The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-04
did he pay the deteetives?"
'sHe did,
Then you went before the Grand
Jury?'

ihen you went petofs tue 1rahu
Jury?"
yes
did you receive aid from Justice Lip
pincott and Judge Hudspeth?"
Every help
Mr.. Ackert then continued to relate
another visit to the pool rooms, in COM
pany with John P. Feeney, Sheriff Hell
Ter. Frank Hague and Maurice Stack.
The building was surrounded. he said,
and some one cried, I'VE are pinched,"
and the place shut up The Sheriff then
entered and made arrests The men
We're taken before Judge Hudspeth and
held for the Grand Jury,
Were the men indicted?'' asked Mr..
McCarter.
Never heard that bills were handed
in" said the witness.
'sAnd half an hour after the raid the
pool rooms were in full blast again?"
eyes,
who was foreman of that April Grand
Jury?"
.sMr. Staples"
Anyone on that jury from the vicinity
of Little Monte Carlo?''
Yes
WHO were they?"
'sOrd Darling and Charles. Snyder
Ibid you ever hear of detectives going
afterwards and taking the wrong ferry
boat?'
'.Oh, yes; Mr.. Stack was to go to the
pool rooms. / met him in Newark ave
nue., but he didn't go there that day. l
took my camera and visited the place
and took photographs of the place, but
Mr.. Maurice Stack didn't come. l told
Mr.. Winfield, and he called Mr.. Stack
into his office and told him to go the
NEXT day"
so Stack missed the placer" asked
counsel, with a chuckle.
Eyes. he did,
Didn't know where it was, hey?"
asked Mr.. McCarter, with another snort.
mo, SIR was the reply.
What next did you do?" resumed the
counsel.
well, we got sealed orders"
what do you mean by sealed or
ders'?''
"Well, orders from the Court and un-
known to the Prosecutors Office
go on and tell us what you did?''
.I got on my wheel and Mr. Gowan
got another, and we rode to the place.
We found a lot of men there who looked
much worried. Mr.. Winfield said he
would send men to work with Hennessey,
but Hennessey had not been notified.
The pool room was empty. The telegraph
instrument was still ticking and the rae
ing card supplied by the New York Sup
ply Company was still there. There was
a telephone and I called up the Prose
cutor's office and asked why he hadn't
sent the men up Mr.. Winfield said that
it was the day of the Robert Davis Assoc
citation picnic and the men were all on
that excursion
Everybody smiled here.
go on said Mr.. McCarter.
'I got Officer Dewey to arrest a man
whom we found there, who said he was
employed by a Mr.. Hoffman. told the
officer that he should take the man to
Justice of the Peace Young. and he did
SO. I said to the Judge that the man
should be held. and I made a complaint
against him and Mr.. Hoffman, who was
arrested also. Mr.. Ord Bowling gave
bond
''What member of the Grand Jury?"
Eyes, and Mr.. Gowan told me that 1
ought not to accept the bond of a man
who would sit on the case in the Grand
Jury, but Mr. Darling said to me, .Oh,
don't worry, we won't sit on it hard
enough .
what was the effect of that raid when
Hoffman and Bruce we're arrested"
''They. closed up, but later on they
opened again on Saturday afternoon. par
ticularly. Things dragged along during
the summer when Justice Lippincott and
Judge Hudspeth were away"
have irtarrrpfad Mr. MoCor-
ter, did Justice Lippincott and Judge
Hudspeth 90 everything to help your
s'They did; they helped us greatly; in
fact, they stepped even outside of their
judicial position to assist u.s.
9'Well, then, the poolrooms opened up
again. Now what did you do next?'
I'VE went to see Sheriff Heller
What did you say to him?'
1--WE told him that the poolrooms and
gambling rooms were open, and we asked
him to close them. He said it was diff
cult matter He told us that personally
he didn't see any particular harm in pool
rooms but if there were faro, roulette
and gambling he woulR stop it."
Ibid he stop it?" asked Mr.. McCarter.
'tHe did,
.It ceased then?" asked counsel.
eS, SIu ne Sdlu liidl lie cOulu go 1IlLO
almost any, saloon.in Hudson county and
bet IS on horse race replied Mr.. Ack-
ert
did Mr.. Heller refuse to assist you?''
"Oh, no; he said 1t was a difficult mat
ter ITO stop the pool rooms but it was
not difficult to stop faro, roulette and
gambling. and that was stopped. .
Counsel McCarter at this point produced
Justice Lippincotts charge to the April
Grand Jury and told the committee that
copies of charges to the Grand Jury of
April, 1896, had been sent to him by JUS
tice Lippincott. He was unwilling, coun-
sci said, to subpoena the Judge, and
would ask that the copies should be ac-
cepted. They were admitted.
Now, Mr.. Ackert, you were summoned
before the Staples Grand Jury Tell us
what you said" resumed Mr. McCarter
Il described what I had observed in-I
side and out to the Grand jury and theys
said that what I had said was circum-
stantial evidence. They insisted that
they must have positive evidence as to
the place being a disorderly house on the
particular days. / came OUT and told
Hennessey what l had said and he
said, They won't find an indictment
That's the sportiest Grand Jury I have
ever Seen l told this to Mr. Winfield,
and he told me that the Grand Jury
could not find indictments because there
were no names. I asked him what was
tbo m ftrr with a,1r old frfapdc Tohp