The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-28


destroys very important link In the
chain of testimony against them. Inability
to prove their presence In East Newark at
the time of tho tragedy would 10 fact de-
stroy the case against them. 1t is the
easiest thing ihthe world for criminal to
prove an alibi; and if they should set out
on that line the State would be without
definite proofs that they were in East
Newark to confront them with. The fact
that they are strangers in East Newark
and that the murder was the work of men
who knew the prevailing stories concern
ing Mrs. Garrity's boarded wealth, and
who had been carefully informed of her
habits and movements, would indicate-if
these men are the murderers-that some
one must have put them on the scent
and equipped them with all the informa-
ton they needed foF the successful ac-
complshment Of their job. Who acted as
their guide il the thug-like work
of that day was the work of their
handsf 1t might not be Improbable for
the detectives who are engaged on the case
to learn If there had been no previous ac-
quaintauce between this saloon keeper,
who is unable, to identify them, and the
men themselvesf He seems TO be a man
of unsavory reputation, and the towns
people cannot disabuse their minds OF the
suspicion hathe knows more of the crime
than he ventured to tell. They have made
much-more probably than the incident
justifles--of the fact that the jimmy with
which the murderers forced the misery
old woman's door was wrapped 10 copy
of the World" and that, with the excep-
ton of that days paper. the saloon keeper
was able To- produce his. files of the
g World for two weeks about New
Years lime. There is nothing of special
moment in this incident, possibly, but it is
enough to put the authorities on the en-
quiry.
The Railroads come inyoluntaiily 10 the
rescue of the State, and find it necessary
to lift her out of the finansial picking pot
into which their contest of the tax act
threw her, in order to save themselves
from destruction. While they were, meta
phorically, throwing up their hats over the
great victory they had achieved over the
people, they were reminded that new
levy had been made upon them under the
Tax Act, for the taxes of 1885. The Court
of Errors will. they expect, sustain the
Supreme Court; but by the time the Court
of Errors decision is due, the time for
their appeal from the levy of this year will
have passed; and if the Court of Errors
should decide against them, the appeal
would be barred. Tue opportunity to fight
would be gone; and they would have
nothing TO do but to pay their assessments
for this year as fixed by the State Board.
They couldn't afford to take any such
chance as that, and one day last week they
made application to the Supreme Court for
writs of certiorari against the new tax
levy. The Court declared, in accordance
with the terms of the law, that they would
be obliged to pay fixed amount of money
into the State Treasury before their appeal
could be entertained, and, next Tuesday,
will fix the amount with which the con-
testing corporations shall purchase the
right to appeal They will have to pay,
or abide. forever, as to this years taxes, at
least. the possibly adverse decision of the
Court of Errors; and the State will, IN
few days, have enough of their money in
its hands to tide it over for the year.
Meanwhile, if the Court of Errors reaffirms
the unconstitutionality of the Tax Law. of
1884, there will be plenty Of time Tor the
preparation and adoption of new scheme
of railroad taxation.
The Burlington County authorities pay
the Justices of the Peace for gathering in