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...appeared that New York had finally caught up with Big Joe. Picked up by police at a race track, Joe, along with two kinsmen, George Lee and George Adams, was haled into court as a scofflaw, a term which New York City's Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh uses to describe the many New Yorkers who habitually dispose of traffic tickets by tearing them up.* Magistrate Murtagh, who has long been waging bitter war on scofflawry, imposed upon Lee (118 unpaid tickets) a $5,900 fine or 590 days in jail and Adams (54 unpaid tickets...
...want them all," said Murtagh...
...upshot was that Murtagh postponed Big Joe's sentence till Jan. 18 and sent him off to search out gypsy scofflaws throughout the nation...
...with Influence. Thereafter Big Joe dropped from public view until last week, when the two Georges, Lee and Adams, returned to court to report dolefully to an unimpressed Magistrate Murtagh that the best they had been able to do was to persuade eleven gypsies to pay up $800 on 97 of the 2,000-odd outstanding tickets. This, explained their attorney, was because they didn't have "too much influence." The man who really had influence, he added, was Big Joe Uwanawich, "who is currently on tour rounding up gypsies...
...Manhattan's Traffic Court one morning last week, a muscular scofflaw named Johnny Saxton stepped to the bar. He had already paid a $600 fine for ignoring a fistful of parking tickets; now he was threatened with a 15-day stretch in the workhouse. Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh glared at the young (24) Negro, listened to his lawyer's plea for mercy, and surprised every cop in the city by suspending Saxton's sentence...