Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-21
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Suggestion of Kindly Individual That Seats Be Arranged
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on representation made by the man;
counsel that his health would be
injured by prisonment confinement
had continued him on bail until he
could have medical examination
made.
But Clark did not know this, and
there. apparently at liberty, was a
prisoner he had had in his charge
q few minutes before. Clark went
to Joseph Ellis, the Court House prac-
tical Joker for advice and was told
1t was his duty to arrest the man
in open court Clark was just about
to do this when he consulted Court
Clerk Crowther as to whether he had
the right to make an arrest and was
informed that the prisoner was free.
Clark heaved a sigh of relief and
then very carefully explained to Ellis
and the rest of the jokers that lit
seemed funny TO me that If Cassello
had escaped he would walk right
back into the courtroom where the
Judge could not help but see him.
1t cost Clark q couple of rounds
of cigars to square himself, and even
now he jumps if anyone says "es-
capped prisoner" to him.
The guards at the county peniten-
tiary recently had their workday cut
down from a twelve-hour shift to one
of eight hours. Now they want that
eight-hour shift to include an hours
time off for luncheon, leaving but
seven hours a day that the men
would actually work.
Next thing we know the guards
will be asking for individual auto
mobiles to bring them to and from
their homes and for theatre tickets
at the expense of the county so they
can be entertained in their off-duty
periods.
Pretty soft when you get county
Job, protected by civil service, and
then have a good kind Board of
Freeholders cut your working hours
down four hours a day. You would
think the penitentiary guards would
be satisfied But they are not. Can
you beat it?
One thing that doomed up promi-
nently before those who followed the
seven-day trial of George E. Mausert,
proprietor of the Hotel Broad, before
Judge Osborne. June Is to "a, was the
orderly manner in which the trial was
conducted.
Orderly is used in the legal sense,
meaning a trial that is conducted
strictly according to established pro-
cedure. Despite the fact that the
fight made for Mausert by his counsel,
Frank E. Bradner. and against him
by the prosecutor, Louis Hood. was a
bitter contest, there was none of the
squabbling or quarreling between
counsel that usually marks the hear
ing of hard-fought cases.
Both Mr.. Hood and Mr.. Bradner
are able lawyers, who have the fine
points of the game at their fingers
ends and as a result the trial was
free from the objections to questions
and the rulings of the court that
usually cause endless discussions
during notable trials.
OF course, there were objections to
questions on the part of both Mr..
Bradner and Mr.. Hood. but counsel
never got excited, pounded tables, or
raised voices to a pitch that would
almost raise the roof.
Judge Osborne had a very easy time
of 1t as far as quieting clashes be-
tween lawyers go and it would have
been a mighty good thing if num-
Der of other lawyers that the writer
knows, and could name, but won't,
had spent the seven days of the trial
in the courtroom absorbing lessons
in the proper method of conducting
a trial.
The conviction of Mausert. as was
often predicted in the columns of the
Evening Star during the course of the
trial, resulted almost solely from the
carefully kept set of books maintain
ed by Mausert. 1t was a case of
where his books showed too much.
To County Detective Alfred ]. Har-
gan goes the credit for getting this
mass of evidence in shape for pres
entation to the jury and so we'll did
he perform the task that neither
Mausert nor his counsel, Frank E.
Bradner, could attack successfully
the mute proof of the books.
1t is the firm belief of all who fol-
lowed the case carefully that had 1t
not been for the damaging evidence
revealed by the books in the way of
double and triple renting of rooms
to persons registered as man and
wife" Mausert would have gone free.
Certainly he would have escaped with
a mistrial as the jury would never
have convicted on the evidence fur
nished by the paid detectives and
their women companions.
Without the mute books it is be-
lieyed that the evidence of the de-
tectives would have been regarded
much in the nature of a frame up"
by the Jurors and their testimony
thrown out.
But Hargan and his little tabulated
statement made from the books
showing rooms doubly and triply
rented night after night furnished
evidence that no juryman could dis
regard without a violation of his
OATH