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iaoL-e8Vrr.I-LtI-)tymet.n?rid*s;hUlr-y3rtdma1-Ld1-iert-o-n-n-leCoal Otalirt Scored by Judge Nair In Hearing on Short Weight Charge.Member* of Wagon Driver1* Family Celled to Stand forTeetimony in Al-leged PlotConfessing that he had committed perjury on a promise of being raised to the position of stable boss at a salary of $15 a week. Herman Hatcher, of 504 Federal Street, threw a bpmb shell Into the case of Hirsch Brothers, coal dealers at Third and Sohenck1 Streets, in Central Police Court today and as a Result Judge Naar not only imposed the full penalty of the law*~a fine of $106 fiUi the firm—but also scored the defendants, saylpg. among other things, that attempts had been made to influence him In fiiis decision in the case with a view of having the complaint dismissed. He announced from the bench/ however, that ho was thoroughly satisfied that John h. Kafes, counsel for the Hirsch brothers, and A- S. Brennan, who drew up the'false affidavit, were in- \ nocent of any wrong doing, being Ignorant of the crookedness of theease. w1 The judge went on to say that theselling of coal under weight was as mean as stealing bread from the poor and that the1 defendants could not hope to escape on a plea of not knowing how much coal had been sent out. ' The Judge also declared that both Charles Hirsch and William Hirsch had tried to influence the court by sending friends to him to have the case dismissed.Sealer of '.Weights and Measures OTJonovan created a sensation by producing the mother of Hatcher, the driver involved, and a young woman tnrCamden, to whom it^was said money had been sent to keepHatcher out of the jurisdiction ofj the court. ia?dIf { The Hirsch Rrothets- wafr a oevm-¥ plete denial of guilt, saying that | Hatcher was a convicted coal thief and that he had confessed to stealing from the load which was found to be tinder weight William C. Hirsch. who is not a id member of the firm, but is a real e*-1 *s I tate dealer, declared that he was t io financially interested In the case and m j that he would he a fool to attempt to y* 1 tContlnbod on Page Three.)
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Trenton Evening Times
Trenton, New Jersey, US
Sat, Mar 20, 1915
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