The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02
proceeding against him except as any
other attorney might, by amercement.


This diligence and attention to the
business of the Office is also apparent
in several of the succeeding terms,
but there is an indication of an in
crease in untried cases and pigeon
holed indictments as records are fol-
lowed.
The increase is gradual but certain,
and the April term of 1885 shows SO
untried cases and 5S indictments
which were laid away until the statute
of limitations outlawed the charges.
The exact reverse is true as to cases
brought in and remaining untried. For
the first seven years of Mr. Winfield's
tenure Of office, these cases numbered III;
for the last seven years, only SO. OF cases
not brought in, there were 43S in the first
seven years and 442 in the second-really
decrease in view of the increase in the
number OF indictments due to the growth
of population.
In the April term of 1894 the records
only show one untried case
Then the Voorhees, Committee was
expected. In April, 1896, the list of
untrled cases jumped to As.
The entire number of untried cases in
1896 was only fifty. These included the
liquor cases, of which full explanation
was given in discussing the first point.
They also embraced several peculiar pol
Icy cases. All the evidence which the
State relied upon in these was furnished
by colored gentleman who had bought
gigs and saddles and the like from the
defendants and who had kept memoranda
in little book. Two or three of the cases
We're tried and convictions were secured
The culprits were all sentenced by Judge
Hudspeth. Then the colored gentleman
lost his little book. All his memory
seemed to go with it. He was no more
use as a witness. The Prosecutor thought
there was another colored gentleman and
proverbial fence somewhere in the case
but he had no proof any more than he
had against the indicted gamblers. OF
course he had not nolle-prossed the in
dictments when the Journal turned yell
low, for>he had faint hope that the coll
ored gentleman might some time recover
his memory and his book and, mean
while, indictments were no bad things to
keep hanging over the heads of the I'M
tried men.
1T has already been demonstrated
that in gambling cases and in similar
channels of crime the names of most
important witnesses have never been
sent into the Grand Jury room.
No such thing was ever demonstrated
as general proposition. 1t was, when
the charge was made, and always has
been since, most strenuously denied by
everyone connected with the Prosecutor
office.
The Journal made no attempt to dem
onstrate the general truth of the allega-
ton. 1t simply recited one case, in which
this happened. In that case, it is alleged,
~
es were not sent in to the Grand Jury
with the papers in the case, through the
fault of the police court. The names did
not accompany the papers. They were
sent to the Prosecutors office later, and
he at once turned them over to the Grand
Jury. The case had already been voted
upon. however and SO the delay caused,
a miscarriage of justice.
The Journal has also shown how
the pool room raid ON the gambling den
kept by Billy CASTOR at 20 Mon tgom-
cry street was lost sight of in the
Grand Jury room by the alterat ton of
the title in the case to- James Kelly
ct ais
This charge was ridiculed in the Prose
cutor's office at the time when it was
made. 1t is merely ridiculous. Kelly was
one of the defendants. CASTOR was an
other. The names of both and of all the
defendants were fully set forth inNthe pa
pers-as is always the case. The endorse
ment no more affected the vitality of the
papers than the address upon the envel-
ope does the contents of letter.
Robert Davis bailed Joseph Green
when it was generally known that all
the parties arrested in the raid would
promptly jump their bond
1t has been shown that the forfeit
ure of that bail bond has never been
pressed to a collection.
This is a mere lie. Suit was brought ON
the bond. 1t went to execution. The writ
was delivered to Sheriff Toffey.