New Britain herald., 1925-01-22
Jurymen Nine to Three for Conviction During Last 15 Hours of DeliberatiOn -Retrial Will Be Held Evidence Against Ed wards Going to Grand Jury.

Jersey Clty, Jan' .E.--lne Jury III the trial of twelve Weehawken and Jersey City police officials and civil ians reported this forenoon that 1t was unable to agree on yerdct. The judge discharged the jury.
 The twelve men were charged with conspiring to violate the state prohi- bition laws. The jury had been out since 3:07 o'clock yesterday after noon.
 Assistant Prosecutor McMahon, of Hudson county announced that the case would be retried, possibly with in the next tive weeks.
 Nine For Conviction.
 For the last fifteen of the eighteen hours and fifty-three minutes that the jury had been out. Fl. A. Lauen- stein, the foreman, reported, nine men had stood for conviction with the remaining three stubbornly re- tusing to change their vote for ac- quital. The first ballot was eight to four for conviction, it was report cd.
 Assistant Prosecutor McMahon set at rest persistent pretrial rumors that in case of a hung jury the re- trial of the twelve would be held in another court. The new trial will be | held In the same court, he said, de- claring that the work of drawing a naw panel of talesmen would soon | be started.
 The defendants and their attorneys seemed pleased with the result of the jury's night-long deliberations. The police defendants, all in uniform smiled broadly as Lauenstein told Judge Egan of the jury's failure to agree. George Cutley, defence coun- sel, said he was well satisfied to have the jury out of that room."
 Other Cases Postponed.
 McMahon declared that the jury's failure automatically would cause a postponement of the trial of Captain John Dillon and Lieutenant Edward Kirk, both of the Weehawken police froce, charged with misconduct in office as an off-shoot of the rum rnn- ming conspiracy.S Ttew awsft tFia! unde%, separate indictments.
 Edwards To Grand Jury.
 United States Senator Edward I. Edwards, former governor of New Jersey, whose name was brought into the trial when prohibition agents Identified him as a chief packer of the bootleg conspirators, did not take the stand. Prosecutor John Milton of Hudson county has announced that he will submit that part of the evidence referring to Senator Ed wards to a grand jury.
 The twelve defendants In the pres ent trial were: William P. Griffin. Jersey City insurance broker and alleged manager of the rum running syndicate: Harry J. 0. Stcarns, po- lice commissioner of Wcehawken: Charles McNamec. captain of the Hudson coun,y boulevard police; Lieutenant Charles Keling and Pa trolmen Philip McNulty. Louis iGrunewald, Joseph Hennossy, Ed ward Lewis, Fred IolImor, John Fisher. Joseph Daly and John Mo Mahon, all of the Wcchawken force.
 Indictments were returned largely on eXidcrccd gathered by the Rev. George F. Bennett, pastor Of St. lawrcncc's Roman Catholic church, modest parish near the abandoned Baldwin avenue docks. Wcehawkcn, where the COnspiratOrs were alleged 10 have landed thousands of cases of liquor brought up the Hudson river from Rum Row.
 : Clergyman Takes Field Aware, in general way, of the activities of the ring, the pastor is said to have become angcred at Wcehawken proprictors of soft drink parlors." who d;l not close their places until late last night. Working with a number Of his par ishioncrs. he was called from his tcd al : CLOCK the morning "l idAl September 1 and made his way in the darkness to the Baldwin pier, where he said he flashed his pocket lamp upon q schooner from which half dozen men woro loading cases Of whiskoy into trucks, He and several parishiOncrs who had assisted in the case testified al the opening of the trial Monday , u at they had recognized q halt dozen Of the policemen on trial as having been present al the liquor unloading festival. Father Bennett
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