Monday, Feb. 10, 1941

"You Stink!"

Two justices of a three-man court in Manhattan last week agreed to let Morris Newman off with ten days in the workhouse and a $100 fine after he pleaded guilty of publishing twelve obscene magazines. Not so Justice Frederick L. Hackenburg. In a voice that echoed through the corridors he roared a dissenting opinion.

Said he: "You are a counterfeiter, you were an auto thief, you were charged with arson, you were hounded out of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and you came over to this city to pollute the citizens. You are just as infectious as though you put poison in our water system. ... I don't agree with my colleagues in extending you leniency. . . . You have no more right being in the publishing business than I have in an airplane, and I have never been in one." Then, shaking his finger at the white-faced defendant, Justice Hackenburg shouted: "You stink!"

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