The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-04-04
Notice to Our Patrons.

Notice to Our Patrons.
The SUNDAY TATTLER refuses to deliver
papers to newsdealer John Mershelmer;
and those residents of the Hudson City
district who desire the paper win kindly
notify other dealers to deliver it at their
houses.
The closing of the case on the part of
the House Managers in the Laverty i'm
parchment trial last Wednesday puts them
in the position of asking the Senate to rob
a citizen of his irreproachable character
on the unsupported and uncorroborated
testimony of half a dozen prison harlots.
1t is not impossible that they have all told
the truth. But their characters throw
such suspicion upon their charges that no
even minded man can make them the
basis of conviction. The testimony of
these abandoned creatures can be made
respectfully credible only by strong zorro
boration of material facts, and the man
ayers have not offered the first bit of
corroboration for the consideration of the
Senatorial Court. Minnie Schafer's
mother and brother, who swear to having
seen her write and mail the letter that she
declares brought $50 bill in an envelope
from the Keeper, are so closely related to
her, and may be presumed to have been
SO deeply Interested in her effort to extort
money from him. and, as to the mother at
least, are so little better In the moral
aspect than Minnie herself, that the testi-
mony can count for little as make
weight. Minnie Schafer and her family
are not of the class who break $50 bills
every day in the week. Where is the
storekeeper at whose counter she says she
changed it, Paterson storekeepers are not
so often besieged with $50 bill customers
that she could have changed it in the city
without attracting the attention of the
dealer who received it from her. If any
storekeeper in the little city had taken it
from her 1t would be the most natural
thing in the world for him to step forward
and make himself known. That he has
not done so is strong presumptive evil
dence that he is not in existence, that the
bill itself is myth, and that the fragment
of an envelope that Minnie says enclosed
the crisp new note, bore something else to
her hand. The appearance of this trades
man whom the papers, by their stories OF
the trials, have advertised for with such
searching thoroughnesss, would not prove
that the Keeper sent the money, but il
would be confederation on a point con-
corning which oorroboration might be
reasonably looked for. The Managers
should spare no effort to find this trades
man If they believe that any tradesman in
Paterson ever received $50 bill at Min
MES hands; and it might not be bad
idea for the defence to swear every trades
man in Paterson dealing in the class of
goods for which Minnie says she broke
the $50 bill to show that she never pres
ented bill Of that amount in the city. 1t
would make the trial little tedious per
haps. but then it must be remembered
that Keeper Laverty is fighting for more
than life before the Senate; and be should
leave no stone unturned to acquit himself
of the charges chat are bearing him to the
earth. 1t is not enough that Minnie
Schafer has contradicted herself in some
points. That counts for something though.
Nor does it count for less that the points
on which her testimony at the first and
her testimony at this trial clash, are the
little and minor points Of her story. 1t is
not on the main facts that she would
break down, 1t is in the course Of false
narration. She may be presumed to have
the essential features of her story drilled
into her memory. 1t is in the unessential
and less important AID less relative places
that her perjury would reveal itself. But
then, as we have already said, il is not
safe to rest the assault upon her credibility
on her self contradictions. The defence
can make a convincing exposure of her
perjury, if she is perjuried They have
the Managers at a disadvantage because Of
the Managers failure to produce the miss
ing tradesman. Let them complete the
coup BY showing. as an affirmative fact.
that he i myth.
The action Of the North Hudson Railway
Company 10 voluntarily raising the pay of