The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-25
TEsTY- SPEAKING, BUT SLOPPY

good deal of admiration is eX-
pressed in some Of the Eastern news
papers for a New York magistrate
named Krotel, who delivered a severe
lecture TO Thomas M. Sherman, son Of
Vice President Sherman, not for over
speeding in his automobile, but for
disturbing Krotel in the night. 1t is
said that this magistrate is a shining
illustration of the fallacy that judges
need TO be recalled because of their fa-
voritism for one class as against an
other; that as long as there are such
Judges as krotel on the bench, the
people are safe, and no favorites will
be played And yet an analysis of
that case entirely dissipates the idea
that Krotel is stiff backed Judge, or
that he is disposed in any way to be
bulwark of protection to the people.
The case is this Young Sherman is
said to be in the habit of spending his
nights luridly, and rushing about in
his ear with meteoric speed Usually
he is able to distance and defy the
policemen. But the other night he was
taken in by "myrmidou of the law, -
and rushed to the police station at two
o clock in the morning. Arrived there,
he announced has impatience at delay,
and demanded to be released at once,
on bail. There was no one there au-
thorized to take bail for him, and so
young Sherman called up the Judge by
telephone and demanded his presence
so that he could offer bail and be re-
lieved. The judge refused to appear,
and in the morning read lecture 10
young Sherman. 1T is reported as fol.
lows:
your counsel arc the persons who called
me up AT o'clock this morning 10 tell me
that the Vice Presidents son had been
arrested Id like to have YOU understand
that I don't care If the Vice President or
the President himself was arrested, am
not 10 he disturbed in my sleep after
hard days work on the bench. sirsi
want YOU TO understand that if ! could
find out who II was who called me from
my sleep | would have them punished.
Prisoner repr!manded.
IT appears from this that Judge
Krotel based his resentment, not in
the least upon Sherman s violation of
the law, but upon his intrusion upon
the privacy of the Judge at his home.
This Judge Krotel evidently considers
the real offense, and he announced that
be did not want anybody TO interfere
with his slumbers or disturb his rest
that he was entitled 10 sleep after
hard day' s work on the bench, and
that he resented the idea that he could
be called at any hour Of the night TO
meet the supposed needs of the son of
the Vice President or of the Vice
President himself, or even of the Pres
ldent. This, in Judge Krotel's mind,
was evidently Sherman S great trans.
gression. AS TO the real offense for
which he had been arrested, Krotel
seemed to care nothing about it Al
though Sherman was an old offender,
although he is in tho habit Of frequent
" doing the thing for which he was ar
rested. the utmost severity that Kro.
tel could apply was reprimand, and
upon getting this Young Sherman was
free TO 90 about his business and ''burn
the air. with his speed AT any time
that he saw fit.
Such stiffbacked Judges as Krotel
are an offense to right-thinking peo-
pie. II was his own sacred privacy
that he resented the intrusion upon.
and he seemed to care little or moth.
ing about the real offense that Sher~
man had committed. He had violated
the Law, to he sure, but that was moth
ing; his great crime was in wanting
Judge Krotel TO appear at two clock
in the morning so that he could give
bail; and out Of such trumpery basis
as this a reputation is sought TO be