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Hon. Patrick G. Duffy, Police Justice of New York. Offices
| Name | Hon. Patrick G. Duffy, Police Justice of New York. Offices |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 229 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Richter |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 276] |
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1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The New York judiciary as a body has probably greater responsibilities devolving upon it than that of any other centre of wealth, crime, and population, London not excepted, and it is a noted fact that the justices of this city, selected as they are from the best lights in the legal arena, well qualified both by reason of the wide range of their previous practice and the numerous knotty points that so constantly arise in a great centre of commerce like New York, to adjudicate in all cases coming before them, render the best service and give the greatest satisfaction in the dispensing of justice of any in the world. An honored and popular member of judicial circles in the metropolis is that of Hon. Patrick G. Duffy. He is a native of the first ward of this city, and has from early manhood been permanently identified wiih the leading public interests and the permanent advancement and welfare of the population. Receiving a thorough education, Mr. Duffy was for many years a remarkably successful schoolteacher and gave abundant evidence of his talents and superior executive abilities. He was connected with the public schools of New York for over seventeen years, having been Principal of Grammar School No. 20 for eleven years. During that time his punctuality was remarkable, he never being late or absent. About the time of his appointment as police justice the Board of Education, unsolicited, sent a letter endorsing his ability and standing, thus testifying to their high appreciation of his services. He did not fail to improve his opportunities, and pursued a broad course of legal study and training, in which his industry and energy were rewarded by a thorough acquaintance with the force and administration of the laws. In June, 1875, the capabilities, talents, and integrity of Mr. Duffy as a rising young public man had not escaped the attention of the representative members of the community, and his Honor, Mayor Wickham, chose Mr. Duffy as the most satisfactory candidate for the then vacant police justiceship, and upon placing his nomination before the Board of Aldermen that body promptly responded and duly confirmed Mr. Duffy to the office. He at once entered upon the discharge of his onerous responsibilities, and was from the first noted for the eminent fairness of his judicial decisions and his determination on all occasions to enforce the laws and not let the guilty escape. At the same time no one could be more alive to the weaknesses and infirmities of that great class of the poor "whom ye have always with you," and his charitable and sympathizing views upon the great problems ever present to humanity in this city, and eminently practical suggestions as to the amelioration of poverty, met with the ?warmest recognition when published in 1876, and earned for the justice the undying gratitude of his fellow-citizens. Mi-. Duffy ever pursued an even and upright course. He had long been noted for a conscientious adherence to the grand old principles of the Jeffersonian democracy - the very basis and keystone of Republican liberties - and he fearlessly opposed all and every form of corruption and of venality, not deviating a hair's breadth from the path of duty, in the face of what can well be termed an interested and unscrupulous opposition, which did not hesitate at the most ignoble methods in their effort to drag him down from his public position. Justice Duffy's integrity and splendid record were so magnificently demonstrated by the inquiry of 1878 that his detractors have forever since held their peace. Justice Duffy sedulously continued in the good work of reform, and soon afterward shut up those demoralizing haunts of vice, The Columbia Opera House nnd Egyptian Music Hall, deciding promptly as to their disorderly character and earning the public congratulations of the entire press of this city. It is but an illustration, a case similar to many others, in which his Honor has not hesitated to grapple with vice and crime when intrenched in high places. In 1872 he made a visit to Europe, studying the social and political and judicial aspects of the people across the water, and on his return received an enthusiastic and heartfelt welcome from the people of New York. In January, 1883, he was renominated and confirmed as a police justice, and has in his second term of office, as in the first, fearlessly and uprightly discharged his duties. He is the most popular man in the first ward to-day and is recognized as a representative citizen. His knowledge of the law is wide and deep, covering special features of much value. Justice Duffy is a hard-working public man. He gives his closest attention to every case coming before him, no matter how petty or uninteresting, and the accused can always rely on getting that justice so tempered with mercy in deserving cases that characterizes the philanthropical leanings of a true reformer, while the criminal classes never had a sterner or more implacable foe than he. Such in brief is an outline of his public career and services in our midst, and we take pleasure in placing them on record in a permanent form in this historical review of the leading interests of the great metropolis. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 276] |
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