The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-02
10 HEARST PETITION ARRESTS
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~ tho p%e,ltion itst npninFted WHiisu n
Hearst for Mayor, on w99ch these Neee
ESQ a~eianatureu,' and NJ oshsF Mthictrsl
Ownership fAag,s f~'iflons nominating
Aldermen ana A~sa~mblyenea.
Tho prisoners sfs Mas tehmann, "
u Aasembiyman from JAKE NewssNad'A
Twetfth Assembly district, Aldermen James
4 smith, Rep ,ffom the SANE district touia
woIfert, tho NJ n T. leader ~ the TweHtys
ninth Assembly District BENJAMIN W
OpIdhergar, the commissioner ~ dseds
who hes coafe@a~d that hs had ohefge of
getting up the forged pstitlons; and shs
folio wing notarles and commissioners ~
deeds, VIM are charged with having helped
d~oldberEsF! James u klein, Henry Mel.
rose. GeorRs Hyman, Louis 1svtne, Emantiel
DoIlineer and Joseph IAvien.
The indictmenta were transferred n 'he
Supreme Court and Justlcs No wburger
fixed hall IN each cas-. There are thres
indictments agalns, A~seemblyman Eck.
mann for conspiracy. He Il charged With
having assisted In getting up the petition
for Hearst, Of getting up his own petition
and Of assisting In getting up the petition
for Frederick De witt Wells. VINO WA
nominated for Assembly In the Twenty
ninth Assembly district. There airs three
indictments against Goldberger for cons
spiracy for the same thing. Against Leader
wolfert there Ia only one indictment. as u
IL charged that he was simply engaged in
getting up the petition for Wells 10 the
Twenty-ninth.
There are three indictments against
Alderman Smith for conspiracy.
Against Klein and Hymar there are
three indictments each and Melrose, Levine
and DOllinger two each. There Ia only one
Indictment against Lavien. as he was On.
gageo III the Twenty-ninth only.
There was a great crowd Of Hearst fol-
lowers in Justice Eewburger's court The
lawyers hustled around and thought that
bail should be small Some Of them sug-
gested $500 on each indictment.
OF rave always required at least 81 900
on zach indictment said Justice New
burger. and that ended it,
The prisoners we re taken back to the
Criminal Courts Building and then some
strange things happened in the way Of
getting bail. Sam Kahn, who is always
ready with bail for any OF Big Tim Sulli-
vans followers when they get into trouble,
showed up to help the Hearst crowd. Kahn
picked out Ecknanh, Smith, Melrose and
Hyman and gave bail for them. Wolfert
and Lavien were bailed out by others.
There was no need to get bail for Gold
berger OF Klein. During the day District
Attorney Jerome was summoned to the
Hotel Cadillac, where the Assembly COM
mittee on contested seats was sitting. As
eemblyman Eckmann's seat 10 being con-
tested and the committee wanted to find
out something about the bogus petitions.
The committee wanted to hear especially
wanted Mr.. Jerome to produce them.
Mr.. Jerome told the committee hat he
had no control over Goldberger or Klein.
They had shown a disposition to 60 away
with two county detectives and he had nc
objection. II they had remained in the
n~eighborhood harm might be worked to the
prosecution Of certain cases in which he
expected they would be witnesses, II any
good could be accomplished by bringing
Goldberger and Klein back he would ask
them il they would please return but other
wise he could do nothing.
With the arrests yesterday the i~nvesti-
CATION OF signatures to the Hearst petit
| lions is not completed. District Attorney
Jerome seems confident that he will yet
get "the man higher up More evidence
will be put before the May Grand Jury:
| Goldberger will be summoned as witnesses
and asked to tell what instructions they
gave to Goldberger and the men who worked
FOR him to get up the Hearst petition,