The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-22
Indictment of Men Who Had
Strong Pull Carries Terror
to Smaller Fry.
CHIPS AND CARDS UNDER
LOCK TO PREVENT THEFT
Gondolf and Williams Spent
Thousands on Their Place
That Was Raided.
Especial to the Evening star.l

ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. 22-There
has been a hurried hegira of gamblers
beginning last night and continuing to-
day from this city, following the spread
of news regarding the action OF the
special grand jury yesterday afternoon
In finding indictments against two or
the biggest gamblers In Atlantic City,
Edward Williams and Charles Gondo1f
Both men were supposed to have the
strongest kind of official backing and
to be immune from attack by the au-
thorities. 1t was believed the influences
that Gondolf and Williams heretofore
controlled would be able to prevent
their indictment.
All the paraphernalia that was
seized in the raid has been locked up
in cell at the county Jail SO that
there can be no possibility of ii being
stolen, as might occur If 1t were not
closely guarded.
The action of the grand jury against
these two men has resulted In the
exodus of small gamblers. The logic
which actuated them was that IL the
big men could not Withstand the OPP
position there was no hope for the little
fellows:
PaIatfal Gambling House.
Gondolf and Williams had one of the
finest places in this resort They
bought a handsome big cottage last
winter in the heart of the fashionable
Chelsea section, paying $4,000 for it.
Other thousands were spent in furnish
ing it and more thousands still to
equip 1t with gambling apparatus, in
cluding roulette and faro tables con-
structed of handsomely finished rose
wood and real ivory chips.
When the agitation against gambling
was begun, after the break in the local
party, Prosecutor Goldenberg, Chief of
Police Woodruff and County Detective
Baitzel made raid on this establish
ment, among others, and seized all the
stuff
Strenuous efforts were made to re-
gain possession of the outfit and to
prevent indictment of the proprietors
of the place, but the attempts were all
frustrated.
Strong Evidences of Vice.
Among those who attended In court
were members of the State Excise
Commission, who were under subpoena,
including Chairman Charles j. Fisk, of
Plainfield. None of them was called
on to give evidence.
Executive Chairman Charles A Ros-
enwasser, the Rev. Ernest A. Boom,
Secretary Edward A. Ransom and for
mer Police Chief Murphy, of Jersey
City, all members of the Dependency
and Crime Commission. are here and
will give valuable evidence concerning
local vice secured during a trip of in
vestigation made to the resort July 4.
These probers secured evidence of the
sale of hundreds Of vile postal cards
and evidence against number of local
disorderly houses, which they are be-
lieved to have already submitted to
Justice Trenchard. Their evidence
probably will result in the Indictment
of several "joints" and other headquar-
ters of crime alleged to have been pro-
tected by the local ring politicians
President William Winters, of the At
lantic city Good Citizenship League,
headed a delegation which Will also
offer direct evidence both against gam
blers and Sunday rum sellers. Others
in his party were James Steelman, the
Rev. Melville Snyder, the Rev. ]. l..
Surtees, the Rev. Fl. r. Randall and
John B. Turner, a volunteer detective,
who secured evidence against Sunday
saloons on which the grand jury failed
to ndict last May.
1t has become known that q few of
the cases against saloon men were
taken up at the afternoon session of
the jury, but that no conclusions were
reached. From the meagre informa-
tion that could be cleaned from the Ju-
rors it is understood that the Sunday
closing question was laid over until
next week.
Included on the calendar are 137
cases, including gambling and Sunday
selling, and a variety of other viola
tions of the law for which Prosecutor
Goldenberg will ask indictments. and
the indications are that the Jurymen
will be kept on duty well into next
month. |
Crowds I'm Court Room.
Five carloads of Atlantic City men, |
including the grand Jurors, lawyers and |
a sprinl<ling of reformers and politi-
clans, journeyed to the county seat on |
the special court train and crowded !
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