The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-30
BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSION
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BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSION
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fOficial Proceaaings.1
f. B. Jones & Co., supplies to hospital,
| December, 81.
Hudson RIVER Ice O., ice to hospital,
e. Il. Peracy. repairs to wagons, hospi-
tai, December, $40.
WI ". Farrier. repairs to Hospital, De-
cemper. $3.50. Wood & Menagh. supplies
borne. extra help TO Hosp tai. December.
wv; u. o.. Osborne, ncidentals, December,
S44I2 and Hauek. repairs %
wagons, Hospital, December. $10.50: II. G.
Brown and Van Anglen, $50, dry goods to
Hospital. December. 1855
Referred to Committee on Hospitals and
D~ispensaries.
December. sl2: j. F. Clarke. printing and
stationery, December, s52.25.
Referred to on Printing and
! Stationery.
REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE.
Of the Department for the year ending
Report. received and filed. and the COM
spread on minutes.
Headquarters Police Department
- Jersey City. January 10. 1895.
70 the Honorable Board of Police Com
Gentlemen have the honor to present
" YOU my report OF the business OIL TINS
Department for the year ending December
81. 1895.
Tn peace of the city,
!, dhefe has been no riots or serious trou-
year.
Crimes against the person.
against the person, including seven for
murder, nine for manslaughter. and forty
two two for robbery from the person with VIC
women, and the remainder for assault
and battery of various Kinds. An epidemic
over the country for the past SIX months:
We have had some. but were fortunate
enough to capture nearly all the guilty
parties.
The prevalence of this crime, in my
Judgment, is largely due to the fact of the
lower class of criminals going about armed
There are very few professional high
way men,. The standing up" as it is
now called, of people on the streets, and
in country places is lone by tramps and
low down hoodlum thieves who are only
brave enough to attack a man when they
are armed with a revolver or slung shot.
The habit lately acquired by this Class
OF thieves is becoming alarming. New
legislations providing for the %severest
kind of punishment is needed to abate
this habit. On several occasions during
the past year. citizens who have found
thieves in their homes, and police officers
while attempting to arrest house break
CRIME AGAINST PROPERTY.
The largest amoung of property stolen
at any one robbery was four hundred
dollars; the next largest was three, to
and the rest were all below one hundred
dollars. In all of the house breaking
during the year, except in a few cases,
no tools were used; thieves entered by
pushing back the window catch with a
case knife, or by breaking the glass and
opening the window. These facts show
visits by professional burglars. Nine
hundred and sever persons were arrested
for house breaking and other kind of
crime against Gg r0Ra5fyi
Although every, effort has been made
to suppress gambling, poker and policy
assemble behind locked doors and play
poker; they admit only those they know,
Consequently it is hard to get evidence.
Evidence has been got, however, in some
cases, and successful raids made where a
number of players, We're arrested.
Policy playing rs carried on By the
gathering plays from regular customers.
There are no regular policy shops the
Writer meets an agent or ths packef OF
and turn in their books.
suppression of his form of gambling,
down. A very extensive gambling con-
Germ was operated from No. ? Exchange
Of the Jersey City Stock Exchange.
Noted New York and Boston gamblers
hired the rooms and placed therein tel
sent to Boston and New YORK. wherss
they had public offices, quotations of
fake stocks that only existed in their
margins in this city, therefore we could
prove no violation ef aw. Arrange
ments were made with the police of
New York whereby evidence of gam
bling was secured when a simultaneous
raid was made on all THEIR places in
New York and this city. We got posses
sion of all the hankE and ~ f1,A
concern and other evidence that proved
beyond a doubt that II was a gigantic
died. The case is still pending against the
FUGITTvEs FROM JUSTICE.
in this city fed to other states, weas
traced and arrested, and brought back
for trial.
from various places werAwtpprehended in
this city and extradited to the jurisdic-
ton f5 THE w9 BnTIl thsy T had F6Rcp
Excellent work has been done bv the
detectives during the past year, notably
the anonymous letter writer, who for
zense by sending them letters that caused
"a lot of u~nhappiness in many families;
ne RUNNING down and capture of the
conviction of MANY crimes.
TIL Erie Railroad freight robbers, and
many minor cases in which the detectives
1890 oAo pAoa5hI ~ justice lfe guilty
parties.
The twelve detectives made 92o arrests.
more than one-eighth of the total of ar
rests in the city. Many crimes were pre-
vented by the detectives. arresting Grim
inals from other cities whom they found
here for the purpose of committing
crime. On the afternoon of the day Of
the Fourth Regiment ball the detectives
arrested two notorious pickpcckets from
New York whom they found on tho
thieves were here to prey Upon the guests
of the great crowd that attended the
ball. The capture of those two pickpock-
cts led to the recover of two valuable
watches stolen on our street ears. Ar
rests of this kind tend to keep profession
al thieves away from orr city.
CONDITION OF THE FORCE.
The manner in which your honorable
body have held all officers and men re-
sponsible for their official conduct dur
ing he past year has greatly improved
the discipline of the force. A certainty
of punishment on conviction of neglect
Of duty or violation of any of the rules
is bound to he beneficial to the service.
and make all do their duty. The eff
cheney of the service has been much i'm
proved the past few months by the ap-
ppintment of some new men. The per
sonnet of those new men is fine: thep
are young, intelligent, of a good size
and a~ble-bodied, and nearly all under
thirty years old. 1t is all important for
good police service that appointees to
the force should nave all Of the above
qualifications. No man over thirty years