Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-04-16
DISAGREEMENT
|. BY JURY SAVES
Z POLICEMEN
Out 5 Hours Before Reporting
that They Were Unable
to Reach a Verdict
DIFFERENT RUMORS HEARD
! Little Doubt But that Prose-
cutor viii Ask for a
New Trial
Different RUMORS HEARD

NEW BRUNSWICK, April 16.
After a five hour deliberation ovei
the testimony taken in the Peril,
Amboy police officers trial. the jury
was discharged when it becainS
known at O'Clock last night that,
they would be unable TO reach
agreement
The case went to the jury shortIs
after 3 o'clock, the entire afternoo.
;taving been taken up by the summil
up by The attorneys and the chars
by Judge kirkpatrick.
F, Rumor about the court house til.
morning had it that the jury mem
bers Stood seven for conviction 4 IN
| five for acquittal, but the runlor
| unconfirmed. There seems to As
little doubt but that the prosecutor
will Immediately make preparation
| for the retrial of the case.
At the opening of the Afternoon
session of court Thomas Brown 4
attorney for Hanson and MarInon
moved that the court direct fi.f
state 10 elect which of the counts ci
the indictment the conviction wa
asked on: mfsfeasance as charged Ii
the first count or malfeasance a.
charged in the second.
That request was refused by the
court and it was ordered that both
counts would be submitted to the
/ jury for them to pass on.
| Mr.. Brown consumed about thirty
| five minutes in summing up the case.
I The testimony as produced was re-
| hearsed by him to the jury and he
+, charged that the state was attenpr-
| ing to drive the two accused patrol
men to Jail while the prosecutors
Office was used as collection agency
| for a bootlegger
About the same amount of time
was consumed by Assistant Prosecl-
/ tor Toolan in the review of the case.
! He took the occasion to picture in 4.
: vivid manner the alleged lawlessness
that has been declared to be run
ming rampant along the eastern bor-
ders Of the country.
| I'm nearly every case in whici
there is more than usual interest
declared Mr.. Toolan the proseen-
( tors office is pictured as a. huge ha-.
man bloodhound out to trap the in
nocent, but you owe duty to your
. selves and the state to consider this
case without the thinking Of the
E, consequences to the accused, but if
from the testimony il you find these
/ men innocent 1t is as much your duty
! to acuuit them as it is to render
verdict of guilt if you believe they
committed the crime for which thes
are charged"
IF you believe these men are
guilty there will never be more
important case for you to consider,
for when the blue uniform of police
officer sinks below the depths or
I thieves, you are ripping our the
foundatio of all government IL YOU
free them and give the implied Ii
cense to police officers to stop all
bootleggers for the payment of trib-
ute in order to get by,
"If police officers are to be per-
mitted to collect tribute from boot
leggers. continued Mr.. Toolau.
what price would be exacted By
them to free a murderer or the
ravager of your homes? Don't let
all police officers be condemned by
the action of the few, but give these
defendants a fair trial and then rem :
der your verdict.
"Of far more Importance is Il to
stop one thieving policeman, who
you uepenQ on Tor the projections OF
your home during your hours OF
sleep than it is to stamp out the
lawlessness of thousand bootleg
gers" said the assistant prosecutor.
"and II we can eliminate all crooked
police officers, the bootleggers' trade
will be short lived.
Mr.. Toolan also asked the jury to
give serious consideration TO the tes-
timony that two police officers had
been led around their home town by
self confessed bootleEger and
taken to High and Washington
streets to have things fixed UP. His
views as expressed were that Lang
field had agreed to go to the offic1
of Chairman of the Police Commits
tee Albert Waters and inform fhf
alderman that a mistake had been
made in the Identification OF the tws
officers, after which the cops agreed
to make good for the stickup aftei
being assured that no action Nnu1d
be taken against them by the sox-
erning body of the city.
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