Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
JULY "a, 1910
'ROSEY QUITS THE BAR

years pfdctlceu law IN the ESSeA MAI
ket court, and was for many years
president of the Essex Market Bar
association. has quit.
Within the tasteful apartment he
calls home "Rosey the Lawyer" other
wise Hyman Rosenheim, ceased long
enough from playing pinochle to say:
''It is perfectly true, and 1 at the age .
of Ga will retire from the Essex bar to
engage with my nephew, Charley Henis
of 1920 West Twenty-third street, in
the clothing, cloak and furring busi-
ness
1.-THE law amt what 1t used to be-"
he explained with an air of disillusion-
ing gently. "Born In the Province of
Posen, Germany, I came to this coun-
try in 1871 at the age of 25, or maybe
26. Soon I entered upon the study of
the law. l amt so old but what l
we'll my first case remember. lady
client had fallen down stairs and had
sustained Internal injuries.
"a banana skin was on the staircase.
The defense sought and besought to
prove that the banana skin had been
placed on the stairs subsequent to her
fall and not consequent to it. They
dastardly claimed that she had pur-
posely, willfully, maliciously and ir-
relevantly. herself dropped or caused
to fall the banana skin the stairs upon.
"I succeeded after a long battle, In
which at one time had seventeen law
books stacked in front of me, in intro
ducing in evidence the fact that my
client did not like bananas and there
fore could not have dropped the banana
skin. I won the case, $14 and modest
fame.
But that was long time ago, and
nowadays we do not have such cases.
'Look at things now. Everything
on a business basis. The younger
policemen first demanded SO per cent
of the fees, and then rs. Finally, some
of them decided they'd keep it all. So
now they hire young lawyer for ~
a week, work him day and night and
keep ali of the fees. / can't prove this,
but I'm morally certain of 1t.
''The older generation of policemen,
which started along about the time L
did, were good fellows IL once a week
you should hand them II cigar and say,
Have one on me- We nave these DAYS
a lot of people gathered in by the
police, and 1t is raus with them quick.
The individualism, the consideration
of each case at length and the review
ing of 1t in its various aspects Is ali
gone Maybe in the supreme court II
fingers yet, but not IN the lower
courts.
"I was the first to introduce law for
the masses. 1 was the first to introduce
case I took. Each case had my ind1-
vidual attention. I spared no pains.
In a single case 1 compiled book or
All pages supplementing ''McGroarty
on Assault with Intent to KILL and
won the case and $71. That was may
be my largest single fee."
"Rosey" then dropped into reminis-
cence. For a while he was in the fur
business. Asked why he did not go
into the fur business now, since ne
would know something about that to
start with, he said:
"Acha. not now The business has
changed SO since those days that l
wouldn't know it, They make blue fox
furs now out of maltese cat hides, and
most of the Russian pony stuff is moth
ing but nanny goat hide. They've got
dyeing down so fine now they could
'bunco' me. No, I stay with the cloaks
and suits. My nephew will tip me off
honest about things in that"
"Rosey" was serving as attorney for
a man who said he had been assaulted.
Having got his client on the stand, he
asked him solemnly:
Were you there when you got h1t?'
Shouldn't my eye speak for itself?
answered the client peevishly.
Judge Duffy was there when it was
the fashion for women to wear bangs"
went on "Rosey." Judge Duffy hated
them bangs. Every time a woman
comes up before him with them on, no
matter what she is charged with, he
sends her to the island for six months.
But me, fixed up some paste, which
keeps in my Office and when I get a
client with bangs on makes her paste