The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-25
VAN BLARCON AGAIN.
The Profane, the Swear
ing Dominic" Invades
Jersey City.
MAKES A BLAspaEMoUs TOUR.
The Hackensack Terror RIMS Over a
Child in Jersey City and
Paints the Town.
MAKES A BLAspaEMoUs TOUR.

dominica of Oakland. N. j., came to this
city in buggy yesterday afternoon and
almost turned this usually quiet village
upside down. He got drunk and swore
from Bergen to the Pennsylvania Rail
road ferry. ran over child. atrociously
assaulted policeman, and after causing
the Police Department great deal of
anxiety, was finally landed in the lookup
of The First Precinct Police Station.
Van Blarcon Is a character. He is
sixty years old and owns one of the
finest farms in Oakland. He is very
wealthy and on account of his wealth he
has MA naged to escape punishment for
several OF his escapades. Nothing
pleaseS Van BlarcOm more than TO let
out string Of oaths. He was soon ac-
knowledged to be the champion swearer
and he has held the title against all
comers OF New Jersey, which. in itself,
| was quite distinction.
| Ii ie thought nothing Of going off to the
= little yillsge of Hackensack, n. j., on
Sunday when the good people of that vii
| lage were returning from church, and
| sending blue streak through the coun
| try air. Men put their fingers i'll their
ears, and women ran screaming from the
| foul mouthed James. The police and
| constables did not care to arrest him on
account of his wealth.
| A DARING POLICEMAN.
| But some time ago There was a police
man III tnat town who dared to arrest the
| blasphemous James and the Court in
Hackensack, made brave by the officers
| bold action, sentenced the blasphemous
man to the County Jail for sixty days.
| Here he languished in spite OF his money
and influence and the neighboring town
enjoyed rest
| Recently Won Blarcon was released
| from the Hackensack jail.
All day yesterday he was on rampage
with his handsome black buggy and
| spirited horse. He journeyed th< ugh
all the towns making the lives the
peaceful citizens miserable. Wher~ver
| he went there was blue streak in the
air.
AT Montclair the farmer picked up
| Charles Hoye, a suffering colored youth,
whom he asked to show him the way to
Guttenburg- The colored boy, u ne'er-
do-well. climbed into the wagon. and,
with the eccentric old farmer, started for
Jersey City. Whether the man commit
ted any depredations before he arrived in
the city is not known, put 1t is
| reasonable to suppose that he did.
A BLAsPHEMoUS CYCLONE.
He came into Jersey City like n cy-
clone. Several residents OF Communipaw
avenue were first made aware of his
! presence abont seven O'Clock last night,
when they saw bay morse whose sides
were Gscesd with foam, aud hand
some bug@f dashing through thsc
tnoroughtare. la the carriage were the
old man, tho coiored boy aud another
person whom the police have yet failed
Co find. The old man :Was hilarious and
swearing terribly.
On CommunIpaw avenue near Philip
street several children were playing III
he mn fha fYrF llop r. IN far
dashed aloug with his rig. One of the
children was Abraham Dunbird. six
wears old, of No. 220 Coummunipaw
avenue. The buggy under the uncertain
guild ance of Van Biarcon iwas swaying
from one side of the street TO the other,
and before any thing could prevent it,
the bay horse had knocked down young
Dunbird, and the carriage passed over
the child.
Several people witnessed the accident
and a couple of young men endeavored to
stop the farmers horse by catching him
by the head ALI that they received were
slashes across the face with Van Blar-
the rig for Two blocks and all that sec
tion of the city was aroused. 1t was re-
ported that the child was dead and if the
rig was intercepted just then it would
have gone hard with the owner. But he
lashed the horse aud soon diStanced his
pursuers.
GENERAL ALARM SENT OUT.
Captain McKaig was notified Of the
presence of the Hackensack Terror. ard
he at once sent out several men in citi-
zen's clothes to hunt for him. and Police
Headquarters was notified and a general
alarm sent out through the city. All of
she patrolmen as they left their respec-
tive station houses were told to be on the
look out for the profane terror.
Rlorp par m
the police again at twenty minutes to
nine O'Clock At that hour Patrollnan
Nugent, one of the most careful young
officers. attached to the First Precinct
Police Station House. saw Van Blarcon's
rig standing at the corner of Washington
and Montgomery streets. The patrolman
recognized the rig by the description
which had been given to all the police
men 10 the city. Nueent waited until
Van Blarcon came out of the saloon. He
was accompanied by the colered boy.
The other occupant of the rig had been
dropped somewhere. NugenJ told Van
Blarcon that he was under arrest.
PARALYZED VAN BLARCON.
Van Blarcon let forth string of oathS
thatmadethe policenian's hair stand on au
end and finally said he would drive to the
station house. With the colored boy
alongside OF him Van B.arcon started to
drive to the station house. The police
man agreed 10 lOliOW ulul Ou tuo olur-
waik. II the patrolman knew who his
prisoner WAS he would probably never
have entered into such an agreement
AT the corner of Mon tgomery and War
ren streets, with u yell like Conan che,
aud string of oaths. YARD long, Van
Blarcon gave the horse slash with the
whip. ana away he went up Montgomery
street like the wind. The patrolman WAS
taken aback with surprise. but soon re-
covered himself, and blowing his call
whistle, he started in pursuit.
a MANIAC AT LARGE
Van Blarcon and his rig went up
Montg omery street. Van Blatcon was
cursfng and there was the greatest ex-
citement. People thought maniac WAS
at large and he was given plenty OF room.
At Montgomery street Van Blarcou
turned into Grove street, and away he
went along towards Newark avenue.
That he didn't run over somebody Is
miraculous The colored boy sat meekly
alongside of Van Blarcon with an ex-
preston on his face which seemed to
say:-s.What have l struck"
Ii such thing were possible many
people would declare that the colored boy
was pale with fear aud dread OF the man
alongside him.
At Newark avenue Van Blarcon drove
right through crowd of people scatter
ing them right and left. In the mean
time Patrolman Nugent with several
other policemen followed on behind
blowing their whistles and yelling. At
Grove s.reet Patrolmau Nugent jumped
on Hoboken horse car and ordering the
driver TO whip up, soon caught Van
Blarcon.