The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-09
One-Third of Audience
Cheers; Others Hiss
and Snarl.
PROCEEDINGS ARE
GREATLY MIXED UP
County Lawyer and an Eighty
Year-Old Justice of Peace
Manage to Tangle Things
Up-Jerorne Leaves for
New York in His
Automobile.
Especial to The Times-pIspntch. J


Coaticook. Quebec. September -
william Travers Jerome. special
deputy attorney general OF New York
State. tonight was triumphantly ac-
quilted OF the charge OF being a com
mon gambler, brought against him by
Thaw sympathizers.
Mr.. Jerome walked from the uttlo
Coaticook courtroom at S:3O o'clock n
free man. He left immediately for
Island Pond. Vt. where he got his car
and started back to New York by
motor.
Apologies and Hisses.
Before he discharged Sir. jerome,
Magistrate Henry w. Muivena apollo
gized TO him In the name oc the Do
minion. Mr. Jerome replied SO fair
ly and 30 ternperately that one third
OF tho TheW adherents present cheer
cd him as he walked from the court
room.
The rest Of the crowd that pressed
into the little courtroom glowered at
him. Some few Missed. and from the
rear OF the room from group OF
roughly clad laborers came an animal
like snarl. which the venerable mag
istrate quelled merely b. turning his
strongly chiseied face in that dircc-
tion.
"Rniirondcd Whitcwnshing.,
Magistrate Mulvena had taken
charge OF the case over the head OF
Justice Of the Peace Mckee. Jerome's
enemies were SO incensed AT this that
they procured the absence OF the com
piainant. the constable who had made
The arrest, and the records OF the
preliminary hearing.
This was to prevent what they term
ed the "railroaded whitcwashing" or
Jerome. Thesc records were produced
AT the night session. only after tnreats
by Crown Prosecutor Hanson TO pre-
fer charges against JOSEPH Beaulne, an
attorney paid by the citizens OF the
town TO prosecute their grucge against
Jerome.
Court I-SpreSscs Regret.
In discharging Mr. Jerome Magis-
trate Mulvena said.
Sir. every right minded man In
Canada deeply regrets. even feels
humiliated, at the indignity which has
been placed upon you in the name OF
tho law. This was incXcusable In law.
md. in fact, the evidence gives no
justification whatever for the charge
against you, or the indiynities when
ycu have suffered.
II believe. sir, under all the circum-
stances. you Will not attribute the az
front which has been offered to YOU
while in a friendly country, while in
the legitimate discharge OF your
duties. to our law or the normal equit-
able administration OF our laws.
Sir, you are honorably acquitted"
Jerome Has Enjoyed stny.
There was complete silence in the
courtroom. jerome arose. advanced 4
step or two. and, with bow to the
magistrate, said:
May ] say that 1 have been re-
ceived in Sherbrooke. and in your beau
tiful cities OF Montreal and Quebec, and
even in Coaticook by those whose
opinions and judgments 1 value. and
whose judgments your lordship values
with Infinite courtesy and gentleness.
These people are the true representa-
tives of His Majesty's government.
II believe even these who have been
intemperate have been misled by not
understanding Their actin was nor
due to malevnience. but moro to ig-
norance OF things about which they
knew nothing. I firmly believe that
will always treasure the memory OF my
trip here. There was something OF hu-
initiation, but I am grateful for what
you have said
Afterwards Mr. Jerome sTnilingiy re-
ceived the congratulations Of his at
torneys. Samuel w. Jacobs. Jacob~Nicol
and Hector Verret, and shool: hands
with his assistant, Franklin Kennedy.
and the newspaper men.
Natives Tic Up Cnne.
A country lawyer. Joseph Beaulnc.
and an eighty yearold justice OF the
peace, James Mckee, so mixel up the
hearing in the case against Jerome this
afternoon that District Magistrate
Henry Mulvena, who had come here
from Sherbrooke by automobile.
twenty-three miles, for the purpose,
refused to preside. and adjournment
tsrht
Ave minutes counsel wrangled and
hurled suggestions Of crooked work.
Jerome smiled, the crowd in the court
room alternately stamped and hissed,
and Magistrate Mulvena declared he
had been brought here under false
DretenseS
Jerome had come to Coaticook from
case set for hearing on Thursday, Sep
tember IL, had been advanced to to-
day, and that the justice OF the peace.
Mckee, who signed the original COM
plant, had agreed that Magistrate Null
vena should preside.
Accompanying Jerome was Samuel
Jacobs one of tho most eminent law :
yers OF tho Dominion. who had been
retained by the State of New York in
the Thaw case. When the crowd
jammed its way into the little court
ROOM about 4:30 o'clock. neither side
was willing to produce any formal
statement from Justice Mckee that he
had authorized Magistrate Mulvena to
sit, the complainant, Milford Aldrich
could not be found, and John Andrews.
the constable who arrested Jerome,
was missing.
Complications Arise.
Complications arose as soon as Mag
istrate Mulvcna asked whether Justice
Mckee had formally authorized the
magistrate to preside.
mo. not formally" said A. C. Han
son. Joint prosecutor. Last night he
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