The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-23
JUDSON=COUGHLIN CONTROVERSY AT
 AN ACUTE STAGE
Statement By the City Court Judge Which Brings Rejoinder From States Attorney
 JudSOn

States Attorney Stiles Judson sent 1 to The Farmer today statement in
 reply to the one which appeared in
 a local paper this forenoon by city court Judge Thomas c. Coughlin. Judge Coughlin among other things charged that the States Attorney had been -dereIict in not attending to his
 duties States Attorney. The con troversy was precipitated by an in terview with MT. Judson which ap- peared in local afternoon newspa- per yesterday. Judge Coughlin re-
 piled to the Judson interview in the morning newspaper today. Here is what Judge Coughlin said:
 My answer to States Attorney Jud- son is, that he is a disgrace to the inn
 portant office he holds, which was so ably and honorably filled by his epre-
 decessor, the Honorable Samuel Fes- serden.
 s'Mr. Judson has lowered the dig nifty of his office by acting like com
 mon scoId. He insulted the Rev. Fa- ther O'Connor of Stratford, a man who, all will agree, is devoting his life to good works.
 He has pursued his boyhood chtm and lifelong neighbor, Judge Charles H. Peck, with a venom and vindictive- ness worthy of Nero who hdd1ed while Rome burned.
 "He has abused one of the leaders of the Fairfield County Bar, Judge Rob- ert B. DeForest.
 "He charged President Daniel E. Walker of the board of aldermen with having approached me in behalf of a, man charged with selling heroin. That statement was a lie and was branded as such by MT. Walker who defied At torney Judson stC- prove it. @-.<
 Now, as to the CapriIlian case MT Judson represented Mrs. Capri11ian as her~degal adviser in her various ac- tiors against her husband. Through the courtesy of Prosecutor Fillmore s. Banks of the common pleas court, MT. Judson was permitted to make state ment to the court. He concluded by asking that Capril1ian De given a jail sentence. The evidence in my opinion did not warrant such 8 decision, so imposed a fine. The next day MT. Judson appeared before Judge Case of the superior court and argued for a divorce. The facts he presented were substantially the same was obliged to pass On. The divorce was not granted
 ''It is well known that Attorney Jud- son has been i'll for over a year. He has been absent from his duties for long periods. Last week his duties were performed by Assistant States Attorney Carter, who was obliged to call on officials of the city court for assistance What MT. Judson needs is Q long vacation An indefinite one."
 Commenting on the charge of neg Iecting his official duties as States Attorney, MT. Judson after using "the short and ugly word'' in referring to Judge Cough1in in the opening para graph of his statement goes on to say:
 s"The reason for my remaining away thus far from the court is this: For six years, due to MT. Carter's deafness and inability to hear witnesses, have had to assume the tremendous burden of trying all eases, big and small, in that court To his and my great de- light, he has gotten an appliance, which, placed in his ear, enables him to hear just we'll as myself. MT. Garter very kindly came to me at the opening of the term, and said, in view Of the burdens he had been obliged to put upon me for six years past, he asked for the privilege of trying all of the miscellaneous eases and to take charge of the term until the cases were of such importance as to reason ably require my personal attention This has all been with the cordial ap- i proVal of Judge Reed.
 'Thls man Cough1in is also heard to 1 say that I need a short vacation for my health. If he has any regard for the public health, he will take a vacation from the bench for the rest of his term. AnyDOdy, OLner LncAn e '1IlcII1 OA l darkened intellect, would know that at the present time, since my return from abroad, I am stronger and in better health than I have ever been in my | Iife This will be disappointing news, | no doubt, to this Judge who nlumines the bench of the City Court.
 q understand he denies the truth of my statement on the heroin case. MT. Delaney states the facts as I have 1 published them. MT DeLaney's yer a city. compared with that of this man who adorns the bench, is as a, pyramid to a pismy, and is illustrated in the saying,
 .'Pygmies are pygnies still, though | perched on Alps, and pyramids are 1 pyramids in wales.
 Another instance of this mans jul dicial infamy is to be found in his disposition of the case that came be- fore him, in which a man, the manager of the baseball team of Bridgeport, had committed the crime of running a professional game on the Sabbath day The penalty authorized by the Act is $50 fine, and that is inexcusably small The clergymen of Bridgeport to a man were desirous of breaking up this practice,( and MT. Delaney per formed his duty in a way that the public would expect him to. What was the result? It came before this illustrious judge, and be fined him $1 and costs, showing that he is a keen supporter of violations of the Sun day law.
 Fortunately the accused appealed