A graduate of the public schools and of the College of the City of New York who look his law degree at Harvard in 1934, JOHN M. MUBTAGHserved as chief magistrate to the city of New York from 1950 to 1900, when he was appointed chief justice of the Court of Special Sessions. “I first became concerned with the Bowery and its habitues in 1950, shortly after my appointment as chief magistrate,” he tells us.
A graduate of the public schools and of the College of the City of New York, who took his law degree at Harvard in 1934, JOHN M. MURTAGH served as chief city magistrate to the city of New York from 1950 to 1960 and was appointed the chief justice of the Court of Special Sessions last February.