New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-22
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foundly read. despite his educational
limits. lawyers say, In the criminal law.
A fudge once said Of him that he had the
criminal code in his head. His hobby
was rowing. boat racing and swimming.
Exonerated by Appellate Division.
Early in January. 1904. the late Cap
tain F. Norton Goddard, then head of the
Anti Policy Society. preferred charges
AGAINST Magistrate Tighe before the APP
pellate Division in Brooklyn. The cap
tain alleged that Tighe had been guilty
of wilfu failure to enforce the law
against policy playing. and that when
the agents Of the society brought prison
crs before him he discharged them. say
ing that the arrests, not having been
made on warrants, were Illegal. The
Appellate Division appointed former
Judge George G. Reynolds referee TO near
the charges. Mr. Reynolds reported that
the testimony he had taken practically
sustained the charges against the magis-
trate. asserting that there had been
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struction to the proper administration
Of justice.
The court decided. however, that
Magistrate Tighe had not been corrupt.
but had shown errors Of Judgment, and
that nothing had been shown to consti-
tute grounds for his removal from the
bench. William J. Carr. now Justice.
defended Tighe
When Police Commissioner Bingham
went to Brooklyn, in January. 1906. To
try an inspector and captain for neg
lect of duty in falling to suppress pool
room In Remsen street. which had been
closed in a raid over their heads. the
landlord said that the man complained
of had given him a letter Of recon-
mendation from Magistrate Tighe Tighe
said that ne had known the man only a
short time and. having believed that ne
wns a real estate broker. had given him
the letter.
Active in Brooklyn Politics.
Tighe was born in Manhattan on De-
A CemDeT 0l, 1870 -NltcI dttVh'''s 49,
public schools he entered the law office
OF former Judge Thomas Troy. In Brook
lyn, where his family had settled. He
became active In the politics OF the old
| 10th Ward Of Brooklyn. Of which the re-
doubtable Alderman McGarry. known as
''Pudgy." was the Democratic leader.
With the passing OF the alderman Tighe
became the political lieutenant and gen.
eral adviser Of j. Morrissey Gray, an
under sheriff OF Kings County. who sue
ceeded McGarry. and who now Is the
| leader of the Sth Assembly District.
From 1877 to 1889 Tighe represented
DE Ate" OF Brooklyn in the Assembly.
He was there when Theodore Roosevelt
first entered the Assembly. and they sat
side by side In 1883 he was appointed
police Judge in the old City of Brooklyn.
and was reappoInted by Mayor Van
Wyck the first Mayor Of the consoli
dated city. and also by Mayor Mcclellan.
Mayor Gaynor. despite the appeals OF
Mr.. McCooey and all the influence Tighe
could command, refused to reappoint
him. Louis II. Reynolds, formerly Dep
uty Police Commissioner of Brooklyn.
was named on May ! to fill Tighe' 8
place. 1t was terrible blow to Tighe,
but McCooey and Tighe's other friends
| got him appointed as counsel In the ex-
else Office. 1t was not what Tighe
! wanted.
For time Judge Tighe was associ-
ated in the law business with Robert n.
Eide, First Assistant District Attorney
Of Kings County. In 1915 he founded
the Varuna Boat Club, of Sheepshead
/ Bay, and was its first president. He
was a member Of the Sheepshead Bay
| Rowing Club, Of rowing clubs in The
Bronx, and always attended the regattas
on the Harlem. He was so interested in
rowing that he presented shells to sew
eral young men who professed fond
ness for that sport.
The funeral of Judge Tighe will he
held on Wednesday in the Church Of Our
Lady Of Mercy, in Schermerhorn street
Brooklyn, and the burial will be in
Greenwood Cemetery beside his wife
Ellen who dropped dead ten years ago
Mr.. Tighe leaves three sons. William
who is i'm the Registers office I'm Brook
| lyn: James. who is a special policeman
! AT the Bush stores. and Joseph. and three
daughters. Mary Tighe. Mrs. William A
Fischer and Mrs. Dasso Shultz. OF
Watermill. Long Island.
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