The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-01
BurneS WithdraWS Tierney Commands
 Greenwich Court Ousted Regime Sur- renders Books,
 Keys and Papers
TO TEST VALIDITY OF
 GOVERNORS COMMISSION
Physical Resistance to New Order Abandoned. ReCOuSe to Be Had to Courts. Citizens
 Rejoice at Outcome

Greenwich, July Judge William L.. Tierney who was appointed judge of the Borough court of Greenwich by Governor Baldwin and the officials named by him to man the court are now in full possession of the insti- tuition. Jim Walsh and former judge, Charles D. Burnes having de- cided that further hostility to the gov ernor's appointee would not be toler- ated by public sentiment in the town. The court is now organized and dis pensing justice It was expected that there would be a renewal of hosti1i- ties today when Judge Tierney appear ed but instead the Walsh faction fnd- ing that the new regime had the sen- timent of the town behind them with drew physical opposition and announce ed that it would offer no further re- eistance along that line.
 When court corivened Judge Tierney took the bench unmoleSted and Attor- ney Scofield of the law firm of Sco- field & Jennings of Stamford appeared with the former clerk Stephen Rad ford and agreed that the latter would turn over all of the papers he had in his possession under protest resting upon his legal rights. Mr. Scofield served notice that acting for Rad ford and Burnes as well as the other officers of the former regime he would begin quo warranto proceedings to test Iae 1eSdI1Iy O1 L1O SOfC1 4lO4 D 44S54Ab to name judges of the court
 This was perfectly agreeable to Judge Tierney and his associates. Sheriff Finnegan was dispatched by the court to secure all of the papers belonging to the institution. He found them carefully concealed in the Of fee of the Banking Go, the head of which R. J. Walsh, brother of former Judge James F. Walsh of the crim- inal court of common pleas.
 Loaded down with the books and papers, the sheriff soon returned to the court room where he was ordered to turn over the data to the new clerk, MT. MulviI1e.
 Henry White, the prosecuting attor- ney of the court, under former, Judge Burnes, agreed to follow the example of Radford and surrender what papers and keys he had in his possession with the same understanding as the former, that he would appeal to the courts for restoration to office on the ground that the governor had no right to appoint a judge of the court
 The former officials of the court who were adjudged in contempt by Judge Tierney will not be held on that charge for after their submission to- day the new judge exercised clemency and suspended judgment.
 Thereafter the affairs of the court continued without interruption and the rule Of the new regime II IS un- derstood will receive no further op- position except the orderly procedure which will follow in the courts.
 There was another great crowd about the court room today and the excitement for a time was intense.
 There was no mistaken the senti- ment of the citizens. They were there to back up the new officials deter mined that tine commission of the governor of the state should not be despised. The outgoing faction found itself being rapidly deserted by some of their old time followers unch Republicans-who believed that the proper course was to offer no physical resistance to the governors commits sion but to seek redress in the courts if their cause was a, merftorious one.
 Attorney General Light who ds a Republican, advised Sheriff Finnegan yesterday afternoon that bond or no bond it was his duty to carry out the orders of Judge Tierney who was the legal head of the court and the sheriff did so today, explaining that his failure to remove former Judge Burnes yesterday was due to his fear that his bond might be jeopardized.