The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-26
NEWS OF NORTH HUDSON.
THE BECKER-BONDY CASE rs n
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
The Charge That the Doctor Stole the
widows Microscope Is Dismissed
Political Complications Develop in
North Hudson.

Widows Microscope Is Dismissed
Political Complications Develop in
North Hudson.
The case OF Mrs. Becker, of West
Hoboken, against DIR. Bondy, of West
New York, whom she accused of emu
bezzling available microscope of hers,
dismissed by Justice Reinhardt,
yesterday afternoon.
The case is a peculiar one and the
story published exclusively in THE
JERSEY CITY NEWS has served to
bring out some strange claims and
counter claims of conspiracy. The
affidavit on which DR.. Bondy was ar
rested was sworn to by Mrs. Becker
before Justice Reinhardt, and her sig
nature was affixed at the bottom
Yesterday DR.. Bondy produced an
other affidavit also, signed by Mrs.
Becker, in which she denies that she
had intended to make any charges
against the doctor and that when she
signed the first affidavit she was in
ignorance of it's contents.
Last evening there came a statement
from Mrs. Becker that she was coerced
INTO signing the last paper, ana also
pleading Ignorance OF Its contents;
Mrs. Becker is a very lntelllgent
woman, which may be SAID TO make
the affair ali the more mysterious.
DIR. Bondy claims that the woman
was used by his political opponents in
West New York to throw discredit on
him and to ruin his growing practice.
AT any rate, for the present, the ase
mas peen quasned, out just why IL was
done does not appear.
rnaa,donts I1,hot rho,n un,uas
M ".J~-a.1. Iaea.a4r af
LIE independent ueHocrats Vi
North Hudson are sharpening their
knives. and unless the General Com
mittee manages to appease them, they
will 90 on the warpath and bolt the
regular ticket at the November cleo
tions. They claim that corruption has
been brazenly prominent in North
Hudson politics for years, and are es-
pecially indignant over the manner in
which the Democratic Freeholders'
Convention was packed last March,
when several of their delegates were
refused credentials on the ground that
their democracy was not above sus-
picion.
At that time the apathy of the lead
ers of the Observation-Disclosures Rub,
of Union Hill, in particular-surprised
a great many who knew that he was
not a man to tamely submit to defeat.
1t has transpired recently that but for
the information which the indend-
ents had received that the Governor
had intended to sign the bill making
the election of q Freebooter Illegal and
the convention consequently unneces-
sary, the doors of the room in which
the convention was held would have
been broken open and an attempt
made to ''clean OUT the convention.
The gentleman from whom l re-
ceived this information remarked:-"I
had great difficulty in restraining my
friends, but we thought it best to bide
our time.
1--WE are waiting patiently now, and
every day is adding to our strength,
and by the next election our power
will be strong enough to overthrow
any deal and to defeat any candidate
who is not pledged to the best inter
ests of the people,"
u;Il no+ s,nnort +ba rao,,1ar nominao
unless they are compelled before the
convention. They will eithernominate
a candlaate I thelf own OF pledge
themselves 7 a republican.
Inc Independents are parGlculariy
gus WIN tne acgloh OF
IN Young against the hamilton county
ON, anu tleir reasoii Is OBVIOUS. II Is
SAID ina prominent cltlzen OF the