The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-14
IS THE CASE ABANDONED?

The rest of two days brought a marked
effect on everybody connected with the
trial and Joseph M Noonan and AIexan-
der Simpson, for conspiracy the sixth day
of which opened this morning in the Court
of Oyer and Terminer. When the jury
men came in a few minutes before ten
o'clock they saw with no little apprehen-
sion three tall brass lamps on the Judges
desk
tAh," said Foreman Stephen L. Harvey,
that looks like night sessions, and in the
atmosphere of this room that's no joke.
Some one will have typhoid fever or some-
thing equally disagreeable.''
Never mind exclaimed Juror Henry
Meigs. consolingly, in such case we can
send the doctors and undertakers bill to
the county,
'oh. that all right" chimed in Steog-
rapher Joha-P. Nugent, -'there'll be nc
trouble about the bill, but who's going to
compensate you for the pain and suffer
ing while in bed? That's fun which
You must have all to yourself
Justice Lippincott's appearance on the
bench put an end to the conversation, and
then began the customary preparations
for the days work. The gallery was
usual complement of lawyers, ministers
and well known citizens, among whom was
Mayor Pagan of Hoboken. The States
lawyers were earlier in their places than
usual, and only the defendants with their
counsel were late.
The general opinion of those acquaint-
ed with big trials af this character is
that it will be Thursday, ait least, before
the case will be in the hands of the jury,
and it is expected that 1t will be so late
on that day that the unlucky twelve
men, good and true, will be locked up all
night. Wednesday, in all probability, will
be consumed by the summing up on
either side, and the Judges charge will
take up Thursday morning; but this is
all guesswork, hazarding and conjecture.
What will be the result?" is the abb
sorbing question now, and every man
one meets in and around the Court House
and for the matter of that throughout
the city and county, asks it. The opin-
ion is that conviction is impossible on
the testimony furnished by the Jour
nails sleuth reporters the characters of
whom have been shown to be most dis
gusting and contemplate. Indeed, moth
ing short of acquittal is looked for, since
the courts have long frowned on the prac-
tice of taking any heed of the uncorrob-
GRATED evidence of men who can be hired
to do work which no honorable man would
dream of undertaking. 1t has been
clearly shown that their testimony in all
the main points has been torn to rags
and tatters, and the story of the whole
business told by the defendants, to say
the very least, bears the impress of truth.
When the Court adjourned on Friday
night Noonan was on the stand and had
got as far as the meeting in Engel's chop
house, when he went over with Simpson,
who was to meet the Journals" dive re-
porters and fake friends of the Pole, Bos-
cokowslzi to arrange about legal pro-
ceedings in Court to secure his release.
In the course of Mr. Noonans testimony
he described visit paid by the party to
the Gilsey House. Beck and Pidgeon en-
phatically denied that they ever visited
that place in New York City. Some idea
of the value of the statements of these
precious individuals may be gathered by
perusal of the testimony given this
morning by an employe of the place
..You may proceed" said Justice Lip
pincott suddenly, after he had chased
away some motions BY counsel in other
cases. and all the buzz of conversation
ceased.
Ex-Judge T. F. Noonan, stepping up to
the bench. said:--"Your Honor, I have
just received a telegram from Judge Hoff-
man to the effect that his train has brok-
en- down at Monmouth Junction.
well, we'll go on without him. ut
tered the Court, but Just as the words
were uttered, Judge Hoffman came into
court and made his apologies. whis-
pered consultation then took place be-
tween the Attorney Generaad Judges
Hoffman and Noonan. The State, it
seemed, asked leave to Introduce some wit
nesses to establish. If possible, that Beck
and Pidgeon had some chara&er. When
this was over, the defendants with their
counsel. retired to one Of the two jury