The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-05

defunct. Their charters are to be repealed
and they wiped out Before the issue Of
this proclamation they will be given a
chance TO say why they have not paid
Their taxes Since the nosices have been
sent ont, twenty-five of them have stepped
up to George r. Gray's Office and paid
their assessment. These companies a re
nearly all seiall concerns and they owe
the state abont 1000 The Attorney
General has been prosecuting many OF
these direlcct concerns aud has collected
about 500 900, but the process is slow and
tedious and involves considerable ex-
pense- The law recently passed gives the
Governor considerable power, and he can
do II speedily The officers have all been
notified 20 appear and the Governor is
Threatened with q busy day
lhs opinion In the Newark Board of
Works case has not yet been flied, and in
quiry made among the Judges develops
no definite news, except that there Is no
particular reason why there should be any
hurry about it. The impression prevails
here that the opinion viii be reserved for
opinion day In the fall Chief Justice
Beasley IS preparing this opinion- He
worked several days OH it just prior to
making the oral announcement OK the
conclusion and then stopped. He will
probably make it his summer work at Ids
sumner cottage.
1t Is also rumored that the four JUS
Beasley, Van SICKLE, Knapp and Garri-
son. are divided on the many complex
questions involved in the law They
agreed on the main question, or major
ICY of them did, but they cannot fully
agree on al the important issues raised.
This is the reason. IL is said. why the de-
cisI0n has not vet been filed One Of the
counsel for the contestants, who was In
town the other day. said to a reporter
that it is the intention TO carry the case
mp to the Court OF Appeals. He said that
the issue was a good one upon which to
make q tight. aud he was satisfied of this
more than ever by the delay incident to
Court.
PAROLED YET PRISONERS.
The Board OF Pardons have been vioIat-
ing their own rules in reference to the
paroIing OF prisoners and in consequence
there is muddle; and the prisoners who
were paroied three weeks ago are still In
the custody of Keeper Patterson
The first rule adopted by the Board is
that the keeper of the State Prison must
give certificate that the petitioner for
parole Is q ht person to be released. The
Board have been granting releases and
they waEt the keeper TO give the certif-
cation as to the fitness of the paroIed
man. The keeper is evidently taking no
chances aud he Is not giving any certifl-
Gates out and in consequence there are no
paroles. On June 16 the Board met and
released Daniel OsConnell, the Norris
County murderer. He and John Fl.
Henkie, Timothy DonnelIy. James j.
Lang. Martin Ryan. Frederick Burbeck
and J ohm Callahan, all conyicts accredited
to Essex Counry, are still in the State
Prison, although the Board extended to
them the provisions of the parole law.
They are likely 60 stay just where they
are, because the keeper saya he does not
md <f.<s&1 b.
is not familiar With In the case OF
Daniel O'Connell. the Morris County
murderer, he says he positively will not
certify 60 his being 1T TO be at large.
There is, however, some strong political
pressure being brought to hear upon him
in this case He says that for him TO give
such certificate shifts the entire respon-
sibiiity Of the parole on him. II the men
are returned to the State Prison for
other offences then the condemnation for
error of Judgment falls on the keeper
Since he has taken this stand the
Board has held three meetings
and granted but three pardons
and no paroles. They meet again
on July Il at Sea Grit and things are
shaping for q general Jail delivery. Tbs
keeper is now giving some certificates for
parole. but under conditions that protect
him. He requires the most influential
friends of the convict to certify that he is
fit to be paroled. No ordinary names will
avail; they must be responsible men, This
he files away as his protection. The board
has made the rule which it has been vio-
lating, and the question arises whether
the friends of the parties that haye been
paroled, but not released, could not get
them ont on writs OF habeas corpus, be-
cause the law itself does not say anything
about the keepers certificate. ana in con-
sequence the keepers detention is illegal
because the rule of the board has no leg
islative warrant, and even if the board
sees fit to break it the keeper Is holding
the prisoners without any legal authority.
The developments of the next meeting
are watched with much interest.