Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-24
HOTEL RAIDS COST
ESSEX S2,4999.779
FOR SLEUTH WORK
This Covers Only Case of Mans-
ert, Convicted Broad
Proprietor.
BILL INCLUDES S5S2 FOR
DRINKS AND BELLBOY TIPS
Expense Expected TO Be SIS. 900
by Time Three Others
Are Tried.

It cost Essex county just q cents
less than $500 TO obtain the evidence
on which Prosecutor Louis Hood made
his raid of the hotels Navarro and
Broad on Saturday night. April e.
last which later resulted in the in
dictment and conviction Of George 2.
Mausert, proprietor of the Hotel
Broad, while Cornelius ]. Harrington.
proprietor Of the Hotel Navarro and
David Littman and Samuel Weinfela.
proprietors Of the Little Hungarv.'
rathskelier. are still awaiting trial.
| The bill Of the Cosgrove Detective
Agency, which furnished the men as
certified to by County Prosecutor
Hood and approved by Judge Harry
Osborne for payment. amounts 10
$2,4ss.7s this being the total of the
expense from the time the detectives
were first placed on the work on
February ! last, until they finished
their actual work Of getting evidence
on April 10 last. sixteen days before
the raid took place.
After a bill of this kind has been
certified to by the prosecutor and
! approved by one of the county judges
1t goes 10 the county auditor and
! thence to the county collector for pay
ment, there being no check on court
expenses Of this kind by the accounts
| ing officers of the county
| Seven sIeuths Worked on Case.
/ The itemized statement shows that
seven Cosgrove operators were at
work gathering evidence at different
times, one of them designated as w
A. B" having been on the job only
seven days in February. starting his
work February and working Feb
ruary 6 and Z. He was the first one
| to start on the job, but he drops out
of sight on February 21
OF the regular operators two worked
from February II 10 April 10. inciu-
sive: one worked from February 79
to the same date; one from March q
! to April 10. and two from March IS
to April 10. All told a total or au7
days was put in by Cosgrove opera
tors on the work at a rate of s6 a
day or s1,242 for the employment OF
the men alone.
In the statement furnished the
1 prosecutors Office by Cosgrove all the
men are designated by initials only:
but through the fact that the men tesz
| titled in open court at the trial OF
| Mausert under their own names they
are recognizable in the statement
"W. A. b." the first one named. was
not called on to testify at the Mausert
! frfa nd Ha ia fs.s=t~
IF. B. H." is Fred B. Hoefer. M
B." is Michael Bengsund, II. G. P.
is Henry G. Plate, H H NJ" Is
Harry h Morton, m L d. is Mi
chael L. Dieri and IF c. S" is Fred
erick c. Sheridan. those being the
six operators who were called to the
witness stand during the trial OF
| Mausert to tell of registering at the
Hotel Broad with female companions.
Time Each spent Is Itemized.
The time spent by each of these men
on the case and the amount paid the
detective agency for their services is
as follows: "W A. B." seven days.
s42; Hoefer, fifty-three days. Ss1Ss
Bengsund, fifty-three days, ss1s:
Plate. fifty-one days. s3o6: Morton.
fifteen days, $50; Diori. fourteen DAYS,
SS4; Sheridan, fourteen days. sS4-a
total of $1,242.
/ The balance of the bill is made up
of the following expenses: Carfare
and railroad fares, s13o.lS; meals. s2z9;
telephones. % cents: hotel room rent.
s134 so: cab hire, 81; money paid girls.
s1ee60, and to incidentals spent IN
interest of operation-drinks at vari-
Gus places, tips to bellboys and girls
-as follows:
w A. b." S3.76; Bengsund. s1s2.s5;
Plate. s1479o. Hoefer. s144.10; Morton.
s50.s0; Sheridan, S5s.s5, and Diori.
s44l0
From a perusal of the above items
items it will be seen that the opera
tors spent a total of s5s2.2 in Incl
dentals spent in interest of the opera
tion-drinks in various places. tips TO
bellboys and girls" In addition to
this there is an item standing alone
in the statement of s16oe0, money
paid girls" without any further ex-
PLANTATION Of the item.
The bill as rendered by the Co.'S
grove agency covers only the actual
expense of gathering the evidence on
which the raids were based. The
NoFk covered pN the Dill rendered
ended ten days before the actual raid.
and it is to be expected that later
bill will be handed in covering the
work of the operators after the raid
as we'll as for the time they were
in attendance at the trial of Mausert.
Another BIZ Coming.
The six operators outside of "W A.
B." were in attendance for six days
at the Mausert trial. and undoubted-
~ win be charged up to the county
at s6 a day each. or a total Of s21s
for attendance at the one trial that
has taken place since the raid.
In the bill no charge is made by the
Cosgrove agency for it's money coming
out of the s6 day charge for opera
tors, the agency paying the men $3.50
and So a day each. the difference be-
tween that and the Sc charge being
the agency's end of the receipts
In addition TO the s2.4es.7s en-
braced in the Cosgrove bill already
approved there can be figured in
cost to the county the expense Of
the trial OF Mausert, amounting 70
about $3.50. roughly speaking This
amount is made up OF jurors services
for seven days S168 salary Of Judge
Osborne and Prosecutor Hood $3.50.
salaries of court attendants ana
clerks 5000 and witness fees SO