The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02
GLEDHlLL COMING.
Still There's a Large Sized
Doubt neither the Cir
Gus Will Begin
Tomorrow.
WHAT THEY PROPOSE TO DO
Rnmors Abonl The Material the
Inquisitors Are Trying TO Sc
cure on Which To Base
the Attack.

Tomorrow morning the members of the
Gledhill Investigating Committee, APP
pointed by Speaker Watkins to look into
the affairs of the Prosecutors and
Sheriff's Offices of Hudson county, will
begin their work. They will first meet
in the Hotel Washington to map out
their plans.
The committee is composed of four Re-
publicans and one Democrat. They are:
Henry Nelson Gledhill of Passaic, Will
liam J.. Bradley of Camden, George A.
Squire of Union, and David Ogden Wat
kim of Gloucester, Republicans, and
David Lawshe of Hunterdon, Democrat.
They have selected as counse Robert Nc
Carter of Union. and ex-Assistant Prose-
eutor of Hudson William Klink.
Two rooms on the ground floor of the
Hotel Washington have been selected by
the committee. One is the small dining;
room, sacred to overflows of the Bar
and Board of Trade dinners, and the other
is the small room opposite. The public
hearings will be in the first room and
the small room will be used as a con-
ference room.
So far as it is known, the committee
Will first meet in the Hotel Washington
for private consultation, and they will
then proceed to the Prosecutors office at
the Court House, returning in the after
noon to the Hotel Washington to complete
arrangements for the examination of wit
nesses. Il is not expected that any testi-
mony win be aiken tomorrow since there
are a vast amount of preliminaries to be
arranged before that stage is reached.
me plan as announced by one of the
committee is that the administration of
the Prosecutors office will be the first
matter to be dealt with. Then the Sher-
ifs office will come on the tapis.
The officers of the committee have
served a large number of s~ubpoenaes with
reference to both subjects of investiga-
tion, and it is said that upwards of a
hundred witnesses will be called.
1t was said about town this morning
of the investigators to secure the list
of cases prepare by the Hudson County
Law and Order League for alleged gam
blil&g and pool rooms, and which the
members OF that league presented to JUS
tice Lippincott some time ago, and upon
which His Honor made his memorable
charge to the Grand Jury. The ministers
composing that league, foremost among
Wayne Street Reformed Church and Rev.
DR.. s. w. Hathaway, formerly of West
minister Presbyterian Church, complained
to the Prosecutors office about the delay
in pushing the cases. It will be remem-
bered the then Prosecutor, Charles H.
Winfield, replied through the daily press
that If the juries would indict he would
try the cases, but unless the Grand Jury
acted first he could do nothing. 1t is
about these cases on which the Grand
Jury did not act, a list of which was kept
by the league, that the Gledhill Investi-
eating Committee are trying to secure
some Information.
The committee mainly will inquire into
cases where indictments were, as it has
been alleged, pigeon-holed, also some
cases of nolle prosequi concerning which
some profess to have knowledge of cor
ruption. These latter cases, it is further
stated, are being worked up by the motor
iouS ex-Wafter of dives and Human Pin
cushion freak, Louis j.. Beck.