The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-22
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HAS MURDERER ESCAPED I?
Knock Out Victim Dies and
Those Who Gave Him
the Drink Discharged.
THEY DO SUCH THINGS in HoBOKES
The City Excited Over the
Outcome Of Coal Dealer
Weitze's Case.

Hoboke is bubbling over with sensa-
IONS just at present. This morning there
was a most sensational denouement to
a sensational case in Recorder Stanton's
court. Although the case may develop in
to a premeditated murder, through, what
looks like a criminal neglect, on the part
of the police the prisoner who may be
guilty of the crime has been allowed to
escape.
1.-THE Jersey City News" Of Saturday,
told how William Weintze, a coal dealer,
Of No. 531 Angelique street, West Hobo
ken, had been robbed of $50 in Max
Fricke's concert hall, almost directly OPP
posite Hoboken Police Headquarters.
| Weitze sold his property in West Hobo
ken for $3.50, and after giving s3l5 to his
wife, started for Hoboken to deposit the
remainder in the Hoboken Bank for Saw
ings. The bank was closed, and Weitze
loitered about Hoboken, and, shortly
after eight o'clock in the evening, wan
dered into Fricke's concert hall, which
directly adjoins the Hoboken Bank for
Savings, and almost opposite Police
Headquarters. When Weitze entered the
concert hall he was perfectly sober. He
had $50 of his money safely slowed away
in his stocking.
In paying for a round of drinks he
displayed a bill of a large denomination.
Robert Brown, a waiter in the place,
changed it. He told Weitze that one of
the actresses wanted to see him.
Wutze was taken into a box upstairs
and ushered into the presence of Dot"
Reen, a young woman with an abundance
OF rouge, heavily penciled eyebrows and
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would nave wine when Weftze invited her
to drink, and a bottle of wine cost
ing seventy-fve cents, was served by
Brown, the waiter. Although Weitze did
not order 1t, a second bottle was served.
dot" got quite confidential and caressed
Weitze. Weitze began to feel drowsy
after drinking one glass of the second
bottle. A half hour later he was found
on the sidewalk in a state of semi-stupi-
fication by Doorman Phelan, who had
been sent from Police Headquarters. He
was locked up on a charge of drunken
ness.
When arraigned before Recorder Sean-
ton the following morning Weitze told his
story as related above, and said that he
had been robbed of $50. Recorder STAN
ton was indignant. He has been waging
war against the concert halr' evil, and
although he has not had the active CO.
operation of the police department, he has
made the concert hall proprietors very UNI
easy by his threat to drive them out of
the city. On Weitze's complaint warrants
We're issued for Max Frike, the proprietor
Of the concert hall; Robert Brown, tie
waiter, and dot" Reen, the actress.
They We're locked up and held for an ex-
animation which was set down for this
morning. Recorder Stanton's attitude
was so we'll known that the concert hall
people and their sympathizers feared the
examination. Congressman-elect DAILY
was engaged to defend them.
This morning at eight o'clock dot
Reen. Fricke and Brown were present in
court, as were a great gathering of
sssoubrettes'' and Bowery-looking young
men. Weitze, the complainant, was not
on hand. The Court waited until $50
O'Clock and began to get uneasy
The telephone bell at Police Head
quarters rang and over the phone came
the rather startling intelligence that
Weitze, the complaining witness. had been
found dead in an clubhouse in the rear of
his home. The message came from the
West Hoboken police. When the news
was conveyed to Recorder Stanton he
said in his s~ternest tones
Il nave just been informed that Weitze
is dead, and / will be compelled to hold
all the prisoners pending the result of an
autopsy by the County Physician
Dot" Reen screamed, and fell in a dead
faint. Detective Fenton and Doorman
Murray caught her and revived her.
AT this point came the laxity of the
i. ~
sending a detective to West Hoboken I'M
mediately the pleasure of the West Ho-
boken police was awaited. The West
Hoboken police department, to say the
least, is a very primitive affair. About
1890 O'Clock Chanceman Neville wandered
into Hoboken Police Headquarters vita
Mrs. Weitze. This is Mrs. Weitze's
story
Ever since my husband got back from
Hoboken he has been dizzy and sick. sun
day night a man named Julius Collert
came to the house and said that a man in
Beck's saloon wanted to see my husband
Immediately. My husband went out and
did not return until five o'clock Monlay
had been to Hoboken and had been treat
ed "all right" by the concert hall people.
Later in the day he complained of again
morning he left the house to go to an
clubhouse. When he did not return / went
| Jul anu lOuliu ilIl utdu.
Mrs. Weitze refused to make any COM
4 plain against any of the prisoners.
Neither the Hoboken nor the West Ho-
boken police departments had any COM
plant TO make. Congressman-eleet DAILY
| took in the situation at a glance and de-
manded the discharge of the prisoners.
Recorder Stanton was without a COM
plant. and said:E
There isn't a doubt in my mind but
what some Of you people are directly or
indirectly responsible for the death of this
man, and | would like to hold you TO
await the result of the County Ply
sician's autopsy, but without a complaint
l am compelled to discharge YOU
Recorder Stanton then administered a
rebuke to the trio. County Physician
Converse will probably hold an autopsy
tomorrow. at Schlemn's undertaking
shop in West Heboken. If the autopsy
develops foul play the Hoboken police
Department may have a lot to answer
for.