The Detroit times., 1909-07-22
CURR|E CASES
UP TO JEFFR|Es
Attorneys Will File Briefs and
Courts Decision Follow Soon
Hearing Devoid of Fireworks.

Without disturbing single air
molecule in the court room, and with
out the slightest approach toward
setting any turbulent sound waves in
motion. the Cameron Currie cases.
growing out OF Police Justice Stems
long graLd jury sessions. passed peace
fully away In Justice Jeffries' court
room. Thursday noon.
No. the cases are not finished; they
are simply to be classed as hearing
completed, decision deferred"
To one who was not watching with
extreme care. the passing OF the cases
would hardly have been apparent. Not
once did the vibrant voice of Prosecu-
tor Aldrich rise In noisy argument.
Not once did he point with scorn" at
any "shivering defendant" Never did
the attorneys for the defendants raise
their voices in argument.
But Cameron Currie. Louis II. Case
and Michael J. Bourke are all through
with their preliminary hearing on the
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
general public.
And sometime. soon after scanning
a few hundred sheets of testimony.
which no one seems to know, at pres
ent. anything at all about, Justice
Jeffries will announce his decision.
Harvey Miller took the witness
stand, Thursday morning, and said
that he had bought stock that wasn't
ever delivered. Somehow, 1t appears
that that same condition OF affairs, as
reported by several customers Of
Cameron Currie & Co., Is responsible
for all the trouble that Currie, Case
and Bourke have been put to. compel
ing their frequent appearance in court
with attorneys.
There will be something about those
matters In the papers that Justice JEFF
fries intends to read. sometime before
or after July q. There will also be
several sheets of figures dealing with
sales Of stocks, and margins. and
shorts" and longs" and. quite fire.
quently, the word broker" will occur.
Several times during the session
held by the quiet. peaceful gentlemen
In Justice Jeffries court room the
question What Is a broker?" was
swer IL, so II will probably be put
into those papers for Justice Jeffries
to look over, together with the other
stuff that no one seems to know much
about.
Justice Jeffries. though, seems to
have some sort OF a plan in connec-
ton with the papers. which he re-
ferred to as briefs" He explained
the plan quite iucidly.
It seems that Justice Jeffries got
tired of hearing the men In the court
room talking, when nobody seemed
TO know what to talk about, SO he told
some OF them to write everything out
for him, according to the way they
each understood 1t, and then he would
read 1t all over. and let them know
quite soon how he understood 1t. BY
st." 1t Is understood, he meant the
stock that wasn't delivered, and some
checks that some people gave to some
of those unclassified articles called
brokers.
It was right In the midst of gen.
eral conversation of social nature,
apparently, about nothing In particu-
lar, that Justice Jeffries interrupted
and said:
Now, I'm going to adjourn this
case against Currie. Case and Bourke,
the general conspiracy case, until July
81. The other cases have been adj
journed to that date. and this case
seems to cover all the points In the
other cases. want these cases closed
UP as quickly as possible. and l think
the best way is for the attorneys for
the defense to submit briefs On the
law and the facts, according to their
ideas. Then the prosecutor Will also
submit his briefs about the law and
the facts, and I'll look them all over"
But just as he finished telling the
attorneys that the briefs must all be
filed by July q, Attorney Frazer wav-
ed a telegram and said 1t called him
out of town, SO he couldn't get mis-
brief In by July q.
Then Justice Jeffries told Attorney
Frazer to get the brief in as soon as
he could. but when all of the other
lawyers started to talk again, insisting
that they wanted to understand about
the adjournment and the briefs. JUS
tice Jeffries hurried away from his
seat on the high platform and said
that the case was adjourned to July
q. anyway, and not to forget the
briefs.
Then the quiet men all walked out
of the courtroom, and somebody said.
THANK Heaven, that's over"
But 1t seems that II isn't really over,
a flor all