Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-02
SEEKS TO |NOICT
M|LL|0NA|RES IN
old SPITE FIGHT
Seabright Settler Ayers Sum-
mer COlOnists Have Barred
Him from Justice.
ALLGOR OFFERS REWARD
FOR TRUE BILLS RETURN
Beautiful Rumson Road Is
Decked With Eyesores
in Long Contest.

Newarkers summering in Seabright,
Rumson and other coast places In Mon
mouth county are watching with keen
interest the sensational developments
in the famous Allgor case.
The Allgor case is as amusing to some
as it is annoying to others, and every
body Is a~nxiously awaiting the next
move. The Allgor case is truly a spite
case,' but the community is divided
as to which side of the fence the spite
! work lies. The millionaire colony is
1 fighting James M. Allgor and the oldest
fsettler in Seabright is returning the fire.
Throughout the county Allgor, who
1 claims that his life has been threat
! ened, his property destroyed and
4 stolen and justice denied him, has
4 posted notices offering SIS reward to
any person securing an Indictment be-
fore the grand jury now sitting at
Freehold. Allgor insists that he ha
proof positive against six persons, but
that wealth and political influence are
exerted to such an extent that he Is
deprived Of his constitutional rights.
These reward notices, printed in bold
fdC6Q type, are OIL Two 6iACS, idiio-pAi
and poster. Automobilist as well as
yachting parties are confronted with
the posters, n there is not a a
or child in that section VINO
has not been handed a circular. The
so-called spite fence which Allgor
has erected around his property on the
beautiful Rumson road, at the ap-
proach to the Seabright drawbridge, Is
- Ill hnrrnxTpr
Whether the hideous obstruction will
remain there another summer is a
question that is gravely agitating those
who have invested their o IN near
by real estate. Allgor says 1t Will IN
less the present grand jury, winch mas
the subject under consideration, gives
him the relief that previous grand
juries refused.
Alleged OfRenses Nearly Outlawed'
Supreme Court Justice Voorhees,
charged the jurors to act. The case has
been hanging fire for two years, and II
action is not taken by the present jury
the alleged offenses will be barred by
the statute of limitations.
AlIgor's place, now so inartistically
fenced, was up to two years ago used
as a means Of earning a livelihood. He
conducted a bungalow ice-cream parlor
there. His announced intention OF
erecting a bowling alley in the rear OF
the bungalow started the trouble. The
wealthy residents did not want the
bowling alley, and boycotted the ice
cream business when Allgor proceeded
with it's construction. Servants were
forbidden to patronize him, so he al
leges. The boycott was ruinous to ALL
gor's business.
Frank Mcmahon was a candidate for
mayor of the borough at the time. He
declared that, If elected, he would re-
fuse the Allgor bowling license. His
election followed, and, making good his
promise, Allgor was left with a partly
= constructed bowling alley and a. ruined
business.
His tits with Mayor Mcmahon and
other officials were lively, and Allgor
invited trouble by hanging wearing ap-
rareI bearing descriptive placards on
clotheslines stretched from the bunga-
low to an adjacent flagpole. Allgor's
sign offering his place for rent to
negroes was the most unkind cut OF
all. and his arrest and Indictment for
libel followed.
Causes Mayors Arrest.
Allgor says that, lawyers not con-
trolled by the millionaire colony were
hard to get, and he retained his wife's
cousin, Thomas Griffen, of Jersey City.
The Indictment was quashed, and he
again placarded his place. On June 26,
1908, according to Allgor, borough Of
ficials and policemen held him up at
the point of pistols, broke into his
place, stole and carried away his chat
tells.
He caused the arrest of Mayor Nc
Mahon, Of Rumsen; P. Hall Packer,
then mayor of Seabright; Charles D.
Halsey and Policemen John McPeak,
william Porter and James Wallace. 1t
is these six men whom Allgor Is trying
to have indicted.
Further, Allgor AYERS:
with my witnesses ] went before the
grand jury to secure indictments. Lo
and behold, who did I find as foreman