New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-18
JUDGE SPEEDS
CLEARY TRIAL
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TO the two New City branches of the
Prohibition party's Nemesis. situated
in the two hotels, conveniently opposite
the Rockland County temple of justice.
The temperature, whatever 1t was,
was too low for inaction. Many auto
mobiles were early in front of the
courthouse, and their passengers, on
leaving them, stamped around, trying
to restore a blood circulation that had
given up work in the freezing rides
from towns distant from New City.
Justice Joseph Morschauser was stiff
from the cold when he arrived at the
courthouse, at 9:4O a. m, having rid
den from Nyack in touring car Many
of the seventy-ive talesmen summoned
wore fur caps and sweaters.
Though this case is said to be grin
ping the interest of all Rockland
County, at least, the courtroom did not
show it when Justice Morschauser en-
tered, at 10 o'clock. The benches seat
rot more than 175 persons, even when
the seating arrangements are directed
by experts of subway instincts. Yet
there was room for thirty or forty
spectators when j. W. Sherwood,
County Clerk, began his Hear We,
near We. CudnlS AihiNoNiiib Ni4"" WV
Cleary trial was to get under way.
The four lawyers, District Attorney
Thomas Gagan, and his special assist
ant, Mr.. Bacon, with Frank Comesky
and George A. Wyre, for the defence,
came in with Justice Morschauser. A
few moments later Mr.. Gagan told Dep
uty Sheriff Theodore de Noyelles TO
bring in Cleary.
The former political boss Of Haver-
straw came in through the rear door
opening on the courtroom's centre aisle.
His cheracterless face, round and small
| featured, had taken on no lines in the
months Cleary had been in Jail. His
expression is that Of q man accustomed
/ TO giving long consideration to a prof.
/ ect. There is no passion in il. His fig
ure and actions give one the impress
/ sion that Cleary's fat is not alone
physical II he has suffered in his in
| generation that suffering must have
been slight
Cleary authorized his attorneys as
sent TO the acceptance of the first
Juror. The first name called was that
of man not present. This was a,
10:0S O'Clock. Frank Heddy, a gar
dener, of Tuxedo, was the first tales
man under examination. He passed the
OlsNiAAN shNNOAhNsf anu " .NAE CNAtiNeN y
he said he had three children, a daugh.
ter sixteen years old, and two sons
one fourteen, the other twelve years old
Comesky sat down at the finish OF
his examination and conferred with
Wyre. They talked for a few minutes
then Comesky said TO Cleary:
what do you Think"
"Yes," responded Cleary, turning his
Oaze. toward the door
Cleary not once volunteered re-
mark 70 his attorneys. Most of the
time they didn't consult him on the
selection of jurors, for they seemed TO
have a satisfactorily fair idea of each
talesman's attitude. Occasionally they
consulted a typewriter set Of papers
containing the names and remarks. But
that was obviously not their only guide.
At 10:30 o'clock, during the exam
ination Of Louis Ude, who was accept
cd for the jury fifteen minutes later,
Mrs. Katherine Briggs Cleary, the de-
PENDANTS wife, entered. She stepped
inside the rail, just back of her hus-
band and leaned over 20 him. She did