The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-24
Many Saloonkeepers Captured
by County Officials
Yesterday.
TIPS SAID GIVEN BY
0 U MEN WHO CLOSED
Evidence Said to Have Been OBJ
tanned Several Weeks Ago
by Constables.

Prisoners taken in the raids by the
| sheriff's men yesterday for violating
the excise law will be arraigned in the
First Precinct Police Court tomorrow.
In all about a dozen saloonkeepers and
tifty-two witnesses were taken in GUS
tody.
The proprietors were asked to fur
nish 81. 900 bail and their patrons and
help were paroled as witnesses.
1t was said today that arrests yester-
day were made on the strength Of tips
Sheriff Sommer had received from sa-
loonkeepers who are obeying the law.
1t was q record breaking cleanup
and the largest the Sheriff's men ever
! made in one day. The news of the
county officials activity spread
throughout the city like wildfire and
when il became known that the pris-
oners were being taken in loads to the
Jail throngs rushed to the entrance on
Wilsey street, and in some cases the
prisoners were recognized.
Under-Sheriff Charles II. Mason was
at the Jail and arranged the details of
the raiding parties and the bailing OF
the saIoonkeepers. The raids were In
every police precinct in the city except
the Second, and were as follows:
Thomas Donnelly, "A Commerce
street; William Pfeiffer, SO Lafayette
street, and Frederick S~tanfenberger,
Miller street and Frelinghuysen avenue
in the First Precinct; John Johnson,
236 Magazine street. and John Pagan,
Oxford and Bowery streets in the Third
Precinct: John Dziok, 80 Livingston
street; Max Lustag, Eighteenth ave-
nue. and Kent street, n Gustave
Kraemer, 40 Sixteenth avenue in the
Fourth Preeinct; Michael Duerr, New
and Norfolk streets, and Abraham
Vreeland, COS Central avenue, In the
Fifth Precinct.
The entire force of the sherin's con-
stables and a number of deputy sheriffs
were on the job. Perhaps the most ex-
element was created when Constable
Muleahey and several others visited the
saloon of Jacob Kugel at los Prince
street with a warrant for the pro-
prietor.
Kugel and other members of his fam
lily were arranging for a wedding cele-
bration at the time. When Kugel was
seized by Mulcahey he remarked:
Wait a minute, l go get a bailer."
The constable permitted Kugel to
leave the place without sending anyone
with him, and Kugei failed to return
The constables became suspicious. and
Hyman Kugel, a son of the proprietor,
volunteered to aid the constables IN
finding his father. but instead he took
them off his trail and was placed under
arrest.
The elder Kugel was at a loss to
understand what 1t all meant, and sale
that he intended to be Oil hand whei
wanted, and had a bondsman ready
but was not eager to spend the night
in a cell.
Kugel is already awaiting a trial or
charges of conducting a gambling
house, and was raided some time ag
by Captain Vogers plainclothesmen
The date of his trial is April Is.
A large crowd of foreigners congrei
gated in front of the Prince street plac'
-and for a time it looked as though {
riot would ensue. but any obstreperous.
ness was prevented by the presence O
Policemen Horter and Dickson, of thu
Fourth Precinct.
While several of the saloonkeeperl
placed under arrest yesterday were no
found violating the law when III
sheriff's men arrived, private sleuth'
at work for The past several months ar
said to have secured the EVIDENCE.
A section or the sherid's priYat'
Office. as a result, resembles a distillery
1T contaius bottles Of wine, whiske,
and beer by the wholesale and bottle,
beer. Each bottle not bearing q deal
er's label is tagged and will be used al
evidence against the defendants.
1T is said that the various police cap
tains were furnished weekly by tn
sheriff's Office with u list Of places be
lieved to be doing business
In the several precincts the polio
have at various times raided numerou
places. but yesterdays work was tn
first done for excise violations by th
sheriff.
When the county van backed Il
front of Dicks place, In Livingston
street. a distance of several hundre'
feet from the Fourth Precinct Polio
station, Captain vogel was an inter