The New York herald., 1920-01-27
Important Trials Halted by
illness of Judge and
Parties in Cases.
KEEPERS IN PRISON
ALSO AFFLICTED
Policemen Take Their Places
and Will Guard Prisoners
Under Treatment.
CITY SCHOOLS NOT TO CLOSE
Commissioner Copeland Says That
Sessions Assure Good Care
for Children.

Influenza in the last few days inv. t
the Tombs. caused the removal Of fifty 1ne
Of the 43s prisoners to Bellevue Hos ,tay
and the shutting down Of three part -
the Court Of General Sessions. Judge re
Rosalsky, who was presiding at a tr IN
Part 2, of General Sessions, is confin B 10
his apartment at the Belnord, Broa .e4y
and Eighty-sixth street, with what ply.
sicians believe to be influenza Warden
John j. Hanley and six of the force of
Keepers under him in the Tombs are VIC
Tins Of the disease.
Twenty other prisoners in the Tomb,
are under observation in the hospital ~
the city prison, victims OF what is t.s-
lieved to be mild form Of the dis<sse
Martin Kane, one of the keepers, ~o4-
racted the disease while guarding .ilr
prisoners in Bellevue Hospital Last risif
Bird 3 Coler, Commissioner OF Correct 'or
as the result Of shortage of keepers re-
quested Richard Il. Enright, Police c an
missioner to assign half a dozen DO
men to take turns in standing vigil
the afflicted prisoners at the hospital n
rs understood that Warden Hanley ma
request other policemen to be sent &c ~
Tombs to aid the keepers there
report was received at the Tonbs = -t
evening that mere than the required man
Der of policemen had volunteered for duty
IN the prison ward of the hospital, when
they learned men were wanted to take the
places of the keepers.
1t was said the policemen will be kept
within the precincts Of the hospital during
the period Of their vigil over the prisoners
to prevent any possible spread OF the "flu.
among other policemen from that district.
Among the voctims of the spread Of the
disease in the Tombs is Ramon Rodriguez
He and Adrian Alvarez Herra both Spani-
ards, early on the morning of December
a last were arrested at the bottom of an
elevator shaft in the Knickerbocker Ho-
tel. following a chase through the corri-
dors in which several shots were fired at
them by two policemen.
Herra was to have been placed OH trial
yesterday before Judge Muqueen in Part
), General Sessions, on an indictment
charging him and Rodriguez with breaking
into the apartment in the hotel occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Aloysius Boderick, of
Dallas. Texas, and with assaulting the os-
cupants with a jimmy. and stealing jewell
ry valued AT $500.
DR.. Frank Mcclure. Tombs physician,
informed Judge Mulqueen that Rodriguez
is flu victim at Bellevue Hospital
and that his condition is serious. Judge
Mulqueen thereupon adjourned court stat
ing he had been informed that Rodriguez
is to be an important witness at the trial
of Herra.
"Chick" Lewis Also stricken.
When Judge Wadhams took his seat in
Part of General Sessions to continue
h. frfu .xfI VI
Indictment charging the murder OF
Thomas C'Tanner') Smith in the Marginal
Club, Eighth avenue and Sixteenth street
on the evening Of July 26 last counsel for
the prisoner declared that his client. who
was present. was too III to proceed with
the trial. DR. Mcclure examined Lewis in
court and informed Judge Wadhams the
defendant revealed symptoms OF "flu,'
his temperature being 10i.
Judge Wadhams Immediately ordered
Lewis returned to the Tombs, and ad-
journed court for the day.
Five members of the staff of Edward
Swami, District Attorney. are confined to
their homes with influenza. They are
Theodre l.. Waugh, Edwin p. Kilroe. John
II. Dooling. James c. Wallace and Joseph
Forester. All except Mr.. Forester were
reported TO be improving, but Mr.. For
rester's condition is serious, pneumonia
having developed
warden ftanleNt from MS Quarters IN
the prison sent out word In the afternoon
that he expected TO be we'll again in few
days. He said there had been no deaths
In the Tombs since the first influenza case
was discovered, but declared that the
total number Of cases am mlng the prison.
ers Is about the same as during the In
vasion OF the disease in 1ltS.
Figures show Decrease.
Dr Royal S. Copeland. Health Commits
sicner, declared last night that he ex-
pected reports OF new influenza cases in
the city for the twentyfour hours ending
ten O'clock this morning to reach 300 lie
said that while only LIP were reported
for the twenty-four hours ended at ten
o clock IN the morning, decrease OF i.li3
from the figures made public Sunday
morning, he believed the number of new
cases up 20 yesterday morning viii be in
creased when reports from physicians for
that period are received.
Mondays report, although light" he
said is due to poor mail service. l do not
believe. however, the total for Sunday Will
equal the totals for preceding days Of the
last week"
The record for the day ending at ten