The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-25
OFFICIAL GREEN GOODS
Street and Water Employe
Pleads Guilty in the
United States Court.
BILLY COOKS WARM SYMPATHY.
Proceedings Which Recall Com
stocks Famous Arrest-Richard
Judges Double Role.

II an interested taxpayer should happe n
and Repairing of Water Pipes division of
the Street and Water Board since the
first Of the present year, he would find
| these items. on January roll. Richard
judge laborer. 90 days at 50, $40; Feb
ruary, R. Judge. % days at So. SIG; July.
R. Judge. II days at 50. s3i; August, R.
Judge, II days at %. $22; September. R.
Judge, 26 day at 50, S52. If the interested
| taxpayer should take 1t into mis- mead
to examine the records Of tho United
States District Court for the District OF
Ney Jersey criminal branch, he would
| fiud that on June 81. 1893. Richard Judge
was indlcte for misusing the United
States mali; that on O:tOoer II, Rlcnard
Judge pleaded guilty TO tue indictment
and was fined $500 by Judge Green, the
extreme flne allowed by law.
A little further in Investigation would re-
veal to the taxpayer the fact that Rich~
ard Judge was arrested in this city by
Anthony Comstock for being connected
with a gang of green goods men. The
Interested taxpayer, remembering how
the Superintendent of Police Of Jersey
City. the captains of the various pre-
cincts and all others who are in position
to know, had most solemnly declared
again and again that there Were no green
goods men in Jersey City; and reca ling
the general unsavoripess of Anthony
Comstock's reputation, might be tempted
to think that Mr.. Judge had Deen made a
sort of martyr who had been sacrificed
uDon the altar OF Comstockis m. "ne
guilty and took his bit like man." as
the law breaking element encomiastic IL
iy speak of oae of their number who re-
ceives the Judgment of a court without
whimpering. would, to a large extent,
dispel that idea.
ANTHONY CoMSToCK ARRESTED HIM.
| The interested taxpayer could, without
mucn trouble, learn that one day wneu
the superior police force which tnis city
possesses had gone over the city with q
| dnetooth comb. as it were. and demon
strated to the satisfaction of all fair
minded citizens tnat no such thing rs the
green goods business existed in any shaDe
or form in auy part of the city, MIR.
Comstock came hers and arrested three
| men whom he charged with being en-
gagged In the business. which the highly
competent and official police of Jersey
City had most emphatcally declared did
| not exist. He could also iad Juai Mr.
Comstock refused to have his prlsoneLs 8
locked up or Hrralgned in Jersey CiJy
over delicate compliment to the highly
sueerior police force of Jersey City.
There the prisoners gave their names
rs Robert JARVIS, Anthony Martin aud
| Frank Graham, aud they were Dalied for
trial White WAS subsequently, shot IN
New York white trying TO carry out
green goods scheme, and Graham has not
yet been brought Co trial.
THE BOARD NOT DECEIVED.
By this time, no doubt, the interested
citizen will have become convinced that
the Street and Water Board has in its
employ convicted criminal, one VINO,
upon his own confession in open court,
has been guilty OF the meauesJ aud most
contemplate kind of swindling known to
the public; but, mindful of the higu
standard of public virtue which al
ways governs the boards acts,
| the great dislnterestedaess and the
| mighty spirit of self sacrifice
| to the public welfare whcl has always
| characterized the worthy gentlemen that
at present constitute the board, hs will
| hesitate before holding them to blam
He will reason that Judge. when arrested,
gave fictitious name, and it was only
after he had been indicted under the
name of Jarvis that Comstocs discovered
what his real name was, aud he was
properly indicted.
He will also bear In mind that the pro.
|
less quiet. aud only little of the affair
reached the public.
WARM HEARTED BILLY COOK.
| When these three crimiuals were ar
rested, that warm hearted philantropist,
William r Cook. a member of the Street
and Water Board, out of the goodness Of
| his big heart. interested himself
stock with his prisoners pass down
| Grove street on Hoboken car he hastily
| left the men he was conversng with, i,
aud running sfter the car boarded it.
| He went out to Newark and secured
bail for the employe OF his Board,
and When he was arraigued bstore jadxs
| Green at Trenton last week, Mr.. Cook
was there and apparently taking such a
! deep interest in the case as precludes any
| idea of his not knowing who Judge was.
| So, in spite OF himself, the interested tax
payer will be forced 30 conclude that the
Street aud Water Board knows 1t has in
It's employ self confessed criminal.
| From February to July. Judge does
not appear on the payroll. The interested
taxpayer will be told, if he enquiries at
the Street and Water building. That fact
| does not mean that he was dropped by
the Board, but simply thar he did no
work for the CITY during that time He
might have been sick or out of town,
| they will say Judge was appointed
laborer on August 80, 1892, upon motion
| of the COMMITTEES of the Whole, which
is the high sounding title given to the
caucus which the Boards holds behind
tightly closed doors. and where every
matter to be brought before the open
meeting is discussed and agreed upon.
| He was at one time an assistant keeper
| az Snake Hill, an is SO well known In
the City that the Board could have made
| no mistake about 1t.
| Mayor Wanser has not yet approved
| the September paw roll upon which
Judge appeared for $52. nd he might to
| the advantage of the city. make spme
| enquiries concerning the reason the
| Street and Wafer Baard ha. for b eani n q