The femoral of former Municipal Court Justice Leonard A. Snitkin was held yesterday from Unity Temple, where Rabbi B. A. Tinnier and Dr. Charles Shaw officiated. Representatives of the Harlem Old Timers Association, the Grand Street Boys Association and other organizations with which he was affiliated were present. The honorary pallbearers were Supreme Court Justices Louis Valence and Louis D. Gibbs, General Sessions Judges Max S. Levine and Otto A. Rosalsky and City Magistrates Louis Wendel and Edward Weil. Interment was at Mount Nebch Cemetery. Queens.
Leonard A. Snitkin came to the United States with his parents from Russia when he was a child. He was educated in the public schools of New York City and the New York Law School. In 1909 he was elected a Municipal Court Justice. During his career as an attorney he served as counsel in many cases which attracted public attention. He was 52 yeas old at the time of his death.
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