The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-06
NEWSTEADNOT MADE CORONER
GOV. HIGGINS GOES BEHIND
ODELL'S RECOMMENDATION
And Looks Up Certain Fast Side Incidents
Three Other Cases in which Tie
Found II Unwtsc 10 Take the Odeil-
Halpin Certincation ut Its Face Value.

u tHNIbf W iuht pu'h-
Halpin Certincation at Its Face value
II was an Albany report OF several weeks
ago that Gov Higgins had appointed JACOB
A. Newstead. Republican leader Of tho
Twelfth Assembly district. TO be Coroner
in place of Moses j. jackson, convicted in
the General Sessions on Feb. OF soliciting
n bride to sc cure the abortion OF homicide
case. Chairman 0dell Of the Republican
State committee and President Halpin,
OF the New York county Republican COM
mittee had recommended Newsstand. the
report said 1t was learned authoritatively
yesterday that Gov. Higgins has not APP
pointed Newsstand, and also that he will
not appoint him. On the contrary. follow
ing his rule, Gov. Higgins. 1t was announced
for him. has thought IL best 10 look up
the record OF the men whom 0dell and
Halpin recommend for appointment
Newstead's record was not at all salts
factory to Gov. Higgins. In addition to
certain document which Gov. Higgins has
carefully examined, the Governor asoer-
tanned that Newstead was once arrested
charged with aiding and abetting prize
fight. Newsstand also found himself out
side of the portals OF Zerubbabel lodge. of
which he had been shining light for
number OF years.
1t was on April 10, 1902 that Newstead
was arrested. saloon of which. accord
ing TO the police records Newstead was
proprietor, at aS Forsyth street. was raided
about midnight on that date by Smiling
Dick Walsh, then captain Of the Eldridge
street station. and his men, and more than
l25 prisoners were taken from a room. on
the second floor. where an alleged prize
fight was being held
This saloon was almost directly back
OF the police station. A stone could easily
be tossed from the window of one building
into that Of the other, and IL aroused the
ire OF Capt. Walsh 70 think that an attempt
TO pull OF fight should be made so close
to tho centre Of police activity in the pre-
cinct that the noise made by those wit
Messing the bout could be heard In the
station house
Among the prisoners were Louis Daw-
son, said to be Newsteads manager in the
saloon, and John Smith, Sam Brown. Sol
Warshofsky, John Carmichael and Bill
Gunther. charged with being prioefghters;
Newsstand and his manager were charged
with aiding and abetting prizefRht All
the other prisoners were hauled In "a dis
orderly persons.
Besides boxing gloves. tights and trunks,
the police took In the raid three revolvers,
billy and various other articles.
Newstead was arITigned in the Essex
Market court before Magistrate Braun on
April IL and held in $500 bail. HIS case
came up before Justice Wyatt in Special
Sessions three weeks later and he was dis
charged. All the men taken as disorderly
persons were fined So each
Newstead IL now engaged in the liquor
business at ISL Grand street He used TO
run liquor store at All Grand street
Men familiar with lodge and club affairs
on the Fast Side say that Newstead used
10 belong 10 Zerubbabe Lodge Of Free
masons, OF which his brother, Nathan.
was past muster. Jacob, also, these
men say. held some Office in the lodge.
That was about nine years ago A man
who ran an alleged disorderly house in
| Canal street was taken into tie lodge. Then
| the lodges charter was revoked, Some
of the men belonging to the organization
say that they didn't know the character Of
the man until after the charter had been
revoked. ana there was n serious difference
of opinion among members as TO who was
responsible for his admission 10 the lodge.
The end of IL was that certain members
In the lodge got new charter for Com
poste Lodge, which hAs quarters now in
Terrace Garden
Newstead and others in the old lodge do
not belong to Composite.
Gov. Hggins's friends said al the Fifth
Avenue Hotel yesterday that the Newstead
affair together with three similar matters
had made him uneasy and uncomfortable
over every man recommended by Odell
and Halpin for public Office.