The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-28
THE v D NJ A N
IN THE CASE.
Mr.. Winfield Hot on the
Track of the High
up Conspirators.
THE JoKERS STILL THE KEY
Evidence Forthcoming That
They We're Run Thrugh
the Mill in Trot-
ter's Saloon.
EFFORTS AT SUPPRESSION.
EFFORTS AT SUPPRESSION.
The Story Of a Very Queer En-
counter Near Roosevelt Hos
pital New York.


ion conspirators awakened more interest
and speculation than the mysterious ar
rest and Imprisonment of Ernest Field
ing on Thursday night
All sorts of wild rumors few about and
the occurrence disturbed the siumbers of
more than one politician that night,
On Thursday afternoon Constable Joe
near the Court House, when he heard a
man telling one of the ring that ii he was
not given some money he would give the
Prosecutor some valuable informa-
tion which he possessed. Locke
waited to hear no more but
hurried into the court room and
breathlessly told Mr.. Winfield what he
had heard. The Prosecutor ordered him
to bring the man in Immediately, and in q
short time Fielding was telling his story
to Assistant Prosecutor Joe Noonan.
While he was talking to Mr. Noonan
efforts were made to get him down stails
to Sheriff Davis office These efforts
were reported to Mr.. Winfield, and were
the cause of Fielding's short sojourn with
Jaiier Birdsall.
FIELDING's STORY.
Fielding's story in substance was to this
effect:-That Tom Trotter ana woman
spoken of as Mrs. Matthews entered into
a sort of partnership in the saloon bust
ness Some time after the election of
last fall, Trotter and the woman fell out
and had bitter quarrel. during which
the woman drew revolver and threat
ened to deprive the ring of one of its most
valuable henchmen.
At any rate the two separated in high
dungeon, and the woman took away with
her the top of an election box with which,
Fielding said, the joker ballots were
stamped, milled and punctured, threaten
ing to use it in order ito get square" with
Trotter. Shortly after she left Trotter,
however, she was taken i'll from the
effects Of cancer. and admitted to Roose-
velt Hospital at Ninth avenue and Fifty
ninth street, New York.
FOLLOWING UP THE CLUES.
AS soon as the Prosecutor sheard this
story he dispatched three of the attaches
of his Office to the hospital to interview
the woman. When the three men
reached the vicinity of the hospital they
concluded to eat their dinner before pro-
ceeding to business.
They accordingly went into restaur-
ant at Ninth avenue and Fifty-ninth
street and were almost paraiyzed to see
sitting there Sheriff Davis, City Attorney
Hudspeth, General John Ramsey, two
ladies, one of whom is said to be General
Ramsay's sister, and youth, who, it was
afterwards learned, is a brother of Con
stable Mersheimer.
The recognition was mutual, ana the
faces Of the distinguished party from
Jersey City assumed several tints in as
many seconds.
No communication passed between the
two parties. and after while the Sher-
ms party broke up and departed.
A few minutes afterwards one of the
Prosecutors officers was sitting in the
orderly's Office at the hospital, writing,
when young Mersheimer came in and
mistaking the Prosecutors officer for a
hospital official, asked to see Mrs. Mat
thews.
He was asked what he wanted to see
the woman for, and replied that she was
his sister. Upon being further ques-
TONED, he Esaid he sliyed on Eleventh
streer, but did not know the number.
He was told by the Prosecutors officer
that he could not see the woman, and he
then left the building. Fielding was re-
leased on $500 bail yesterday afterno on.
joe Locke became his bondsman, and
will keep a watchful eye on him.
MIR. vREDENBURGHs SURRENDER.
The exclusive announcements in The
JERSEY CITY NEWS, yesterday that Coun-
sellor Vredenburgh had practically
abandoned all hope of an acquittal at the
hands of the jury ana placed his faith in
some legal technicalities created constern-
alton among the members OF the ring.
His claim that the so called lesser
crime, that of conspiracy, should end at
once without going to the jury in order
that 1t might be merged into the
higher crime of high misde-
meanor is considered very
shrewd move; but it is not believed the
court will heed the point made or that
the upper courts will sustain the point If
he raises it there. There appears to be no
doubt but that the case will be appealed
to the November term OF the Supreme
Court, and should the trial below be sus-
tained the case will go to the Court OF
Errors and Appeals for final decision.
The application to the Supreme Court
for q review of the proceedings of the
trial Will act as stay OF sentence, and
the convicted men will be permitted to