The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-24
M'DON0UGH A4ROCllT.
Girl of Sixteen Sent to the
County Jail as a Dis
orderly Person.
FAMILY NOT NOTIFIED
A Queer Story Told and a Queerer
One Not EIicited-Anothsr
Woman jailed for
Whim.
FAMILY NOT NOTIFIED

Last night about ten o'clock Of1cer RAJ
bold found Gussie Schultz in the rear Of
the stable of Vanderbilt & ChEls, ers the
River Walk, at the foot Of Fifth street.
Hoboken. The girl is sixteen years old
and lives at No. SO Washington street..
She told the officer that she and a friend.
were riding on River street on theft.
wheels and three young men had sprung
upon her, dragged her into the stable and
there assaulted her
When she was brought to the station
house she appeared rather composed for
a young girl who had gone through such
an experience. When asked why she did
not cry out and give an alarm she said
she did not think anyone would hear her.
The place is a secluded one, yet not out
Of the hearing of the Fifth street park.
where there were number of people at
the time. As the River Walk is about the
last place young ladies would care to ride
upon at night, and as her friend, whose
name she refused to state, gave no alarm,
the police considered her story rather
fishy and locked her up as being a dis
orderly person. She claimed that she did
who assaulted her.
Gussie hung her head this morning
while before the Recorder and did not say
anything. She will spend sixty days at
Snake Hill.
The girl was sent to the County Jail
subject to a fine. A woman by the name
of Annie Flynn was arrested last even
ing by the same officer. The Recorder
was of the opinion that this woman was
leading the Schultz girl astray. Annie
was sent to the Penitentiary for ninety
days
When the Recorder was asked why he
did not send the Schultz girl to the Re-
form School for Girls at Remington. he
said he would have liked to. but she was
beyond the legal age
News reporter went to the girls
nome this morning and was met at the
door by her brother. He was greatly sur
prised when told Of his sisters plight.
ing looking for her daughter. While the
reporter was talking to the girls
brother, her father and mother came In
The mother was tired and almost ex-
hausted from the tramp she had had
after her girl and the fear that Something
hde~ happened to her. When the re-
porter tod her thSt her daughter vas on
her way to the Comfy Jail, the pour
woman nearly fzfnted
My daughter Is pure. girl. she said
and she must have been enffced 60 the
place by somebody. She works as
nurse for DR.. WolfStTn, and she always
has come home at nine O'clock every
night. Last night, whom she did not
come, we thought the doctors baby had
been taken sick and they kept Gussie
there. When she did not come home
This morning went TO the doctors, and
they said there that the girl had left at
the usual hour last night
The mother did not Inquire at the police
station she said, for fear of publicity
in the matter but went from one trends
house to another looking for her daughter.
Inc reporter told the mother that she
could have her daughter released from
the jail If she appeared before the RE
corder. The mother, brother and re-
porter started for the police station and
on the sidewalk outside of the house DIR.
Wolfstirn was met. He had been making
inquiries for the girl and was on his way
to her home to see if she had returned
The party of four. including the doctor
then went to the Recorders Court, and
he told the party of mother, brother and
doctor that the girl had not said any
thing in her defence and that she had
acknowledged TO the officer who arrested
her that she had willingly gone to the
place with a young man who had met
her on the River Walk.
The Recorder said he Judged from ths
actions of the girl and the testimony Of
the officer that she was bad. and there
fore he sent her to the county JAIL He
told the mother that he would gladly have
the girl released, but a fine of S. and costs
would have to be paid. The money was
paid and the necessary papers were signed
for the unfortunate girls release The
brother and Dr. WoifstiYn said they be-
lieved that some young fellow had been
leading the girl astray, and the brother
said he would never give up until he found
who the person was and have him pun
iFhed
The girls family are respectable people
and the girls unfortunate experience last
night has cast a gloom over their home.
The police have as yet not made any at
tempt to find the young fellow or fellows
In the case-if there are any.