Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-29
Evidence Against the
Hotel Men Will
Be Presented This
Afternoon.
PRIVATE DETECTIVES TO
BE CALLED TO TESTIFY
Guests Taken in Descent of Of
ficers Will Also Be Witnesses
Today and at Trial If Indict-
ments Are Found.

The ways are CREASED at the Court
House today for a rapid presentation
to the grand jury of the evidence
gathered in the sensational raids on
the Hotels Navarro and Broad by a
force of county and hired detectives.
acting under orders of County Prose-
cutor Louis Hood.
The evidence against George q.
Mausert, proprietor and George J.
Briggs and Norris Wilmer, clerks OF
the Hotel Broad and Cornelius J.
Harrington, proprietor; Gus Freund,
clerk; Jack Beebe and George J.
Beddle, head waiter, of the Navarro,
is regarded as so conclusive by the
prosecutor that he expects indict-
ments to be issued against all seven
men at once, possibly today, as soon
as the evidence has been presented
The prosecutor will not rely entirely
on the evidence obtained at the time
of the actual raids on Saturday night.
but will present to the grand jury
the testimony of the Cosgrove De-
tective Agency operatives who for
several weeks past have been at work
obtaining evidence against the two
places. A number of these men have
been living at the two hotels and
making nightly observations of un-
seemly conditions that are alleged to
have existed at the two hotels
Hood Not at Court House.
Prosecutor Hood was not at the
Court House this morning but II was
learned that the evidence Is all in
shape and ready for speedy presenta-
tion to the grand jury. 1t was inti-
mated that there will be a regular
procession OF witnesses before that
body during the session this after
noon.
The fact that the jury meets fifteen
minutes earlier today than usual was
at first taken to mean that one of
the Common Pleas judges would
charge the jurors on their duty in
connection with the evidence OBJ
tained in the dual raid of Saturday
night. Judges Harry " Osborne and
William p. Martin both stated today
that they had received no request to
charge the grand jury, and had no
intention of doing so on their own
initiative at the present time.
1t is possible that none of the if-
teen persons arrested and held as
witnesses in Saturday nights raids
Will be called before the grand jury
today. but will be held Instead to BE
used as witnesses at the actual trial
of the defendants IL they are in
dicted. The prosecutor is known to
believe that the evidence of the hired
detectives who worked up the case
prior to the raids will be sufficient to
warrant the grand jury returning
true bills indicting the seven men ar
rested as principals.
Hood TO Direct Hearing.
Prosecutor Hood will personally
conduct the hearing before the grand
Jury this afternoon, and 1t Is ex-
pected the session will last until long
past the supper hour. That the In
/ terest attracted by the raids is ex-
tensive Is shown by the number of
| inquiries made at the prosecutors
office today as to whether the mat
ter is to be taken up by the grand
jury or not. 1t is probable that
large throng of interested parties will
be present In the Court House corri-
| dors while the jury is in session.