The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-21
Taken Up On the Hill Yes
terday Afternoon in
Default of 81, 900
Bail.
LAWYER DAILY TO DEFEND HIN.
Hoboken Citizens Not Much Sur.
prised---City Clerk McDermott
Watched Him All the Time.

William c. Mausell, charged with forg
ing in the Hoboken City Clerks Office, was
taken to the County Jail yesterday after
noon. He engaged William d. DAILY as
counsel. At present no new forgeries
have come to light, but as forty more Ger
tificates and stubs are still to be accounted
for, it is feared that the extent Of his pecu-
lations is not known, and that q large
amount will be discovered.
1t is thought that Mausell had an ac-
complice, but suspicion is not yet directed
to any one in particular.
The citizens are much exercised at the
carelessness with which the books Of the
city departments are examined. They
say that all the money in the City Hall
could be taken without discovery.
A prominent Hoboken citizen, who
would not allow his name to be used, said
that the City Hall ring was about as cor
rupt as any of the Boards in Jersey City.
"The pot calls the kettle black said he,
when Hob0ken screams like rooster
that she wants to be separated from cor
quite as clean as Hoboken's. The people
who shout for the division of the county
forget that a most dangerous gang of poll
ticfans and ringsters would be In power
over here, and chronic state of forgerie5
and embezzlement would be the result.
City Clerk M. v. McDermott said that
| if he had had his way Mausel would never
have been in the office.
LAS it isl he said Councilman ErIen-
koetter had q motion in his desk asking
for the mans removal, but the ring would
not have it, MauseH was their heeler,
and he must have position.
Mr.. McDermott told me that he had to
keep his eye on Mausell all the time, as he
would have carried off the safe if he had
an opportunity, and considering his past
career it was best to take no chances
Mr.. William H. Harper said that he was
not bit surprised when he heard Of the
foFgeries.
Ex-Mayor Herman L. Timken, whose
name was forged on one of the Improve
ment certificates, said that an impression
had been taken from his stamp and had
been carefully covered with ink, but even
| then it was bungling job that ought to-
have been detected instantly by any care
| full banker.
Mausells salary of So per day could not
/ have kept him in the style in which he
! lived, as he moved in the best society
| How he obtained his entree is unaccount-
able, because the history Of his TRANSACT
tions in the past was no secret.
Leon Dalton was present in the City
| Clerks Office yesterday at noon. He had
/ eight certificates, amounting in the az
| gregate to $500. These were compared
| with the stubs in the old and new im-
provement certificate books.
| In some cases the stubs were neatly cut
and the numbers did not run consec-
utively
| AS nearly as can be ascertained fifty
! certificates were cut out, stubs and all,
| from the last part of the old book. The
new book follows on with the next con-
secutive number. Only three certificates
of the fifty missing numbers have turned
! up SO far.
c. Zabriskie, the broker, of this city,
holds $4,000 of Hoboken improvements
certificates He had them all examined
| this morning and found that the sigma
| lures they bore were all correct.
/ / saw Mausel this morning He did
| not seem to be any the worse for being in
the county jail, and when he passed his
hand through the grating of the door to
shake mine, there was not a tremble dis
| cernible. He said that he had not
looked for bail and that he did
not know whether he would. He de-
clined to make any statement except that
| he took exception to the published story
| that trouble existed in his family previous
| to his arrest. He said emphatically:
.'There is not family in New Jersey
| that lived more happily than mine
His family consisted of a wife and two
/ children, aged fifteen and eight years, re-
| snectiyp1y