The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-09-05

A Document Assailing Him Circulated
Among City Officials.

A Document Assniling Him Circulated
Among City Officials.
The following open communication wac
circulated among employees of the Board
of Works yesterday afternoon:
JERSEY CIrY, Sept. Sd, 1886.
To James ~ Brana.
SIR:--On account of certain ISLANDERS
which you have for the last three years re-
peatedly made against my character, and
IN view of the fact that these ISLANDERS are
becoming more and more virulent as time
passes on, have decided upon giving you
two weeks to retract all your falsshoods,
oral or written, particularly those fur
nished in writing to the editors of the
Evening Journal of this city. Your failure
to comply with My demand will compel
me to take legal proceedings against you,
or to publish, as a defence to your attacks,
by circulars, assertions and letters, first,
our partnership papers, and then all letters
and kilograms mailed or otherwise sent to
me by yourself when you were in hiding
from your creditors. All of these docu-
ments were written to me when we were
both business friends and while / was be-
friending you. If these letters are pub
lished it will be an easy matter for the pub
y
who is the injured man. If you remem-
Der, few years ago you allowed your
malice to get the best of your judgment,
and you abused Mr.. Michael M9llone, of
the Argus, in issuing circular, which
before circulating you showed to me In
Germania Hall. Iimm ediately advised you
not to circulate it. You did not accept
my advice. What was the result? The
disgraceful attempt on your part to
allow your brother, the Rev. DIR. Brann, to
suffer through your misrepresentation,
and the result of that trial ought to be of
sufficient warning to you not to expect
much mercy from the law. In many in
stances you have sIandered me in writing,
and, coward like, dared not attach your
signature to the articles. Proofs are not
wanting to plainly show who wrote and
distributed them. When you we're unable
to pay your debts, I. even in the light of
the article published against your charac-
ter in the New York Herald, stood your
friend and lent you money, and then, in
order to save myself from loss, was COM
PEELED to become your business partner,
only to find, to my utter disgust, that you
were transacting business very sspecu-
lisrly." Upon speaking to you of certain
transactions you Immediately roped in an
unfortunate like myself, and paid me
81, 400 cash as settlement. All of which
can prove over your own signature.
OF your bosom friend, Edward g. Roche,
late of 81 Fort Green place, Brooklyn, N.
Y, and now resident of Flatbush, / will
my attorney for retaining moneys sent by
me to him (Roche) for the support of my
mother, brothers and sisters. Roche, BY
falsehood, endeavored to make me believe
that he bad paid such moneys over to my
relatives. He had not done so. The case
came to trial, and he was adjudged guilty
by Referee Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr, Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas of New York.
On appeal this verdict was sustained by
Chief Judge DAILY, of the Court of Common
Pleas, with Judges Larramore and Van
Hosen, associates, asserting. Not con-
tented with this Roche appealed to the
Court of Appeals. A decision was render
ed which affirmed the decisions of the
lower courts, and virtually adjudged Roche
guilty of attempting to defraud mother
and her children out of the money sent
them by her son. The judgment being for
81, 900 and all costs. The opinions of so
many courts, without dissenting voice
but Roche's, ought to be enough to satisfy
any honest man that Roche had been
stamped with dishonest intent, and should,
therefore, be avoided. Instead of which
you have no hesitation of taking him into
your councils and parading him through
the saloons of this city as much injured
man (by Hanly).
Again let me inform You that the same
Roche, about 1872. conducting the New
burg Glass Works, at Newburg, N. Y,
failed for large amount, leaving his en-
ployees destitute. At his bankruptcr pro-
ceedings in 1877, before Register Dayton.
he swore that he was not worth dollar,
and, believing him to be an honest man,
paid his bankruptcy tees to his lawyer, n.
Fox, of New York, out of my own pocket,
and made him my trustee afterwards.
Roche went through bankruptcy, and have
positive reassn since then to believe that
he did not deal honestly with his creditors.
In closing let me remind you of thefate of
poor Tuttle, whose memory you covered with
SANDER, and let me still further remind
you that in case anything should happen to
myself do not intend to allow you or your
associates to be able to point to single
stain on my name or allow you to compli-
cate, through your friend Roche, my affairs
in such manner that my family shall
suffer by your action. Without further
enumerating more of the despicable trans
actions in which your have been engaged,
now notify You that feel that the people
of Jersey City, especially those to whom
you have slandered me, should know that
stand ready to prove you falsifier of the
first water, . man not tit to be believed.
FRANK ]. HANLY.