Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
MORE ARRESTS IN
ROSEV|LLE CASE

feated He is employed in the office
of a New York stock brokerage con-
Germ. Just what his connection with
the wrecked bank is cannot be learn
ed until he pleads to the indictment
against him in court on Saturday
morning before Chief Justice William
S. Gummere. The charge against him
named in the bail bond is conspiracy,
but no details of it are given.
Ball Fixed at 5000.
arrested at his place of business, 81
is also conspiracy. He was
brought to the Court House
about II o'clock by Detectives Mason
| and Hargan, and ten minutes after
his arrival was bailed by his mother,
Mrs. Barbara Maier, 345 South Sixth
street She gave property located at
343, 345 and BAT South Sixth street,
valued at $4,000, as security for the
$4,000 bail bond.
Maier, like all the other men who
have been arrested. refused to dis
cuss his arrest in advance of his
Saturday. 1t is understood that Maier
was interested in an automobile
business with Raymond e. Smith,
treasurer of the defunct bank, the
business being located on Central
avenue, East Orange.
The mantle of secrecy that has
been thrown around the indictments
since the big batch of indictments
was handed in by the grand jury last
Tuesday afternoon is gradually being
dispelled, although the indictments
themselves are. under the orders of
Chief Justice William S. Gummere
and Prosecutor Louis Hood. being
held under the closest sort of sur
VIGILANCE and no information of any
sort as to their contents is being
given to any person.
Not even the men arrested so far
know specifically just what they are
charged with and will not until they
are called on to plead to the indict-
ments On Saturday. The great bulk
of the indictments are for high mis-
demeanor and for conspiracy.
1t has been learned, however, that
out of about seventy Indictments re-
turned Raymond e. Smith, former
treasurer of the looted bank, is named
In approximately fifty of them. The
number of persons to be arrested
between now and Saturday, exclud-
ing the five already placed under ar
rest, is not more than fifteen. OF this
number five are said to be out of the
State of New Jersey
In those instances counsel for the
men indicted have been told to pro-
duce them in court on Saturday
for examination on the in
dictments against them. The prose-
cutor's detectives are not hurrying the
arrests of the men for whom capiases
have been issued, as it is not feared
that any of them will decamp.
The five men said to be under in
IL a rNAf
side the jurisdiction of the Essex
county courts are Antonio Melia and
Frank Bruno, partners in a contract
| ing firm, who are engaged in
work in Baltimore where both the
men now are: A. D. Fike and T. NJ.
| Monyihan, connected with Raymond
| E. Smith in the Home Products Ice
Company, Plainfield concern that is
now in litigation, and John B.
Faunce, of New York city, president
of the Intercity Land and Construc-
ton Company, a New York concern,
of which Malvin G.. Palliser, a New
York lawyer, was yesterday appoint
ed q receiver.
Raymond E. Smith was vice-presi-
dent of this company, and it is said
the company is indebted to the Rose
vile Bank in q sum in excess of $780,
| 900. Bruno and Melia are also said
to be deeply involved in the defunct
trust company through loans made on
which it is alleged the security given
was insufficient to cover the amounts
| loaned.
In the fifty indictments, more or
less, that Smith will be called on to
plead to on Saturday is, 1t is under
stood, number in which Smith alone
is named. while in others he is named
| jointly with one or several other per-
sons, the charges in these instances
being conspiracy. 1t can safely be
said that all the men called on to
plead on Saturday will be required
| to do so to more than one indictment,
and the process of pleading the men
before the chief justice is likely to
consume the entire morning session.
A little interesting information
leaked out today in connection with
what has come to be known as the
big Indictment" so named from it's
size. This indictment, looked at when
1t Is folded UP, and apparently 1t has
been in no other condition since it left
the grand jury room. appears to con-
tain about seventy-five pages of legal