Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-09
On Their Certificate, There
fore, Court Allows Postpone
ment for a Week.
MAUSEPT CASE IS THEN
CALLED AND JURY CHOSEN
lntimations Of Legal Jockey
ing" to Avoid Being Tried
First.


tual commencement of the trial of
George E. Mausert, proprietor of the
Hotel Broad, under an Indictment
charging him with maintaining dis
orderly house.
The trial is the outcome of the raid
made by hired detectives. acting un-
der orders of Prosecutor Louis Hood
on the Hotels Broad and Navarro at
midnight. Saturday night, April 26.
The case is on hearing in Quarter
Sessions Court before Judge Harry
V. Osborne, and crowd that almost
filled the corridor Of the top floor of
the Court House stormed the doors
of the courtroom for admittance to-
day. With the exception of seventy
two men drawn as struck jurors in
the two cases, Hotels Broad and
Navarro, both of which were listed
for trial today, none but those having
business in the courtroom were adj
mitted. Even the witnesses were
kept out of the room, County Detec-
tive Alfred ]. Hargan, who has
charge of them, having the Cosgrove
Detective Agency operators. who
gathered the evidence and twenty
male and female witnesses, who were
arrested at the time of the raids on
the hotels, segregated in the grand
jury room on the second floor OF the
Court House.
Prosecutor Hood had announced
that he would move the case against
Cornelius J. Harrington, proprietor
of the Hotel Navarro, first, but after
Paul r. Lefferts announced in court
today that he had retired as counsel
in the case in favor of Alexander
Simpson, of Jersey City, and former
First Assistant Prosecutor Frederick
r. LehIbach. of this city, Mr. Simp-
son produced q physicians certifi-
cate signed by DR. c. r. O'Crowley,
of 12 Lombardy street, stating that
Mr.. Harrington was suffering from
: rheurnatisn and was tlntieF nlysi-
rian's orders to remain iii Bed for
three or four days. The certificate
was dated Saturday and Prosecutor
Hood objected to it as not showing
the state of Mr. Harrington's health
MT the present time
on a suggestion made by Mr. Lehl-
bach Judge Osborne ordered an ex-
animation made of Mr. Harrington
pnd called DR.. F. w Murray, 81
Washington avenue to make it. DR..
Murray hurried to the Harrington
home and at 1870 reported to the
court that Mr. Harrington was not
IN physical condition to attend In
court.
Mr. Hood then moved the case
against George E. Mausert proprie-
tor of the Hotel Broad, and after
some technical objections to the NOV
ing of that case first. Mr.. Bradner.
counsel for Mausert announced that
he was prepared to go ahead wita
the trial
limitations and cross-lntlmatlohs
were made that the eouhsei Tor the
defendants in the Navarro and Broad
cases were each playing loXy game
trying to force each other TO trlal
first. 1t was lntimated by those IN
terested IN the Mausert case that
the evidence In TINS was not as strong
as in the Navarro, and Tor mat rea-
son the Harrington side preferred to
have 1t tried nrst, MT Bradner IN
sisted that he did not want to have
his case tried first, but was power
less to force postponement, as both
cases were set down for trlal to-
day.
With the commencement OF the
Mausert case the jurors called to
serve in the Harrington case We're
dismissed until next Monday, when
that case will be taken up if the de-
fendant is able to appear in court
Present in the courtroom, but hav-
ing no part in the happenings, were
David Littmann and Samuel Vein
field proprietors of the Little Hun
gary" rathskeller at Market and Hal
sey streets, who are indicted on evil
.dence the Cosgrove Agency operators
obtained Their counsel, Edward
Sehoen. was also present
Another argument between counsel
came I'M when Joseph Iambrecht.
leather dealer of IA Ripes nlace South
Orange was called as the frst tales
man NJ dner contended that be
had a right to examine each iuror as
he took his seat in tba hox Proseo,,-
tor Hood contended that ~ i,r,, hox
y,nst erst he flllad wifi, t,,ei,,a ,,,a,,
and the right 70 challenpa tban nsed
Mr. Rradner won this arpument
r,,dge Osborna ruIi,g tba+ ~ talas'
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