The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-23
A JUDGE IN A BOAT
But a Steam Launch Is Illegal
When You Shoot Ducks
From 1t.

Judge Jonathan Dixon is a violator or
| the law, and a constable is now on MS
| heels awaiting a favorable opportunity
| to apprehend him and arraign him before
a Passaic county Justice of the Peace.
| Judge Dixon is not alone in his trouble.
His partners are Judge James Ingls OF
the Court of Quarter Sessions; Charles
r. Fitch, General superintendent of the
Erie Railroad; Reuben Wells, General
| Superintendent of the Paterson Loeomo-
tive Works, and William De Graw, a
| Greenwood Lake hotel man. They are
all charged with violating the New YORK
and New Jersey game laws, and are
wanted by Justice Senior of Paterson,
before whom complaint was made by
| Game Warden Charles A. Shriner.
On Wednesday last the four sportsmen
started out under the guidance OF De
| Graw on a duck shooting expedition TO
Greenwood Lake. De Graw described TO
them how he IA used his steam launch
in pursuing the game and how he brought
down the game with ease:
he pulled a card bearing the fish ana
game laws out of his pocket, IF there IS
anything in the laws prohibiting the use
of a steam launch. ! know we can go
out in a rowboat, but am not so sure
about that launch part of the business;
"oh, that's all right" sxclaimed DE pe
Graw, unceremoniously, Il have peen
shooting ducks for the past week. It's
not against the law to use the launch,
Judge Inglis is a s%tationer, and has the
largest store of the kind In paterson;
Last year he had a lot OF CARDS prlRteo
with the game Laws upon them for free
distribution, SO hat sportsmen would
nave them as a handy guide. At that
time there were a great many foreigners
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they did not know where to get at them.
1t was to save these poor fellows from
the exorbitant fines imposed that Judge
Inglis had the cards issued. Unfortunate
ly for the Judge and his companions, the
printer had accidentally left out that part
which says ii shall be unlawful for any
person or persons to shoot or shoot at
ducks, geese, etc., from a boat or vessel
propelled by steam or sail. OF course,
as that sentence did not appear on the
card, Judge Inglis treasured the party
thai they were not going to violate the
law, and so all hands prepared to en-
bark.
Fer half an hour De Graw's men were
busy preparing the launch, which was
freshments. When all was ready Judge
Dixon took a post in the bow and nav
gated the little craft as she glided over
the smooth water. At Storms Island
a flock of ducks were seen and the craft
was directed to that place.
'Crack, crack!' resounded two shots
In succession from Judge Inglis' gun, for
they were upon the ducks in a trice, and
he shot before they were five yards in
the air. Crack, crack; crack, crack;
crack, crack r~esounded six more shots
from three guns in the stern, and fully
a dozen ducks were brought down..
Little did they think that each of those
ducks would cost them $40. For several
hours the sport continued. and when they
returned to land they told their friends
what good sport they lac Yesterday
Fish and Game Warden Chriner went to
Greenwood Lake in search of violators
of the game laws. He heard of Wednes-
days expedition and consulted Howard
P. rockingham, the Secretary of the
New Jersey Game and FISH Commits
sion, who resides at Mt. Arlington. GO
ahead" said he. Prosecute them to
the fullest extent of the law. The law is
no respecter of persons and does not
care if the whole Supreme Court is guilty.
Shriner then swore out the complaints
and Constable Rancier started out in
search of the ~culprits. At the last report
Rancier was still searching. The men
men will be arraigned as soon as arrest
ed. Fish and Game Protector Kidd of
New York. will be requested to make
charges against the men, as Judge Dixon
acknowledges that the party killed C
in New York,