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Carl Schurz Attacks Croker and Tammany William Travers Jerome, American lawyer (1859-1934) This ebook presents «Carl Schurz Attacks Croker and Tammany», from William Travers Jerome. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents - About This Book - Croker And Tammany - Mr. Putnam's Remarks - Mr. Schurz's Speech - An Indispensable Condition - Worst Aspect Of The Case - An Amiable Delusion - Mere Victory Not Enough - Takes Issue With Mr. Shepard - The Worst Way To Begin - Speech Of Seth Low - What Justice Jerome Said - The Wrongs Of The Poor - Addresses By Other Speakers
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Excerpt from The Famous Hypothetical Question in the Trial of Harry K. Thaw: For the Murder of Stanford White That the defendant's exhibits A to I, inclusive, defendant's exhibits L and K and defendant's ex bibit P were written by a man hereinafter desig nated as H. K. T.; that H. K. T. Was born on the 12th of February, 1871; that one of his maternal uncles was of unsound mind from about 1883 to 1889, in which year he died, but that the character of the unsoundness of mind and the causes thereof do not appear (p. 298) that H. K. T. When in his early childhood sufiered from measles, mumps, whooping cough, St. Vitus Dance and Scarlet Fever (p. 264) that H. K. T. Has always been of a highly nervous temperament, when quite young he slept very badly so that a nurse had to nurse him a good part of the night; that when he had St. Vitus Dan'ce it lasted for a period of some weeks and that during the continuance of this dis ease H. K.,t. Had strabismus so that he looked like a child whose eyes were perfectly crossed; that the attack of measles occurred when H. K. T. Was about nine or ten years old, at which time H. K. T. Appeared to be an unusually nervous child (p. 297) that in December, 1901, in the City of New York at a restaurant at a dinner given by H. H. K. T. For the first time met E. N., a young woman of 17 years of. Age, then a chorus girl in a theatrical performance in the City of New York and known to H. K. T. To be such (pp. 1735 that shortly thereafter H. K. T. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Jerome was born on April 18, 1859, in New York City, the fourth son and child of Lawrence Roscoe and Katherine (Hall) Jerome. He was of New England antecedents, a grandson of Isaac Jerome, who moved from Stockbridge, Massachussets, to Pompey, New York.
William's early education was received at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, and at a preparatory school in Switzerland. He entered Amherst College in 1878 but left after three years; Amherst, however, gave him an honorary degree of A. M. in 1892. After acquiring a law degree at Columbia University in 1884 he was admitted to the bar and formed a partnership with Daniel Nason, which continued for four years.
A Democrat by heritage, Jerome was appointed assistant district attorney of New York in 1888 by the Tammany hierachy. Once in office, however, he became thoroughly awake to the evils of Tammany rule, and the independence which was afterwards characteristic of him asserted itself. In 1890 he supported the People's Municipal League in its campaign for a clean city government, making it impossible for him to serve longer under a Tammany régime, and he returned to private practice with Nason. In 1894 he became assistant to John W. Goff, counsel for the Lexow committee, which probed the corruption of the city government. He also served as counsel for the Committee of Seventy, an anti-Tammany organization, and was manager of the campaign that autumn which resulted in the election of William L. Strong as reform mayor. Strong appointed Jerome justice of the new court of special sessions, which position he held from 1895 to 1901. During eighteen months before the city election of 1901, he staged a series of actions, unprecedented, but characteristic of himself. To prove that the Tammany administration was protecting gambling in the city, he went with a squad of aides into precincts whose police captains had reported them free of gaming, broke into the resorts, set up his own magistrate's court on the spot, swore witnesses on a Bible carried in his pocket, and held for trial everyone that could be captured.
During the 1901 campaign, when he was Republican candidate for district attorney, he publicly asserted that Thomas C. Platt - boss of the party that nominated him - and two others had met to plot his defeat. His fearlessness made him a popular idol and he was triumphantly elected. He found the district attorney's office a scene of disorder, inefficiency, and graft, with 861 indictments, many of long standing, awaiting action. He installed a large force of assistants, including several young men who later won high distinction as judges and otherwise; but he made this staff profitable to the city. Previous to his election the collections on forfeited bonds had averaged about $11, 000 yearly. During Jerome's first year in office, the collections rose to $30, 000, and within three or four years they reached $100, 000. The docket was rapidly cleared. He had a residence and branch office on the lower East Side, which brought him closer to the poorer litigants and accused persons. He continued his war on gambling and vice, leading in person squads of officers who smashed or dynamited their way into illegal resorts.
Jerome was nicknamed New York's "Carry Nation" and "Cigarette Willie, " that being a day when cigarettes were considered slightly immoral. This indulgence, together with his profanity and his habit of taking a drink when he chose, set him apart from the traditional sanctimonious reformer - a word he disliked - and endeared him to the populace. Finding that witnesses taken in raids on gambling houses would not testify for fear of incriminating themselves, he procured the passage of a state law providing that the testimony of such witnesses could not be used against themselves. On more than one occasion he thus plugged a leak or closed up a loophole in the process of justice. He procured the passage of a new anti-gambling law in 1904. The most spectacular episodes of his first term in office were the two trials of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, in the first of which Jerome propounded to alienist witnesses his famous hypothetical question, which was 12, 000 words in length and took an hour and a quarter to read.
In 1905 he was urged to run for the mayoralty, but retorted that he was not a politician, but a lawyer with a job to do. He stood for re-election that year, independent of the support of any party organization, received voluntary contributions from almost every state in the Union, and was elected by a large majority. But the great popularity of his first term had already begun to be clouded in New York; the controversial portion of his career had begun. He sent some corrupt labor leaders to prison in 1904, but critics complained that he did nothing against the large contractors who had bribed these racketeers. The Metropolitan Street Railway, through the jobbery of some of its high officials, was forced into bankruptcy, and although the stockholders demanded criminal action, Jerome proceeded against only a few minor figures, leaving the chief malefactors, so it was charged, immune. There were other charges - failure to prosecute for railway tunnel accidents and in insurance scandals which disturbed the entire nation. Jerome's defense and that of his partisans was that no indictment could be procured against these men that would hold good. Many thought otherwise, and a formal petition for his removal from office was presented in 1908 to the governor, who appointed as his commissioner Richard L. Hand to sit as judge. After hearings and consideration of the charges he declared them "disproven. "
Jerome, nevertheless, saw that his usefulness was past; he retired from office at the end of 1909 and spent the rest of his life in private law practice, emerging only to take the stump in city campaigns in 1921 and 1933. He acquired considerable means through his interest in the technicolor process of making motion pictures. He died of pneumonia on February 13, 1934 at his townhouse 125 East 36th Street in Manhattan.
Jerome was a prominent American politician. He was New York County District Attorney from 1902 to 1909, elected in 1901 on the Fusion ticket headed by Seth Low. As D. A. he led a campaign against political corruption and crime, often leading raids personally, notably the one against the gambling house of Richard Canfield.
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Those who worked with Jerome were his intense partisans ever after. Of these, Arthur Train calls him "a combination of Savonarola, St. George and d'Artagnan; " Judge Charles C. Nott, Jr. , says that "by ability, integrity and effectiveness in whatever he undertook [he] was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable and valuable public servants of his time. "
On May 9, 1888, Jerome married Lavinia Taylor Howe of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and left one son, William Travers Jerome, Jr.
