Show WALTER WINCHELL ON BROADWAY Copyright Copyright 1933 1933 Daily Dally Mirror Inc NOTES VOTES IN A NIGHT COURT So desperate was WM your Jour reporter for fora a change o of scene the other night that he purposely avoided witnessing the new play at the Belasco theater theater and and went vent to the most famous night court courtin in n. n the world instead This house of justice ustice i. i ii is on West AVest street on the theother theother other side of or avenue avenue where where between be be- tween the hours of 9 p. p m In and p perhaps per per- r- r haps laps 2 n. n m. m the spectator may run the tie gamut of emotion The tragedies comedies pathos drama and all the tempers that are lost that day are brought rought b before lore the current magistrate on n street You are just as likely to o observe the first hearing on a famous amous murder case as you are arc to be bc bored ored bored bored- b by dozens of trivial matters Nevertheless it is here that you are arc certain ertain of some excitement As the guest of the Honorable Samuel Katz the lie other night we watched him dispose dis pose of these easer cases 4 There was the case of Mary Murphy Mur Mur- phy hy vs Edward Murphy who earns per week The Murphys have three children Her aunt and her brother live with them them and and they are nuisances it appears They dont don't pay rent ent or anything So Mr Murphy got himself feeling high high and and when he heis heis heis is is in that mood he starts punching and nd breaking thingS His bride admitted admitted ad nd mUted to investigators assigned to the thease case ase that her groom is a good father and husband except when he drinks which is once in a while Judge Katz a kindly and understanding man urged Mrs Murphy to chuck out her brother and aunt let aunt let them live elsewhere elsewhere else- else where he said and not bother Mr Murphy who works hard and should have some privacy in iii n his own home He le then freed Mr Murphy after giving ing Mrs Murphy a sound talking to and and my ray sympathies were aroused I hope Mrs Murphy gets hep to herself a o 0 Judge Katz fined lined Clarence Dolenski Dolenski Dolen- Dolen ski ki 5 or two days in for in-for for driving an ailing horse with bleeding hips and otherwise sick Clarence argued that he ic merely hired the horse and that he be arrested that arrested that the man who vho hired it out to him should be etc tc Judge Katz gave him a look look and and then hen fined lined him 5 which I would have applauded if if applause in a court weren't erent considered out of order The next case concerned Louis Berg a Bronx merchant mere who had Gustav pinched for lor insulting him and making a pass at him Gustav it appears called Louis vile things and added that Hitler ought to o be In this country Mr Berg however however however how how- ever told the judge that if the Hit Hit- erite would apologize he would be satisfied If It said Ber Berg be lenient with him The Jewish judge asked ked Gustav if it he wanted anted to apologize G Gust Gustav us lav lv being no chump said okay and did so They shook hands sheepishly and then the court dismissed Mr Hitler's admirer a Michael 1 J. J Sullivan 24 and single came from Irom Springfield Mass he said He Ho has been jobless for lor nine months He wanted to be sent to jail but Judge Katz decided to save the city money He was printed linger however a anew anew anew new law for lor mendicants and andl if Mike comes up before any judge here again he will be obliged Mike left the court unhappy and amazed mazed 4 Robert Bernard held for lor possessing a hypodermic needle was held in bail ball for lor special sessions sessions sessions-as as the magistrateS magistrates magistrates' magis court has no jurisdiction over such things What startled the court attaches was the junky was well wen dressed the neatest 0 of the defendants all night I. I A young lad lady with a worried look was next She was arrested for approaching approaching approaching ap a strange man in Harlem The charge chartre was yas serious Her husband was a st spectator in court He had a worried look too too He would soon be appointed to th thC police force and he feared the humiliation would cost him that job The girl bit her lip furiously Judge Katz wasn't impressed She was Sent ent back to 10 th the cells for Investigation The man she approached was war also ar rest rested d. d He HP said he merely asked her herit if it Mr Jenkins lived there and she said she didn't know The vice cop however told a different tale talc b Philip Smith a cab driver complained complained com corn about Edward Campbell William Wolf Wol and William Webber fares who fares who ran up on the meter and then wouldn't pay Philip want wanted d to drop the charge i if they paid him A man stepped forward and paid the amount He was a speakeasy from the place where the defendants had been liberal They all staggered out a aJohn John Clancy unkempt was arrested arrested ar are ar- ar rested for obstructing traffic on Broadway He was selling old copies June issues o of a weekly magazine The headline of which was Win chell's Secret Love The judge asked Clancy why he didn't get his news up up- to People are thirsty for news like that countered Clancy Judge Katz looked at us and smiled Clancy looked up at us and sn smiled led too We smiled back And then Clancy was vas freed Which was fine tIne tIne-b because because ause if Clancy had been fined for peddling such hot news the news the precedent would have been dangerous Our secret love according to the story was and even the judge judg was disappointed The crowd crowd uttered tittered John West was next John was arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested on complaint of Mrs West be- be cause he beat up his son about 17 The son had a black eye ee Mr West I had lad two of them thorn a The renowned David Lamar The liThe Wolf of oC Wall Street got no sympathy sym sym- pathy athy from Irom his honor Lamars Lamar's lawyers awyers urged that a small bail ball be set seto setto setto to o release David from Irom jail as he w was sick ick etc Judge Katz went vent blind in both oth ears ears- and ear and refused the request Lunar Lamar amar was vas yas charged with 1000 His record was so long Judge Katz Catz decided to read it some other time ime as the hour was late There are other cases waiting just as ar im im- important he said and then proceeded to o hear them and suspend sentences Judge Katz sent only two men to jail ail all night One drew three months because x cause his record for tor panhandling was a pip The other man drew live five days for lor disorderly conduct The court made practically nothing too the fines ines being few and tiny Judge Katz is s too human No wonder the city is isI broke I |