Tnfewsboy' Tortured in Howell
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AHWarDea gEEfTOBT momm and again on Snnday. IWAL Clear and mild tonight Red Bank, Freehold I Long Branch / EDITION Momnonth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL 93 NO. 233 RED BANK, NJ., FRIDAY, MAY 28,1971 TEN CENTS TNfewsboy' Tortured in Howell HOWELL (AP) - Joseph his head and drove him about numbers conviction. responsible," McGee said. tel. He was treated and re- State Prison on numbers added to the longstanding le- The county prevailed in the "Newsboy" Moriarty, the one- 60 miles south to this shore The Hudson County, state "Newsboy told us he was not leased, and brought in a state charges and a year in federal gal squabble. Isadore Glau- lower courts! The federal gov- time numbers czar who left community. and federal governments al- sure he could identify the police car to Jersey City Me- prison for failure to buy a gam- berman, special counsel for ernment is i $2.5 million in an abandoned He was taken to a house most immediately became in- three men, and he didnt even dical Center. "Wing tax stamp. Hudson County In the case, garage, was kidnaped and tor- and tied to a chair. Police volved in a legal battle over know where the house was. Officials there said he suf- Since his release in 1963, he says that the county is en- tured yesterday by three men said Moriarty told them the rights to the money and the He only said They were real fered bruises of the face and has lived guieuy in a rundown titled to the original money who tried to make him tell men beat him and burned his litigation still Is pending In the tough guys'. head and severe bums of the section of Jersey City known plus interest. Compounded where he might have more hands with a blowtorch while courts. "To my knowledge, Mo- hands. as the "Horseshoe*" semiannually, the interest loot stashed. constantly asking him where Deputy Police Chief Patrick riarty hasn't been flashing They said he signed himself The legal dust still hasn't would turn into a tidy bundle. He managed to escape at 4 the rest of Ms "Millions" were McGee of Jersey City said any money lately, and I don't out of the hospital later in the been lifted from "Moriarty's Glauberman contends the a.m., still handcuffed, from hidden. He managed to loosen Moriarty has been living for know why the kidnapers day. Police (Said his present Millions." United States Treasury must his abductors, and staggered the bonds holding him to the the past several years in the would think he's got more whereabouts are not known. The battle for control began cough up the interest. through the woods to a motel chair, and escape while the obscurity that always cloaked money hidden away some- Moriarty, who earned bis almost from the m6ment two on a highway here, and the men were sleeping. bis numbers operations. Mo- where. It could have been nickname from the days when workmen stumbled across the At issue Is whether Hudson motel owner cajled the police. "Moriarty's millions" were riarty, McGee said, was a "lo- three guys just playing a he worked as a sidewalk news $2.4 million cache in the trunk County is entitled to the mon- State police said Moriarty, found in caches of $2.4 million ner" who usually carried hunch." hawker, for several years ran of a dusty old automobile in a ey or whether it is the proper- 69, was kidnaped in Jersey and $168,400 in Jersey City in large sums of cash on him. Moriarty was taken to Paul a one-man numbers operation, Jersey City garage in 1962. ty of the federal government, City late Wednesday by three' July, 1962, four months after "We have no idea why he KlmbaU Hospital, Lakewood, mostly in Jersey City. He An attorney insists that an- more specifically the Internal men who placed a Hood over was kidnaped or who might ba after police arrived at the mo- served three years in Trenton Moriarty went to prison on a other "million" has been Revenue Service. Joseph Moriarlrjr Agency Shift Action Nears also amendments giving cit- of the Board of Control, TRENTON (AP)-The commissioner with" approval the institutions. izen board members some defended the department anij : chief sponsor of a Cahill ad- of the.senate. The commis Wescott did not get a power. said it had accomplished ministration bill to reorganize sioner is now appointed by the chance to answer criticisms much under an administrative the Department of Institutions But the lawmaker said the board. of the board and the major changes proposed by system that was outmoded. and Agencies says he will But Wescott opposed the department made by Dr. seek approval of, the the bill would remain intact. Provision Opposed provision limiting the power Criticism