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Horse Association, and various persons
connected Herewith as owners or other

TIE asesb,eahaeip on berial1 befSFe Jastses
cases. including the two against the New
Jersey Jockey Club and the Linden Park
Blood Horse Association, were tried and
verdicts of guilty rendered. Thereupon
retraxits and pleas of non vult were
three cases Justice Van Syckel imposed
a fine of $3.50 and costs. and in the other
cases a fine of $500 and costs In no in
1t further appeared that at the Janu-
airy term, 1885. forty-six indictments for
keeping disorderly houses were found IN
makers on Monmouth race track. Two
dants found guilty. and fined $3.50 and
costs. The remaining ~forty-four book
makers then pleaded non vult AND were
fined each 500 and costs. IN OCTOBER.
1890. the Monmouth County Grand Jury
maintaining disorderly houses on the
Monmouth race course. Two of the de-
PENDANTS were never a~pprehended. but
and We're each fined $500 and costs;
In January 1898. the Monmouth county
sgslnat } 5Se Mo rsauansd PARK aa A inassi5mflsa.
A plea of non vult was entered and a hne
of $500 and costs imposed.
found for the same offense and con
v~ictIons nae or pleas of guilty, entered.
Fines were imposed, but not imprison.
ment IN any case. l am not aware that
above cases was ever made the occasion
of criticism or animadversion.
them, the Board of Pardons in dealing
with the Engeman case "a case dinerent
in no respects from the others, con-
sidered that it might properly remit the
Similar considerations Influenced and
controlled the beard IN d TIE case OF and carr =
minute to that effect was made and
entered in the minutes as follows:
Petitions having been presented for the
e pasao 70 q Bay y0 a fine ne aas SEQ s. and nd costs, and
be imprisoned in the penitentiary for the
term of one year, and it appearing by
~d def ssaots Was the Keeping. Of a place
of resort for the purpose Of betting on
horse racing to which they pleaded
mittd prior to February, 1898, in when
year legislation ~purport.ng to legalize
such practices was enacted;
fore ao IN n several Counties of the State.
upon convictions for the same offense,
only the penalty of a fine was Imposed,
been punished by imprisonment-in the
only case in which Imprisonment was
imposed. it having been RENTED by the
the Said legislation of 1888: the said de-
PENDANTS wholly abandoned the practice
for which they We're indicted, ana we
stringent enactments for the prevention
of such offenses. there is no possibility
of their repetition by said OF
considered hat the application in be-
half of defendants may properly be
granted to the extent that the imprison-
therefore ordered that so much of the
sentence of said defendants as imposes
Imprisonment be RENTED. but that in
e Conviction Geiler and sentence 90 stand.
There remains to be noticed the case
of the State VS.. Donovan. u
This case arose in Monmouth county
in June, 1893. Donovan was indicted for
the murder of John Chew. Both men are
stablemen or horse trainers employed
in or about Monmouth Park. Donovan
plead guilty to m~anslaughter, which
plea was accepted and a sentence OF ten
years Imprisonment imposed. In March aaSd
Under the terms and conditions of which
he is to be of good behavior. and must
quarterly report his w~hereabouts and &C.
to be at large may be revoked and he re.
turned to prison to undergo, the fun
term Of Imprisonment to which ne was
Donovan and Chew had formerly been
residents of Urbana, Ohio, where their
characters and antecedents were pest
The application for the parole of Dom
swan was very largely signed by citizens
that the wound of Chew might have
been the result of an attack by him on
Donovan, and that Donovan acted IN sell
In addition to the petitions, proofs,
ETC. from Monmouth county, petitions
Donovan from citizens of Ohio and Ken
tlcky. These petitions and letters were
signed by the Governors of ONO and
Ohio, the State Auditor, the State Treas
urer, the Secretary of State, judges,
senators, the Mayor of Cincinnati. Ohio
The Keeper Of our State prison also
certified that Donovan was a proper
person to be paroled. The action of the
nous an and f certainly # the power to par
ole should be exercised, it would seem
that in the Donovan case 1t was properly
I shall not notice hat part of the com
mittee's report which ascribes the poll
teal upheavals of the last two years 70
an issue, doubtless had its effect and
properly so. But in the fall of 1888 it
| had practically ceased to exist, and m
the fail of 1894 was actually dead. NO
ma is SO visionary as now to hope or
expect its revival It would be impossi-
Bile TO enact in. this State any such law
legaiizing horse racing or race tracks.
| where the usual attendants upon horse
racing are sure soon to follow.
is to Sc attributed to the Same causes
| and influences which produced like ef-
| fects elsewhere. 1t is not necessary, IN
the hope or desire to advance partisan
| ends. 70 ascribe it to dead issues or I'M
proper motives on the part of conscien-
| tious officials. 80.
I must apologize for the length. of this
communication, but It seems to be una
| voidable in view of the unwarranted ac-
ton Of your committee with reference
to the Executive Department and the
Board of Pardons: 1t may be that the
| matters herein detailed may convince
| vour honorable body that the proposed
| legislation is entirely uncalled for.
GEORGE T. wERTS,
Governor.
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