New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-20
c.vnor Severely CritiCiSeS Find
in1 Of indictment and Conduct
Of Case Against Former
City Chamberlain.
DpIIBLIC CLAM0R TO BLAME"
c;tv Executive Says a Few Cor
rupt Newspapers Influenced
Grand Jury-Whitman
Declares He Will
File an Appeal.

The announcement that the Appellate
nivision had signed an order yesterday
dismissing the indictment against
Charles H. Hyde, formerly City Cham
,srajn on which he was convicted of
bribery. brought forth a statement
from Mayor Gaynor, who severely
criticised the finding Of the original in
dctment and bitterly denounced the
conduct Of the case by Justice Goff. al
though he did not mention him by
rame
The Appellate Division ordered that
Mr.. Hyde's bail bond Of $4,000 he dis
CHARGED and that the defendant him.
self be discharged from custody.
The Mayor declared in his statement
that for the last twenty years men ac-
cused Of crimes had not been safe from
public clamor in the courts in New
York County. He spoke Of the delay in
sending Joseph G. Robin, who testified
against Hyde, to the penitent!ary, and
added that Robin had been seen dining
and v,ining in restaurants in the COM
pany Of a keeper.
1T is an awful thing if our prose-
cutting officers and our courts are TO
listen 10 and respond to clamOr," said
the Mayor In ancient times. when
clamor and the hue and cry was raised
against an accused man there were
certain sanctuaries or places Of refuge
10 which he could run and be safe from
the mob. Nobody could touch him
while he remained there.
Courts Here No Refuge.
We all thought that in our time the
place Of refuge for an accused man in
time Of clamor was our courts, and
that he would he safe from clamor
when he got there. But we all know
that that is certainly not true here in
this county Of New York. And ii has
not been true for twenty years. 1t is
high time that this thing be taken up
by our intelligent newspapers. If we
csnnot have a fair administration OF
Justice, then the rights and liberties Of
nobody are safe
OF the Hyde indictment the mayor
said
In response TO the clamor Of a few
corrupt newspapers the grand jury
was induced 10 father the Indictment
by bare majority, and it took long
Tine TO get this majority. And then II
was found that Of the thirty or forty
judges Of the upper courts hereabouts
only one among them all could be
found 10 stand for d trial under the in
dictment.
That one was found after much dill
gsnce. And y hen he got through con-
voting the defendant he coolly SAID
mat he was in grave doubt whether
there was any offence stated or shown.
Ihen ne just as cOolly locked the de-
iendant up in a cell for ten days be-
lore he granted the certificate of doubt
which the law required him 10 grant.
! do not think such a thing could
happen anywhere else in the civilized
World except in the country from
which this Judge emigrated when a
Young man. They had long used
'udges like him over there 10 cruelty
people in political cases.
II the public prosecutors and judges
'sh rig up case like this and send a
man 10 states prison W, is absolute
innocent Of anything wrong, who is
Ssie IN the community in times Of
'arnor: Every public official ought 10
Oe man enough 10 stand up like a rock
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