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...Cleveland. Judge Joseph H. Silbert cited three Cleveland Press staffers for contempt of court. In defiance of Judge Silbert's order, the Scripps-Howard Press had taken and printed a picture of an arraignment. The photograph showed ex-Judge Nelson Brewer pleading not guilty to embezzlement charges brought against him by a grand jury after the Press had exposed Brewer's alleged misdeeds and forced his resignation from the bench (TIME, Aug. 3). In a front-page editorial, the Press defended its staffers for upholding the "right of the people to know." But President H. Walter Stewart...
...Courthouse Reporter Sam Giaimo, Allen and Giaimo began to dig deeper into the court. What they found provided the Press with frontpage headlines for weeks, scandalized Cleveland, and started a Bar Association investigation. Last week, as a direct result of the Allen-Giaimo stories, Probate Judge Nelson J. Brewer resigned from the bench and quit the practice of law for good. It was the first time that a Cleveland newspaper had forced a judge to resign...
Favors for a Few. Brewer, 69, a distinguished-looking and irascible ex-state legislator, had been the sole judge of the probate court in Cuyahoga County for 20 years, was three times reelected. It was Brewer's responsibility to appoint trustees and guardians to manage the funds of widows, orphans and insane persons, and to approve (or disapprove) their periodic accounts. The first thing that struck Reporters Allen and Giaimo as off-key was the judge's policy of doling out trusteeships; Judge Brewer limited them to a few lawyers, named one lawyer (who had previously been suspended...
Services for the Dead. But it was the case of the late Thomas Wracan that really nailed Judge Brewer. For 17 years, reported Allen and Giaimo, Brewer had been acting as guardian of a dead man. For his mythical services, Brewer had paid himself $500 in fees and failed to turn over $359 more. In all, charged the Press, Brewer, instead of winding up his guardianships when he first became a judge, was still short in accounts by $6,300; with interest, that brought the amount Brewer owed to nearly...
Last week, pinned down between the Press and the Bar Association investigations of his conduct on and off the bench, the harassed judge made one more banner headline: BREWER QUITS BENCH AND BAR, WILL RESTORE $6,300 SHORTAGES. Reluctantly, Brewer admitted that he was unable after many years to "present records or recollect facts," concluded, "Clearly, I have been careless...