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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
HUTCHINSON OENSURED.
Greenyiile League Club Have n
Lively Debate

Notwithstanding the fact that Presi-
dent g. A. Rose and Vice President
publican publ League Club declared last week
that James K. Hutchinson who defeat
ed Louis Hennemier, ,Jr., at the primary
ganization. Mr.. Hutchinson is likely to
remain a member unless he resigns of
The meeting at which the bouncing
process was to have been resorted to
was held last evening and the members
large numbers. At the last meeting the
committee was appointed to investigate
the rundown Of Hennemier, reported
that enough evidence had been received
a warrant the expulsion of Hutchinson;
lat asked that its time be extended until
last evening. The request was granted.
The members present at last night $
meeting expected a report which would
condemn Hutchinson in round terms. NO
one believed that the accused member
would dare to attend the meeting, con-
sequently when Hutchinson strode into
the room and took front seat there
were many mysterious Whlspeflngs. An
other surprise was furnished when the
committee made its report to the effect
that the turn-down of Henrienuer had
been planned by members of the Min
kalSwa Club, and that the only mistake
Hutchinson made was in consenting to
act as a tool for the furtherance OF their
plans. The committee. to the surprise
of all recommended that Hutchinson be
sion. The report was accepted and the
committed discharged, it being the inten-
tion of certain members to settle with
Hutchinson later.
one member made a motion that
Hutchinson be expelled, and this caused
the greatest excitement. The shouts of
the excited members being heard block
away. Mr.. Charles Cocks put an end to
the disturbance, however, by moving
that fhe meeting adjourn. Thds was
cited members realized what had hap
pened President Rose declared the meet
ing adjourned. After the meeting the
members gathered i'm groups and dis
cussed the situation. Many members,
among them Secretary C. H. Schwart
openly declared that they would resign
unless Hutchinson was expelled. The
matter will be again brought up at the
next meeting and lively time is as
sured.
The club elected as candidates for the
County Convention Hermann Albrecht
Louis Hennemier, John Sothern and
Charles Schwart, and as alternates Thee
dore Ennis. e. Bischon and George Lam
berSOu.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
CZECH HANGED.
Fish" John Swings Into
Eternity for the Murder
Of His Wife.
SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION
Sad Scenes During the Murder
er's Last Day Spent on
Earth.
SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION
History Of the Brutal Crime
Hangman Van Hise's Ficnd-
ish Glee.

1T seems as though each job was a
little better than the other, doesn't it?"
Such were the words uttered in fiendish
glee by James Van Hise, the cold-blooded
and strong hearted hangman, as he
slipped his quid of tobacco from one
releasing the weight that swung Fish
John Czech into eternity this morning.
Horrible as it was to listen to the
words, the fact was none the less true,
all present admitting that it was the
most successful execution that they had
ever witnessed. Whether or not the
plated his crime was broken, can only
be determined by an autopsy. Some of
the physicians present said it was, others
said no. More than likely it was, for,
with the exception of contraction of
the arms about three-quarters of a min
ute after the drop fell, Czech made no
struggle whatever.
In all probability he had no strength
left to struggle, for he was half dead
when he took his position under the
gallows and were it not for the earnest
manner in which the faithful priests,
Fathers Smith and Hasel, labored with
him, he would undoubtedly have broken
down.
EARLY this morning Czech said to Keep
er O'Donnell, one of the death watch,
that he was afraid he would not be able
to walk to the gallows. ODonnell
cheered him up and told him not to
give way. A short time afterwards Fa-
ther Smith administered communion to
the condemned man. and from that time
until the end Czech passed his time in
prayer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03

