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• Photo - Weehawken Police Commissioner Harry Stearns and his attorney

  Caption: N 74583 "P & 4 PHOTOS"WATCH YOUR CREDIT (PHOTO SHOWS L to R HARRY STEARNS, POLICE COMMISSIONER OF WEHAWKEN, N.J., AND HiS ATTORNEY, CHARLES STUHR) INFORMER IN JERSEY RUM SCANDAL SWEARS HE SAW FOLICE HEAD CHECKING RUM LOADFATHER BENNETT FLASHED A POCKET LIGHT ON THEM AND WE BOTH RECOGNIZED A MAN WHO WAS ENGAGED IN COUNTING AND CHECKING OFF THE CASES OF LIQUOR AS HARRY J . O S' HAUGHNESSY STEARNS, POLICE COMMISSIONER OF WEEHAWKEN,"  SAID CHARLES D. KIRK, REPUBLICAN POLITICIAN OF WEEHAWKEN, N.J., IN AN AFFIDAVIT WHICH EXPOSED HIGHER-UPS IN THE JERSEY LIQUOR RUNNING SCANDAL. IT IS HINTED THAT FEDERAL PROHIBITION AGENTS, NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICERS AND OTHER JERSEY POLITICIANS MAY BE DRAGGED INTO THE SCANDAL.FM. 12-8-24According to a NY Times article (Wed, June 17, 1925), Stearns and 9 other Weehawken PD personnel were found not guilty of charges of violating the Volstead Act (Prohibition)
• Crime scene - cash register and counter at drugstore

  9" x 11" black and white photograph of cash register at crime scene
• Gambling in Full Swing in Weehawken

  Back in 1896, Weehawken was known as a place for New Yorkers and others to come for a bit of the (illegal) sporting life. On September 8th, 1896, the New York Times published an expose entitled "Gambling in Full Swing - No Effort at Concealment in Weehawken." The report found that while the area around The Shades was pretty dead on Labor Day, 1896, a lively gambling house could be found next to the ferry terminal uptown. There, boatloads of New Yorkers tried their luck at betting on horse races and playing games of chance like faro, roulette, craps and "1-2-3-4-5-6." The reporter noted that there was no sense of uneasiness at the arrival of a stranger and that there were no precautions taken against the law. Source: Gambling in Full Swing - The New York Times, September 8, 1896
• 1940s Weehawken Mug Shots

  A collection of Weehawken Police Department mug shots from the 1940s. We don't have any information on who these people were or what they were accused of doing.