Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-10
Prosecutor Declares That
He VIII Not Act, Say
ing, Let the People
Get Stuck
CALLS THOSE WHO TAKE
SUCH CHANCES FOOL s
Officials of Newark's Baseball
Team and Those of Other
Cities Are Working TO Put
End to Practise.

Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott today said
ne did not believe that there was any
use In starting crusade to suppress
pool selling in this or any other city.
AS a matter Of fact, Prosecutor Mott
looked on the whole thing as joke and
! said that the person who was foolish
enough to buy pool tickets deserves to
be stuck. !"
"Why?" asked the inqusitor
There was no answer. but Mott went
back to the same proposition that per.
son who bought pools was a fool and
deserved to ne ''stung.
! When told that in New York, Brook.
iyn and Jersey City the police officials
will work with the county officials, Mr..
{ Mott said:
ut is not officially before me- When 1t
comes officially before me ] will take az.
ton
An offer of an Evening Star reporter to
furnish pool tickets to be used as evidence
before the grand jury, was turned down,
Mr.; Mott explaining; ''You were fool to
buy them, because you know you were
stung when you did,"
Timothy p. Scales, clerk of the Grand
Jury, referred the matter to Prosecutor
Mott and when Mr.. Mott said nothing
doing It was passed up, as far as pres
ent grand jury action is concerned.
The Evening Star today stands ready
TO give evidence TO tie grand jury that
tickets on baseball pools cnn be bought
In Newark, and also that prizes ranging
from fifty dollars down to FIVE dollars
are available as rewards for the first
prizes, while from fifteen dollars down to
nve dollars is paid as "booby'' prize
Those who cannot guess the high figures
manage 10 get in on the "booby"
Payments are made every Monday al
the places where the, purchasers of ths
pool tickets buy them. The holder et
the fifth ticket win get s5 AS matter
of fact, In last weeks distribution o1
the prize list. the first prize was split
up between two people in one place
where they were sold The second
third and fourth prizes were split be.
tween eight people The fifth prize OF
IS went also to one man in the place
where 1t was sold.
When II is considered that probably In
200 saloons and barber shops in Newark
these tickets are sold, 1t can readily be
understood that s200,O0O at least each
week would be spent In Newark alone.
NEW YORK, May 1o-Officials of the
baseball clubs in New York, Brooklyn
and Jersey City have joined today with
4 the police in a crusade 10 suppress pool
selling on baseball games.
Distrlct-Attorney Cropsey, of Kings
county. has taken up the legal question
of selling baseball pools. whish, he says,
he has been informed was going on at
/ wholesale In Brooklyn and Manhattan.
4 Agents have been assigned by Mr. Crop
j sey to collect evidence to be presented
to n grand Jury
Il The police commissioners in Jersey
4 City have called a special meeting for
hnext Wednesday to consider the question
of baseball pools.
Investigation shows that IN hundreds
Of saloons and cigar stores tickets are
sold In what is known as blind pools.
Pool-selling is said to be going on also
In other cities.