The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-09
CALL ROOSEVELT
Fl SAYS PRESIDENT
WOULD TESTIFY.
Prosecutor Drags Nations Chiefs Name
Into the Lexowing of Hudson's
Grand Jury.

JERSEY CITY, Nov. 9.-President
R~oosevelt's name was dragged into the
Lexowing of the Hudson County Grand
Jury in Chancery chambers here before
Supreme Court Commissioner Dingler,
Prosecutor William H. Speer declaring
that he believed President Roosevelt
would come and testify at the examina-
ton in regard to the appointment of
Otto c.. Lange, the Bayonne postmaster,
if the Faganites so desired.
1--WE are down and out now" said j.
Merritt Lane, counsel for the Lexowers,
when the prosecutor made this an
nouncement.
Prosecutor Speer. representing the
Grand Jurors, started In to call
those subpoenaed as witnesses by him.
Among those examined were Under Sher-
if John ]. Erwin, former Congressman
Marshall Van Wrinkle, private counsel to
Sheriff John C. Kaiser. and nearly all of
the Grand Jurors, including DR.. Ulamor
Allen, the foreman; Postmaster James
Freeman, of Arlington; Postmaster Otto G.
LANCE, of Bayonne, and George Gonzales,
Councilman-elect, of Hoboken.
Under Sheriff Erwin was really the only
interesting witness. He denied, fatty,
having said to William Robinson, captain
of detectives OF Jersey City, that Chief
Monahan and others who had been ar
rested and held for the Grand Jury for
interference with election officers at the
primaries preceding the election of last
Tuesday, would be indicted.
He denied, too, having said to Robinson
that he had been called vile names by
Mayor Pagan when he ran for Sheriff back
in 1899, but said that he knew Mayor Fa-
gan was against him when he was a shirley
atty candidate. He admitted that he was
- Il. NH...1. Tr--.z -.IttfanlI.r .YI that
he had done all he could TO defeat Tho
Mayor for a denomination and for reelec-
ton. Referring TO Chief Of Police Mona
han, he said he and the chief are personal
friends of long standing. and he has alwPyS
considered him a very capable man. He
was asked IL Captain Robinson is relatsG
to him, and replied In most emphatic lam
guage hat he is not, and said he wouldn't
own him as a relative.
Former Congressman Van Wrinkle adult
ted thai he was Sheriff Kaiser's private
counsel, and that he was also the counsel
Of John Mitchell, whom Mayor Pagan de-
fLated for the Mayoralty- nomination on
September 10. He declared he had voted
for Mitchell Mt the primaries and was al
ways an organization Republican.
Dr.. Allen, foreman OF the Grand Jury,
and the others examined, said they were
organization men, and those Of them who
believed in Republicanism recognized Col
onel Samuel d. Dickinson as the party
leader in Hudson County. Each one denied
having requested to be named as grand
jurors.
During the examination Prosecutor Speer
cautioned the jurors not to reveal any
secrets of the Grand Jury room. Freder-
lex G. Wolbert, a Jersey City man, said
he was willing to abide by the wishes of
the prosecutor, but he believed that the
doings of the Grand Jury should be made
public to satisfy the people.
Mr.. Lane announced that an application
would be made to the courts to sanction
the making public Of Grand Jury doings.