Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-22
ALLEGED ROBBER
OF B. 8 |. Asst
On TRIAL TO-DAY

Leonard Nlesbba1ski, alias Oscar
Schneider, is on trial before a jury in
Part IL, Quarter Sessions, for the part
he is alleged to have taken in the sem
sational hold-up and attempted robbery
of the Thirteenth Ward Building and
Loan Association at their headquarters,
81 West street, on the night of Decem-
Der 10 last.
Jointly indicted with Niesbbalskl and
originally slated to be tried today are
Joseph Szewezyk IA Peter Nurenski,
alias Peter Nurek.
Abner Kalisch, who is counsel for
N~iesbbalski, secured a severance of the
Indictment. and his client alone is ON
trial today.
In opening the case for the State,
Assistant Prosecutor Fred r. Lehlbach
said he expected to prove that MESH
balski was the man who fired several
shots during the hold-up, one of the
bullets hitting Frederick Vetter. a
member of the association, In the
nose.
The hold-up tool place just at the
close of the regular monthly meeting of
the association, and it is claimed six
men We're implicated in it, of whom
three dTe NOW ullutI dlISSt'
Treasurer Daniel Mugler, of the as
ISOLATION, was the first witness called.
He testified that about $4,000, about
half of which was in cash, had been
paid in by members when the hold-up
gang appeared. The checks and a
small amount of cash were or a table
in front of him, the bulk of the cash
being In a satchel on the floor.
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back room, and they ordered everyone
to Hold up your handsl'' One of he
robbers then grabbed some loose cash
on the table and started to run out the
back door. About this time several
shots were fired in the front room of
the meeting place, and in the excite
ment the two men in the back room
escaped. Mugler said he could not
identify either of the two men he had
i seen in the back room, nor could he
identify Niebbalski.
DR.. Solomon Greenbaum, of 142 West
Kinney street, told how he had ex-
amined Vetter after the shooting ana
found a bullet wound through his nose
and located the bullet itself in the back
of Vetter's head.
IT removed the bullet and gave it to
Vetter," said DIR. Greenbaum.
Vetter, who lives at SO Komorn
| street, then took the stand, and almost
tie first thing exhibited the bullet,
which ne has a mounted and now
wears as a watch-charm.
Vetter also failed to identify Neisb-
balski as one of the men who entered
| the front door of the saloon at 81 West
| street and ordered the ten or dozen
men to hold up their hands. He could
| not swear though that Neisbbalski
| was the man who fired the shot that
hit him.
at was standing in the barroom talk
ing to several friends, when some men.
| four I think, entered. all with re-
| volvers in their hands.
"At the same time there was a cry
| of robbers from the back room and
a big uproar started. Then there was
| some shots and I was hit. I am posi-
| tive that Neisbbalski was one of the
men in the saloon but I did not see
him shoot"
Rigid cross-examination by Harry
Kalisch, who Is assisting Abner Ka-
| lisch. failed to shake Vetter's story in
| the least.
After Detective-Sergean Frank Tuite
had told of the arrest of Niesbbalski
in Bloomfield on April 81 >st the state
rested its case.
Niesbbalski then took the stand in his
own behalf. He deniedthat he had
ever been in the saloon at 81 West
| street or that he knew any of the other
men named in the indictment. He said
he came to Newark from New York on
December 10. the date of the robbery,
looking for work.
On cross-examination Assistant
Prosecutor Lehlbach went at Niesbbal-
ski rough-shod and soon had a num-
Der of damaging admissions from him..
One was that he came to Newark on
| December 10 in response to a postal
card request received from q man
named in the indictment but not yet
arrested.
Another admission was that MESH
balski did know Scewezyk n Muir
zinski, the two men under arrest, as
well as the others named in the indict-