The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-13

LI9PINCOTTS CHARGE
Full Text Of That Delivered
Yesterday to the
Grand Jury.
MANY STRONG POINTS.
Corrupt Officials Uneasy-0nce an
Indictment Is Found There
Should Be No Recon-
s~ideration.
MANY STRONG POINTS.

AZ q AQAA AOROLb VI y Jug e
Lippincott's charge TO the new Grand
Jury, a summary Of which was given IN
yesterdays JERSEY Cry News
After calling attention to the Der
OF persons in the County Jail awaiting
trinl and suggesting that these cases
receive the early consideration of the
jurors, Judge Ltppincott said:
u am informed by tile prosecutor that
the criminal business to be Brought to
your attention Is quite extensive IN its
character hud that the criminal list will
Re Il large one. The Judgment OF the
Court Is hat crime of the ordinary char
acter has been increasing rapidly Ia this
county during the last SIX months. and
tins prompts the Court to call to your
attention the necessity Of the rigid en-
fuicement OF the criminal law-the rigid
enforcement of every public criminal law
Oh the statute book irrespective of the
persons whom it may affect. Without
action of this character on your part
lawlessness Will increase, decentralization
ensue, the crimina offender be come
holder and more delant and the health,
reputation, property and person Of the
citizen Is rendered insecure"
Judge Lippincuut suggested that the
Grand Jury hold daily sessions instead
of meeting once or twice a week as has
been the custom. He also directed that
The meetirgs be held during court hours
" lax L II LIZ dllttDOOD, as WIS Lu6
Gaze with former Grand Juries,
A"This practice said the Judge. ''has
been a perDicious one and demoralizing
to the administration of Justice. The
Grand Jury should meet daily aud at
proper hours for the performance of a
far days work until all the accumulated
work is completed. This seems to be a
reasonable requiem ent: besides, a
prompt aud continued n to the
criminal business aud a speedy present.
meut Of IL to the Court avoids mauv of
the scandals which have attended the
sessions of some OF our Grand Jurles.
Indictments should be presented as
soon as found, and not held TO await
reconsideration, prompted by personal or
other Influences illegal in their charac-
ter. In your oath you Will riud the free
and plain exposition of the prin ciDles
aDce of your official functions, and in
order for you to faithfully perform these
functions you must at ouce separate
Y, urselyes- from all personal ~preiudices.
bias. affections or friendships. A stesdy
and continued reference to the provisions
of your oath will at all times be beus.
fetal. It points out every step in the
path OF your duty.
SUNDAY LIQUOR SELLING.
'There appears 10 be q necessity of
speaking specially 10 you in relation to
certain classes of offenses against the
law III tuS Guilty. OneubeS WHICH re-
peatedIy occur and which are continued
and notorious.
at is the duty of the Court to call your
attention to the most open and notorious
violations OF the law of this State aqanist
the habitual sale of Intoxicating liquors
Oh Sundays. 1t is your full duty to
indIct any one violating these laws.
Whether the violations be by corpora
tions or iudIvidusls. they are alike tudict-
able. The habitual sale of liquor on Sun
day is made a mlsdemesnor by the statute
of this State and punishable as such
No longer ago than last winter the Legis-
lature of this State reaffirmed the Iegis-
latiou on this subject, and, by a new
enactment, declared the sale of fntoxi-
eating liquor on Sunday to be an
indlctnble misdemeanor. and by the
provisions of the statute, within the
discretion of the Court before whom the
conviction Is had, it Is punishable by q
fine Of not exceeding $500, or imprisoa-
ment at hard labor not exceeding Two
y. airs, or both.
"There is no law upon the statute
books upon any subject that should not
liquor on Sunday Is q crime under our
laws, and the Court can only perform
its duty by charging o on the su Dject,
aud the Grand Jury can only perform its
duty by indicttng when 1t can obtain
sufficient evidence of the commission of
tH0 OLSuSt, budb 49, when buS eVluouC6 Is
presented TO 1t. or when it may be OBJ
iaiued by due inquiry, or when it Is
Within your own knowledge.
POLICY DIsGRACEs THE COUNTY.
1T is 10 orlous that within Lnfs Ct q .ty
lotteries are maintained and tickets i'll the
sanne sold almost ad libitum. The cities
OF this county are delnoralized and dis
graced by a species of gambling called
policy playing. 1t is a cheap form of
gambling. but exceedingly lucrative to
those who carry Oh the business. It is
inculcHting q wholesale spirit for gamb-
ling which. scientifically speaking. it is
not going too far, perhaps, to say may
become hereditary. 1t is now crowdina
our cities u the homes thereof with
young gamblers. male and female, pros
rituting our young men, boys and girls to
dishonest courses. q rendering them
entirely unfit for sny honest occupation
III life. No one Will employ them with
knowledge of their indulgences. There
have been two or three cases of men en~
gagged III this business. There haye been
promoters and dealers and under men
employed in it. Some of them go BY the
name of brokers and frequently take
other titles in order more successfully TO.
carry on the nefarIous business.
Tine system includes canvassers who
go from place TO place, house to hous or
saloon TO saloon soliciting orders for
chances. thus steadily and persisrently
COTEuDtluG lbue people,. 1QOSe are bQo
practices aud these ars the results with
which the people of this county have been
inflicted. Il
Now. every lottery fs a nuisance and
indictable. Every one engaged in maiu-
tainiDg 1t is iudictable. tut person who
prints the tickets or gigs Is tndictable as
being engaged in maintaining d lottery
as well as the person engaged III the sale
of the tickets or gigs, 80 is the telegraph
company over whose wires it voluntarily
permits the cipher or drawings to be
transmitted. II a telegraph company
knowingly engages In aiding ana assist
ing the enterprise or a lottery by the use
of It's facilities for that purpose IL is
indictable for the maintenance of lot
terry. II a Telegraph COMPANY becomes
voluntarily a party to the crime by aiding
or assisting III its commission it should
be indicted. It's officers, agents, man
ayers and CLERKS 80 knowingly engaged
are indicLable.
.Iu order to indict you do not need to
a direct proof of the commission of
the ~offeuse. You can indict upon cir
cumstantiai evidence. You do nov need
proof of thessule Of tickets in order TO
indicr. II NAV be one OF the facts of the
evidence. but you can iudict without it
If the facts aud circumstances proved
before you nave III your judgment such
probative force as to lead you naturally
10 the conclusion that the person &C
cused is engaged in the business.
at is said that there Is not much con-
ceelmeuG fnltheir business in this county.
It Is said that the persons In tats county
engaged in the business make bur little