The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-02
NEGLIGENT POLICE.
Loafers Permitted tesMelest
Cyclers on the -Bods
leVard.
PATROLHAH VREELAHD'S BEUEDER
solon Archibald InterpretsathasLa
to Mean That the Thugs Must
Not Be Arrested.
PATROLHAH VREELAHD'S BLUHDER

For long time gang efsloafers has
made it nightly practice to gather on
the corner at Gator avenue and the Boule-
Vard. There pedestrians were too few TO
supply mark for their shafts of wit. SO
they turned their attention to passing
plcyclists of both sexes. Sometimes they
Were satisfied with merely insulting the
Wneelmen and women on bikes, but grow
ing bolder as they continued unchecked
tney began to throw various missiles at
the long-suffering cyclists.
Patrolman Mathew Vreeland is usually
10 De found near this corner, but as COM
plants continued to be heard by every-
body but the police of the Fifth Precinct,
ne must have been ignorant of the row.
dies depredations Perhaps he looked on
ana enjoyed the sport, though this is not
credited by the patrolman's friends. Still
q ponceman IS cyclists sworn foe every
Last night as George Seitz on his nine
ieen-pound Spalding racer and John Korb,
1. poIh OF the, Arcanum Wheelmen, were
atpills ~ Rasl tne avenue the rowdies Shout
90 az them and threw sticks at them
oeltz was thrown from his wheel a se-
r rlous thing for him because of a scarcely
healed cut on his left knee which he re-
celved IN a similar accident recently. He
saw Patrolnlan Vreeland standing near
BY tH, al apparently 1sl in blssful ignorance of
t1.O WHOle AFFAIR. 10 MN S6itZ cOmDlaine0
OF the boys and asked him to arrest them.
:, vreeland said he could not do 50 unless
sellz s procured a warrant. He had not
seen the trouble, he said, and would moi
take the responsibility of arresting the
perpetrators. Seitz said:-"I will enter
eonaplabnt ceIa p IN. against any Of them you ar
1vSa, 5Th; pSl yreeland would nou hear of it.
Mr. Aorb corroborates him in every par
n41m nenar ,MSesi5nas1 Snd addslour clubCthe Area
winch are to be presented to the Board
OF treeholders complaining of this nuis-
anee ana others of a similar nature. The
idct was publiShed, and I think these lads
heara ..sTl OF It and We're getting square,.
Inc amount of trouble the boys along
Inc Inc Bouieyard give wheelmen is net
Gle on that road. They may merely occupy
the roadway while indulgine in some
sport as is the case of the baseball play
may toss all sorts of 'throwable' objects
az you, or they may rush out in front
OF you and with extended arms tempt
you to run them down, but they do Ger
tainly make wheelmen miserable. I think
some such case as this, it is said, has
fepoaght Prey ABOUT the, celebrated bicycle
with one of those mischievous little dar
nngs he will get the worst end of it in
pin;yslcal hurt in the wrecking of his ma
ethlne IN the opinion of bystanders and in
the Judgment of officers Of the law #
Is time wheelmen who do not scerch re-
celved their rights
JGTSeV"
News, caHed at Police Headonarters to-
gay gay Chlef Murphy was not there Ser
geanl Archlbald. however, explained the
position of the patrolman in this wise
"A policeman" he said, s..cannot be
e1pected to arrest a person charged with
fracture of the law unless some evil
qenee OF the offence is presented to him.
IN rn,,sth me ease, case OF an assault, marks of
Ioasn usage on the complainant are
sunicisht Unless such evidence is pre-
scented the policeman can not be ex-
pected to make the arrest.
II policeman arrests any person nm
justly charged with an offense and in
tarcefate ia ,;+ hlm, he renders himself liable
70 70, SUIT for false imprisonment. A
prisoner of this kind will invariably turn
on the officer for satisfaction. The SER
geant at the desk cannot be held liable
although some eight or ten years 400
orders Were. sent out that a sergeant
must must investigate a case if a prisoner
enteGS t,nt serious complaint. But the
palrolman is the one responsible and so
cannot be blamed if he refuses to arrest
q man without sufficient cause being