The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-03
QUEER STORY.
His Story of Systematic Es-
pionage-LaW and Order
Mans Grievance.

Marcn ., lS93-ln 8 letter TO
the camden Telegram, Samuel Hnfty. q
well-known business man and a promi-
nent member of the Camden Law and
Order Society, tells q story of the peculiar
espionage and attempted intimidation TO
which he has been subjected by parties
acting apparently in the interest of Will
liam j. Thompson. Of che Gloucester
racetrack.
In December Mr.. Hufty began to re-
ce1ve anonymous communications, evil
IDENTIFY from a detective agency, showing
him that his every action was being
watched, and making ambiguous threats.
This was followed by q series of reports
or the 'shadows.n each r~ecounting Mr..
Mr.. Hufty's daily actions. All these re-
ports are sent with Mr.. Hufty's letter to
the Telegram.
LETTER NO. /.
The first Communication which he re-
celved was dated Philadelphia, December
~, 1872. 1t was typewriter. The con-
tents verbatim follow
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 10, 1892.
HuFTY-.We are in possession OF complete
memoranda OF your every movement on
every day and night, in Camden and out, on
trains, streets, in houses, Offices and rooms
since and including the first day of June last
past; For your consideration we will submit
the daily report of your actions for one wee K,
taking a recent date that your very alive
mental faculties may not be unnecessarily
~taxed-say the week beginning December 8 and
ending December 10.
We will not be so unkind as to lead you into
the deiusion that our vigilance has been relaxed,
but will volunteer the information in the interest
of public morality that we will be ALWAYS in
your most agreeable and fascinating society
until your private conduct and habits comport
a trlfie more consistently with your public pro-
LESSONS.
just what use will be made of the information
gained by our long and harmonious association
with you will depend entirely upon your con-
duct from this day forth.
The reports for December 8, Z, s. 9 and
10 show that Mr.. Hufty has been sha-
lowed carefully. All of them are sub
stantiallY accurate, except the first, in
making which the spy mad evidently fol-
lowed the wrong man. In the mail they
show Mr.. Hufty's ordinary movements
to and from his home aud business
place. 1t Is In the report for December
10 that the first indication of the peculiar
nature OF the influence which 1t was
hoped to exert upon Mr.. Hufty appears.
The report for that day is as follows:-
SPECIMEN REPORT.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 10, 1892.
/ relieved Agent No. u at $3.50 A. M. H" went
about his business as usual during the day, AS
he was going lome in the afternoon, he spoke TO
~ SAh6 "a WaO "OAS W &tOs ~ Ia
Camden, and then he went home. A gentle
man. who looked like a physician, called at his
home last evening. The man and woman who
board there came out of the house at 1850 1. M.
was writing in the back room. He did not
leave the house. At 10:45 P. M, Agent No. 6 re-
lieved me for The night.
To these revelations Mr.. Hufty adds a
word of explanation. He SAYS
The young lady to whom I spoke is
the daughter of an old friend of mine, a
-biphlu raCnanfo6 rtfiZpn. aha did rnr on
into No. 800, but Into her own home, close
by that house; her name, if mentioned,
would be a synonym for virtue I'M pro-
priety.
"The gentleman who called on me was
Luther II. KeIlum; our business was a
consultation about the doing of a certain
w. J. Thompson"
The report for December II is in part as
folio WIS.,
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. II, 1892.
Joined Agent No. q on Federal street, Cam
den, at 10 A. NJ, and delivered my orders that
we 10th should remain on duty and operate
Jointly. Itook up our man on Federal street
above Fourth at 1920 A. M.
He went down Federal street and stopped at
the Western Union Telegraph office on Federal
sent a telegram. At 1920 P. M. he started dow1
Market street to the ferry, took a boat and went
TO Philadelphia; on his arrival he went up
Market TO Third street, down Third street and
stopped and read the new on the bulletin
board at the EUen ing Telegraph office;
went on down Third TO Walnut street;
up Walnut street to 308 and $40, the American
Fire Insurance building; went in and re-
NAMED there a short time; came out and went
up Walnut to Fourth street; stopped and got
lunch at the cafe on the corner OF Fourth and
Walnut streets; came out and jumped O Walnut
street car; rode out Walnut to sixteenth street;
rot off and walked down Sixteenth street. He
looked around severattimes.
When he arrived at No. us South Sixteenth
street he rang the bell and went into the house
at 1880 p. M. l saw three ladies and two men go
in while he was there. the curtains were tightly
drawn and were laced at the second and third
stories. Here l detailed agent No q on a woman
whose report is attached. III" came out OF the
house al $40 P. M, alone.
THE PURPOSE.
OF this report and its very evident pur-
pose Mr.. Hufty says:-
.,In the immaterial parts of the above
the fellow Is correct; but In the material
narts is altogether wrong. No. 713 South
Sixteenth street is occupied by a gentle
man whose name is OF the door. hence
carries the marks of responsibility. l do
not know him or any of his family. My
visit was to No. Tie South Sixteenth
street. where l called On j. A. Hunter, M.
n. who was lying seriously Ill in the
second story front room. DR.. Hunter is
the inventor OF a new process for making
steel. This process is owned by the Hun
fer Steel Company, OF which l am presi-
dent. My visit Was on business connect
cd with the company. III it was neces-
sary for me to have a paper which the
doctor had deposited in a safe at Tenth
and CHESTNUT streets. His wife went
hare Tor the paper while I waited, and /
presume that this lady is the woman to
whom the fellow refers. I sat at the Sec
ond story ron Windows; the curtains
we've raised, as was also The other win
dow"
panied by a printed circular with the
SIGNATURE Of William J.. Thompson. 1t
is as follows:-
GLOUCESTER Cry, Nov. s, 1892.
DEAR SrR:-You will kindly pardon the liberty
of addressing you personally upon the subject
Of NV candidacy for the Assembly of the state
Of New Jersey from the Third Legislative Dis
trict of our county.