Bacharach

Pieces of column too short to use:During his 27 years on the bench, Carl W. Bacharach, the colorful Baltimore City District Court judge who died yesterday, presided over thousands of cases of assault, robbery, drunkenness, drug possession, shoplifting, glue-sniffing, and dozens of other offenses. He fined thousands of defendants thousands of dollars and sentenced them to thousands of days in jail.Remembered fondly is the day Bacharach, seated in the old Southern District on Ostend Street, was presented with the case of a kissing bandit.

Judge Carl W. Bacharach, a former member of the House of Delegates whose 28 years as a Baltimore judge made him the senior member of the Maryland District Court, died of a heart attack yesterday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 69.An ally of the late Northwest Baltimore political boss James H. "Jack" Pollack, Judge Bacharach first ran for office as a 28-year-old lawyer and won the first of his three terms as a delegate. In 1962, he decided to move from the legislative branch of government to the lowest rung on the judiciary and with the backing of the Pollack machine won election to Baltimore's old People's Court.

Judge Carl W. Bacharach, an associate judge of the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore, died of a heart attack yesterday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 69.Remembered by a colleague on the bench as "a very compassionate person who loved his fellow man and hated man's inhumanity against man," Judge Bacharach died about 6:30 a.m. yesterday during emergency heart surgery."He had had three heart bypass operations in the past, but I guess they just couldn't pull off the miracle a fourth time," said Judge Martin A. Kircher of the District Court for Baltimore.