be greatly excited. In his hand was
cheap 32-calibre revolver. For moment
the husband gazed at the wife and i'm
mediately there followed three reports
from the revolver. Three bullets pene-
trated the Womans breast, and with
gasp she fell PROSTATE across the
dirt path. She died in a few moments
The pistol shots alarmed the Pretz-
manns. who hastened to the street
They saw Mrs. Czech lying. on the
ground and her husband slowly walk
ing away. Father and son went to the
dying woman. When they saw that she
had been shot and that the blood was
streaming from the wounds, they deter
mined to notify the police. Otto hasten
ed to the telephone in the office at John
Heddens coal yard and sent word to the
Oakland avenue station of the. muir
der. Sergeant Battersby and Policeman
Mcclure We're at once ordered to find
Czech and arrest him.
While they were hurrying to the scene
of the tragedy, John Pretzmann> kept
tempt to arrest the murderer. He saw
him enter the house of Charles Gardner.
because it was cooler, and Gardner has
tened out of it locking the front door
behind him.
MURDERER SURRENDERED.
When Sergeant Battersby and Police
man MCGUIRE reached Howell street
they met Otto Pretzmann and Charles
Gardner. who told them where Czech
was. Battersby. went to the front door
rear of the building. Czech saw them
and realizing that he could not escape,
he surrendered. He was taken to Had
denis coal office on Newark avenue and
detained there until the patrol wagon
took him to the Third precinct station.
where he was locked up.
A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
Some kindly shand covered the dead
woman's face with her apron. while the
rolce waited the removal of the body to
speer's Morgue. 1t was more than an
hour and a half before this took place.
and during all that time the body was
exposed to the blistertng heat of the
sun. Tt lay on the ground unprotected
from the RAYS. A crowd of curious people
stood around the corpse.
Czech, whose right name is Kugloow-
ski. about six years ago was sent to
State Prison for three years for com
mitting an atrocious assault and battery
on Louis Faber, snu-in-law of Police
Captain Newton. He stabbed Faber
when ol1arrelino with him
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
His LAST DAY.
Fish" Johns Affecting Inter-
view With His Daughter
Erecting the Gallows.

s'F'ish Johns last day was miserable
one for him. He was restless and
scarcely ate a morsel. He appeared all
broken up and detected, and could
hardly stand A little coffee was given
to him at intervals, and occasionally a
little stimulant.
From time to time he looked out of the
window or at the door as if expecting a
visit from his daughter.
She called yesterday to bid him good
bye and the scene was extremely af-
fecting. The conversation between them
was about his BURIAL and the unhappy
girl said that she would like him to be
buried with his wife so that she might
put flowers on their graves.
''Ah, of what good is tlrat?'' he said.
s'The dogs would only tear them up. 1t
won't make any difference what you do
with me after / am gone"
He talked repeatedly after his daugh-
ter's departure about his murdered wife.
In bitter tone he rallied against her,
and told the death watch that her bad
ways brought him to the scaffold.
For fourteen years., he moaned, 'tour
life has been HE'LL" then drawing him
self UP he said. 81 was Prussfan SOL
dier and know how to die. might just
as well be dead as live another fourteen
years over again.
From about four o'clock he slept until
seven.
PREPARING THE GALLOWS.
While the doomed man slept the final
preparations for the awful drama of
the morrow We're being made Warden
Mitchell left nothing to chance and
had made his MIA nc rofn1l1xr
Underkeeper B. Stoclmar quickly and
without commotion transferred an the
male occupants of ward No. to No. 4
and those in the lower corridor to No. d.
This was done in an excellent manner
rejecting highly on the discipline main.
tanned in the Jail.
Just as Mr.. Stockmar had finished his
work wagon drove into the Jail ward
containing the scaffold.
Hangman James Van Hise. with bis
son and Mr.. Stocknar. took the tinhars
into the corridor of No. G. at the end of
which they put the gallows in position
1t was bolted and fixed in such a rand
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
ENTHUSIASTIC SPEECHES.
Splendid Meeting of the Bergen
Democratic Association.

