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enc law to the poor.and another TO the rich.
During this attack Lawyer Pierce moved
70 what followed s s Mhsn Sa1 NJ " jerome turned turned
and squarely facing him said:
would not have minded these proceedings
II I could have had something concrete.
II there hadn't been 30 much muddls headed
meas. II there had been something that wasn't
q Jellyfish.
Explaining his conduct in the .Metropoli-
>tan jury fixing proceedings before Judge
Seabury Mr. Jerome said:
left the proceedings because thought
Judge Seabury was acting like q cad, and he
was. l believe that the proceedings were
the most remarkable exhibition Of judicial
incompetenoy | ever saw. Everything that
could be put In was put In. and yet Judge
Seabury couldn't find a cause for holding
McCabe, the Metropolitan lawyer. ! had q
right to withdraw from the proceedings.
There was no reason why should stay and
witness farce. There was no reason why
/ should witness the humiliating spectacle
OF Court brazenly playing to yellow Journal
ism.
Mr.. jerome characterized some OF Lawyer
Pierce's statements as the lucubrations OF
q muddleheaded mind. He declared that
thC ihdh WIN Wouto piocOShbo thiC ulC'io-
politan lawyers on the testimony Of the
crooks who made aff1davits should indeed
be removed from office.
1t was in connection with the case against
George W. Perkins that MIR. Jerome re-
ferred to Judge O'Sullivan. He was speak
which Judge OSullivan handed down in
reply to the we'll known hypothetical ques-
ton submitted by Mr. Jerome "In those
instruotions,' said Mr. jerome, II was sure
l recognized the style Of another man;
am sure that there was the style Of another
Jerome said again: There was a startling
similarity between the instructions issued
by Justice Goff and those issued by Judge
O'Sullivan, 80 striking as to be among the
extraordinary condolences one meets in
life.'
The instructions from Judge O'Sullivan
and later from Judge Goff told the Grand
Jury practically 10 go on and investigate
the Perkins case, regardless of Mr.. Jerome.
Mr.. jerome never presented the evidence.
Right here Mr.. Jerome spoke Of the coward
ice OF the Judiciary in New York county,
saying:
Here was Morgan's partner Perkins and
the yellow papers were yapping. l have
seen no more humiliating spectacle since
the Aldermen scandal Of 1884 than this
cowardice when these matters are con-
cerned. Why, within six weeks have seen
the newspapers have attacked him The
judges upstate have got some nerve your
Honor, but have no conception OF what 1t is
like down there"
Mr., Jerome admitted frankly that it
wasn't his purpose to convict Perkins in
bringing his action In the police court. 1t
was to get definite ruling on the law He
challenged Pierce to cite one single fact
which might have been put in his moving
papers against Perkins that was omitted.
Pierce, he said, would have had him 60 at
Perkins in that bloodhound fashion. But
Mr.. Jerome was a different breed of pups.
Mr.. jerome took up practically the entire
day. Lawyer Pierce filed his brief and will
have his say before the commissioner to-
morrow.
Lawyer Pierce in his brief asked for
District Attorney Jerome 8 removalupon the
principles laid down by Gov. Hughes in his
removal Of Borough President Ahearn.
Mr.. Pierce held that Mr.. Jeromes atti-
tude toward the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way jury fixing cases alone warranted his
argy' of the District Attorneys office in
the first four months after the jury fixing
charges were made with the activity which
Immediately followed the announcement
that Judge Seabury was going to make
an investigation in the City Court. Then
got very busy. but on the other side Of the
fence.
Mr.. Jerome's spat with Judge Seabury
and his withdrawal from the case were
characterized in Lawyer Pierce 9 brief as the
elimination of the "insolence and shame
lessness of William Travers Jerome He
said:
Here we have a public official as widely
known in our whole country as any man out
side OF the President or the Governor Of our
State who had just been elected 10 the Office
0f District Attorney in a which a
tracted wide attention Fond fathers held
him up to their boys as a model OF public
virtue. The continuance OF such a man in
office, when he has disgraced that Office will
bring untold evil Will any thoughtful man
fail to see that a public prosecutor for over
1000 900 OF people who conducts himself a.
Mr.. jerome did before Justice Seabnry. who
mocks at morals who lacks convictions, who
sneers at all these things. is a corrupter oI
every boy in our city. liz an example of cvi
and Is untit for the high office he holds?
II this young man had been possessed oil
the real qualities OF mind and heart which
ought to be possessed by a District Attor.
ney his nights would have been haunted with
visions of mutilated men: of posr womer
widowed by the death of husbands, Of paliC
children moaning for their lost fathers: of al
the scenes Of misery and Indebtedness which
the negligence OF this great railway have
brought upon this community.
In regard to Mr.. Jerome's conduct of the
campaign contribution casa against George
w. Perkins Mr.. Pierce held that the Dis
trict Attorney in the police court proceed
ings omitted practically NIL Of the damaging
facts from the affidavits and made the
defendants own testimony as to his homes,
intont the basis Of his proceedings Sale
Mr.. Pierce:
He destroyed the proceedings in SC
doing. We say it was misconduct on hif
part 80 to do and no one knew better than
MIR. Jerome the falsty Of such sworn state.
ments by Mr.. Jerome"
Mr.. Pierce characterized Mr.. Jerome
statement to the April, 1907, Grand Jury
as an effort to plant the seed of prejudice
in the soil of suspicion" In this state.
ment Mr.. Jerome suggested that there was
IA bitter conflict between the Harrima II
and the Morgan interests.
In regard to the Wall and Cortland,
q rect ferries deal Mr.. Pierce contended
that the Anthony n, Brady testimony
alone. with such facts ~ Mr.. jerome
could easily have ascertained without
availing himself Of the testimony-of Thomas
+. Ryan. was sufficient for him to have
procured indictments against Mr.. RYAN
and probably against Thomas Doan and
p. A. b. Widener for grand larceny. Mr.
Pierce could conceive OF nothing worse
than the District Attorneys action in
inviting +. X. Thomas to dine with him
shortly before Thomas was indicted and
suggesting that he retain ex-,JIistice Davy
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