New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-01

PREsENTMENT BY THE GRAND JURY.
LARGE INCREASE OF cRIME-UCENsED AND UNLi-
cENsED LIQUOR sALooSs-THE EXCISE BOARD
CEssURED-EscArE OF GAMBLERS.
The Grand Jury of the Court OF General SEES
made yesterday presentment to Recorder iaeket
calling his attention first TO the increase OF erlme'
especially OF murder robbery, and burglary They say
Under our oaths we have been obliged TO indct more
than twenty people for murder in the first degree ana
citizen, have come TO feel that consequence Of the in
efficiency Of the police force at present constituted
they are not in the possession OF either life or
property Cool and deliberate murders are committed,
and tho guilty parties escape without detection or pun
ishment"
"a large proportion" the presepment continues, "of
criminals indicted for violation OF law have been clearly
proven TO have been under the influence OF intoxicating
liquors when the crimes were committed by Them The
State has enacted salutary laws regulating licenses TO
sell liquors yet the evidence presented before us clearly
shows they not wisely properly enforced we
do find that the Board Of Excise Commissioners nave
permitted large numbers Of improper persons TO sell
spurious liquors without license arrest and that these
places are notorious the usual resorts OF thieves pros
ttutes, gamblers and Migrants. We find an entire
want of harmony and combined action between
the Excise Board and the Commissioners OF
Police, the latter Board having no H''
from the Excise Board Of the places to which license mas
been granted or refused" The presentment then states
that OF 2O4 places Wnere ntlOT IL solu hc"iJ III
licensed 1O3 are frequentod by prostitutes and panel
thieves 81 by suspicious PERSONS 10 are the habu re-
disordcrly persons patronzed by tramps
and vagrants and in 40 there are watergls primer
paly psnethieves, pckpockets, and shophitcrs' ana
that the substantial truth OF this statement Is shown Dy
evidence before them. AS third cause of the increase
OF crime they say that when arrests nave been de
by the police authorities OF gamblers caught IN the very
act with their implements aud money on the tables OF
men guilty OF violation of the Excise laws, ana OF
others keeping disordery and improper houses III lage
number cases, when brought before some ponce yue
tees even where the evidence OF tler CRIMES was tu
and ample, they have been promptly discharged from
arrest OF held to answer on Sua and ln5uilceht pal
often in not exceeding 500; ana TO Hlch an eA
tent has this been carried TINT II has maze the ce
largely Indifferent to the discharge Of their proper des
Our attention has been called to the nclnlcrcd con
dIton Of the piers and streets OF this city by parties
Occupyiug in direct violation OF the city ORDINANCES
We do Therefore request that the proper authorities
having supervision enforce existing laws regulating the
same. -,., Al
Recorder Hackett discharged the Grand Jury with the
thanks the Court for the faithful and energetic WORK
has done. During the InOnt the Grand jury mas louhd
3i2 indictments which include AIS persons, ana mas b
sides examined and dismissed % complaints me crhl
nal work in other respects has been unusually heayy
Tie complaints filed in the DistIctA torncys once or
the month number sol, and, not including yesterday ne
business the COuTt Of General sessions amounted 10
POS persons sentenced Al acquitted % discouraged ana
Tor whom the DstrictAttorney eneTeda nOle ptoselu
in all 211 persons.