The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-13
CHRISTIE SMITH INCLUDED.
Also Police Captains Farrier
and Kelly, Detective Clark
and Patrolmen Barry
and Hunt,
The Action Based on the Raids
Made By 'Jaek" Graham
Two Years Ago.

At last the Reform Grand Jury has done
something which it expects will distinguish
it for ever 1t has indicted County Clerl
Dennis Mclaughlin, John Carr, Nicholas
Crusius, Fred Walbaum, Police Superinten
dent Christie Smith, Captain Frederick
Fsrrier, Captain John F. Kelly, Detective
Michael Clark and Patrolmen Thomas Barry
and John Hunt The presentment of these
indictments will be handed the Court on
Monday next, and Immediately afterward
the indicted men will be arrested and called
upon to plead.
CAUSE OF INDICTMENT.
To find these indictments the Grand Jury
was forced to go back two years to find the
alleged offenses of these men. Readers OF
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS will remember that
on january 16, 1892, the Reform League or
ganized a raid on the Gutenberg race track,
which, it claimed, was disorderly house
and continually violating the law by selling
pools on the races. On the date mentioned,
Captain Jack Graham and number of men
deputized for the purpose were given a
handful of warrants, which were issued by
Justice Frank Lockwood, and they were sent
to the Gutenberg race track. Graham and
his aides arrested twelve persons, all of
them bookmakers. The men were bailed
flom custody. A number of subsequent
raids were made by these men, and in all
l52 arrests were made The evidence OBJ
tanned on these raids was prepared by Otto
Grouse of Blair & Grouse and was submitted
to the Grand Jury. That body refused to
indict
DEPUTIES PREVENTED BY POLICE
When some OF the raids were made the
deputies were prevented from executing the
warrants in their possession by number OF
Jersey City policemen. 1t is alleged that
these policemen were Superintendent Smith,
Detective Clarke and Patrolmen Barry and
Hunt. For this these policemen have been
indicted on the ground that they interfered
with the operations of the law and prevented
arrests from being made.
MAINTAINED A D1soRDERLY HOUSE.
The indictments found yesterday against
Dennis Mclaughlin, John Carr, Nick
Crusius and Frederick Walbaum are for
maintaining disorderly house under the
statute, in that they permitted gambling to
be done at the race track by permitting
the selling of pools and bookmaking on horse
races.
Other indictments found against Superin-
tendent Smith, Captain Farrier and Captain
Kelly were for permitting policemen who
were drawing pay from the city to serve as
special policemen at the race track.
WILL BE PRESENTED MONDAY.
On Tuesday next the opportunity for find
ing indictments against these men would end
under the Statute of Limitations for ON that
day the two years limited bylaw to indict
in such cases would have expired. For that
reason the Grand Jury yesterday hurried
through its work, and when it adjourned at
half-past seven o'clock last night it was to
meet again on Monday, when the indictments
will be handed the Court This brings the
actions of the Grand Jury within the Statute
of Limitations by one day.
The witnesses who appeared before the
Grand Jury yesterday were Captain Jack
Graham, his brother James and John alias
Buckley Hayes, three of the deputies who
were engaged in the raids.
M'LAUGHLIN NOT SCARED.
County Clerk Mclaughlin, today, laughed
when told that he had been indicted for
maintaining disorderly house. He said
that if the report was true he was willing to
face the music He did not seem much dis
concerted by the action of the Grand Jury.
It is rumored about town that Robert
Davis is also included in the indictment.