The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-05

MADE AT
THE POLLS
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The arrests for selling liquor and for
being in saloons raided include h fol-
lowing:
Otto Ffliger and Everett Lewis, 262
Bank street.
John Dunn, 129 Norfolk street.
BARLEY McGinty, 254 Norfolk street.
Frank Spitz, 497 Washington street.
George Betsner, of 20 Gouvienier
street: Charles Kerr. 16i Barclay
street: George Dougherty, of rs Will
lam street, and Frederick Blazer. OF %
College place, witnesses.
James Mcmahon, of S43 Market
street. at 1871 Commerce street.
Robert Neill. of go Mulberry street.
At 2s2 Bank street, where Ufier
Sheriff Mason, with 2 number Of plain
clothesmen, entered a saloon which
had the shades down, he found the
proprietors, Otto Filliger and Everett
Lewis. both of whom are now looking
for $4,000 bail. Three charges were
made against each.
It is alleged that thess men last
night in their saloon interfered with
the service of a warrant upon a man
named Brown. whom the police wanted
for a charge of Illegal registration that
had peer lodged against him; that they
ran a d~isorderly house, and that they
violated the liquor laws in not expos
ing their place to public view by re-
moving screens or curtains during a
prohibited period.
Under Sheriff Mason went to the saloon
run by the two prisoners. steered by tne
complainants. which officers had turned
in. Entrace was gained to the saloon
through a side door, which was not locked.
Just as Mr.. Mason got In the telephone
bell by the bar rang and the Undersnerlll
Immediately answered
as that YOU. Charles?" asked the voice,
not meaning Mason. whose FIRST name y
Charles. IL hen continued:
II want to ftp yon of that you'll be
raided. The Sheriff Is after you and Is
due shortly: better put up a bluff you're
sweeping out, Ii there isn't time to gel
away"
The under sheriff says he know the voice
and will have the tipster under arrest
before night.
Filliger and Lewis were found upstairs.
Scarcely had then been laed off to Jail
when Alderman Adoiph Holzner appeared
at the Sheriff's Office TO furnish bail, be-
cause. he explained, the prisoners had
been arrested in his district, and not be-
cause he knew them.
When he ascertained the seriousness OF
the charges and found the bail so heavy,
he hesitated. Just as he was leaving
Sheriff Sommer remarked:
And incidentally, Alderman. I'm going
TO have the licenses Of these two men
taken away from them"
. Shortly after noon today the Sheri1 :
men raided the saloon conducted at 4U
| Washington street by Frank Spitz, former
" a policeman. The proprietor, three men,
and another who acted as "t.pster' and in
formed Spitz that the Sheriff's men were
coming were taken to the Court House IN
the BLACK Maria"
Spitz's saloon is located near the corner
of street and the rear of the
place Is accessible through an alley run
ming from ~Longworth street.
When the Sheriff's men reached the place
they found three men seated at a table
drinking beer. Spitz came into the room as
the Sheriff's men entered, having been tod
that they were coming by q fourth Gus
toner, who is said TO have been In tn'
place several times during the day, aceord
ing TO facts gathered by the Sheriff,s mez
AT first Spitz denied that he was pro
prietor, but when he heard arrangement
being made 10 take him aud his customer
to the Court House in the wagon he asked
why, you are not going to take US up In
the wagon. are your
If you are the proprietor we viii not,
replied the minion Of the law.
Il am the man., replied Spitz.
'"That's all we want to know replied
the officer and they all went up In the
wagon anyhow.
Sheriff Sommer surprised his associates
this morning when they talked of getting
an automobile for his use in making the
rounds of election districts he intended in
specting. He said he would use the peo-
pies auto" which, he explained, was q
trolley car, and throughout the morning he
| adhered strictly TO his purpose.
At an early hour Mr.. Sommer got word
from Thomas Virtue, Republican challen-
ger. who was working in both the Sixth
and Seventh Wards, that he expected
thirty-hve hoaters would attempt to vote
in his territory.
Mr.. Virtue complained that he had had
a run-in with Policemen Lee and Bern
hardt, detailed from the Fourth Precinct
to assist at polling places, and that upon
his demand that they arrest a Dennis
Quinn upon the charge of being a hoater,
the officers had refused, on the ground
that the election boards had not ordered
the arrest.
On this complaint the Sheriff called up
| Captain Vogel, Of the Fourth Precinct. aud
made a demand that his men he supported.
The charge against Quinn, afterward
taken into custody, was that of illegal
| registration. His address was down as 2sS
! Norfolk street. a vacant lot. On the lot
| adjoining, and near the line, however, IS
a barn owned by Cornelius Fitzpatrtcks
When taken before Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick
declared that Quinn lived Ia this building.
on this evidence he was released.
At Dunn's saloon, 129 Norfolk street, the
undersheriff's raiding party arrested John
Dunn, the proprietor, The shades at this
saloon were found down, and the proprie-
tor. 1t is alleged. ha6 to be dragged out
from his hiding place upstairs. He was
taken into custody ON IA charge OF having
sold liquor after the polls opened.
James Mcmahon, % years old, was ar
rested at 167 CommercS street today by
Plainclothes Policeman Farrell Of the
First Precinct station. mcmahon was
charged with attempting to vote. illegally.
The complainant In the case is -Under
Sheriff Charles NJ Mason. Mcmahon
claims to live at 343 Market street, which
is in the seventh district of the Fourth
Ward. Mcmahon WAS held.
Robert NELL. of $50 Mulberry street,
was arrested by Policeman Dunn, OF the
First Precinct station on a similar charge.
Acting Captain Caffrey, of the First
Precinct station. paroled NELL, as he
claims he has known him for the past six
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