The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-20
TIGHTS and SPANGLES.
What Law and Order Men
Saw at Cronheim's
Dive.
BEER AND WHISKEY GALORE
Detective Gallagher Watched the
Shows for Many Sundays
A Preliminary Scare
in Court.

The trial of siegfried Cronheim for
keeping disorderly house In Hoboken.
began this morning in the Court of
General Sessions before Judges Lippin-
colt, Hoffman and Kenny and the follow
ing jury:
Oliver z. Vreeland, Foreman; Emanuel
Sands. Matthew Boucher, Charles Hund,
Rienzi Cadugan, Bernard Mcguiness,
Thomas Fischlein, Michael c. Manning.
Samual Hathaway, Peter G. Van Zand.
Edward w. King and John A. Schaetfer.
Before the jury was empannelled Cron-
helm gave cause for the Court and Prose-
cutor to fear he had left the town of Ho-
boken and the State. When court opened
and the Prosecutor called the case, Cron-
helm and his lawyer, Judge DAILY, were
absent Constables were told to look
about the Court House and neighborhood
TO see ii they could find Crouheim.
They reported they could not. The Ho-
boken police were communicated with
and Il general search for the dive keeper
was made. After a tedious wait Prosecu-
tor Winfield finally moved that the
So 900 bail bond of Cronheim be forfeited.
Charles Cohen of Hob boken was the
ouASpJ. OutGO ibP PAbSVup Sl0 AOo w v
to act hastily in the forfeiture of SO large
bond and advised that little more
time be given Cronheim.
HEARD FROM AT LAST.
A few moments later the Hoboken
Police telephoned that Cronheim and
Judge DAILY were on their way to Court.
Constable Wise was sent to meet them.
At twenty minutes to eleven he returned
with Cronheim and Judge DAILY. The
Judge was not well. He suffered greatly
from gout and walked with trouble by the
aid of a cane. AS soon as he
entered, the room Prosecutor Winfield
moved the case. Judge DAILY protested
that he was too i'll to try it, and asked for
an adjournment. This was refused and
the Judge then moved to Quash the indict-
ment on technical objections, which Judge
Lippincott overruled.
PROSECUTOR wINFIELD's ADDRESS
Prosecutor Winfield addressed the
jury. He said:-"This defendant has
been indicted for keeping disorderly
house," and then recited the facts so fire.
quently published in The NEWS that
Cronheim's dive was place where
riotous conduct, noise and bad characters
combined to make il nuisance. Mr..
Winfield said Cronheim had seemed
determined to defy the law aud for
doing so had been arrested number of
times. but this did not change his course.
He would simply give bail to the Recorder
and continue to keep open his disorderiy
house. Respectable citizens wanted to
close this place where children were ad-
mitted, sluggng indulged in, lewd dane
ing permitted and liquor sold on Sunday
as readily as upon weekday night. These
respectable citizens asked Judge Hoffman
for a bench warrant. and it was granted
and still Cronheim defied the law. When
next arrested Judge Hoffman told Cron-
helm that if his offence was repeated bail
would not be accepted. Cronheim failed
to heed the warning, and he was arrested
upon another bench warrant. Bail was
refused, and he was locked up several
days. He was released by writ of hapeas
corpus, and bailed in $4,000.
THE GRAND JURY'S COURSE.
''The Grand Jury. for some reason best
known to the members, failed to indict
Cronheim, and it was while Judge Knapp
was begging the Grand Jury to do its
duty and indict the dive keeper, that the
beloved Judge was stricken with death.
Then Cronheim was indicted"
THE EVIDENCE.
When Mr.. Winfield had reviewed these
facts, Police Captain Patrick Hayes took
the witness stand. He testified that he
was in Cronheim's on the Sundays. De-
cember 6, 13, and 90. He was there in
the afternoon and evening. He saw a
regular theatrical performance each Sun
day, which consisted of dancing, singing.
music and sketches. The women on the
stage wore tights and skirts to the knee.
Captain Hayes said during the past two
years he had caused the arrest of Cron-
helm number of times for keeping a dis
orderly house. but Cronheim continued to
violate the law.
WHAT OTHERS SAW.
Albert Lehman of Hoboken corroborat-
ed the evidence of Captain Hayes. He
had on three Sunday nights been in
Cronheim's Theatre. The performance
was of the variety character. He saw
people drink beer there and drank it him
self each time he was there, He never
took his wife or family to Cronheim,s.
He saw women in tights perform upon
trapeze.
Daniel Spencer of No 1874 Park avenue,
q member of the Hoboken Law and Order
Society, visited Cronheim's one Sunday
night. He saw women in tights. He saw
one man on trapeze take off all his
clothing excepting skin tights while
''doing an act" He also saw burlesuue
sparring match. One woman had skin
tights and nothing else on.
The tights were half blue
a song and dance. He heard people In
the audience order walters to bring them
beer and saw them receive it. He went
to Cronheim's at the request of Stanley
Davis of the Law and Order Society.
GALLAGHER's NINE SUNDAYS.
Detective Gallagher testified that he
had visited the theatre on nine Sunday
nights between November and January
g. He saw the same that the other wit
nessess testified to.
Special Policeman McAleer, the bouncer
in the dive. testified that he had been
there nightly for about three years. 1t
was his duty to Keep order, aud he some
times had to demonstrate with the audi
ence. who would howl at the perform
ance. He saw in the audience men, women
and children. He had heard people
in the audience call for beer. He had seen
women performers enter the boxes and
drink with the men in them.
Detective Kivlin corroborated the evil
dence of the other detectives,
REPUBLICANS AT WAR.
Ex-Assemblyman Ovlatt Ignored for the
State Convention