Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-21


Jurors not engaged in hearing cases
that has been so marked at the Court
House since the motion room was
taken over as a Juvenile Court by
Judge P. ]. Dolan, can be remedied
this summer If the Board of Free
halders will take up a suggestion'
which, it might incidentally be said
is looked upon with favor by the
county judges.
The suggestion Is that benches be
ranged along the stone balustrades
that form the rail on the four sides
of the rotunda entrance on the top
floor. The corridors are wide and
benches put In up to the height of the
balustrade would not in the least
coWd the corridor or interfere with
the appearance of the building.
On the four sides there are room
for benches that would easily accom-
MEDIATE more than 100 persons and the
Jurors not engaged in court would
have some place to sit down instead
of standing on the stone floor of the
corridors for hours at time as they
frequently have to do.
The same situation applies to wit
nesses in cases pending in the dlr-
ferent courts, but not actually on
trial. The ventilation of the court
house is so poor that all of the judges
have made it practically an ironclad
rule that no one be allowed in the
court rooms except those interested
In the case on trial.
Thus on some days there are all
the way from ten to fifty or more
persons forced to wait in the corri-
doris while cases preceding the one
in which they are interested are on
trial.
The room now occupied by Judge
Dolan was formerly seldom used for
court purposes and made a good
lounRing room for witnesses and
Jurors. When it was taken away the
last vacant spot in the building, with
the exception of the corridors, was
gone.
With benches arranged as suggest
ed the idle talesmen and witnesses
could sit down in comfort, instead of
being forced to stand. as now. They
line the balustrade now and even
sometimes sit on top of it. so the
benches might just as well be built,
especially as they would in nowise
interfere with the architectural
beauty of the court house. And, just
to be able to say I'VE told you So"
II the seats are not provided, one of
these days some careless person while
sitting on the balustrade of the top
floor is going to take a header and
drop on the marble floor some thirty
feet below.
Nathan German to the bar" call
ed Assistant Prosecutor Andrew Van
Blarcom in Judge Martins court
room the other day. as he was ar
raigning a number of prisoners to
take their pleas.
Nathan German repeated the
court officer, as a man assembled the
raised platform on which the pris-
oners stand to plead or be sentenced.
Are you Nathan German" asked
Van Blarcom in surprise as he look
ed up at the man who was about to
plead.
II just is boss" replied the man,
who was as about as black a son
of Africa as was ever seen in the
Court House.
IT have seen negroes with Irish
names and with red hair" remarked
Van Blarcom, as he recorded a not
guilty plea for Nathan German, but
I'll be hanged if 1 ever ran across one
with a name that touched that one
before"
Anthony Gmeiner, clerk to the Ju-
venile Court, is getting the habit that
prevails in the county clerks office,
early in the game Anthony has only
been connected with Clerk McDon-
oughs forces few months, but al
ready little Dan Cupid has got in his
fine work. ana it is understood that
the wedding bells are soon to ring for
Gmeiner and the lady of his choice.
Tony is mean about it and won't tell
his fellow clerks who the happy BRIDE
fo-be is, but rumor, that hateful old
dame that is always butting into
everybody's business, intimates that
certain West Orange young lady could
tell all about the wedding plans If she
would. But as for Tony, he has got
the Sphinx beaten a dozen city blocks
when 1t comes to trying to pry in
formation out of him that would tend
to confirm the rumor that he is to
fall in line with his fellow clerks and
become a staid old married man.
James Clark court attendant in
Judge Osbornes court, had a bad
half-hour last Monday afternoon
just after the judge had finished dis
posing of a number of prisoners be-
fore him for sentence. Clark had
charge of the prisoners before they
were sentenced and noticed that one
man named Cassello had received a
sentence to the Railway reformatory
Soon after this sentence had been
imposed Clark saw Cassello sitting
in Judge Osborne's courtroom and at
once was convinced that the pris-
oner had escaped. What had really
hapnened WAS that Judge Osb0rne