The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-13
HOPE FOR COYKENDALL.
Sentence Postponed a Week
Zines For Policy
Holders.


Judge Lippincottt this morning. in the
Court of General Sessions put off the SEN
tence of Nelson J. Coykendall for one
week. In doing this the court remarked:
There are circumstances which have
been presented to the court which in
duces it to suspend sentence until next
friday
orally believed that some new evidence
had been obtained which would mitigate
very materially the severity of the pun
ishment Of Coykendall.
Edward Dougherty, for assault and
battery, was fined $40, and Martin
O'Flaherty and Frederick Watner, for
similar offence, were fined $40 The
Court gave them lecture about fighting
and said but for the respectable charac-
ters they bore the punishment would
have been more severe.
POLICY MEN FINED.
James Teatun1, Rudolph Smythe and
Carl Loescher, all shoemakers, admitted
that they had sold policy slips, and each
was fined $50 and costs In passing SEN
tence Judge Lippincott said:-"I don't
suppose there are law and officers
enough to stop gambling absolute
ly, but the sort you indulge
in, it seems to me, takes the bread out of
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your victims. In fact the Court is in pos
session of one letter which states that
the writer knows one person in this city
who has become so infatuated with this
species of gambling that it has become
mania"
Hugh Kelter, for the same offence, was
fined $50, and told that If he was ever be-
fore the Court again on a similar charge
he would be imprisoned. 8 1t seems
hard,'' said the Court, Ito infiict a severe
punishment on gamblers like you when
we know that big gamblers GO free and
are not brought here and the Court can't
get them here. =
Alexander Muldoon, another policy
dealer, was fined $50.
A DOUBTFUL CASE.
Then Charles Loetier was told to stand
up. He had pleaded non vult to selling
policy slips. Ex-Judge Rankin, his
counsel, made an appeal to the court for
mercy for him. He said LoeAer
had been before the court be-
admiration of every man, for it was to
save his father, who had offended the law
and was at his home sick, that Loefier
had pleaded guilty to the offenSa of sell
ing policy slips. when he was innocent.
Judge Lippincott said that the
Court was not unanimous in the
opinion as to the severity of
the penalty to be inflicted, for some
Thought 1t should pe greater. "You have
been here before for the same offence"
said he, land you well know the punish
ment. It must be understood that the
law must be enforced against these gam
bling places, if possible. The Court does
not get legal evidence that they exist
but it is known to all that they do and
perhaps some day they will do so legally,
and be so arranged that q register will be
kept, on which the name of the person
who enters shall be inscribed,
81 ttssis length of time he remains,
and the time he departs also
recorded and the facts published to all.
The Court would not care, were it not for
your families, if all OF you gamblers were
reduced to begging and imprisonment.
The sentence of the Court is that you be
confined in the County Jail for three
months and pay fine of $50
Joseph Farley, the thief who robbed q
poor box was sent to State prison for
eighteen months; William Henry for the
theft of watch, will live for one year
at Shake Hill and John Martin for break
ing and entering store in Hoboken will
tarry two and half years at State
prison.