The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-31
Justice Lippipcots Explains why He
Could Not Name an Earlier Day
Rumors That the Case Will
BE Dropped.

The trial of ex-Assistant Prosecutor JOS
eph NJ. Noonan and Assemblyman Alex
and Simpson, for conspiring to defeat the
ends of justice, as the Indictment says,
set down for today in the Court of Oyer
and Terminer, was unexpectedly post
poned until April because of the sudden
Illness of Attorney General Samuel H.
Grey, who had been requested to prose-
cute for the State.
This unlocked for interruption caused
great disappointment, because the Court
was ready and so were the counsel for the
defense, who are anxious to meet the
charges and have them disposed of as
sfapidly as possible, and they very natur-
ally made strong protest against any de-
lay.
But. .ex-Judge A. @. Garretson and AS
sistant Prosecutor w. NJ. Klink said that
they were not able to proceed without the
Attorney General, who had taken charge
of the case from the beginning, and that
settled it,
The big crowd gathered in the court
room this morning were also disappointed
because they had come to hear what in ali
probability will be one of the most re-
markable cases ever tried in the dingy
building on the Hill
The facts leading to the Indictment of
Messrs. Noonan and Simpson are SO
familiar to every reader of 1.-THE News
that only brief resume here is neces-
sary. In a nutshell the case stands thus:
The Evening Journal of this city had
{ attacked the administration of the Pros
ecutors Office and to make out a case
against that department of the county
fInv7
York newspaper men, who, to further the
scheme, approached-so they allege-Noo-
nan and opened negotiations with him to
release one Nickodine Bosczkowski a
Polish banker, then imprisoned in the
Hudson County Jail on a charge of en-
bezzling sums of money committed to his
pare to transmit to people in Europe at
Christmas Bosczkowsld was ignorant
that ht to be the tool.
1t is eslss seq that Noonan referred the
newspaper men, whose identity he was.
of course, ignorant of, to Lawyer Alex
ander Simpson, who was to move in
open court, for the retraction of the
bankers plea to several indictments, and
then weuld follow motion by Noonan to
discharge the banker because of lack of
proof on the part Of the State. A nolle
pros was to be them entered and
Bosczkowski would be free.
Now the newspaper men say that Moo
nan and Simpson, for these services, de-
manded $1,000, but after some haggling
that sum was reduced to $500, and the
amount, it is alleged was paid over to
Noonan in the presence of Lawyer Simp-
son and a written receipt for the money
was given by Simpson, as follows
dollars in full for services in Nicko-
dine Bosczkowski adv. the State
ALEX. SIMPSON.
After securing this piece of evidence the
! Journal wrote to the Presiding Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas, r. S.
Hudspeth, that an application would be
made on Bosczkowskis behalf, and warn
ing the court that if such an application
to discharge the prisoner were granted a
grave wrong would be committed, and
limited at corruption in the Prosecutors $
Office few days later the paper before
mentioned printed a full account of the
transaction and shortly afterwards both
Noonan and Simpson were indicted on
the charge of conspiracy.
So great was the excitement caused by
the alleged expose that for days people
in this city, county and State could talk
of nothing else, and when two days fol-
lowing the publication of the article mem
toned Assistant Prosecutor Noonan and
Lawyer Simpson came into court, and the
/ Atter moved to open the case, the court