Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-11
SORD|D TESTIMONY
IS CONTINUED IN
HOTEL RAID TRIAL
Detective on Stand Tells of
Visits to Broad Street
Hostelry.
HAS TO REFER TO NOTES
TO REFRESH HIS MEMORY
Registered at Resort During
February, March and
April.

handed out by two Cosgrove detec-
tive agency operators who preceded
him on the witness stand on Monday
and Tuesday, was given in Quarter
Sessions Court before Judge Harry
" Osborne today by Fred Hoefer, OF
New York city, a detective who helped
obtain evidence against the Broad
and Navarro hotels, on which the
raids Of Saturday, April 26, conduct
ed upder orders OF Prosecutor Louis
Hood. were based
AS in the case of Henry G. Plate
and Michael Bangsund, the operators
who have already testified, the ex-
animation of Hoefer was a long
drawn out affair, due principally to
the fact that the witness referred
continuously to huge sheaf Of writ
ten reports before replying to the
questions asked by the prosecutor
His testimony was along the same
lines as that given by Plate and
Bangsund and told of visits he had
made to rooms in the Hotel Broad
at different dates in February, March
and April of this year, being accom-
panied on each occasion by woman
on the hotel books as his wife notn-
out any questions being asked by the
hotel clerk or proprietor. Nothing
new was brought out in Hoefer's ex-
animation, his testimony only tend
ing to substantiate that given by
witnesses who had preceded him.
Acting Chief of Police Michael j.
Ryan was called to the witness stand
late yesterday afternoon and in re-
sponse to questions asked by Prose-
cutor Hood stated that for five years
or more as captain of the First pre-
cinct he had endeavored to get evil
sience against the Hotel Broad that
would warrant raid being made on
the place.. a.
The acting chief ore that at no
dence. although he had the hotel in
spected and watched frequently. He
told of visit made to him by Maui
hert about two years ago. when the
latter complained about the frequent
visits made of police acting under the
orders of Ryan to his hotel.
Mausert claimed, so Ryan testified,
that he was being prosecuted, and
made a threat that he would find out
why his place was being so closely
watched, while other places, so he
alleged, were running unmolested.
Acting Chief Ryan said the argument
between himself and Mausert became
very heated, so much so that he or
dered Mausert from his Office. after
warning him that If he could ever get
ut inc
would raid it.
Denies Raising Disturbance.
On cross examination today Mr..
Bradner made efforts that were part
ly successful to establish the fact that
Hoefer had repeatly been intoxicated
while gathering evidence at both the
Broad and Navarro hotels. Hoefer
admitted that he had drunk to some
extent at times but denied he had
ever become sufficiently intoxicated
to cause any disturbances at the res
taurant or barroom as alleged by
counsel for the defense.
Following Hoefer came another Co.'S
grove operator, Frederick Sheridan,
of New York. Sheridan was the man
identified In the courtroom yesterday
by Miss Bertha Densmore, of AZ Mer-
Ger street, as the man who after talk
ing her to room in the Hotel Broad
had made proposition involving
moral turpitude, which, the girl tes-
tilted, she had refused to consider and
had left the room.
Sheridan denied that he had made
any untoward proposition to the girl,
but instead insisted that he had gone
to the room at her request. This was
the first time so far in the trial that
any evidence had been adduced to
show that any of the detectives had
been asked by girls to take them to
rooms. The testimony up to this time
had all been that the detectives had
always made the proposal that rooms
be visited.
- Testimony Unshalxen.
Sheridan testified that he had met
the Densmore girl at the Little
Hungary" cafe and at her request
not his, took her to the Hotel Broad
The witness was emphatic in his
denial of the statements made by
the girl and was not shaken on cross
examination
Michael L. Dioro. another New
York detective employed by Co.'S
grove. was the next witness. but as
he had only observed conditions in
the restaurant and had not visited
rooms in the hotel, his examination
was brief
Anthony Bishop. former night
bartender at the Hotel Broad, was
then called and testified as to regis
trations made at the hotel late at
night after the clerk had gone home
and he was in charge. He identified
a number of names in the book as
those of couples who had registered
as man and wife and who had been
assigned to rooms by him.
Bishop said he had no means OF
knowing whether the couples he had
.assigned to rooms were married or
not or whether they brought any
baggage into the hotel.
County Omcers on stand.
Prosecutor Hood then took UP the
actual details of the raid made on
the hotel a few minutes after mid
night on Saturday night, April rs last,
and called as his first witness County
Detective Thomas P. Meyer.
In marked contrast to the slow and
hesitant testimony given by the paid
Cosgrove operators was the quick
and snappy replies given by Meyer
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