The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-14
WASN'T III MEAN?
That Governor Albeit wouldn't Let
This Rascal Ont of Prison

Governor Albeit wouldn't Let
This Rascal Out of Prisonf
There Is nothing in the black political
career of Leon Albeit that stands SO
boldly forth to mock him as his 1endish
hatred and treatment of old Levi ID. jar
rard, the noted embezzler. A defaulter
and an alien from society. a cast out and
a worn and broken man, Jarrard was
sent to prison to serve a merited sentence.
Disease crept on apace and the greedy
clutches of remorseless Death lay upon
him in his prison cell. He was dying.
The man who possessed the political
brain of q dozen AbbettS and the heart
and generosity of a thousand such as he,
appealed to the Governor to be allowed to
breathe the air of freedom before he died.
Prayers and petitions were of no avail.
The prayer of u wife, a daughter, a SOIL
Of q united community irrespective of
party-an in vain.
The bulknecked Albeit would not
bend. Then came the last petition to the
heartless Governor. Could the broken
down old man be carried to the portals of
the prison and die in Gods given sun
shine? Mol A thousand times mol
Death then set his seal OH the old man
and his inanimate clay was carried forth.
1t was moi permanent freedom that the
old man wanted. He knew that he was
to die and that right speedily. Yet the
proud nature within him revolted at the
idea of dying in prison. ''If Miles Ross
were here and / were where Miles Ross
is. he would not die in a CELL" said
Jarrard to the writer, and Ross knows
| whether he ever asked Leon Albeit to
relent.
Democrats of Middlesex, you who have
had mani a barrel of flour, a ton of coal
to make your winters fireside cheerful
from the bounty of Levi d. Jarrard,
think Of these things when you go to
the polls on November 5.-Nea0 Bruins
DicE F~TedOniGn.
Some year ago New Brunswick and
Middlesex county were in the grasp OF
one of the most villainous rings that
ever disgraced the State of New Jer-
sey. There was a job in every scheme,
and a consideration for every official
| through whose hands an account was
passed to payment. When, by the
death or flight of some of the con
| spirators, these secret forms of rob.
| berry, those methods were no longer
possible, the conspirators left behind
just plunged their hands boldly into
the public treasures and helped them.
selves.
1t was known that Levi D. Jarrard,
who was County Collector and Sena-
tor as well, was the head and front
and brains of the gang; but it was not
possible to put a hand on him till one
morning he disappeared. The Demo
Gratis had elected an accidental ma
jority in the Board Of Freeholders,
and an examination of Jarrard's
books had been begun. He hao
robbed the safe, taking several thou
sand dollars with him in his flight
His books showed that he had beer
systematically robbing the county.
committing every crime in the calen-
dar almost to facilitate his thefts.
When ne was overtaken in Canada
he proclaimed himself a British sub
ject, and made a memorable fight
against extradition. He was brought
back ultimately to answer. a charge OF
forgery, convicted and sent to State
Prison. He died there before his term
expired .1Editor JERSEY City NEWS