The Jersey City news., 1892-03-15
A VETERANS PLANT.
Says He Was Inhumanely Treated
at Jersey City Police Head
quarters.

Hoboken Police Headquarters since its
inception has been provided with room
where dodgers are kept over night and on
cold nights the room is generally crowded !.
The lodgers room is not as easy of access
now as it used to be. and few are ad-
mitted, and all because of the queer &C
tions of the Jersey City police. Hundreds
of tramps who applied to the Jersey City
police tor lodgings were sent to Hoboken =,
and it seemed to be general order of the
department. Nowhere was the rule, if
such it was more strictly adhered to than
in the old Second precinct station house
Smith was captain there. When the
tramps applied Tor lodging there. the Ser
geant generally said ''our lodging rooms
are in the other precinct across the rail
road, and you can reach it by following
the horse car tracks" Even policemen on
post in Jersey City directed the dodgers
to Hoboken.
A VETERANS SORROWS.
Last night an incident occurred at Po-
lice Headquarters in Jersey City which
came to light in Hoboken and showed
most brutal conduct on the part of some
Sergeant in charge at the First precinct
station house in Jersey City.
John Fischer is a fine looking man
about fifty years old who for over eleven
years has served in the United States
regular army. He was in the late Indian
and all the frontier wars and has an
honorable discharge from the army.
Some weeks ago Fischer was attacked
with muscular rheumatism in his right
leg and was stranded in Philadelphia.
to find Patrick O'Keefe who worked
in one of the sugar houses in
this city. OKeefe was comrade of
Fischer in Company l. First Battalion. U.
S. A., and Fischer wanted him to Sign
his papers petitioning for pension. Some
6. A. r. men in Philadelphia paid his
fare to Trenton and in Trenton another
G. A. R. man gave him eighty-tve cents.
which paid his fare to New Brunswick.
Fischer walked from New Brunswick to
Jersey City.
HEARTLEsS CONDUCT.
Not knowing how to find O'Keefe
Fischer inquired for Police Headquarters
and about half past five o'clock. footsore
and weary, he limped up the stone steps
leading to the First precinct station
house.
Fischer cried like child when he told
how he had been treated.
"I walked up to the desk" said he,
land started to tell my story to two men
with uniforms on behind the desk. They
looked at me and began to talk to one an
other, laughing, and began to guy me-.
They told me to get out or they would
throw me out. / limped towards the
door when one OF the Sergeants grabbed
me by the shoulder and threw me
into the street with such violence that l
fell. l met policeman down the street
who listened to my story. and advised me
to go to Hoboken and not to say anything
about what occurred in the station
house"
Fischer made an impression by his
story, and this morning ne started out in
quest of his comrade, Patrick O'Keefe.
COX DENIES IT.
Sergeant Cox was on duty at the First
precinct station house Yesterday after
noon Wnen asked about Fischer's story,
he emphatically denied it.
81 was on duty until quarter past six
O'Clock last night" said he; Fat half-past
five O'Clock Captain Farrier and Sergeant
Kelly were behind the desk with me :
There was no one applied for any infor-
nation. or that am positive, and Cap
tam Farrier and Sergeant Kelly will bear
me out in what / say"