The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-17

IN ex-member Of the Insurance Patrol.
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an ex-member of the Insurance Patrol.
us there anybody in that house that
has q rooms there for the sale of IL
quor?'' asked Mr.. Petit.
Yes. sir; Charles Horn. To my
How does he conduct his businessg.
III it is q fine day he stands outside,
and he takes the money on the outside;
If 1t is q bad day he takes the money in
side. Nobody attends to the liquor at
ro0m and gpS S I 4 h a I the e p5 "a ay passss
there Is only about two drinks in a quart
bottle; he never has any more N II, and
In 4 go Kew saf Is { Che pig Too dnank S le nsh un nnow TIE II;
carpet in front of the door, and the Gus
TONER is told where the key Is; A regql-
don't have 10 be told where It is"
s Pc any Ct the ngolice Of the district
Yes. sir; some Of them do; Sergeant
Richards knows where the key. is; so
does Officer Govern, the eolored man,
other colored man, in there, but I don't
know whether he knows where the key
is. .Oficer Vaughn drops in occasionally,
in a while. These men all belong to the
Ninth District"
Terence Hagney, an ex-oficer. living
at No. 2.sM Alaska street. In the Thirty
sixth division of the Fifteenth ward.
stated that he had been on the Ninth
district police force nine years. and his
beat had been at Nineteenth and Fair
mount avenue. where the Reyburn Club
is located.
How much of their time did the police
Of your district devote to the Reyburn
Club?" asked Senator H~ardenbergh.
~ sf Rsys,rn R aII3s d s cane up there hea r t.
manned there until 20 minutes Of y. when
he had to go to receive the men. That
| know for a fact, and it was not one
night, but every night, an every night
What other superior officers did you
see there?"
son and had a drink"
while you were on. the force wha'
was the character of the district in re,
other places contrary to law?" ),
When was on the police foree \
was one Of the worst in rs city Of I rnila-
delpnia- ! reported sT b bwenty7 INT sp news
heard from my report. There was nj
use reporting speak-eas.es. Nothing was
ever done With the sm men r raf ssS9 t
settle a case. Il was a speaK-easg pr =,
prietor who paid two special ofncers o.
our district"
John c. Cahill. Of No. 1,2z2 South FROM
| street, gave some testimony regarding
Civil Service examinations which he said
he had several times attended for exam
nation for police and fireman, passing
at least twice. He said he knew John
Brown, Walter Gore and Frank Romano
all of whom had been examined for thu
police force. In reply to questions M
said he Indirectly knows who was ap'
pointed on their papers. He knew that
sRubbles' Davis had been appointed OF
| the force, and said he was two night:
i~nstructing Davis how to do a sum il
addition, but didn't believe Davis hat
succeeded in doing it vet. He statef
that he didn't believe Davis could write
Did you ever know Walter Gore to b
| ami for someone else?'
I'D rather not answer that, said tn
witness
ssWeil, I'd rather not answer it."
Browns examination?'
.'There were so many, appointments
| couldn't keep the run or them. l feail.
How about Frank Romano?'
HE was not appointed. he dld no
go in for himself"
The witness further stated that neithe
Romano nor Gore were examined unde
their own names; that they were sen
there, he understood. at the instance o
Select Councilman Anderson, who, tn
witness testified. said:-"You go u
there. There's a man up there who'll rul
you through"
On january 8, Conrad Brill of No. III
Nevada street, gave the details Of
brutal assault on a drunken prisoner b
Policeman Huff of the Twenty-second dis
trict. The trouble arose over a litti
/ jofty between some men who had bee
friends of the officer. The prisoner, whor
the officer had volunteered to take homs
was a mar named Harris, a slight bull
man.. Brill demonstrated pretty strong
ly with the officer and was also arrested
Richard Saam testified that the club
bling happened about June % last; tina
he, too, had demonstrated with Office
HUFF. who had. he testified, hit Harri
over the head with his club and knocke
him senseless1 in the street. covering hi
face with blood. When Saam remor
strated, the officer, he said, drew his re
volver, and with a club in one hand an
his revolver in the other had hit Saal
over the eyes with the revolver. badl
cutting him. Harris was then on tn
ground senseless with the blood stream
ing from the cash in his head. The 70
lowing morning Magistrate Neal hear
the case n discharged everybody br
Harris, who was held in $500 bail. Hhrrl
had been taken to h Samaritan Hol
pital, where his head had been dresses
Saam, Harris and another citizen ha
0ficer Hu arrested, and the latter VIZ
held in 5000 bail for aggravated assau
by Magistrate Donnelly. He was Il
dicted and the case against him is SIT
pending in court. Huff is still IN Il
force.