splendid Meeting OF the Bergen
Democratic Association.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of
the Bergen Democratic Association was
held at their headquarters. No 139 Mont
icello avenue, last night. The rooms
were entirely too small to accommodate
the large gathering and number sat
upon the ratings outside the building
and upon the cua'bstones, and listened to
the speeches of the various orators.
The meeting was called to order by
President William H. Speer, Jr, who
introduced the speakers. Mr.. Scott, of
the West Bergen Democratic Club, was
the first OF these, and he said that when
he went to register last Tuesday he
had to go to three different places before
he got the right place to register, be-
cause of City Clerk Woolley's bumptious-
ness
IF I had never voted a Democratic
ticket in my life," continued the speak
er "I would this fall, if for no other
reason than to put out of office set of
men who have done nothing but fieeced
the city for the past few years, and
now fearing defeat at the polls arrange
a scheme to defraud honest voters from
their right to vote"
Mr.. James Luby, editor Of ',Ths The Jsr. sEs
sey City News, impressed upon ms
strong men for the Assembly. He said
that when William McAdoo, Allan l..
McDermott, William c. Heppenheimer
and Judge HudSpeth represented Hudson
county in the Legislature this county
had the predominence in the State.
MIR I'm Lnbs ae yehhrs Hadsoe delegation had
been lacking in that strength. Ii Hud-
son is to recover its inauence in the AS
sembly it is necessary to choose men ~
the party on the floor of the Assembly.
Il have not come here to boom any
Ss R0dyf M Georga Penan Who R has bes
spoken of as the probable candidate, is
the stamp of man the Democrats ought
to choose
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Luby was loudly cheered. Mr.. Charles
Young also spoke in favor OF Mr.. Ten
calls, said that no matter who got the
nomination he would take off his coat
and work hard for the party.
Previous to the address. Bernard Nc
Nally made a few remarks. in which he
offered the Assembly nomination to Will
liam H. Speer, who declined in favor OF
Mr.. George G. Tenant.
The club has perfected all arrangements
for the mass meeting to be held at Ber-
gen Hall Saturday y, night The II 1T speakers aia
Samuel Kalisch and Senator William
At half-past seven the members Of the
club, $50 strong, will meet at their head
quarters where they will be Joined by
100 members of the P. T.. Sweeney Asso-
ciation go members of the Ninth Ward
Frank Kimmerly Association, and parade
through the principal thoroughfares of
the Heights before going to. the hull
and band of music will accompany
them.
There will also be another large mass
foil n
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03

remained beside the wretched man until
morning.
Outside of the gloomy looking Jail
small crowd had gathered.
There he is, they cried, pointing to
the most westerly window on the third
floor, at which a dark figure appeared.
1t was only one of the death Watch,
for Fish John kept away from the
window during the evening.
About eleven clock he lay down ana
slept restlessly until morning, when
Keeper O'DonneT tapped him on the
shoulder. He arose and swallowed
cup Of coffee, of which he is very fond.
The plate of bacon and eggs he wouldn't
touch, but slowly slipped the coffee. he
had just finished his breakfast when
Father Smith entered the cell, pldding
him a CHEEKY "Good-morning.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
HOW 1T WORKS IN SOUTH JERSEY
sneciql e tIle Jersep - Ne,gs.

CAMDEN, Oct. 8. lS95.-The personal
registry law went into effect in New Jer-
sey Tuesday. A tour of the registry
precincts in Camden showed carelessness
on the part of the voters or ignorance of
the law In several precincts where
there are usually from 500 to 700 names
on the list. not 100 persons had presented
themselves. The voters will have two
more days October and 10, to have their
names put on. From present indica-
tions very light vote viii be polled in
Camden county.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03

the delegates. who divided ltloon the
nominations to be made for State Sem
ator and two AssemDlynlen. While some
favored the nomination of eX-Postmas-
ter Youngblood, of Morristown, others
were as eagerly fighting to secure the
nomination oil State Senator for John y.
Nreeiand, City Counsel OF MorristoWn-
John 3. Nreeland. City Counsel or
State Senator yesterday afternoon. EX-
Mayor Charles X. Hopkins, or Boonton,
and Joseph B. RICHTER, of RockaWay,
were nominated for the Assembly.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03

