Magistrate Anna M. Kross, sitting in session Friday afternoon in the Third District Magistrates Court, Manhattan, reserved decision in the case of Jewish storekeepers charged with violating the Sabbath law until after next Wednesday’s court session.
In a conference before the trial, Magistrate Kross assured represetatives of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America that she is in full sympathy with their efforts to aid the storekeepers. She also urged them to make a test case which would obviate the necessity of separate trials for each of the offenders.
In the test case Herman Koenigsberg director and attorney for the Jewish Sabbath Allinace of America, maintained that orthodox Jewish storekeepers who keep their places of business closed on Saturdays and open Sundays do not in any way interfere with the peace and quiet of their noighborhoods. After pointing out that his clients were acting in accordance with provisions of the penal law which perimit a party observing the Sabbath on any other day to work Sunday, defense counsel Koenigsberg renewed a previous motion that the complaint against thirty offending strorekeepers be dismidded.
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