The evening world., 1892-01-18
Legality Of Cutten-
burg Arrests to Be
Questioned.
RACE TRACK LEGISLATION.
Buffalo Jockey Club Planning to
Build a New Track.

The officials OF tho Hudson County Jockey
club claim that no indictments will follow
the arrests made at Guttenburg last Satur.
day because, as is claimed, the warrants
upon which the boOkmakers were arrested
were illegal.
j. c. Carr asserts that the warrants must
be filled out with the name OF the person to
be arrested, and the evidence against him
must be sworn to.
The assertion Is made that the warrants
upon which the bookmakers were arrested
were sworn out In blank and the names filled
in after the constables had reached the track.
on the other hand, Lawyers Blair and
Grouse, counsel for the Law and Order
League, declare that the warrants were legal,
and that as they were special warrants the
Justice Lockwood.
1t is said that the persons who interfercd
with the constables in the performance Of
their duty will be prosecuted.
The reasons for the raid are many. 1t is
claimed by the Hudson County track officials
that the Board Of control Is at the bottom OF
the whole arrair, inasmuch Us they declare
that certain members OF the Board have been
in frequent consultation with kawysss Bisif
and Grouse for some weeks past.
This may and may not prove to b true.
Az body II Is hardly possible that the Board
would officially indOrse any such proceeding,
though; that certain members who have
interests at stake in New Jersey may have
helped the League is possible.
The fact that the Law and Ordsr League
secured thh evidence and narQnna11v
Quoted the raid makes It probable that public
feeling had more to do with 1t than anything
else.
clare that raids Will be made at intervals
until all the bookmakers doing business at
Guttenburg have been arrested and evidence
against them laid before the Grand Jury.
De Lacy by striking the Jockey Club in It's
most vulnerable point, the bookmakers
Now that the New Jersey Legislature has
convened the men who have racing Interests
at stake have once more begun Kitation for
the passage or Pool bill. The Monmouth
Park Association is foremost In the work and
has In Its possession petitions bearing the
names OF thousands OF prominent residents Of
Monmouth County who pray the Legislature
The names Include those Of the large hotel
owners along the seaside. They declare that
jured their business.
Petitions Will also be presented, II Is said,
by residents OF other counties wherein race
tracks are situated
The associations should act together and
use their united efforts to frame bill that
will suit every one.
George Covington has SO Increased In weight
that he will not be seen In the saddle again.
He Is said to weigh IN the nelghborhoOd Of
las pounds. Green B. Norris, his late em-
ployer, has made the jockey proposition to
superinlend his stable, aud Covington Is said
to be considering the matter.
II Covington intends to blossom out Is Q
trainer he could not have a better master or
the Major" is still on the fence. Mr.. Morris
and Matt Byrnes both claim him and the
matter has not yet been settled by the Board
OF Control
3. W. Cook has been sold by A. +. Ulman 70
Sam Z. Hildreth Tor $4,000.
An association which Will be known as the
BufIalo Jockey club Will be Organized very
shortly. Tie promoters are several prOmt
uent residents Of Buffalo and the Engemans,
VINO at present own the Brighton Beach race
track.
The capital stock OF the new jockey club
Will be sl5o,O0O, issued In l,500 shares at
800 each. Will this amount II Is proposed
to purchase new grounds and construct
nrst-class race-courSe. Work will be begun
as soon as half the capital Is raised
The wellington stable has sold the four.
year-uld chestnut colt AppOinattOx, by FOnso
$1,000. He Will be brought 10 Guttenburg 10
run for the Winter.