The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-08


All this while the crowd had grown.
Graham's three brothers, Abraham, Peter
and james, who keep q printing estab-
Ishment nearly opposite Cox's saloon,
and sister who was there at the time
ran across the street to see what the mat
ter was When they saw that it was
their brother who was being set upon by
the ring heelers. the men went to his
assistance.
MURDERoUs o'MARA.
Seeing that he had some friends in the
crowd the towards left him. O'Mara
went among the crowd urging the men
to assault Graham. Grahan'S sister
heard him cry kill the --- -; kill
him.
When Graham produced his capias and
showed it to Hopkins that sturdy officer
took Todd into custody and started for
the Sussex street station. Graham at that
moment saw Quirk standing on the op-
posite side of the street with his (Gra-
ham's) hat in his hand. Graham Went
over to get his hat. He was there again
set upon by Mahoney, his wife Rosa and
John DAILY, another of the indicted cleo
under the Street and Water Board. Gra-
ham got his hat, however, and all hands
went to the police station.
DESPERATE EFFORTS FOR LIBERATION.
| When they arrived there they found
| City Collector O'Neill, Constable BILLY"
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number of the City Hall satellites.
When Hopkins came in with his pris-
| oner, Mr.. O'Neill demanded that Todd be
| turned over to Reen. He said that he was
| his bondsman and he was entitled to take
| him into custody. Detective Hutton, who
| time, looked at the capias and
considering that everything was
regular, turned Todd over to
Graham, who, accompanied by q police
man, started for the County Jail with his
prisoner When they had reached Van
| Worst and Sussex streets Hutton and
| Sergeant Carroll called them back. Upon
reaching the station again Alderman
! ONeill demanded to see the capias, aud
wanted to know by what authority he,
| Graham, undertook to execute it. The
document was produced and carefully
friends. Some fault was found with
it's lack of endorsement, and another
| demand was made to turn Todd over to
Reen. Carroll, however. DEC ided to hold
| the man until Chief Murp ny came back.
When the chief came shortly after
ward he looked at the cap las, and asked
| Graham when and how he got it. When
Graham told him he said that the captain
had sufficient warrant to do as he had
done, and he ordered that Todd be given
| into his custody.
"Benson's Pride' was brought up, and
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| aboard and were driven to the county
Jail where Jailor Birdsall placed Todd
| safely behind the bars.
| Graham then went home and had
dressed the wounds which his cowardly
assallants had inflicted upon him. He
was informed that he would be arrested
| upon some charge trumped up by O'Mara
| and his companions. So he started OUT
| to look for bail and soon had
| 900 bonds st his disposal; but he WAS
not molesJed This morning he appeared
before Justice Stilsing and swore out
warrants for the arrest Of O'Mara, Maho-
| ney, Mrs Mahoney, Quirk and Daily
! THE LAW AT WORK.
The first arrest was that of John DAILY,
! charged with assault and battery. De-
tective Bob Pearson made the arrest.
| When arraigned before Justice Weed,
DAILY produced William Bannon as his
| bondsnan. Justice Weed refused to ac-
cept what, in his opinion, was straw
bail, as Bannon's property is jointly In
his wife's name. Daily was held in the
sum of 5000. Quite a number OF persons
| followed Daily into Justice Weeds office,
and when the justice refused to accept
Bannon as Daly's bondsmen. there was
much growing among Daly's con-
stituency. After considerable hustling,
during which Detective Pearson ran
across Mahoney, charged not only with
assault and battery, but resisting an
| officer, a bondsmen was found for each.
1 Detective John Clas, became surety tor
Bannon in the sum Of 5000, and for
Manoney in the sum of $500.
Detective Pearson then went in pursuit
of the others, for whom warrants had
been issued. He found Mike O'Mara and
arraigned him before the same Justice.
who held him in the sum of 5000 on
charges of assault and battery and resist
ing an officer. The bonds were furnished
by E. L. Mclaughlin.
All hands are to appear before Justice
Stilsing tomorrow morning for examina-
tion.
Todd has been unable to secure bail
and is still in the County Jail AS he is
already bail jumper, the prospects OF
his release are slim.
PUBLIC INDIGNATION.
This latest outrage by the ringsters has
aroused the Indignation of all respectable
citizens and was heartily denounced on
all sides this morning.
! "These men must have some assurance
of protection from people in high places, !"
said an indignant citizen this morning.
These are all men of average intelli-
gence, and it is impossible to believe that
they would SO flagrantly violate the law
lieve that they will be pro-
tected from the consequences of their
acts. Since several apparently prominent
men went to Staten island and swore that
OMara had an excellent reputation and
thus saved him from Indictment and the
consequence of his act in voting illegally
| there, O'Mara seems TO think that he can
do just as he pleases. He violates the law
with impunity and snaps his fingers at
all efforts to bring him to justice.
st is crying shame to our civilization
that such men are allowed to pursue their
careers of crime without any check 1t
certainly Is time that something was done
to rid the county of the officials who are
back of these rascals, and are all that
make such law breaking possible.n
O'Mara could not be found at his accus-
toned place in the Street and Water Com
missioner's office this morning Mahoney
says that all he and his wife did was in
self-defense. He was assaulted by Gra-
ham and he merely defended himself.
At the Office of the Street and Water
Board the clerks and other employees have
but little to say in the hearing of re-
porters. The expression let drop by one
| partially explains the reticence. He said:
-"The id fools have got no sense
The law has been too light with 'em
| They don't wait to get out of its clutches
| before they begin to biff."
Assault with Lighted Lamp.
Joseph Foran, of Orchard street, has
been arrested number of times for
beating his wife, but apparently his pun