The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-24
POLICE OUTRAGE.
Mayor Pagan Hears a Com
plant Against an Of
ficious Hoboken
Captain.
AN INVESTIGATION ORDERED
Hrs Hayes Says She Was Driven
Out Of an Hotel and Lest
Her Employment Thereby.

A m~iddle-aged woman, leading her lit
tie daughter. called on Mayor Pagan
yesterday afternoon and began a story of
police outrage to the Mayor. Chief of
Police Donovan was also in attendance.
The woman, whose name was Mary
Walsh. said that she had her husband.
a brakeman on the Delaware, Lackawan-
ma and Western Railroad, arrested TWO
weeks ago for assault and battery. He
secured bail and returned home, and af-
ter taking some belongings left. She said
she was compelled to give up the
apartments and went to live with her
brother in New York.
She saw in the newspapers an adver-
tisement by a wealthy lady OF Baltimore,
Mrs. O'Neil, who wished to engage a
lady's maid. This lady was stopping at
the Continental Hotel in Hoboken. Mrs.
Walsh applied for the position and was
engaged at a salary of s4 per month.
Mrs. Walsh was given $40 in advance.
She was engaged on October Y.
On the following night Mrs. Walsh
went To Jersey City to purchase a few
things she needed. She met her husband
on her way back to the hotel. He want
ed TO know where she was stopping,
and seemed perfectly satisfied when she
told him how she was. situated. He.
took a room at the hotel that night for
himself. On the fifth night of her stay
at the hotel Mr.. Streng, the proprietor,
told her that it would be best for her
to leave the house. He said he had been
Informed by Detective Weinthal that
Captain Hayes wished her TO leave the
mousse, as she was an improper person.
she told this TO Mrs. OsNeil, who dis
charged her and left for Baltimore. Since
that time Mrs. Walsh has been staying
with friends.
Mrs. Walsh was asked by the Mayor
why any one should wish to have ner
put OUT OF me Motel She said that one
night she lett the hotel q friend of her
husband saw her. He asked the pro-
prietor whom she was stopping with. The
proprietor did not know hat the man
VINO went TO the hotel with her on Oc-
tober Ii and registered was her husband
Tie told her husbands friend that a man
mad registered and wanted to occupy the
same room; but he would not permit it.
This man Mrs. Walsh says must have
told this to the police.
The manager Of the hotel, Mr.. Strenz,
says that the woman was at the hotel
and that Weinthal asked him concerning
The woman. He said he did not order
the woman to leave the hotel nor did
inc detective say anything that would
fnrt the Woman's character.
Defective Weinthal said he simply made
inquiries at the hotel under the captains
orders, and said thai the captain gave no
orders for the woman to be put out.
Captain Hayes said that he and John
Kelleher and a friend We're passing the
motel one might and saw Mrs. Walsh leave
the place. kelleher, who is a relative of
Walsh. recognized the woman. The cap
tain then sent Weinthal to the hotel 10
make inquiries. The captain said there
was nothing in the affair.
Mayor Pagan said he believed the wom-
ans story and that the captain had no
right tn send an nffiaar IN tho hztai r-ta
Mayor also instructed Chief Donovan TO
make a thorough investigation of the
matter. Mrs. Walsh has made the follow
ing affidavit
Stare of New Jersey,
Hudson County.
Mary Walsh, of full age, being duly
sworn according TO law upon her path,
deposes and says:-On Monday. October
II, 1896, I went TO the Continental Hotel
in the city of Hoboken and State afore-
said, and visited a Mrs. O'Neil, by whom
! was employed as lady's attendant. l
was accompanied by my little daughter,
six years DID, Prior to this I had had
trouble with my husband. who s en-
ployed on the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western Railroad in the capacity of a
brakeman. l had been at the hotel but
q few days when l discovered that a GER
tain county official was keeping the hotel
under surveillance, and 1 subsequently,
ascertained that aid county official had
made inquiry of the proprietor as to
va" NtOPP-HS arr N-hli
whom. On the sixth day of my stay at
said hotel thet proprietor met me at the
entrance and told me that two men had
been to him and warned him against per-
mitting me TO remain as a guest of his
honse, insinuating that a longer stay on
my part would result in serious complica-
tions, and notified me then and there TO
leave the hotel. l have since ascertained
that one of these men who called upon
Proprietor StreTg was Detective Louis
Weinthal. As a consequence of said de-
receives unwarranaed conduct / rave lost
my employment and together with my
child have been compelled to accept aid
from riends.
MARY WALSH.
Sworn and subscribed to before me, this
22d day of October, 1896.
JAMES w. CLARK,
Justice of the Peace.