The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-23
QUEENS CRATER SENTENCED
.JORDtN GETS SIX MONTHS
AND IS FINED $3.50.
Had Pleaded Guilty 90 Prtty Larceny
while lie Was water Register There
Mere se> catrea indictments Against
Him Moves by other Indicted Men.

Wniar we W as WAFER HrRsssrs- su~Se
wer~ No., cair~n indictments Against
Him Moves by other Indicted Men.
Cornelius j. Jordan. former Water
Register in Queens. the first man TO be
indicted IN the graft hunt which began
last May and the first one Of more than
thirty under indictment 20 he placed
ON trial. was yesterday morning sentenced
to six months imprisonment in the Queens
county jail and to pay fine OF $3.50 by
Justice Garretson in the Queens County
Supreme Court. Long Island City.
Jordan was accompanied to court
by his wife and sisters. who hoped for a
suspension Of sentence following a plea
for clemency made by his attorney,
John r. Carew. Justice Garretson re-
piled that he thought Jordan received
all the leniency TO which he WAS entitled
when he was allowed to halt his trial
on a charge Of grand larceny and plead
guilty TO petty larceny. In passing SEN
tence Justice Garrctson said:
Il do not want TO make your positio on
any more difficult than IL really Ii OF to
add 10 your suffering. but this 10 no light
matter. do not agree with your counsel
and friends as TO light sentence salts
flying the ends Of Justice
The Justice referred 20 the lag method
by which the affairs Of the Water Depart
ment were administered and said;
There was a manifest inability on
your part to distin guish besw cen your
money and the city's money and the city's
money was appropriated from time TO
time with the utmost freedom
The fact that Jordan had made resti-
tuition. it 10 understood. had something
to do with the mitigation OF his sentence
Jordan. char ging that from time to time
he appropriated small sums from the
cash draw er In his department
In the afternoon James H johnson.
chief engineer in the bureau OF Sewers,
against whom an indictment was returned
a few days ago, charging conspiracy TO
defraud the city in the building OF pri-
vafe sewer ut the taxpayers expense
for "A church in Ridgewood. surrendered
himself and was released in 81 coo bail
by Justice kapper.
Following an q e gument between Deputy
Attorney General Arthur c. Train and
Eugene y L. Young over the setting OF
date for the trial Of Frank II Burke. former
general foreman in the First ward OF
Queens. against whom twenty seven m
dictments are pending. Justice Garretson
agreed TO dev ote two weeks OF the January
term to trials on the graft indictments.
Mr. Train is 10 submit a calendar OF cases
for the week beginning January ."
James NJ Osborne. representing Munic-
inal Justice John NJ Craxen. who has
twelve indictments against thin charging
grand larceny in connection with the
raising Of the vouchers for purchases
OF postage stamps from IS to 80 while
Crggan vs. ~ secretary TO President Gresser.
moved before Justice Garretson for per
mission TO inspect the Grand jury minutes
and also to have the indictments set aside.
Mr. Train argued in opposition to the
motions. and Justice Garretson gave
both sides five days in which TO submit
briefs.
The number Of indictments against
former Under sherry John " Phillips
was reduced from nine 70 aeven when
OF his own motion Mr. Train appeared
before Justice Harper and requested
that two indictments in which Phillips
was charged Jointly with his brother.
Joseph r Phillips. with defrauding the
city. he Dismissed 40 far ~ they related
10 tho former under sheriff Mr. Train
told the Court that he was unable 70 find
evidence TO warrant the joint finding.