The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-14
TO V|ND|CATE
JUSTICE.
Grand Jury and Bar As
sociation Urged to Prose
cute Noonan and
Simpson.
LIpPINCOTT'S SOLEMN WORDS
December Grand Jury Charged
With Investigating the
Journals Corrup-
tion Charges.
COMMITTEE ON DISBARMENT
Scandal Taken Up by the Lawyers
at their Annual Meeting
This Morning.
COMMITTEE ON DISBARNENT

The December term of the Oyer and
Terminer and General Jail Delivery open
ed this morning. Nearly every lawyer of
prominence in the county, and many not
SO prominent were present. There was
also a large crowd of laymen. The
Judges desk was adorned with big
punches of flowers. Justice Lippincott
took his seat on the bench at 10 o'clock,
and in a few minutes Judges Hudspeth
and Nevius Joined him. Shortly before
Il Sheriff Heller conducted the Grand
Jury into court, and, after they had been
sworn, Justice Lippincott delivered his
charge. He said
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury-The first
thing to which the Court desires to call
your attention is the existence up to a
very recent date of several gamDllnS
shops more or less openly CONDUCTED in
various parts of this county The one
existing at the place usually called Monte
Carlo ran almost constantly from last
January up to the last days of August or
the early days of September, and it would
have run longer if it had not been that
one of the managers of it drew a revolver
upon one OF the officers of law who visited
the place to serve a criminal warrant ana
make an arrest. A more hagrant outrage
never was perpetrated upon the admins
tration OF criminal justice in this county
than the continuation of gambling on
horse races and other forms OF SanDllhss
carried on there after the conviction OF
Rindernagfe.
The other. gambling places, especially
on horse races, some in doboken, some IN
Jersey City, and one in Harrison, have
been running quite continuously for
year past-closed perhaps for short inter
walls from time to time. but never for
quite closely watched their chances, ana
kept running quite permanently. The
Court may observe that their chances to
Ill
all the time. There can be but little dis
tinction drawn between them, but from
all the Information which has come to
the Court we have been led TO believe that
the one at Harrison on the bank OF the
Passaic seemed to be an example OF the
most open defiance of the law. Some OF
those operated in Jersey City were oper-
ated under closer cover, but the efforts
of the officers of the law, the police au-
thorities of the municipalities in which all
of these place were located, and the ac-
tion of the grand juries were such that it
was not necessary for any OF them to OBJ
serve much secrecy as to their operation,
nor as to the personnel of their manage
ment.
The Court is informed that all of them,
have practically ceased operation. But
that is no reason that those persons who
managed and operated them, and their as
sstanrs, should not be indicted, appre-
hended and punished. These places were
opera ted in open violation of the law,
which Was well known to them. They
were operated IN defiance OF the courts
entrusted Win ADMINISTRATIONS VI CtiIlllii
Justice They were sadnaonished by the
charges OF this court to the Grand Juries
from time to time, and they should not
escape the punishment they SO richly de-
serve # the officers of the law and the
police authorities Of these places had per-
formed tithe of their duties, and the
grand juries had investigated and pre-
sented indictments as they ought have
done, this county would have been saved
the disgrace of being held up as spec
tacle of contempt in this State, and the
scandals which exist 6ntlreiV ODV1-
ated Without any further elaboration OF
this matter this Court here submits, more
than submits, demands that this Grand
Jury take this matter up, and set in mo.
ton the full power of the machinery or
the law 10 the end that those who OPP
Grated these places be discovered ana m
CATION to inquire also into the neglect OF
the officers of the law and police au-
thorities, and why it has been that such
offenses have been allowed to exist SO
long, and which have only now ceased
because of the complete exposures made
by a responsible newspaper OF TINS city;
This Court. cannot rest satisfied until
both this class of offenders as well as
the police authorities. whose neglect and
connivance so long permitted lhese OF
fenses to flourish are before the bar of
the proper court of criminal jurisdiction
under indictment, and your duty cannot
be said to be well discharged until this
event comes to pass.
Another matter which has been set be-
fore Grand Jury after Grand Jury, de-
indictments against those who have Great
ed and maintained nuiSances within the
limits of this county. 1t is patent to the
observation, especially to the olfactory
consideration OF every individual who is
compelled to spend his time in this county.
that the houses and habitations, business
places highways and places, both private
and public, that this county is more sorely
aggrieved than almost any other COM
munity of like character in this or any
other country. We read of nothing like
it in civilized lands. With laws ample m
under the penalty of Indictment fine and
Imprisonment and abatement, we suffer
from year to year, our lives and health,
and the lives and health of our families
in daily peril Property constantly de-
teriorafing in value and becoming un-
profitable, our pleasure highways to an
extent useless to u.s. The summer days
and nights of those whose business re-
ouires them to remain at home, sickenng
and. deadly from the noxious effluvia
wind. from every direction, with the ex-
ception of one at some time during the
twenty-four hours these sckening odors
are sure to rise These nulsanees Issl1 E, are
Those who maintain them are well known
in the community. From the owner of the
pig sty in North Bergen with its rood
of nastiness, to the extensive abattoirs.
offaj dead animal and oil rendering es-
fablishments, with their dead effluyia
over-spreading whole communities, the
and subject to the penalties for violation
Of. law There can exist no question that
they should be indicted and the nu1sances
abated.
Water Department of Jersey City. whilst
he was in office abstracted something like
5000 from the public aeyenues f,a oa ,,3f = 1has ii
own use. This is said to- be the report Qf
the expert who examined his accounts.