The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-05
STOLEN FERRY TICKETS
They Turn Up After Two
Years and Cause
Arrests,
NEWS AGENT BROWN.
His Varying Explanations as to
How lie Got Them Place Him in
a Serious Predicament,

The arraignmens OF William Brown, of
No. go East Sixth street, before Justice
Stilsing this morning for receiving stolen
goods, produced the first appearance OF
the proceeds of a robbery which took place
two years ago.
In August, 1887, some thieves stole o
quantity of tickets over the Pennsylvania
Railroads. ferry In this city from the
American Bank Note Company, of New
York,
They were the ordinary red passenger
tickets which had just been printed, but
have not yet been delivered to the rail-
road company. The tickets were not re
covered, nor was any clue found to the
robbers.
A FORGOTTEN ROBBERY,
Duplicate tickets were issued, n the
robbery was almost forgotten, when n
day last week the official in Philadelphia,
who makes up the ferry. masters ac-
counts, discovered two tickets of the
same number AMONG those which were
turned in by one of the ticket sellers in
New York.
An investigation followed and re yealed
the fact that the duplicate ticket WAS one
of those which were stolen from the
American Bank Note Company two years
ago.
AS this was the first of the stolen tickets
which had fallen into the hands of the
company steps were taken TO endeayor to
ecoye more and if possible discover the
thief.
The Pennsylvania Company's system
of numbering its tickets is such that any
series can be readily recognized, and al
the ticket collectors were furnished with
the number of the stolen series .
directed to keep q sharp lookoutfor them.
A TICKET OFFERED.
On Monday a man offered one OF the
stolen ticketsto the collector at the Cort-
land street ferry house. He was detained
and said that he was employed by Brown,
who attends to the circulation OF the
EUening Sun in jersey City, and that the
ticket was given him by his employer,
The ferry authorities secured the ap-
p~rehension of Brown by Policeman Ricke-
rick. AT first Brown said that he had
bought the tickets in lots of two or three
from one of the regular ticket sellers.
AS each seller is furnished with q dis
tinct series of tickets, and 1t is impossible
for one to have any of another's series in
his pos secession, it was an easy matter TO
discover that the stolen tickets did not be-
long to the series of the man of whom
Brown said he had bought his. Brown
subsequently said that he had purchased
the tickets from Joseph FlDod, a thirteen
year-old boy whose reputation for honesty
lo nun VI va UC7Ds "A \ ~ VI AONSif
ing stolen goods was then made against
Brown.
BROWNS EXAMINATION.
Attic examination this morning Super
intendent Bloomsbury, of the ferry conf
pany; Policeman Rickerick. the foreman
of the American Bank Note Company
and Detective Van Buskirk, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. testified to
the above facts.
Brown made a statement to the effect
that he bought twenty-four of the tickets
from Flood for : sixty cents worth of
copies of the .EUeniBg San. Flood told
him that he bought the tickets of a man
in New York for fifteen cents. gqpm
Young Flood who had been committed
a few months before by the Justice for
stealing a bundle of weekly papers, the
property of Newsman Ryder, from the
Pennsylvania depot, was produced as a
witness against Brown. The Justice
questioned him close and concluded that
he could not be sworn. Detective Var
Buskirk says all he can get out of Flood
is that he bought the tickets ola man for
fifteen cents.
He is looked upon as q young thief
however, and his story is not generally
credited.
Brown was held for trial, but as the
tickets were stolen in New York, and
bought by Brown in New York, he will
have to be taken to that city for trial, if
the railroad people consider it worth their
while to secure q reQuiSitiOu.