The herald., 1912-08-15


life and property in the city by bring
ing all offenders before the bar of JUS /
tice and prosecuting them with zeal and
intelligence.
IAN inexperienced, and not specially !
capable. but honest and well-intention-
ed person in that important office will
be able to accomplish but little for the
public good, because his movements
would be handicapped or even complete
ly stopped by difficulties that would be
easily surmounted by a truly able man.
THE Office in the hands of an I'M
principled man might easily operate to
obstruct the course of justice, or be
used to secure personal or private ends.
1T is easy, then, to see how all i'm
portant it is that this office, which has
been proved to be the sword and bull
wark of justice in several of the great
cities of the country, should be occupied
by one of the ablest and honest crimi-
nal lawyers that the bar of New Orleans
can produce
Such an one is the present incum-
bent. 1t has been long since the city
had an ADLER man in the place, and it
never had one more devoted to the
work before him. This man is Chand-
Ter c. Gutenberg. He is one of the re-
cognized leaders of the criminal bar,
having enjoyed large special practice,
extending through a number of years,
and when he took the Office to succeed
his lamented predecessor, who had been
stricken down by the hand of a MUIR
derer, he found justice so Frustrated by
the audacity and success of the blow
that he was confronted with a hercu-
lean task of re-establishing the reign
of law and assuring protection and or
der for the city and it's people. The
people not only owe to him some re-
cognition of his distinguished services,
but they owe it to their own safety.
That his management of the office
has been entirely unselfish and solely
in the interest of the community is
shown by the fact that Immediately on
taking charge of the Office Mr.. Luzen.
berg at once employed an extra assist
ant, paying him out of his own pocket
This gave him an assistant in each Of
the four courts-two paid by the State
and two paid by him-and permitted
him to devote his time to important
cases. Furthermore, he has not hest
tated, whenever it was necessary for
the successful management of cases, tc
go to personal expense. Finding the
dock is congested when he took charge
of the office, some of the prisoners hav
ing been in Jail awaiting trial over g
year, he has cleared the docket so that
now any prisoner can be tried inside of
sixty days, thus doing more work in
one year than was done in the three
years preceding.
Il For the first time in years he has
Civ n us a District Attorney who doe:
not hesitate to go himself at once t.
the scene of the crime (and this is per
haps the real secret of the conviction
in the Aspara case) and under his man
agement almost every important cas-,
tried has resulted in a conviction
. While the work done has been brillian
in it's success, the management of the
, Office has been conservative and not sen
sational, and solely in the interest o
the community.
"The idea that such an Office in this
emergency may be made the subject o
a political deal should not be counte
! nanced for moment, but should be re
!. scented by the people whose public safe
6 ty is at stake"