Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-10-30
MODERN OWNER
|SF|NED $50
No Representative of Heath
Board at Trial of Bertha
BIoyen, Yesterday
ARRAIGNMENT RIDICULOUS
PickersgiII BurIesques Trials
and Postpones Some Until
After Election

Following q farcical arraignment OF
Eve restaurant keepers, charged with
violations of the health code, yester-
day afternoon, Recorder II. e. Pick
ersgill imposed fine of ten dollars
on Bertha Bloyen. owner of the Mod
ern restaurant at 1877 Smith street.
The Modern was the restaurant
where DIR. william II. Wolfram found
such fragrant and outstanding viola
tions in his visits to the place on Mon
day. Neither DR.. Wolfram nor any
representative OF the Board of Health,
the complainant in the case. was pres
ent at the arraignment when the fine
was imposed.
DR.. Wolfram and Health Oficer
william ]. Willsey were both out Of
town yesterday. Five warrants were
issued in the afternoon and were serv-
ed between 2:15 o'clock and 2:4b
o'clock by City Marshal l.. Burt Moore
calling for the appearance OF the pro-
prietors in court at o'clock.
At o'clock Recorder H. e. Pickers-
gill appeared, and the arraignment
was started when Peter Chamos. pro-
prietor of the Plaza restaurant at lib
Smith street, was brought before the
bar, charged with keeping an unsani-
tary place of business. The recorder
was very apparently in no At condi-
ton to hear the evidence In that or
any of the other cases. 1t was mat
ter of Jest to many spectators in the
court room, the court officers and the
men who were to be arraigned as well.
Sanitary Inspector Thomas Wilhelm
was the only representative or the
health board present.
After hearing the complaint against
Chamos and the latter's plea that he
had been absent from the city for
five days. as we'll as his promise to
Immediately clean up the place, and
do away with the unsanitary condl-
tions, the recorder inquired OF VIII
helm what the penalty for the onense
. was. He was informed that the state
law allowed a fine of from ten to
fifty dollars The recorder imposed
a fine of fifty dollars on Chamos,
which the latter Immediately paid.
The next man arraigned was part
ner and representative of Simos Kyr-
iazides, owner of the Presto lunch
room and restaurant at 119 Smith
street. Then followed series of nom
srssical scenes. in which Wilhelm was
!fnade to appear more or less the
goat and the recorder called for the
other defendants to appear before him
and they filed up. as follows: George
Bloyen, Modern restaurant; Peter Cas-
sipos, National lunch room ut Smith
and High streets, and George Ste
piano, proprietor Of a restaurant at
207 Smith street.
The recorder asked Wilhelm IL he
would be willing to accept a fine Of
$40 for each of the defendants ana
the latter replied that he would not.
Stephen F. Somogyi appeared for
Bloyen, whom he claimed was not
the owner of the restaurant, but that
his wife, Bertha Bloyen, Is.
Again ensued an entertaining and
humorous period, in the course OF
which the recorder entertained the
prisoners and spectators some more
and finally set the cases down for a
hearing on Thursday November z, at
Z o'clock in the evening, two days
after election.
The defendants. spectators VIII
helm and others left the courtroom,
but the recorder, Somogyi and Bioyen
remained. A short time later 1t was
found out that the recorder had ar
raigned George Bloyen on the Board
of Health's complaint and had fined
Bertha Bloyen $40, despite the fact
that she was not in court and that
no representative of the Health
Board, the complainant, was present
to press the charge. The $40 fine
was imposed also despite the fact
that the Modern restaurant was
found to be in a vile condition when
the inspection was made by the
health officer, and that roach powder
was found and admitted by the man
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