The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-21
ENGEL COMPUTES PREFER
HB REPLIES 70 THE ELECTION
PAMIHL Its OHARGk 5.

m Language should Bc Tahen In n Pick
utclI1n Sense. Contend tho Alleged Libel
ler'a LIZ Wy ere "a an O~Tsot-Libei
Not n Libel ON the Fact side. Only n joke.
It took two policemen to keep tho gentlemen
from do Ate" who nro agitatcd over tho libel
proceedings which Martin EngCl has brought
against Norboth Pfcifcr, saloon keeper and poll.
tician, from ov~ercrowding the private cxnmina.
tion room In the Centre Street Police Court yes
terday afternoon. 1t was the third hearing In
the case, which hnB stirred the lower east side
as nothing has stirred it In n long time. All OF
tho legal lights who shine daily in tho Essex
Market Police Court arc engaged In 1t, as well
as sonie who arc known in other places, and ut
each hearing there is an outpouring OF tho
henchmen OF tho principals.
Martin Engol was on tho stand again yester-
day. Abo Gruber, representing Pfeffer, opened
tho proceedings by asking Engel how many
crooks In his district ho was personally acquaint-
Cd with. There was u storm OF objections, to
which Grubcr replied:
I'm going to show that hc knows evory
crook in tho Eighth district. that no has been on
the bonds Of dozens Of them. also of dozens Of
disorderly house Keepers
The question was not allowed, and thon Law
yer Gruber ran down u list OF men ana women
who had been arrested for various oftences, and
oohNu IslBVi ~ NJ ou W oSSh VS. shSsi Dohu
Engel admitted that he might have been on
them all. In tho cases Of Rosie Rogers. Sadie
Wolf, and Becky Hulster. who woro arrested
In 1893 for keeping disorderly houses at a6
Allen.street, Engel wasn't 30 sure. He owned
tho premises in question at the time. he thought.
"How can [ tell these people by nnmoi' he
said, in apparent disgust. why. they 60 to
bed with one name and wake up with another.
I go on bonds like this because friends ask
mo to. 1t was such cattle as Pfeffer here that
drst got mo TO do favors like this"
"You were on the bonds Of Morris Lcvy and
Abe Levy, charged with larceny, werc you
II may have BEEN"
Were they thicvesr'
.a %Sp Ers say :, 1I ths ,sin,t that rnts a foolish 9MhS9 question: Sa min
GET. in a fight on Grand street. are pulled apart.
and then 20 on and have each other arrested for
quarrcls over there. just because men wio'vs
got a scrap or call each other thieves, that don't
mean they are. A charge of larceny don't mean
lEngel admitted that he had been on the bonds
OF hundreds OF people during the past iye
90. at the request of friends.
And 1 mover went on the bond Of a person
unless i was sure he was innocent" he added.
Engel acknowledged that he had gone on lots
OF bonds in the District Attorneys office. Whom
asked about y one Andrew 7; Morris, who was ar;
DO had gone on his bond, despite the fact that
he had never seen or heard OF the man before.
81 knew he was, all right though"
How did you know itf"
why, Robert A. .Pinkerton. the detective,
gas the man who asked me 70 go on his bond.
He ought to know, because Morris was o ten
A long iirt of names of mon and women who
and Engel admitted that hc had been on the
bonds Of most Of them. lie denied, however,
that he had ever received money for such SER
vice.
Lawyer Gruber asked Engel IL he thought
that people in de Alto" regarded him with less
I'M aTnRn thn n a ron III Tf Dfatfnrfa nrp
phlet. Engei said that he certainly thought
he had been very much hurt among his people
by. Pfeifer 3 circular.
~ q the disorderly houses in his district for DR..
Parkhurst. and when Lawyer Gruber said to
about the things said about you in that circular.
".Ivhat! Do you think 1 am not to mind being
keeper Of disordcrly houses, and ali the other
things said in that circulari OF course ! mind.
this ellow.that the can't say hese things about
me. III have every Police Captain in the city
and pr. Parkhurst. too. in this court to provo
hat these things are untrue"
What are your feelings toward Pfeffer nowi",
'fSnme as toward II rattlesnake," interposed
one of EnRel's numerous counsel.
Judge said Grubor, "aii these things in the
circular mean nothing over ON Grand street"
~ object" yelled one Of Engels lawyers.
English as she rs IS spoke mds'i east aa e q the T soWsSy %
said the Magistrate to Lawyer Gruber.
.ai IN thar iSSinf he e1 siartSd h =. bus G%n lififS liz In E Enssl
Market when he was 10 years old.
asked lSa the he lawyer.
I'll have you read out of the synagogue for
Lawyer Gruber asked for q dismissal at this
point He said that the whole of the alleged
libel ,ha was an east side joke and so regarded BY
Monday at 2 O'Clock.