The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-13
SCANDAL ALL AROUND.
Pastor HathaWay's Sunday
Sermon Taken Up by
the Grand Jury. in
a Funny Way.
BE REFUSES TO sUBsTANsTIAFE
Frank 0. Cole Credited with a
Blackguardly Attack Upon
Judge Hudspeth.

The Rev. I. W. Hathaway, pastor of tlss
Westminster Presbyterian Churca, made
some startling statements in a sermon
which he preached on Sunday Mr. Hatha-
way is President of the law and Order
League, and he and three other ministers
who are members agreed to make a con-
certed attack last Sunday on the rum traf-
f1c. 1t had been currently runored that
the saloonkeepers were about to take the
aggressive. More recently the runor be-
came almost a certainty The "Liqiior
Dealer" had discussed the situation and
determined to make an appeal to the Le-
gislature for more liberal laws. They had,
1t is understood. prepared a bill permit
ting the saloons to be opened during cer-
tain hours on Sunday.
The intention of the liquor dealers
aroused the Law and Order League to re-
newed activity. The first blow was struck
on Sunday when the four ministers, in
their sermons. entered protest against
granting the saloonkeepers any more IL
cense or Liberty than they have at present
Mr.. Hathaway went further than any of
the others. He made some startling state
ments. Among other things he said that
one of the subordinate officers of the
League had been offered s25 a day TO step
working, that is. to stop procuring evil
dsnce against violators of the Sunday law.
high officer Of the organization had been
offered $500 and then 81 O00 to keep his eyes
closed. The offers were rejected with
scorn-
Mr.. Hathaway also declared that the
agents of the League had procured eYi-
dence against twelve. of the most promin-
ert salo0nkeeperS in the city sufficient to
indfct them and they were indicted. In a
short time after the indictments were
found the fact was known all over the
city. The indictments were never pre-
seDted to the court. they were recons.d-
cred at the last session of the Grand Jury.
The statement made by Mr.. Hathaway
came to the notices of that body and
We're deemed proper subject for inves-
tigation. Accordingly Mr.. Hathaway
was summoned before that body yester-
is told by Mr.. Hathaway himself He
was asked who the officer was who was
offered $25 to stop working and who made
the offer. He refused to answer either
question. Then he was asked who the
high officer was who could have had 500
or $1,000 for closing his eyes and who
offered to give him the money. but he
refused to tell that either.
Fore man Frank o. Cole asked how he
learned that indictments against saloon
keepers had been found and recoasidered-
MI Hathaway fepleQ tnat II was a mat
ter of common rumor at the time and
he has since been Informed of the fact
by gentlemen who were members of the
Grand Jury They were not bound by
their oath of secrecy after their term
ended.
Mr. Hathaway says that this colloQuy
took place between him and Foreman
Cole. He had said to Mr.. Cole that he
had spoken with Judge Hudspeth on the
subject of the reconsidered indictments.
and the Judge had strongly condemned
the action OF the Grand Jury.
Then, according to Mr.. Hathaway, Mr..
Cole said:-ssDo you know that Judge
Hudspeth was one Of the men who
urged the reconsideration OF the indics-
ments?'
II told him that I did not, and there
the subject dropped
Judge Hudspeth was informed of the
colloquy this morning and said:-s'As TO
the intimation that l asked the Grand
Jury to reconsider Indictments it Is so
absolutely ridiculous that it is unnneces-
sary to say it Is false
After making his escape from the Grand
Jury room Mr.. Hathaway dropped into
with Mr.. Winfield. He drew the Prose-
cutors attention to a decision by JUS
tice Gunmere that a municipal body
which granted a license has the peWer
to revoke it when the law is violated
Mr. Winfield told him, he says, that he
had never heard of such a decision