Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1910-10-15
COURT URGED JURY
TO INDICT ACCUSED
Justice Trenchard Charged Grand Jurors
As to Atlantic City's Vices-Brief
Session will RecOnvene Friday
May Last All Week
MARSTELLER CASE MAY Get,
HEARING BEFORE GRAND JURY

Justice Thomas w. Trenchard again
rs OF Atlantic City on Tuesday when
he charged the October Grand Jury to
disregard the action of previous Juries
md to indict, regardless OF position or
influence, every liquor dealer OF the re-
sort who has sold liquor on Sunday.
Mr.. Trenchard hayed the Atlantic City
gamblers and keepers OF disorderly
houses.
In the crowded courtroom were Com
nodore Louis Kuehnle, Colonel Walter
Z. Edge, Isaac Bacharach and other
prominent men i'll political circles.
Regarding gambling and slot machines,
Justice Trenchard said: Citizens of your
county complain that gambling and dis
orderly houses exist in Atlantic City. If
they do, those who aid and abet, as
well as those who run them, should be
indicted. The police will, no doubt, give
YOU information, but you are not bound
by them You have the power to inves-
tigate and summon witnesses.
The whole power of the court will be
extended in your aid The law is per
fectly plain. Gambling is a crime in
every form.
In the case of slot machines, the law
is difficult of application. Notwithstand-
ing the charges of the court last time,
am informed these machines have been
openly operated in Atlantic City. Citizens
have complained bitterly of them and
che court desires that they be given no
further cause to complain.
Last June supervisor of schools Mar
stellar was arrested and given a hear
ing by Justice of the peace Isaac An
drews. Marsteller was charged with the
larceny of letter from woman-a let
ter that was exclusively private i'll It's
nature and did not concern Marsteller
in the least. In some manner that let
ter disappeared from one of the school
room desks where it had been placed
preparatory to mailing About this time
a typewriter copy of this letter was re-
produced by Marsteller and shown to
Doughty c. Turner, clerk OF the Board
of Education, but the wording OF the let
ter had been changed to suit one OF the
supervisors methods of attacking school
teachers. While it was a copy it was
not an exact reproduction, and this fact
was made known at the June hearing
through information furnished by MIR.
Theodore Senser, of Trenton. Marsteller
was held under 500 bond for his ap-
pearance before the grand jury, with
Robert NJ. Willis as his bondsman.
7 In the last twelve months Marsteller
has been alined with the local political
organization. and even more than this,
he has held office by virtue of the re-
puted influence of assessor Price. In
this wav the supervisor of schools has
strengthened himself, and he no doubt
looks for some of the immunity that at
times comes from grand juries. However,
the larceny charge will be pressed at one
of the ensuing sittings of the October
grand jury.
There is list of over go cases, almost
all from Atlantic City, that take preced-
euce of other county business and 1t IS
therefore unlikely that Marsteller will
| face his accusers until the last OF next
week
Following is list Of the men who VIII
be entrusted with this and other GRIM
| inal cases:
Atlantic City-Dr Edward Guion,
health officer: Samuel H. Headley, coun-
Gilman: Walter J. Buzby, councilman;
Walter Jarman. member Of the board OF
assessors; Edward L. Bader, contractor;
DR.. w. P. Davis: Harry Lyter. saloon
keeper: Edward A. Smith, banker; Nor
ris L. johnson. hotelman: Armand i.
Nichols. real estate; DIR. 5. Leroy Nor
| ris: Max Ost, salesman.
Jethro Adams, retire dfarmer, Pleas
antville: John Roesch, hotelkeper, Egg
Harbor City; George Hanselman, con
tractor. Galloway Township; William b.
Smith, bayman, Abseeon; Walter B.
Rush. glassblower. Buena Vista; Charles
E. G. Steelman. Somers Point; William
A. Parsells. farmer, Mullica Township;
Peter Revere. auto dealer, Hammonton;
Joseph Bauer. farmer. Hamilton Town
ship: Duncan F. Macdonald, real estate,
Atlantic City; Jospeh A. McNamee, tore
man.