New-York tribune., 1912-07-13
TEN LAWYERS UNDER FIRE
Cases of Eight Sent to Referees
for Hearings.
BAR ASSOCIATION CHARGES
Imperatori Suspended for Year
Robinson Gets No Stay
New Snitkin Allegation.

The Appellate Division yesterday as
signed the cases Of eight lawyers. against
whom charges have been filed. to referees
for hearings The court suspended Regi-
nald A. Imperatori from practice for enc
wear and refused to grant to Henry 4.
Robinson, formerly general counsel of the
METROPOLITAN Street Railway Company, a
stay of the order OF his disbarment pend
ing a Court Of Appeals review. The court
also granted the motion of the Bar Asso-
citation to amplify the charges pending
against Justice Leonard A. Snitkin, OF the
municipal court
The attorneys against whom charges
have been made are NJ. Francis Keenay'
Louis Cohen. Martin Zatulove. William Is.
Singer Frederick W. Kristeller, Reno X.
Ellington, William 2. Buchler ana Ernest
NJ Welch.
Welch, It was alleged. went TO Bridge
mort Conn. after the New Haven road
train wreck OF July Il. 1911, represented
himself as "A relative Of one Of the Injured
passengers and obtained permission TO
visit the victims. While they were suffer
ing from their injuries and under the IN
fuence Of drugs he obtained from seVeIdi
oft hem written retainers as cOunsel III
actions TO be brought against the rallEodu
company. He is accused OF having IN
structed his clients to give the impression
that they had been injured more seriously
than they really had been. TO felsn heIP-
lessness and cXaggerate their injuries "
any one inquirng as 10 their cohdi''oh'
II was also charged that he had written 10
tho family OF a man who lost his HE IN
tho accident. saying that he could recover
ton times as much as could be recovered
directly from the company. Welch denied
,ha charges and said all the retaincrs were
signed voluntarily.
Singer was one of three lawyers accused
of practising deceit on the court. In max
ing application for admission to the oar III
1909 he said that he had spent three years
after his eighteenth year In the ID" o'''e
Of Zatulove. who is also under chdFeeS'
Zatuloye made an affidavit swearing 10 the
truth of this statement. which 1t was al
legged was untrue.
Kr,stellar IL is set forth. also deceived
the court I'm applying for admission 10 the
bar hy representing himself OF Good Chd' 70
acter. although, the charges assert, he was
convicted in 1893. in the federal court III
Brooklyn. on the charge Of perjury ana
sentenced TO three and half years I'M
prisonment and to pay fine of al
The charge against Kenney Is that ne
received $50 for a claim against the re-
ceivers of the Metropolitan Street Railway
Company and retained the money.
Ellington is on the carpet for his alleged
advice to a client to conceal himself while
he was in Philadelphia and the New YORK
police were trying to arrest him on an
Indictment The client was Charles r.
State A letter was found which II was
said Ellington wrote to State telling MIN
that Detective Bernard McConvlle had a
warrant for his arrest. The lawyer added
III | had one or two hundred dollars,
think could get him TO lay down on the
warrant and not do very much hunting
DO you happen to have any influential
friends in Tammany7' Ellington said that
he had no wrong intentions and do not
know that a warrat was out for state.
Cohe is under the charge that ne de-
manded "unconscionable and eNorbitant
fees from Berthold A Rich, young client
who inherited a large estate and tried "a
hypothecate part Of II. engaging tohen to
get loan for him. Cohen was compelled
by the Supreme Court TO return 10 kich
$500 OF the money that he charged Rich.
Imperatori was suspended for trying 20
obtain a reduction OF property assess
ment for a client on "A basis Of ~ per cent
for himself OF the amount saved.
Counsel for Justice Snitkn objected 10
the Introduction Of testimony tending %
show the mistreatment by the justice Of
one Marx because this complaint was not
included in the original charges. The Bar
Association received permission 10 file the
Marx complaint.