The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-27
COMPLACENT BOB.
lie sneers at the Judges and
Plays the Ostrich Act
With His Little
Head.
HE FEELS QUITE UNANIMOUS.
Is for MePhillips First, Last and
All the Time, and Says
Everyone Who Isn't is
a Kicker"
Ten Months to Trace a Man One
Block.

Sheriff Davis this morning read in the
New York morning papers statement
that he had withdrawn his support of
John McPhillips and had transferred it
to Alderman Robert S. Jordan. He read
this and sighed. He sighed and pom
dered. 1t was not true, he knew; but,
OH, if he could but have said with the
poet:-"Tis true, tits pity; and pity tits,
It's true,n much care and trouble would
have been removed from his mind
When he was asked today how the ru-
NOR started, the Sheriff Replied
u don't know, but there is not word
of truth in it.n
would not Jordan make good run9'
II suppose so but am in favor of
John McPhillips. l know HIM to be a
good and straight man, one who is fitted
for the office, because he has served un-
der three Sheritfs. II the convention was
held today he would be nominated. |
don't know of member OF the County
Committee being opposed to him. He
was born i'll this city and is we'll liked bv
ah."
''Will he be your candidate first, last
and all the time"
II have no candidate" answered the
sheriff with meaning smile.
We'll, choice then?'
Yes; he is my choice, and I'll do what
can to secure the nomination for him.
.'Doyou know how Jordan stands in
regard to McPhillips?n
'sHe is with him and will support him.
McPhillips is not politician, but a bust
ness man, no matter what
people say, say against hin Il is
that McPhillips will be thrown
over for some other candidate. These
people are only "kickers." They are not
opposed to McPhilips but are opposed to
any Democrat who seeks the nomination.
They are ''kickers" against the voice of
the majority of Democrats.
why do they kick?'
'sThey kick now because / am backing
McPhillips and that is all they can find
to kick about"
HIS OPINION OF THE JUDGES.
sSheritf, how about the man Flynn
who was arraigned in court yesterday,
concerning whose arrest the court COM
mented on the length of time required to
make it?''
Il don't care what the judges on the
beuch say about the matter, replied the
Sheriff, that man was out Of
brought into court sooner The judges
need not blame the Sheriff's office for not
arrestlng him sooner. Aud what encour-
msnt did this constable get from the
Court when he was taken before them?
Flynn was simply fined $40 and costs, !"
said the Sheriff contemptuously
How about the other cases complained
of by the Courtp.
..lhree months ago told the con-
stables TO hurry up the cases on hand and
make the arrests. told them to make
no returns of the warrants for year ii it
required that time to find the defendants.
did not want warrants returned to
court marked not found That man
Flynn was one of these cases and was out
of Town.
MAsKER's STORY.
At this moment the Sheriff called Con-
stable Masker, who had arrested Flynn,
and asked him how many times he Went
after Flynn.
about dozen times" replied the
constable. 81 could not get him for he
was out of the city, you see," he ex-
planned.
.How long was he awayp' asked.
4ss.A "a bout two months: he was on boat.
When he returned he moved from Nor
gan street to Steuben street, and could
not find him."
block from Morgan street the constable
cou,d scarcely be expected TO trace him
so far, but Masker is nm excellent con-
stable. and in the succeeding eight or ten
months his excellent detective work
traced the lost defendant, step by
step, through the wilds of the
enormous territory between Morgan
street to Steuben, and by cleverness
that would have delighted Robert Pinker-
ton, finally located his man one block
from where he used to live and where he
1iad lived for mouths. Yes. Masker is a.
born detective, a veritable sleuth hound.