contested fights for the richest plum in the
county will be made The Office of County
Clerk is estimated to be worth $4,000 As
the fight stands to-day Lewis Evans, the
present incumbent, has twelve delegates
Lewis ?. Scott, thirty four delegates; Ed
ward Donnely, eleven delegates. These are
all from Atlantic City.
S. S. Hudson has five delegates and John
Anderson seven delegates. The latter two
gentlemen are from the county proper.
There are yet twenty-one delegates to be
elected 1t is presumed that the fight will
be between Evans and Scott.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03

kind attentions did much to buoy up the
old man for the trying ordeal, will give
him. a decent burial. Father Smith last
night telegraphed for Czech's thirteen
year old daughter to come on. The
body will remain tonight at Speers
morgue, and tomorrow afternoon will be
taken to St. Joseph's Church, where
funeral services will be held tomorrow
afternoon. The body will be inferred
in the Catholic Cemetery on West Side
avapn1a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
A VERY LIVE CORPSE.
Hudson Democratic Society to BE
Resu.cffated

The Hudson Democratic Society is not,
as some think. going to give up the
ghost. AS an earnest sof this, the
prominent members met a few nights
ago and resolved to hold an election of
ofIicers and infHse new life into the club.
The members include al the. most promi-
nert citizens who belong to the Demo-
aa active part In the campaign of Nc
<-ss11
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
THIEVES CALL ON MR., MEINEOKE
AGAIN.

Burglars entered the house of Mr. Mein-
ecke on Sherman place early this morning,
and carried off $500 worth of jewelry and
their clothes and escaped undetected This
is the second time the house has been en-
tered.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
NINTH WARD DEMOCRATS ATTEND

The Maurice F. Nelligan Ninth Ward
Democratic Association will hold spec
ial meeting at Building and Loan Hall,
No. 464 Bergen avenue, on Friday, Octo-
Der 4, at eight p NJ All Democrats of
the Ninth ward are urgently requested
to be present.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
JOHN OXLEY CLUBS MEETING.

The leading speaker at tonight's meet
ing of the John Oxley Club will be
Counsellor James Manning. 1t will be
held at Egan's Hall, No. 223 Mercer
street. All voters are invited to attend.
The club will have 500 men in line at
the big Democratic reunion on October
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, Oct 8, 1S95.-For the
thirty-six hours ending at eight p NJ Fri
day
For New York city and vicinity
Fair today and Friday; slightly cooler;
northerly winds.
EEartnets's rnermomeIer Report.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
Further Arrangements to BE Made
for the Campaign.

A consultation of Democratic leaders
and speakers will be held at the Hudson
Democratic Society rooms tonight for the
purpose of arranging matters pertaining
to the present campaign.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03

II have been relieved of catarrh in the
throat by Hoods sarsaparilla. "-H. NJ. Davi-
son, No. LII Washington street. Hobolxen.
n. J.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
POOR FELLOW.


PLAINFIELD, Oct. 3, 1Ss5.-The Pro-
hibftionists of Somerset county have
nominated 3. K. Hopperek OF Somerville
for Assemblynlan.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03

How did you like that bright, lively
New Jersey Edition of THE New York
Press this morning? Watch for IT every
morning. All the New Jersey news.
Only one cent. - :
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03

HUDSON CIRCUIT COURT

Calendar Friday, Oct 4, A. D. 1896
Supreme and Circuit Court cases.
Nos. 80, 10, 81, So, 8.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03

For Death Notices See Fourth Page,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
EIREn .THREE- sHnrs

In front of house No. Czech over
took the woman. He spoke to her. She
toward tor him. Czech was not more etj,r tl'an
four feet away He did not appear to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS TO MEET

There will also be another large mass
meeting at Foye Hall on October 19.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29
Punch In England.

