The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-03
Jersey ACHES TO GET MONK.
WORE WITNESSES IN LAMAR CASE
COMING HERE TO-DAY.
Eastman and His Gang Have Been Useful
at Fast Side Primaries and Have q
Result ant Pull-Alderman Foley Made
Them shake Hands with Five Pointer

1oSa BRANCH. n. j., Aug. 2--Prepara-
toms are being made here by Prosecutor
Iohn f, Foster to have more witnesses In
tho Centre street court, New York, to-
morrow at the hearing of the men accused
NJ assault on James Mcmahon. These
witnesses are principally for the purpose
~ connecting David Lamar with the men
,vbo committed the murderous assault.
County Detective Charles Strong was in
town all day seeing the witnesses and in
CONSULTATION with McMahons counsel.
Thomas p. Fay, McMahon's counsel, saw
the witnesses and got them to consent
10 20 to New York and give their testi
monv. Mr. Fay said tonight:
al cannot understand the dilatory pro-
reedings in New York city. Usually men
are held and extradited on the papers alone,
where a crime is charged and the papers
are properly authenticated, but in this
case not only were papers properly au-
tbentioated produced, but also witnesses
who positively identified the prisoners,
and other witnesses who sNore that they
had seen them with Lamar.
sIf, underline circumstances, the authori-
lies of New York do not hold the criminals
and grant requistion papers to deliver
hem over to the authorities Of New Jersey,
where they can be properly tried and pun
shed for their dastardly criminal act, I
cannot see how it will ever be possible TO
e1tradte criminals from distant State
where ii would be impossible tohave eye
Witnesses attend in person.
-Four men have positively identified the
defendants in this case. 1t may be that
the boasted pull exercised on behalf Of these
men may be able to save them. but l very
much doubt it,
Evidence has been found that few MIN
utes after the assault was committed
larnar's friend Thompson app cared at a
place not far distant, got a carriage and
drove to Red Bank On the way he stopped
at hotel and used the telephone
Another suit against Lamar is to be
tried in Seabright tomorrow. 1t Is a
suit brought by Gynne & Delaney to re-
cover feed bill.
Sentaor Grady, one Of the lawyers who
Is defending William Delaney, alias Monk"
Eastman, and Joseph Brown, who are
wanted by the authorities Of Long Branch
on the charge of assaulting James Mcmahon,
former coachman for David Lamar Of Long
Branch, announced last night that when
Eastman and Brown are arraigned to-day
IN the Centre street police court he would
he prepared, according to his statement
on Saturday, to attack the primd fdcie
case which Magistrate Ommen said had
been made out against the prisoners. He
90, s,,,t - 1t,,-S
would be.
AS matter Of fact" he said, Il have
been simply retained in this case to assist
Lawyer John Hoyer. cannot say Just
what we intend to do until consult HIM.
He is the main counsel in the matter"
Eastman has a pull in politics on the
lower East Side. He has large following
among that class of voters known As "gueril-
las who have done yeoman service for
many politicians in the past when fists
were the prime factors in settling primary
fights
At the time Of the Diver Foley fight
IN the Second Assembly district Eastman
and a crowd of his followers acquired resi-
dences in the district and they were active
on primary day in helping the Foley cause.
politics of de Ate and ode Sxt "
When the Monk Eastman Association
several months ago engaged in a teud
with the Five Points gang in " iich revolvers
were used, two men killed and several
wounded, the politicians were appealed
"a to settl 70 the trouble lest many good
votes he lost. The Five Points gang ia
comprised Of yourg men living about
Chatham Square. On one occasion the
Eastman gang marched on them in force
and shot at them right and left without
any serious damage. The Five Points
gang retaliated by surprising the East
mans at their club room in Attorney street
and killing two of them. Some time after
that inspector Walsh, who was then in COM
nand of the E!dridge street station, raided
the Eastm club room and after the crowd
lad been bundled into a patrol wagon
fory-six revovers were found on the
floor Of the club room.
The feud was brought to an end by the
good Offices of Alderman Tom Foley, the
loader Of the Second Assembly district,
who patched up peace between the gangs
and al ball in his district the Eastmans
and the Five Pointers shook hands and
danced with each others best girls. Law
yer Hoyer. who Senator Grady says is lie
main counsel in the present case. is the
political friend and admirer OF Alderman
Foley. Eastmans friends were loudly
declaring Yesterday that Lamar's assist
ance was not needed in giving Monk the
hest lawyers in the town." and that 'neither
Monk nor the lawyers knew anything about
Lamar in the case"
Eastman. who is said to come OF a decent
family Of Delaneys, first came into prom
hence several years ago as a professional
hounoer in New Irving Hall. He and his
crowd were frequenters of the saloon of
he late Silver Dollar Smith in Essex street
The proprietor of the hall was given TO
understand that he needed men like East
man to protect his property when fights
arose among patrons of the various balls
held there. Every night just before a ball
opened Eastman and hia assistants would
arm themselves with bilies that reposed
In Smiths care during the day, and repair
10 the hall, Fights were plenty, but it was
aferward learned by the proprietor of
The hall that East man and his friends started
the fights themselves just to show that
their services were needed, Then East