The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-13

lndt We are entitled To tnat from cN-
perienCe in that very case.
"a man charged with the serious
crime of per jury has been released with
ont bail and allowed to go on parole.
We have other evidence of at least
not impartial judge who, without re-
gard To laws and decisions. wiped out
al effect of an Indictment. You must
underst and that the People Of the State
have no right of appeal. II you can &c.
judge to show favoritism, he can do
it, and the people have no redress unless
they get up in arms as they ought at
this outrageous conduct against the
wishes of all the people.
we have another similar instance Of
a judge knowing the character of the
man before him. granting motion
which has not been granted In three
years out of 800 cases. No one was
accorded the same favor.
II made an application To the Cover
nor requesting a judge who did not
know the defendant and who would he
upright and fair. and hand out justice to
both sides. II We cannot get that judge
We will take the Judge we can get but
4 the case will he tried in my term"
There We're reporters present while
/ Mr.. Cropsey was speaking, and the next
/ day knowledge of the speech was not
! restricted TO the members II the Fulton
! Street Board of Trade.
But what did Mr. Cropsey do when
! he saw in cold hard type what he had
said? He didn't say that the reporters
were mistaken. which public men have
often found To be the easiest way To
/ recall iniudicious remarks: he didn
back out 10y saying that he had been
/ confused. and had spoken hastily. and
didn't mean what he had appeared to
mean.
Not Cropscy. He said. Yes. | said 1t,
and might say good deal more, Civ
ing details. It's "A crying shame that
Grout should always get preferred
treatment from the courts. Now mind
| don't say that any judge accepted
money. or promise of political aid, or
any other concrete help from Grout or
anybody, but | do say that they were
! swayed by friendship for the prisoner
and treated him too well. And | can't
try his case properly with friend OF
his on the bench"
That's what Cropsey said and "A good
deal more And then Robert n, Elder
who had had "A deal to do with the
Grout case when Assistant District At
torney, injected himself into the stua-
ton Elder is Progressive county leader
in Brooklyn, although he used to be a
Democrat. No one in Brooklyn who
knows either Cropscy or Elder VIII tel
you that they are warm friends, and II
is easy to find people who believe that
they dislike each other intensely.
The last big case in which they OPP
posed each other was when Curly Joe
Cassidy, erslwhlle political boss OF
Queens. was convicted Of selling a nomi-
nation for Justice of the supreme CourI
10 William Wilett, Jr. Elder defended
Cassidy and his alleged go-hetween
Louis Walter, and both Cropsey anc
Elder made the court room sZzle witt
a score of heated arguments
At a meeting of the Bar Association
Elder referred to Mr.. Cropsey's speech
and questioned the good taste 90 1t, liz
made a motion that a COMMITTEES of five
he appointed to investigate and recon-
mend appropriate action. And II wa
then. nv "A vote Of - to 81 hat thu
Bar Association picked ny the brick
which Immediately began to simmer
, At this very time CIRCUITS case wa
before Justice benedict on "A motion b,
, Stepncn g. Baldwin, CIRCUITS lawyer, Il
have a supreme court Justice OUTSIDE
of BROOKLYN try the case. Justice Rene
dict denied the motion on November Il
sending the case back To the Count
Court. and llvercd a singing rehuk
Ito Cropscy for The "handpicked Judges
, speech.
Cropsey, who has never been know
tn dodge "A faint. tried to answer tn
ustiCc back. hnt he had no chance Il
- ,iGrtracking Justice iencdiCts prepare
y, ,ucpch of rehuLc, So tropscy went hacI
r tn his office and prepared hill q par
, upulars for the pubic, lie handed thi
tn the newspapers the next day,
, 1t Was in brief, defence aGains