The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-30

new GRAND JURY
No One Connected With
Liquor Business Is a
Member.
JAMES N. DAVIS, FOREMAN
Sixteen Democrats and Eight
Republicans Make Up
the List.

Sheriff Ruelnpler this morning announc-
ed the Grand Jury for the April term of
the county courts which opens on Tues
Gay next.
Considerable interest was manifested in
the personnel of the new jury by reason
OF the recent controversy between DR.. Nc
Gill OF the Police Board and the members
of the last Grand Jury, over the failure
of the latter body to indict Eugene Sulli-
van, the alleged poolroom keeper. The
prospects of a general crusade against
Sunday liquor, selling throughout the
county by the Epworth Union and Chris
tlan Endeavor societies aroused the inter-
est of church people and saloonkeepers as
to the men who might be called upon to
decide the weight of evidence against al
legged violators of the excise laws.
In the makeup of the new Grand Jury
Sheriff Ruempler should certainly satisfy
all the people of the county. While from
the foreman down, nearly all are more or
less prominently identified with different
churches of the county, none are of the
class referred to as "cranks or fanatics"
by the Sheriff in his speech at the recent
Grand Jury dinner. Not a single liquor
seller or man identified with the liquor in
ierest appears on the list.
Sheriff Ruempler has adhered to the
policy of selecting none but business men
for Grand Jury duty, as was suggested
by the late Supreme Court Justice Lip
pincott in a charge to a former Grand
Jury.
There are sixteen Democrats and eight
Republicans on the new Grand Jury. The
twenty-fourth man, who, in accordance
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from serving, unless there is some other
who must be excused. is I. M. Schachter,
a Democrat, who conducts clothing
establishment in this city.
The foreman is James N. Davis, a well
known Jersey City real estate dealer, who
at present holds the position of Assess
rnent Commissioner. Mr. Davis is also
Justice of the Peace and was a member
of the Police Board when it was an cleo
tive body. He is a Democrat in politics
and has served on many Grand Juries
during his long residence in the county
and is thoroughly competent to pass on
the important matters that will come be.
fore the new body. Mr.. Davis is an
active member of st. Paul's Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The other members of the Grand Jury
are
Jersey City
George Mccarthy, president of the s.
P. C. A., Rep.
Charles Carroll, superintendent Of P. r.
r. ferries.
Charles O. Barker, patent medicines,
Rep.
Ernest ]. Heppenheimer, secretary-trea-
Crederick Inner, chief clerk of the Erie
Railroad.
Samuel McBurney, secretary-treasurer
Hudson River Ice Company. Rep.
Dr. William F. Radue, Rep.
Thomas Burns, produce dealer.
Emil Datz, City Hall Custodian, Rep.
Charles E. Prior, real estate dealer,
Rep.
Edward o'Donnell, feed merchant and
former Police Commissioner
Daniel Cole, florist and ex-Alderman.
Montague Redgrave, manufacturer,
Rep.
l. M. Schachter, clothing.
Hoboken:-
Michael Smith, butcher.
William Cahill, member of the firm of
]. & w. Cahill, coffee merchants.
Edward w. Martin. real estate dealer,
Rep.
August Hannibal, feed merchant.
North Hudson
Adam Schaffer. retired, Union Hill.
John E. Bowe, contractor. Weehawken.
Henry F. Bernard druggist.
Bayonne-Nathaniel w. Trask, City
Treasurer.
West Hudson-Wm. J. Tierney. con-
tractor and former Freeholder.