The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-19
PREPARE TO FIGHT
NEW DECISION IN
HANDKERCHIEF WAR
Opinion of County Counsel
Clashes With That OF For
mer Attorney-General.
SAY CONTRACTOR WILL
DEFY RULING OF BOARD
Lawyer Declares Edict Is "Pre-
posterous" and Impossible
to Garry Out.

Developments today in the prison
Handkerchief contract matter reveal
the fact tfat the opinion of County
Counsel Mum, to the effect that each
convict made handkerchief must be SO
stamped, as told exclusively in the
evening edition of the STAR yester-
day, is in direct confliction with sthe
ruling of former Attorney General Rob-
ert H. McCarter. and confirmed in Au-
..... last by the present Attorney Cen
eral, Edmund Wilson. The Mum opin-
ion has aroused Statewide interest.
Both Attorney Generals McCarter and
Wilson, according to Frederick Lehl-
bach, counsel for Jerome schwerin, the
contractor, whose contract includes the
State Prison at Trcnton. as we'll as the
Essex County Penitentiary, decided that
the requirements of the law were lived
Up to by the stamping or tagging of the
bundles Of convict-made handkerchiefs,
Instead Of stamping each individual
handkerchief, as Mr.. Mum insists. 1t
was under the Attorney Generals opin-
ions that the contractor was turning
out the work, said Mr.. Lohlbach, and
the contractor was surely innocent OF
any violation of the statute II such
construction be placed upon the matter.
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ahu 'he County Vi
Lenipach 10 Siffe repoi'e "os %.
tered into with the Understanding that
the stamping of the bundles would SUI
fee. Now comes the opinion OF the
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tney ho" f-',.-,,,.--
WORKS a harusnii,, - % al ainsVRs,D'.sss' =.
upon the contrectors Who wants 70 nuS
: ma carry 1sndkHrchief *tamlfcd 90
HAT if il known f6 have been made
IN z,,risnna 1ynaafna your sfster or
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ana sucn state Oh aiiails o.liino' - oA'''
IN any cNlilNeu Iol,,inu
County counseI MUM was asAea oy
a STAR reporter "netner 'ne oou..y
=
CONTRACT ana ne repilea Ina. ina. was
matter Tor the boaru oi rreehoiuers
as a BODY TO act upon at tne messing
which is scheduled for december .. ne
reiterated his confidence IN havhs
made a proper construction OF the Jaw
in his opinion insisting that each haiiu-
lserchief be stamped.
Mr.. Schwerin was IN trenton tooay
and could not be seen, put ms counsel,
Mr. Lehlbacn, when asked py SIAN
reporter II 1t was true tnat tne con-
tractor INTENDED TO appear 10 Chiei JUS.
tlce Guipmere for Writ ol. cerliorari
70 review the action OF Tue county
prisons committee. taken yesterday
afternoon, lntlmaled that such al. ac-
tion mlgnt pe attempted, pu. Ina. ne
would not know denniteiy until tonish.'
wnen ne "ouio cohier iu' enei WIN iiis
clent.
IN the event "a 'pe ,eView proeeeu
ings peins oenieu Wy 'ne 1niei !us.so
or apahooneo ny you' anu 'iie 'hsi'.
ence py the county 'na' vi. oon~ ".,' On ~
live up TO the contract VIVA. WIN MI
Scnwerln resort TO Mr. Leiiipach was
asked
why, IN that case repiea MT. LEM
back, we would simply 'thro" up the
sponge. as IT We're; we wound smut
down the FACTORY at the CaidWeii peni-
tentiary and take our chances at law
II the county brought an action TOT
failure to comply with the contract.
We have no fear or the outcome OF such
suit, as the present status OF the
affair very clearly let's out the con-
tractor, unless my client should elect to
assent to compliance with the Mum
opinion. which he most assuredly VIII
not do Think of turning out an article