New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-24
WEDNESDAY,
OCT. "a, 1894.
A BONDSMAN FOR CRIMINALS
HOW CHARLES l.. JAEHNE MAKES MONEx'

SOME INTERESTING REVELATIONS REGARDING
CERTAIN DoINGs IN THE DISTRICT
ATTORNEYS OFFICE
Recent revelations concerning the District-At'
torney's office under Tammany Hall control indi-
cate that it is much in need OF general
cleaning out some OF The municipal DEPART
ments This opinion is so strong among oil
classes OF citizens that regret was frequently ex-
pressed yesterday that the popular Indignation
against Tammany which will be expressed al
the polls on November could not reach 'he
District Attorneys office wnere Colonel Johh w.
Fellows and nearly a score OF extravaSahtiy a''
tired associates are doing little except to draw
exorbitant salaries while the criminal calendars
are overburdened with intried cases
A list printed yesterday by The Woriu
shows that there are now in murderers' cells in
the Tombs twenty-nne persons charged Win
homicide awaiting trial. three of whom were
committed to Jail long ago as Apri, May
and August respectively, Of last year. VI tne
remaining twenty SIX TWO were , to,,r IN
July five in August, five in September and Tour
In October. -,
Scandalous as Is this condition OF things, there
Is nothing to show that Recorder Frederick
smyth, the chief criminal judge of the city. has
done anything to bring Mr.. Fellows ana MS over
paid associates to d sense OF their duty
Among other abuses of the District-Attorneys
office to which public attention has been called -
| the way professional bondsmen are accepted In
| criminal cases. The star professional bondsnans
! who seems to be readily accepted by Mr; fel.
| lows Is Charles L. Jaehne, brother OF henry
w. Jaehne the vice-president OF the poouie
| BOARD OF Aldermen Of 1884, who was sent 10
| State prison on a d-a-half-years sem
| tence having been convicted OF bribery Inc
| Jaehnes were County Democrats at that tlme' OUT
| when Tammany began 10 get the upper manu- III
| the CITY government those Of them VINO were out
| OF jail promptly changed their poiucal alIilia ..
tons and lost no time In MAKING ia,i,ll ,ha
| connections. The doodle Jaehnes prother
| makes big money" now in the surety business:
| His fee It is said. IS 500 case where the Doho
does not exceed $l,OOo. ana ~ per ceHI VI iioiS
| in cases exceeding that sum.
| II makes no difference. 1t would appear. now
| many bail bonds JaehEe goes on they are al
ways ready at the District Auorneys 90 Once nee
to accept him fresh one In all cases ex-
| cent one in which Jaehne qualified as bondsinan
| he gave as his property the three-story DrlSK
| house and lot No. 2SS Hudson-st. pom TINS ne
nlaced different valuations In different bonds
VARYING from $4,000 up TO $4,000. Upon TINS ne
| usually acknowledged a mortgage, whicn ne
| sometimes represented at $4,000; at DINERS az
| 81 600 and again at $500 AZ one time last
| spring when on the bonds OF SIX diliereh' ~
| sons charged with crime. when required d 20,
Of s. 100 bail he made an afhdavlt that tle to..
| op,ount Of his recognizances up to date was only
| 100 ,,o onnoar.
| az surety since Colonel Fellows became DIS
| ,rc, Attorney last January are: FEBRUARY o.
James Hughes burglary. $1,000; FEBRUARY ~ =.
John Nolan. burglary $1,000; tepruaIy -, yol
shaw. forgery $1,000: March B. Franz narT ,,nn
grand larceny $1,000; March a. ~ my ror,, 81
V Vdcr d Hs hous 5000 March 3D. Joseph
A. Johnson grand lareey s59o; , Ap n2 Ram Rar
Jol'''I :, - De,ention 81 Oao June b. Joseph
Me- Decker forgery $1,000: August %, Annie
I'isber blackmail 81 900: october To- George MUIR
IL Tho Fisher case Recorder Smyth ard ASSIST,
an, Dis,ric;- Attorney Lindsay approved me ooho
given by Jaehne. - 49, rro,essionai
| .',asn',r Iaehne draws pay as an empioye
Of the Department OF Public Works Henry o wv
Jaehne the convicted "boodier VINO 80 CIV Tr,
80 sentence and was released from sing eng
,1 months ago has been restored 70 ci''-
7enshin by Governor Roswell p Flower ,,--
Flower the two Jaehnes ana mos ~ .hrough
-. forears and thieves out on pan mr. !.
The fundamentally Of Distric,-AttGrneT ',,o
are now "whooping it up for or, 'e SmythD
| Ifau ticket headed by Grant ana o1i!'"'