Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-03
State Officials Hold Secret
Conference with De-
tective Burns Prelimi-
nary to Raid.
PHONOGRAPH is PART
OF STATES EVIDENCE
Alleged Conspirators' Accept
ance of Bribe TO Be Played in
Court When Cases Against
the Accused Are Heard.
ESPECIAL TO the Newark star.

ATLANTIC CITY, June 3.-As climax
10 graft cases, fifty men, twenty of
whom are said to have confessed, will
probably be arrested today.
Everything points to a spectacular de-
nouement of the investigation which
Detective William J. Burns and his as
sistants have been making.
Attorney General Edmund C. Wilson is
said to be here. At the Marlborough
Blenheim is Nelson B. Gaskill, assistant
attorney general, and Charles $. Moore,
an Atlantic City lawyer, engaged as spe-
cial prosecutor for the State
Leading reformers of the resort who
subscribed a fund of $4,000 for the serv-
Ices of Detective Burns and his men
year ago to clean the city of graft ana
corruption have been In conference with
the attorney general. Mr.. Wilson has
been in frequent telephone communiea-
ton with Burns A general raid Is said
to be contemplated.
Mayor Harry Bacharach, after con
ference of men In back of the present
inquiry. admitted today that he hao
received the designations of William ma
liza and Samuel s Phoebus.
At the same time the Mayor an
nounced the appointment of Charles d.
White to succeed Mal,a in the council,
and Harry B. Cock to take Phoebus's
seat The new councilmen are promi-
nent Beach front hotel owners.
II believe the designations of two
other councilmen will reach me this
afternoon" the Mayor said lin time
sa1
council tonight, when ] shall announce
the appointment of their successors
Governor woodrow Wilson came here
this afternoon to confer with authorities
there in connection with the concrete
boardwalk graft charges involving
municipal officers. Ass
1t Is believed that Governor Wilson
will ask Supreme Court Justice Kalisch
10 take a hand in the proceedings, super
seding County Prosecutor Goldenberg.
A special meeting of the City Council
will be held tonight, but 1t is expected
the wholesale arrests will preeede It.
There is a report here that Governor
Wilson may take up the subject of hav
ing an clisor drawn grand jury consider
the evidence being gathered by detec
tlves, as was done in the recent election
fraud cases In the county.
Councilmen who have been accused OF
bribery have decided to fight the reform
ars through all the courts If necessary
Dougherty. with the aid of his friends
has retained two of the leading criminal
lawyers in Philadelphia.
The designations of councilmen Samuel
Phoebus and William Malta, two OF a
quartet who confessed to Burns Wednes-
day afternoon that they took brlbes Tor
supporting a phantom concrete board
walk measure concocted by Burns 10
catcb them, were received by Mayor
Bacharach today:
II will act upon them at once. SAID
the mayor during the afternoon. follo"-
ing conference with leaders OF the IN
dependent forces and his principal back
ers in his feud with Commodore Lewis
Kuehnle. The names of probable sue
cessors to Phoebus and Malta are being
whispered today. Each man Is an avowed
foeman to Kuehnle.
phoebus's resignation did not reach
the office of the mayor until yesterday
afternoon. 1t stated that he wished to
resign for certain reasons, and that he
wished It to take effect at once the
resignation of Malta was worded SINH
lar1y.
Phoebns has left the city, and his
abrupt departure is causing much COM
ment. His destination is said to be his
mothers home In Virginia Malta IS
here. but the ranks of oniceholders AMI
noliticians whose names have been linked
with the scandal charges are said to be
depleted.
burns is in New York. 1t Is probable
that Attorney General Wilson and Mr.
Gaskill will go to Mays Landing tomor-
row to present their evidence to the
grand jury.
rwenty.nine of these men are said. to
have confessed. Another confession, ac-
rordine to a reliable report, was made
TODAY by councilman who related his
connection with the various deals which
purns,s men have learned to be reeking
with fraud.
The confession makes the ninth that
has been secured by the Investigators,
and is resting in a safe deposit vault
raodv for the threatened indictments be
fore the grand jury.
II, discussing the expose of graft VIII
m j. BuFISf hcoh ~ 49,
agency. said that Atlantic City has long
heen cursed with a lot Of political sharp
srs who have been doing things here with
q high hand
aThe system of graft here" said the
detective today. reached the highest
n,oces in the city government. 1t pene-
tra,ad councils, it commercialized mu-
nlcnal improvements, it levied Its tax
unon various forms of vice, protected
crooked poolrooms and gambling houses
ana took It's toll from city contracts.
such as street paving, sewer jobs and
ditching. which last-named enterprise
rsached tho dimensions of $1,50O0OO af-
fair II collected toll from all Kinds OF
,erm,ts legitimate and illegitimate.
Atlantic city was actually suffer-
ing II was gossiped about that men
who came here, whether on business or
Measure we're likely to fall into the
hands of thieves. And some pretty big
men In New York aud other neighborng
,ities found out the truth of that to
their cost and their sorrow"
Mr.. Burns said that when the business
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