The case of Abraham Kaufman, charged with selling non-kosher meats, is bouncing back and forth like a ball between Magistrates O’Dwyer and Hughes of the Adams street and Bridge Plaza Courts respectively, and yesterday when the case was called before the former it was referred back to the latter.
Previously, when it was taken up by Magistrate Hughes into whose court it was continued by Magistrate O’Dwyer, he declared that inasmuch as Magistrate O’Dwyer had started the hearing, he ought to finish it. Yesterday Magistrate O’Dwyer said that he book no testimony but merely conducted an investigation into the sufficiency of the complaint.
Now it appears fairly certain that Magistrate Hughes will finally hear the case on April 26 at 9 a.m. David Price represents Kaufman and his concern, Neboh Kosher Provision Co., Inc., of Broadway and Rutledge street, Brooklyn, and Assistant District Attorney Sigismund J. Trepani is prosecuting the case.
REBUKES SIMON
A severe rebuke was administered yesterday by Magistrate O’Dwyer to Arthur Simon, Board of Health’s investigator, who claims the discovery of four barrels of non-kosher tongues and four barrels of briskets on the premises of Kaufman’s firm.
“The minutes are very clear,” Magistrate O’Dwyer said, “that any examination in that case based upon the fact that the complaint contained a series of conclusions and not sufficient facts; the attitude of Mr. Simon was rather offensive; and together with the presence of newspapermen who were in court apparently at the request of the complainants, made me feel that it was my duty to protect any citizen against the gorilla tactics, whether the gorillas were officials or plain racketeers.”
Elaborating later on his statement, Magistrate O’Dwyer said: “I want to protect everyone who comes into my court and not build up a political appointee at the expense of a businessman.” He further deplored the fact that Simon’s complaint was drawn up by the Corporation Counsel, while the case is being prosecuted by the District Attorney’s office and that the complaint was more in the nature of conclusions than a statement of facts.
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