
at the County Court House In Nassau county
on trial Of case before Judge Marean and
jury This was on September IS, lgO.
The next day brought forth a voucher for
an equal amount paid in Kings County
Court House for services Of clerk in prepara-
ton OF cases Tor trial
A voucher drawn Oh December 10, 1909,
showed that Mr.. Robinson himself had got
$500 for special services aud disbursements
in the County Court House In December ot
1900"
In December Of 1899 there was a similar
charge Of SluO for special disbursements aud
expenses IL county and city courts In that
month.
There was also a charge Of $751; in
December ~ 1898.
Here is a voucher Of the payment Of
tS4S Is TO K. c. Brown, Aston House 1.-THE
cigar dealer there):
February %. 1899 Special expenses At
County Court House, Sc, to January /, 1879,
1S457i
There Is another voucher for special
expenses at the County Court House show
ing a payment on January II, 1901, Of
til9.5O TO George l.. Storm n Co., the cigar
manufacturers. This voucher was drawn
on July II, 1899, and approved by John /,
Little, Jr.:
Bill OF Knox, hatters, for hats, &c. Check
10 order Of r. NJ. Knox, Sl73.li. Bill OF r. {.
Brown for cigars. Check to order Of H.. e.
Brown, sic Bill Of s. J Sullivan, cigars
and incidentals. Check to orders ). j. Sullivan,
Here Is another Knox hat voucher APP
approved by Little:
To amount paid IN fun settlement Of all
claims for services rendered by r.. II. Knox
III lut oWlItllt NOuIlH u tue lollONllk N"'H-
ties Kings. Queens, Westchester. Orange,
aud the United States Circuit Court.
There was apparently a distribution Of
the spring styles in 1899 when on March 81
this voucher was approved by Lawyer
Robinson:
To amount OF special expenses in New York
County Court House. .2j5.si, Check to Knox.
the halter.
Here Is an unexplained voucher Of April
4, 1899, approved by Robinson:
Especial services a. Court House forinve. SIS.
There was another payment Of t5l9,s3 to
Knox In March Of 1900. That makes a little
over 81, 500 that went presumably for hats
in two or three years,
The voucher for $50 which Alexander b.
Smith, then Justice Fursman's secretary,
signed on November 20, 1899, read:
For services rendered in settlement Of cases
and in the city Court and for expenses in
Cured therein.
Mr.. Smith denounced Tillinghast as a
scoundrel. He declared that this SIS had
come to him in payment Of a debt for bor-
rowed money which MIR. Little owed him.
He said there was $500 still outstanding on
the debt. Lawyer Pierce wanted to know
why the Metropolitan paid the $50, and Mr..
Smith said he didn't know.
AlOlUtI NOOCltI lOI Noot hdAFu huhioA "
1899, and approved by Little. merely says:
Paid A. B. Smith on account OF ". H.. Graus
for services rendered in Court House In June,
1895.
Smith denied he ever received this S35
| or that he had ever heard Of Graus.
Proceedings are now pending before
| Judge Scott in the Appellate Division to
determine whether Mr.. Smith shall be
removed as an a%ttendent. Mr., Pierce ac-
cused District Attorney Jerome OF having
i%nstigated these proceedings in the hope OF
getting a judgment which would further
discredit Tillinkhast's testimony while hear
ings on the jerome charges are on, Mr..
Jerome resented this and declared that
neither he nor anybody in his Office had had
anything to dc with starting the proceedings
against Smith.
Mr.. Jerome, when he objected to the intro
| duction Of the vouchers, said:
Il have never known Of the existence OF
these vouchers. II may be that the city
courts are ~debauched, II may be that the
| Metropolitan counsel ought all to be IN
iail, il may be that the officers Of the courts
were in league with them, but Mr.. Pierce
ought to connect these vouchers with some
/ thinE III the charges here
MY position is this, said Lawyer Pierce,
that when it comes before the attention
Of the District Attorney that a man has
sat in fifteen jury cases and not been i'm
panelled once, that when the clerks have
been putting him on the juries, when the
court clerks and attendants are in the
nav Of this company and when that same
| District Attorney had himself mentioned
the same corruption in his stump speech
and said he would trace il to its source when
such conditions exist, IL Ia inconceivable
TO me that a public prosecutor should say.
You must bring me face TO face with the
crime
I'VE will prove added Pierce, that
Mr.. Jerome, when he got the facts, throttled
an investigation. He knew OF these CON
ditions. He should have Investigated the
Tillinghast statement.
Miss Merritt, George Bagg's stenographer.
testified that Bagg had done work for the
METROPOLITAN Street Railway Company all
the time she was in his employ. That
apparently included the period when he
was also doing special work on a murder
case for the District Attorneys office. Miss
Merritt testified that Assistant District
Attorney Ely had called at Baggs Once
in Wall street three times to talk with
him about the murder case. District At
torney Jerome declared that Bagg and
his brother Stanley, who made the cor
roboratory affidavit and then reversed
himself, weren't on speaking terms at the
time Of the Seabnry inquiry.
The hearing will go on at 10 O'Clock tins
morning,
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