Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-08-03
JERSEYS STORY
ON ROBBERY CHARGE
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1870 Sunday night. ,.ra- the
s.Ss fast line to Elizabeth sunday
night with the OF eoins ~
proctor's theatre there, but founo
thet n was not open on Sunday
n5eht. He claims to have gone TO
rastaurant with the girl and re-
turned to this city. getting In PED
about midnight. the deIenoanS
claims that he slept until ABOUT ~
o'clock on Monday Inc
nrosecutor questioned Jersey re-
pardinr how he spent certain days
Tn,,r or Ave weeks before and after
The dates in question, but he could
not tell a thing which he did.
The defendant Q Il OF pens
complice in the robbery of a store
~ Pavonne was known as Bull
Eroq" Comenskey. For this offense
he admitted being sent to the state
reformatory. 49,
The prosecutor questioned Jersey
regarding a ride to New YORK win
another Perth Amboy barber named
Robert Garaffa, at which time 1t IS
ciaimed Jersey was carrying a bag
containing a weighty substance, ana
the defendant denied riding in a
train with any bag ontainln a
weighty substance.
Jersey was questioned at length
about his booze dealings, and al
first refused to answer for Tear the
evidence might incriminate MIN.
He afterward admitted being q go
between in whiskey. deals ana al
lmitted owing kronln $kVu ior q
whiskey transaction.
Joseph Brombert of South Am
hov and John Moritko OF Perth
Amboy came into court this morn,
ing but did not sit together; II VII
be remembered that these two men
were Implicated in the case earlier
=, in the year, in which Brombert,
Andrew Gadek, William Hartmann
and Steve Vereb were OF
holding up Moritko, but all the oe-
PENDANTS were released: A great
many of the people who heard tnat
ease Ss are ssa IN c ~itpes s00f ~ the state
,uas mt on the stand yes
terday afternon at 2 O'Clock
and remained until 4 o'clock.
He was David Kronin, a barber from
Rrooklyn. who claims to have met
Erank Jersey. originally at the state
0enitentiary at Snake Hill, near Jer-
sew City. After coming out OF the
2enitentiary. the witness SAID, Jersey
met Ernest Tonghinf. and himself
sKronin1 also met Tonghini. but the
wines does not snow Louis
Tonghini. Kronin also served a term
in the Ohio state p~enitentiary TOT
In the fall of 1919 Kronin claims
ERNEST Tonghini and Frank Jersey
cot in touch with him to put through
some whiskey deals in Perth Amboy.
The witness claimed they met In
Jerseys barber shop in Smith street,
Perth Amboy, and in his own barber
shop in Brooklyn.
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when they visited Brooklyn they
planned to pull the Roessler & Hass-
lacher Chemical job, which the two
Perth Amboyans claimed was worth
about s15O.OOO. Kronin claims TO
have agreed to go in on the deal, and
offered to furnish the brace. which
he identified in court. ernest
Tonghini, Kronin claims, said tnat MS
brother worked for the company ana
knew the layout of the vaults. anu
he agreed to get the Information
from his brother.
Kronin claims that together with
Jersey and Tonghini they visited the
Roessler e. Hasslacher plant where
they examined the layout OIL the
b,,iidings. but when Kronin found the
overpowering of a Waterman was IN
the deal, he backed u This Visit
was made on Christmas Eve. n
Jersey and Tonghini claimed tney
ALREADY had the tools for the Joo
pIanted in the snow, the witness said.
The witness claims hat sometime
later Tonghini and Jersey came to
rookI and told him that they
had pulled the job, but had secured
a lot of junk, most OF which had
been thrown in the river. Con
tinuine his story. the witness said
that they gave him a brick supposed
to be gold, and which measured
4"xzh"xh" and If gold would pc
worth $1,000. 1t was found by
Kronin that this brick was Drass.
Later on Ernest Tonghini offered
$1,000 for the return of the brick, Il
it was not returned.
Kronin told Of being arrested by
County Detective David for being I'M
plicated in a booze deal, but he stated
he did not know the prosecutor con-
nected him with this case.
Senator Thomas Brown, counselor
for the defense, then put the witness
through a o examination, through
which he stuck to his story, telling
of receiving telephone calls and
kilograms in regard to the Roessier
& Hasslacher job.
Through his cross-examining Sen
ator Brown attempted to make
whiskey deals the object of the
messages sent by the defendants to
Kronin. The witness admitted that
he was convicted twice for burglary.
and stated that the only feeling ne
had against Jersey was because OF
being left out of the r. & H. rob-
berry. He stated that Ernest Tom
ghini had threatened to pull him
in the case, the witness said, If he
attempted to collect the $4,000 re-
ward.
In his testimony Kronin told of
talking to "Rubenfeld Mailer and
a man named Cutler regarding
whiskey deals. The witness also
told that he was not sore on Jersey
for leaving him out of a whiskey