Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-12
MAUSERT'S BOOKS ARE
USED AGAINST HIM
Continued from First PaSeo

4 DOrne 10 the jury 10 come tomorrow
1t is not known whether Mr.. Mauser+
will take the witness stand in his owl
behalf or not
Testimony of a most damaging ma
ture against Mausert was introduced
today when the cash book and hote
register were placed in evidence.
The preliminary steps looking to-
ward their introduction into evidence
were taken yesterday when County
Detective Alfred ]. Hargan, who has
general charge of the collection OF
evidence in the case, took the witness
stand and identified a tabular state
ment as one made by him from the
| books of the hotel.
The damaging part of the testi-
mony, it is alleged, lies in the fact
that the inanimate cash book and
register will prove by entries made In
them that the same room or rooms
at the Hotel Broad were frequently
rented out more than once on single
nights. 1t is alleged that the register
viii be made to show, for instance
that room % was rented at o'clock
again at 10 o'clock and still again al
midnight on a single night. The
above does not refer to a specific in
cident, but it is alleged that the cash
book and register will show abso-
lutely that in numerous Instance; the
same room was rented out more than
once on the same night.
The most damaging part of this
evidence, it is claimed, is in the fact
that in some instances the cash en-
/ ffes<
payment of the room rent is in the
handwriting of Mausert personally,
and not that of the clerk or bar
tender.
On the list identified by Hargan
Yesterday there were over fifty diff
| ferent items shown where rooms had
been rented more than once on a
single night, with the corresponding
cash-book entries for the rental re-
ceived. In all the instances cited on
| Hargan's list it Is claimed that the
register will show the rooms were
rented to couples who registered as
man and wife.
Another Detective ON Stand.
With the resumption of the case to-
day Harry Morton, another of the
Cosgrove Detective Agency operat;.rs
who visited the hotel to gain evidence
| warranting the raid on Saturday,
April rs last, took the witness stand,
and, with the aid of a big sheaf OF
reports, described various visits to
the hotel made by himself, alone at
times and at other times with female
| companions. His testimony disclosed
nothing new, but simply added to the
mass of testimony given by other de-
tectives and the female companions
they had taken to the hotel and had
occupied rooms with.
| With the conclusion of Morton's ties.
| timohy. Prosecutor Hood announced
that the State rested its case, the tes-
| timony of Hargan yesterday being
deemed sufficient to turn the cash
|. book and register with the double and
triple renting of rooms as shown by
the key worked out by Hargan, over
to the jury. 1t is understood that the
key or table prepared by Hargan
shows that on fifty-five nights be-
| tween January 1 and April 26, the
night of the raid, one or more rooms
| in the hotel were rented out more
than once, while on five occasions the
same room was rented three times.
Despite strong objections of Mr.
!, Bradner, testimony was put on the
record late yesterday afternoon tc
show that the Hotel Broad was the
scene of an alleged drunken revel last
New Years eve, or rather in the
early morning hours OF New Years
day.
This evidence was given by the
Rev. DR.. Edwin I. Stearns, of Bloom.
field, superintendent of the Anti.
Saloon League; the Rev. George
Fountain, pastor of the Irvington M
e. Church, and Samuel Wilson. Of
Jersey City, director of law enforce
ment of the Anti-Saloon League.
Mr. Bradner commended that as
Prosecutor Hood had elected to make
| the issue in the case one of main
tanning a disorderly house in the
.broadest sense of that term, he could
not, after the case had been under
way for three days, put in evidence
| tending only to show tipping and
drinking in the restaurant and bar
room. His objection was overrulet
by Judge Osborne.
The testimony of the three men wal
along the same lines and had to d.
with their observations in the restau
rant for an hour between and
O'Clock New Years morning. Graphic
descriptions of how men and women
mostly young, were seated at tables
drinking and carousing, as we'll al
hugging and kissing indiscriminately
were given by the three witnesses
all of whom stated that they hat
gone to the Hotel Broad, as well al
other hotels and restaurants tina
night, merely for the purpose of OBJ
serving conditions and of gathering
evidence that might be of use at {
future date, such as the present trial