The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-20
ONE TALOVE LETTER
Thus DR.. Pyle Talks of the
Blackmailing Mis-
Sives.
TALK IN THE GRAND JURY ROOM
Because They Did Not See the Pistol
the Jurors Refused to In
dict Miss Jones.

oh IT. W nlidui L. AZ Nho41c VI "e
tempt to kill and attempt to blackmail.
threw upper tendon into fresh tremor
Of excitement. and all last evening 1t was
the one topic discussed at the clubhouses
and in the parlors. Some cynics are dis
posed to the view that the Doctor was not
over anxious to pursue the case any
further, because of the fresh talk 60
which each new step gave rise, but his
manner in the Grand Jury room did not
bear out these representations. He was
very civil while on the witness stand. but
he told his story with firmness and detail,
and left no point concealed that could
have helped to produce an indictment.
MRS. PYLE AND THE GRAND JURY.
His wife, as the NEWS OF yesterday said,
was a witness in the same behalf She
happened to be within earshot when Miss
Jones made her second visit to the house.
aud was put t.undsr subpoena by the Grand
Jury TO reveal what she knew OF the al
fair. When sne presented herself. it was
apparent that sne stood loyalty by her
husbands side, and was possessed OF q
blind faith in the truth of his story.
Both testified that when Miss Jones
called for the second time she drew a pis-
toll and threatened to kill, and the Doctor
himself assured the Grand Jury that he
wrested the weapon from her. he was
not asked to produce the weapon; but
when the Grand Jurors got down 10 a
discussion of the case, it was seen that
the failure to show the pistol was the
weak point in the Prosecutors case.
The grand jurors argued the matter
with themselves IN about this way
Suppose there was no pistol or suppos-
ing that the pistol was nnloaded If there
was one, there could have been no serious
attempt to kill. How can woman shoot
with a pistol or AN unl0aded or debtl-
itated ones If she did not try to use
loaded pistol to Tighten the doctor into
paying her money there was no attempt
at blackmall.
GRAND JURY DISCUSSION.
snow" said one of the grand Jurors.
ssthe pistol in this case has not been pro-
duced TO the view of the Grand jury.
There is therefore doubt that il may have
been pistol, or being pistol that It was
loaded. or being loaded that 1t was
capable of going off. Let us give this
suffering girl the benefit Of that doubt"
Several OF the grand jurors arising to
explain their votes talked sympathetically
with the girl.
Perhaps she had been wronged. It
would be cruel to wrong her more.
She was poor and sick and weak. She
hadn't done any harm after all. No one
mad been hurt Why prosecute herr
SO when the vote was taken It was seen
that every grand juror was in favor of no
Indictment and che case was at an end.
When I called on DR.. Pyle today he
greeted me cordially and said he was
willing to talk about his case.
DIR. PYLE sPECULATES.
s'For what reason, Doctor, do you sup
pose the Grand Jury threw out the in
dictmentf" asked.
because of the i'll health Of the girl.
think, don't your
"What course do you propose to take
now to vindicate yourself since the Grand
Jury refuses to make the vindication"
II don't know what TO do. don't see
what can do. Ii would be useless to sue
the girl in civil SUIT, and there seems no
other course open. What would. you
suggesti"
II would do this, Doctor. I would
make public the letters you claim TO be
blackmaiIing letters and / would state
my position as it is 10 the public and let
the people be the judges. Thus far they
have only the uncontradicted story OF the
girl backed up by the belief OF the
Grand Jury that she had told the
TRUTH
"I will not publish the letters. know
in my own heart / am innocent, and l
can walk about this community feeling
that am entitled to every ones respect.
/ believe it viii be made right in the
end"
II understand that Annie Jones will
begin a suit for damages against you"
ayes; lave heard SO, bat knowing
am innocent / would rather pay the
woman 81, 900 when directed by jury 70
do SO than to pay one cent voluntarily"
doctor, why was not the pistol taken
before the Grand Jury as evidence"
Il don't know; il may have been; it
was left IN the custody Of Justice Wan
SER"
ONLY ONES LOVE LETTER
sit is believed that the reason you do
not publish the alleged matchmaking let
tiers is because they are love letters" l
said.
one, tine first one. which speaks of old
times and pleasant hours was supposed
to have passed with the writer"
"Then you will not make the letters
No NO. don't think ought Prosecutor
Winfield advised me to say nothing and
the scandal would right itself"
WILL 1T BE FURTHER PURSUED.
The Prosecutors Office assumed that
the Indictment Was so much in the nature
of a foregone conclusion that Assistant
Prosecutor Noonan had even drawn the
hills on " hlch the woman was TO be ar
ralgned in Court, and Chief Constable
Feeney wanted TO lay wager, even this
morning that the girl Will be brought in
an attempt may be made to reopen the
case and to induce a reconsideration of
its action by the Grand Jury, or that the
case may be taken before the next Grand
Jury. DR.. Pyle's friends are advising
him, however, that the easiest way out of
| the scrape is the best, and that the grand
Jurors have done wise thing for him by
souelching the matter. and it is not
| likely that he will make any movement
to revive it,
THE PISTOL is HERE.
II the Grand Jury had not been moved
| in dealing with the question by very ex-
eusabie, II not laudable, sympathy with
| the woman they could easily have traced
the pistol and secured its production.
| The Doctor, as he says. delivered il to
| Police Justice Wanser, aud through Clerk
| Clay keenan, it was sent to the Police
Departments property bureau at head
quarters. IL is there now-an old-fash-
| ioned Sharp's revolver with four barrels.
aBut can't say whether il was loaded
| or not" said Justice Wanser this morn
| ing. s'It was old, and there was danger
| in attempting TO remove the charge, and
So il may never be known whether the
pistol has a charge or not II it has, II
1 has charge 10 keep, guess