The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-21
LAVINH'S REPUTATION.
More Disclosures in the Haley
Heirs Fight for a
Fortune.

Veterans Of the Jersey City police force
We're called yesterday afternoon at the
Haley trial before Vice-Chancellor Stew.
ems to tell what they knew about O'Cen-
nor s. Parsons plumbers shop, on Grove
street, where. 1t is alleged, Mary Lavinia
| Vreeland, who claims to have married
young jeremiah Haley, was won't with
other young women to sit all day long
drinking toddy
One of the officers described the women
as flight" and another policeman said
| they were dark but these terms appar-
4 emily opposite meant the same thing in
police parlance, when applied to people OF
easy virtue. AS for the plumbers store
they said there was nothing wrong about
it. but the men who ran it had a shady
reputation.
| Ex-Inspector, Police Captain, Sergeant
and Patrolman Robert P. Dixon, who was
on the force in the foregoing capacities
from 1854 to 1882, said that he knew Jerry
Haley very well. because in the sixties his
beat was the First Ward, where Haley
| lived. The witness always supposed that
Jerry" Haley was single man and that
was his reputation.
DO youfsee these ladies sitting there?''
asked Mr.. Gilbert Collins, pointing to Mrs.
Jennie E. Winters and her sister, and the
woman who claims to be Mary Lavinia
| Haley. do you recognize them as the
| young girls known as the Vreeland sisters
| who frequented O'Connor & Pearson's
| plumber shop?"
| a minute, during which ordeal the ladies
blushed, but looked firmly at'the witness
1 and then he said that he recognized Mrs
| Haley. She was known toFtlle police, he
said, as "Lavine,' and her reputation, he
said, to put IT mildly, was tight"
| Counsellor Richard asked the witness id
! he had been on the force all the time since
| 1864 and 1882, and Dixon made the grave
| Vice-C Chancellor smile by saying
Il had Political recess for two years. =
| DR.. Frank A. Becker, of West Farms
n. u, identified the woman known as
| ..Lavine Vreeland,' who says she is Jerry
4 Haleys widow, as Mrs. Soofield. In De.
| cember 1887, he attended her, he said, IN
| West EARNS at her accouchement, and 9
manswho said he was Mr.. Scoaeld paio
! for the professional services. The doctor
was positive as to the person and cpup-
| him.
man, and Roundsman Walsh, corroborat-
1 ed ex7inspector Dixon's testimony as tc
| the general belief that young Haley was
| a. single man.
l s
nit the statement of Suprernes Court JUS
| tice jonathan Dixon said Mr.. Collins te
| the Vice Chancellor, "who drew the will
he will testify, If needed, that he knew
the Haley family and never knew ol
JerrysS marriage"
| Counselor Richard nodded his head at
| firmatively, and Mr.. Collins then said he
would rest his case. Mr.. Richard replied
that he wished for time to put in re-
buttal testimony, and it was agreed te
| fix a day for that and for the argument
on the Jurisdiction of the Vice Chancel
| lor.
| At the next hearing Mary Lavinia
+ Vreeland, the mother of the petitioner
jeremiah L. Haley, will be Called to re-
| fute the damaging testimony given pre-
viously She will admit having married
Mr.. Scofield, and afterwards Mr.. Coffin
| but theses marriages occurred after the
death of her first husband, young Jerry
| Haley. She will also defend herself
from the attacks on her reputation when
| 'sLavine'' Vreeland.