The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-22
AFTER JURY FlXERS.
Camden Grand Jury Talks
Of the Investigation OF
the Shaw Scandal. I
A JUDGE THE FIRST WITNESS
Prominent Lawyers and Leading
Republicans Among Those
Vino Will Testify.
A JUDGE THE FIRST WITNESS
Especial 70 .aThe Jersey city News.'l

CAMDEN, Jan. %. 1SeS.-The unusual
spectacle of Judges leaving the bench TO
appear as witnesses before a Grand jury
was presented in Camden yesterday when
the investigation of the alleged attempts
at jury-fxing was begun in earnest. eu-
preme Court Justice Charles q. Garrison
was the first witness heard, ana ne was
followed by Law Judge e. A. Armstrong'
and after several other important VIII
nesses were examined the Granu jury
adjourned until Monday, without having
reached a conclusion.
Acting upon the injunction OF Justice
Garrison, to surround their deliberations
with all possible safeguards for secrecy
the Grand Jury had Constables Voight
and yIiet posted on the outside OF the
door of the room in the Court House IN
which they met, while President OF CITY
Council Charles P. Sayrs held the m
side knob. A dead line" was drawn Tor
reporters ten feet away from the door,
while most of the prospective witnesses
except Judges, occupied chairs in a row
across the hall. Attorney General
Samuel a.. Grey sat with the jurors
and after they got together for the day $
business conferred with them at some
length.
Then the first witness, Justice Gar
rison. came downstairs and entered the
realm of mystery. He must have been
questioned at some length, for he was
inside a full half hour. When he emerged
he was as affable and sunny as ever,
but did not stop to explain what part he
had taken or what he had told the
Grand Inquest 1t is presumed. however,
~ 49, ,,c for the Cll6-
den abandonment of the Sha tr1ai ana
gave the information which came to the
Court n which led to the sensational
stoppage of the great murder trial Law
Judge Armstrong. who was next caileo'
remained inside only a few minutes, ana
is supposed to have merely c~orrooorated
his distinguished colleague. Neither Judge
| appeared at the Sheriff's Office to collect
the 5o-cent witness fee due him.
The next two men called caused some
little surprise and speculation. as neither
| has heretofore figured in the case. Ihey
were Warden David Logue and Turnkey
| Edward Entrekin, of 1.-THE County JAN.
| No one seemed to know what line Logue's
| testimony took. He was not examined
at any length, but his subordinate, En-
| trekin. must nave been put through a
irving ordeal, for he was held Tor nearly
| an hour, and when he emerged he seemed
rather anxious. 1t was stated, unoIH-
cially, of course. that Entrekin was one
| of the most important witnesses heard.
| or TO be heard. He is said to nave some
| direct knowledge of an alleged attempt
to influence Jacob Schiller. an ex.con-
stable of Stockton, who was one OF the
forty-eight men drawn in the now famous
''Struck" panel.
As Schiller was the very next witness
| called. some color was given to TINS pre-
sumption. 1t is stated that Schllier was
the man who started the whole inquiry
that it was through a statement coming
from him that Sheriff David Baird start
| ed upon his ride through the county on
the night of the first day OF the SnaM
trial. He was examined at c~onsloerapi
| length by the Grand Jury, and when ne
emerged it was announced that no more
| testimony would be taken until Monday
morning.
One Of the stories afioat yesterday was
| to the effect thai the whole scandal was
| precipitated through Schiller's misinter-
| nretation of a pleasantly passed by Coun.
| sellor Scovel. He and the attorney nae
| had some difference over a lawsuit. SEMI
Ter denied this yesterday.
There remained yet to be heard wheI
| adjournment was reached a large mum.
ber&of men who had been. su~bpoenaed
Among these were Lewis Coleman, Wnt
was on the trial jury in he Shaw case
Holm Meshaw and James Howarth. wht
were drawn in the struck panel. Thert
were also ex-Assemblyman John Harris
a. former law partner OF, Attorney n. .
Scovel. Shaw's counsel; ex-Sheriff Theo-
dore b. Gibbs, ~ex-Judge Alfred Hugg
George w. Miles, of Stockton: Miles i
a Justice of the Peace, one of the lead
ing Republican politicians OF Stockto
and an intimate associate of Jacob Schil
Ierss. What information the foregoing
witnesses have is wrapped in secrecy
None of them would divulge its purport