Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-27
HAP GOOD is
NOT GUILTY.
Golfers Attack on "Fads and
FanCies' Justified Says
the Jury.

NEW york. Jan. 27.-After being
out five minutes the jury in the Hap
good crimiHal libel suit brought in a
verdict of hot guilty.
The verdict means that the jury be-
lieved Golfers Weekly was justified
in charging Town Topics with black
mail and Justice Joseph NJ. Deuel. with
being one OFF its editors.
Colonel Mann appeared stunned by
the verdict Justice Deuel. was i'll and
not in court.
District Attorney Jerome in summing
up FOR thu prosecution pleaded only
that DeuelE connection with blackmail
by Town Topics had not been shown.
He denounced Town Topics as a vile
sheet which Should be suppressed. He
referred to Colonel Mann as this old
~blackmailer' and spoke of his depre-
dations on pocketbooks. He denounc-
ed Wooster and Wayne and Irving,
Mann's agents.
He admitted that Justice Deuel. had
violated the law in serving Town Top
les and declared that whatever the re-
suit of the trial Deuel. would go forth
with a ruined reputation and his good
name lost.
But he pleaded, because this old
man violated his oath don't think he is
a blackm s:ier."
A verdict Of not guilty in this case
means that the jurors believed Hap
good was justified when he said Deuel.
was an editor of Il journal whose bust
ness was printing scandal about per-
sons not cowardly enough to pay for 81
lence.''
There has been much curiosity as to
what Jerome would say under the pc
culiar conditions confronting him. He
did not leave his hearers long in doubt.
"For two weeks" he began, 1--WE have
been wandering through vanity fair,
witnessing exhibitions of humor, weak
ness and folly and in Some instances
Of human degradation, but you must
be bound only by the facts.
Il am not here to whitewash any one
or to protect any II or to ~misrepresent
any one. / will not disguise from you
the utter loathing and contempt feel
for some of the witnesses whom l my
self have introduced.
Il might be criticised for appearing
here in this role We're it not that the
theory of our law brings me before you
to prosecute II of the best friends |
have on earth for doing something
which, in my private judgment, he was
entirely justified in doing and some
thing which if | had been in his place
l would probably have done with more
vigor and with more vim than he used.
Nothing that has beer said-there
is nothing that has been written-that
could justify a thing which has caused
so much misery and suffering and
shame in this community that, had it
been printed west of the Appalachian
mountains or south of the Mason and
Dixon line, it's editor would not have
lived ~forty-eight hours"
1t is announced on good authority
that Colonel Mann's case will be pre-
sented to the federal grand jury. Je-
rome probably will not try to have
Justice Deuel. indicted, as he considers
the distinguished jurist more fool than
knave. But it is believed the justice,
who is i'll in his home, will have to get
off the bench.
Nothing short of the immediate arrest
of Deuel. and associates could have
added to Hapgood's triumph. 1t was
one Of the most thorough vindications
ever given by u jury.
Mr.. Jerome would not talk for publ
cation.