Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-20
JURY IS DRAWN IN
HARRINGTON TRIAL
CONTINUED from First PaEeO-

there was a liquor license in the name
of Harrington and Joseph Nemrow,
but would not admit that Harrington
was the proprietor of the hotel
Aaron Feist, of Feist e. Feist, was
then called to the witness stand as
the first witness and was asked con-
erning a lease made in 1910 to Joseph
and Pearl Nemrow for the use of the
property on Broad street for hotel
purposes. Mr. Feist volunteered the
information that he knew in the latter
part of 1911 Mr.. Harrington had be-
come partner of Mr.. Nemrow in
the hotel enterprise, but on objection
of MIR. Simpson that part of the tes-
timonY concerning the lease was
barred.
In selecting the jury the State chal-
lenged the following five men: Will
lam Francke, manager, 10 Wilcox ave-
nue., East Orange Isaac r. Denman,
retired, $50 Johnson avenue; William
Bayles. contractor. 81 Steuben street,
Orange; August Trautz, gold refiner,
So Nichols street. and Stanley Willu-
ans, salesman, 745 Parker avenue.
Five were challenged by the defense,
the men being William S. Bechtold,
manufacturer, 32S Clifton avenue;
Louis e. Bailey, vice-president, 4O
Park place; George B. Cusack, mason
contractor, 6S Jackson street orange;
Henry G.. Atha, toolmaker. 800 Broad
street, and Thomas j. Kenny, picture
frame dealer 46 Second avenue. Car
ence S. Fay, an accountant of SAT Lake
street. was excused by consent OF
both sides. In challenging the jurors
no explanation of the reason for the
challenge was given by either the
State or the defense.
In the jury as finally chosen the
first ten men are residents OF Newark.
No. IL, Peter johnson. is from Cald-
well. while No. L., Walter G. Hill,
halls from East Orange. The list fol-
lows: 49,
Horace T.. Miller, manufacturer, II
East Kinney street, foreman; NO. z,
c. II. Young, vice-president, 249 Cliff
ton avenue; No. 8, A. Swinton Pearce,
retired, 632 Mt. Prospect avenue; NO.
4, Samuel Rice, jeweler, 229 South
Sixth street; No. 5, Stephen II. Plum,
real estate, $40 Clifton avenue; No. g.
Joseph r. Craig, manufacturer, 2o9
Clifton avenue; No. Z, Albert IL.
Pfaff, bank clerk, rs First street; NO.
s, J. b. Hay, iron founder, 9S9 Broad
street; No. 8, J. Elliot Henderson,
manager, ga Woodside avenue; NO
10. Charles S. Van SICKLE, printer,
81 Court street; No. II, Peter john
son. farmer, Bloomfield avenue, Cald-
we'll: No. ~, Walter G.. Hill, assistant
superintendent, II Hawthorne avenue,
East Orange.
Lease in Evidence.
After testimony tending to show
Harrington's connection with the no
tel had been given by Mr. Feist and
Edward r. McGlynn, who drew the
lease for Joseph Nemrow, the lease
was admitted to evidence. The next
witness was William B. Tcmpkins,
of the Newark Excise Department,
who testified that the liquor license
for the place was in the name or
Harrington and Nemrow.
With these preliminaries out of the
road Prosecutor Hood jumped right
into the effort to prove the charge
of maintaining a disorderly house
and contrary to general expectations
did not put the Cosgrove Detective
Agency operators who worked up the
evidence on the stand as his first
witnesses.
Instead, he put County Detective
Alfred ]. Hargan on the witness
stand, and promptly introduced the
hotel register in evidence. Hargan
has made an index to this register be-
tween the dates of January l and
April 26 last showing the double and
triple rentals of rooms on different
occasions, and, although Attorney
Simpson, for Harrington, fought hard
to have the index kept out of the case
and allow the register to speak for
itself, he was ruled against by Judge
Osborne. who said that the list COM
piled by Hargan was something that
ANY man with two good eyes and
able to read writing could end for
himself in the register" He further
explained that the list furnished by
Hargan would greatly facilitate the
speed of the case.
The mute evidence given by the
register was damaging, just as it had
lybeen in the case of the Hotel Broad.
! From the table prepared by Hargan
ii was shown that in the period be-
tween January l and April 20 last
there had been ninetythree instances
where room had been rented out
twice to couples registered as man
and wife in a single day, while in
five instances the same room had
been rented three times.
Mr.. Hargan was still on the wit
ness stand undergoing direct exami-
nation when the court adjourned for
the noon recess. The seven Cosgrove
detectives who worked up the case
were under cover in the prosecutor S
| office all morning and did not appear
| in the court room.