Differs Robert P. Nemo, the medical Republican Senate caucus for But Wescott opposed much of citizen boards of managers director from 1963 to 1968 of the measure when the .Hagedorn was the only of the content of a Cahill' of individual state institutions Marlboro State Hospital. Dr. legislature returns next member present from the administration bill aimed at and limiting the power of the Nenno is now a professor of month.' Senate Committee on Instit- reorganizing the department, board of control itself. psychiatry at the New Jersey Sen. Garrett W. Hagedorn, utions and Public Welfare to for which the board sets Wescott conceded that the College of Medicine and B-Bergen, said following hear the department praised policy. lines of responsibility that Dentistry. Thursday's hearing that he for its successes and damned He said he did not oppose now exist In the department He said the board never would consider 6ome minor ior its failures. a proposal that the governor were confusing to adminis- visited the hospital during bis amendments to the bill and Lloyd B. Wescott, president should appoint the department trators and others working in tenure, collected information only to rebut allegations of scandal, ignored epidemics of amoebic dysentery and tuberculosis, and stifled init- iative and reform. Prosecutor's Guiding HandDr. Mary Ann Bartusis. Im- mediate Past President of the New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Association, reiterated her group's support for a separate COMMUNITY PANELISTS— Discussing community problems prior to department of mental health. participating ln*i forum sponsored by the Council of Churches of the SeenGrand Influence Not Convinced Now Greater Red Bank Area last night are, left to right, Thomas Carter/ direc- She noted that Gov. William tor of the Red Bank Community Center; Mrs. Wijliam Pries, executive dl- By WILLIAM J.ZAORSKI T. Cahill had called during his rectqr\ of the Red Bank Housing Authority; the Rev. Leonard Powell/ pas- Last of a Series campaign in 1069 for such a tor of ihe First United Methodist Church of Red Bank; and chairman of FREEHOLD-The guiding hand in the proceedings of the department. : Prpji&cf Harmony; Police Chief George Clayton Jr.; and Police Lt. Robert grand jury Is the prosecutor. It's his job to act as legal adviser Scott, Red Bank human relations officer. tothepaael The prosecutor is the only person,'other than the jurors themselves, who is permitted in the room while the panel is Jail Break deliberating. However, the jurors can ask nun to leave the room during these deliberations. Drug Problem Attack Critics of the system are quick to claim that the grand Report To jury rubber-stamps the wishes of the prosecutor and therefore serves no useful purpose. Job Is His Go Out Mapped in Red Bank However, the American Bar Association (ABA) rccom- .FREEHOLD - The county • mends that the prosecutor be free to express Ms opinion on the ByBENVANVLIET evidence since he is the one who must prosecute the in- Board of Freeholders next 'ter said, "to believe that the • and twelfth grades," he said. RED BANK - This borough dictment at trial. week will reveal the contents drug problem is confined to Mr. Carter said that he has a drug problem - a prob- the young. There are lots of feels the'drug problem is a "A prosecutor who has conducted an adequate in- of a 25-page report county de- lem described, last night as adults drug users." symptom • of problems faced vestigation and analyzed the evidence is in a position to fur- tectives made of the April 5 being a symptom of other, so- The chief said that under by many people - problems of nish guidance to the grand jury on the law and the weight of jail break. cial ills. his direction, three policemen inadequate bousing, the evidence and should be free to do so whether tins leads to Freeholder Director Joseph This was the gist of a twa- have been sent to a week-long unemployment, education, a determination to indict or not to indict," says the ABA in its C. Irwin said yesterday that hour panel discussion among school dealing with narcotics and feelings of despair. publication, The Prosecution Function and The Defesse Func- the freeholders will hold a church, housing, recreation, and 15 more will soon attend. tion. press conference next week '.'It's a vicious circle," he and "we will let you know all and law; enforcement leaders Officer Assigned said, "one seems to breed the The ABA adds that the prosecutor should not take advan- at the annual meeting of the tage of his role to unduly or unfairly influence the panel. As a that we know. He said he has assigned other." "We've gone over It pretty Greater Red Bank Area Coun- 'Det.