Punch had certainly no reason to
complain of any lack of homage paid
him by the leading spirits of the eight
zenith century. Addison, as young
man, wrote Latin verses about him.
Swift used him as one of the engines of
his political satire, and Steele, in THE
Taller" got up a mock quarrel be-
tween Mr.. Isaac Bickerstaff and George
Powell, Punch's most famous show
man. In the course of this quarrel,
which is supposed to have been a par
ody of a controversy between Hoadly
and Blackall, bishop of Exeter, Mr.
Bickerstaif declares that he knows the
joiner who put Punch together, and
that the hero's head had actually once
been laid aside for nutcracker. More
over, his scolding wife is but bit of
crabtree, his courtiers were all taken
out of a quickest hedge near Islington,
and DR.. Faustus himself is supposed to
have learned his whole part from an
old woman whom he long served in the
figure of broomstaff.
Curran, as young man, was an
amateur of marionettes, and on one &C.
casion obtained permission from show
man to pull the strings that worked the
figures and to put words into their
months. So well did he acquit himself
of his task that the audience was in
raptures, and the money collected was
four times as much as usual 1t is said
that his success in finding retorts and
Arguments for his little clients showed
Curran his true vocation and led him
to choose the bar for his profession. -
Cornhill Magazine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29
A Gentle Reminder.

1t affort.s the Herald exquisite
pleasure to call the attention OF the
Statesman and other highly esteemed
Free Trade contem poraries to the fol-
lowing pertinent point from the edl-
torial columns of the Washington
Post:
an the midst of the merry hum
caused by the resuming manufactur-
ing establishments and the frequent
advance iii wages it is rather anus
ing to turn to those Democratic edi.
tors who with faces as red as turkey
wratues, put in SO much time about
one year ago denouncing what they
were pleased to term the German
Brice tariff sell-out These very same
editors are now pointing with pride to
the new tariff measure, and some OF
them so forget themselves as to call il
( the Wilson law. 4"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29
All !

at is no wonder that they steal
Mr.. Proctor $ seat, and big John the
Prohibitionist is a big dog in the
crowd. "
The above is the closing sen
tence of hali-colunn article in the
Statesman of last week, devoted to
abuse of the city council.
1t pains us to see our very dear and
most highly esteemed contem Dorarv
suffering with the him-hams. He
loves "Mr. Proctor" Yes. he loves
him with all his heart. lie loves him
for several reasons, but mostly be-
cause in the campaign of 1892 "Mr
Proctor, it is said, used his little
VERY smalD knife on Col. Geo T.,
Sencindiver That act on the part o
"Mr Proctor" endeared him to the
editor of the Statesman, and the ed;
tor aforesaid and some others propos,
to assist "Mr. Proctor" in every DO.
sible way. There being no other ef
fective means at their disposal, the,
adopt the methods Of street galuin
and call Mr.. Martin ugly names
There is SO much logic in such an ar
gument." And then for fear it nigh
not be wholly effective volley O
nicknames fired at the editor of th,
Herald should make Mr.. Proctor
invincible. 1t doesn't, though, anc
there's where the amusement loiters
Next week, there will, in all proba
bility, be more names hunted out o
yellow-back novels which will hay,
the same inefIicacious effect.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29

Misrepresentation, prevarication
and Justification pervaded almost every
line in the last issue of the Statesman
in relation to the city schools.
An individual who is opposed to
public schools is not competent crit
ic Such an one is so biased that he
must needs take purely irrational
view. 1t matters not if the critic did,
at one time in his life, attend the pub
lie schools Neither does it matter if
he owes all he is to the public schools.
Having gotten "up in the world" if
lie imbibes prejudice against them, no
matter how they are conducted, I'M
less under control of Bourbons, they
become Yankee concerns" and are
ostracised by the "aristocracy.
In spite Of the efforts of the editor
of the Statesman, the past year has
been a most prosperous one and the
schools of the city are on a frmer
basis than ever before. The teachers
in all the grades have done good and
efficient work. There has been a most
notable advance IN all the departments
and no defense is required. The Gu
rollment aud average attendance have
been greater than ever before, and
while the grades have not been as
high as heretofore it is because there
has been less examining" and closer
marking.