The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-07

airy vi ING USQpiC tuu PIOtcCb bu0 Ecpu-
~tation, property, and life of the individual.
Without action of this character on your
part. lawlessness will prevail, democrat
ization will ensue. this criminal offender
econes holder aud more defiant. anu
the reputation. property and the life of
the citizen ecoines more and moro In
secure.
1T is your duty to ~enforcs every law
on the statute book of this State, and In
no other manner can yon fulfil che 3 worn
obligation which you have today sacredly
pledged yourselves to regard US your rule
Of conduct in this high and important
trust which has has been 50 reposed in
this grand inquest"
Mr.. Halloraa reclted iu full the oath Of
the III and the remarks of
Judge Lippincott with reference to the
sale of liquor on Sunday. the policy evil
and gam nling on the race tracks.
81 now claim in the face Of all this, -
the minister said, that there is not an
honest man on the Grand Jury Not onel
What do / mean by honesty. you askf d.
| say that every member of that jury is a
thief; that your pockstnook is not secure
In his hands; that ne will purloin your
goods when opportunity otfersp No.
do not mean thai. Honesty Is more
than not stealing. HONESTY Is the
proper discharge of duties Committed to
or trust reposed in us. A man who
would not take a penny from his en-
ployer's till snrreDtltiousiy may be at the
same time q dishonest man for he may
rob his employer of his time, may not
give due attention to business for which
he was engaged, and so depreclats that
employers goods or character and de-
prlve him of lawful gain.
THREE CLASSES OF GRIMES.
81 suppose these Grand Jurors would
not steal IN the technical sense. but they
have proved recreaut to their VOWS,
shamelcssly aud persiste utly. In the
charge OF Judge L~ipptncott, from which
l have quoted. there are three classes of
crimes duly specified namely liquor
selling on Sunday. policy playing and
race track gambling. These were stated
to be In active. persistent, defiant opera
ton, and this Grand Jury, every man,
wore to make true presentment' of all
matters criminal coming under its no.
tice, or would investigate OF diligently
inquire into such matters. They ha d all
the power of the courts to assist them
and a judge waiting to act upon their
recommendations. Yet we fiud these
specified charges either passed. in silence
or so examined in private as TO fail TO in
dict many of the parties implicated.
Did this Grand Jury have no kuowl-
edge, individual or hearsay. of Sunday
liquor selling? Answer up, John Burns,
Henry Otterson, Thomas Wagner. G. j.
Donovan. saloon keepers. Answer up,
Editors Benson and Mcmillan aud
ex-Sheriffs Aeintze aud Cronan. Answer
up, all other members of this Grand
Jury. What have you done to aDats this
evil, an evil that every one of common
sense vim in our cities Is more or less
cognizant of. Some aiouus are now on
JERSEY City Heights with front doors
open, as l have Witnessed myself. and
one OF your beautiful police officers with
in ouch of my elbow, even last Sabbath
night
''Dld you not know of the existence
of gambling on the Gutenberg race
track by personal knowledge or public
rumor. aud what have you done to rid us
of these vultures that prey on a guliible
public? Have you no. had full aud COM
plete knowledge Of policy gambling by
participation or common runner IN Jer-
ssy City, and what have you done about
it?
."I have said enough to sustain the
charges of dishonesty against this, our
noble Grand Jury ny. / further insist
their solemn oath. Let me be specific.
and not general. To make such charge
without Or per f~ouuda.ion is criminal In
the highest sense. / make this charge on
the authority of one of their own mum
Der, made III their presence, for which
he was applauded to the echo, by the
G. aud Jurors themselves, and never de-
med In public or private that | am aware
of.
"2. / make this charge on the authority
of the New YORK World and on he au-
thority of The JERSEY CITY NEWS, both
sound Democratic journals, the political
complexion of the great majority OF the
members OF the Grand Jury, AS / under
stand,
~ T -,ol-a tbir ol,aro.o ~ n,-t;0nttz.
on the authority OF Judge Lippincott, our
noble yet Democratic Judge, who
charged you on your entering to office,
aud again in his supplemental CHI rye,
July 10. We quote. first. ons of your
own number. Mr.. EckeimaDn:-
At last our foreman, most serene;
His name is true John Edelstein;
Nine-teDths our work was done by him:
Tue whols proceedings kept in trim;
Experience, practice aud despatch;
You very rarely find his match.
Now, by what au rhority did John
Edelstein do nine-tenths of the work
of the tw~enty-four members of
the Grand jury? And what authority
can you adduce to show til at You should
nave relegated nine-tenths OF your WORK
to HIM?
Ibid you make oath that you twenty
three men wonld only do one-tenth Of the
work committed to you by solemn COM
pact? / ask you, gentlemen, to answer,
before an outraged public, why you
should be invested with tue most solemn
rec possibilities and then delegate nearly
all OF them to one of Out own number?
And how could you draw the per diem
allowance for work not done by you? Did
Edelstein swear he would do your work?
No, he did not. But yet you say he did,
JUDGE L%IPPINcoTT sAys NO.
ION Tuesday, July 10 Last. you came
into court and asked dismissal at the
hands of Judge Lippincott, having full.
filled you obligations, as you claimed. I
presume there was to be another coll l.
ton then. rs | nave seen publicly stated.
The noble Judge says in his supple
mental charge to you on that day
Now. as you perceive here, there has
been placed In nv hands a large mass Of
evidence bearing Upon this subject mat
ter. 1t gives facts aud circumstances and
names and dates. | propose to hand it to
your foreman in open court Tor the use OF
the Grand Jury-[uot one-tenth1-and I
request you to examine 1t and Investigate
the matters and facts therein set forth. I
that you can have, it you have
not already had, before you this evidence
In a folm-tha5 Is, by witnesses-that
Won can act upon it and iud Indictments
against The persons sherein named. If
the evidence has been produced before
you the result should have been the pres
of many indictments to tbi,
have examined 1t. aud If those
facts appear to yo1 in evidence there can
be no escape froHl indictments. | have
1t quite carefully. and IL
to me that 1t exhibits a Hue of
within four reach which would
result in u great number Of indfctments.n
1.-The New York World says that you.