The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
TRIAL BY COMBAT.
Patrick Do1an Wants to
Fight Justice Herbert
Potts for a SIS Fine.
WOULD SHOOT HIM ON SIGHT
The Police Looking for the BelIi-
cose Individual Whose Son Got
Taste of Justice.

Police Justice Potts may have to fight
duel as a consequence of fning John
Dolan s. three days ago. If he refuses
to fight, his challenger says he viii be
shot like a dog.
The Justices challenger Is Patrick
Dolan, the father of John, a strapping
Irishman, of No. 2s4 Wayne street. Dolan
is about seven and a half times the size
of Justice Potts, who measures about
five feet in height and weighs somewhere
In the neighborhood of ninety pounds IL
he does fight. Justice Potts says he will
have one advantage over Dolan. and that
Is that he will have more territory to
shoot at.
Last Tuesday Policeman Nugent of the
Gregory street station arrested John
Dolan in Warren street. He was wan
dering about in suspicious manner and
when questioned failed to give . satts-
factory account of himself. At the station
house he gave No. 260 East Tenth street,
New York. as his place of residence The
New York authorities were communicated
with and it was ascertained that no one
by the name of Dolan lived at the adj
dress given. When arraigned in court
the next morning Delan was surly and
denounced his arrest as an outrage. He
was given the option of paying IS fine or
going to Snake Hill for thirty days. He
paid the fine and was released.
Yesterday, shortly after noon, Patrick
Dolan, the young mans father, rusheA
into the Geregory street station. houso
ana az addressing Captain Cox exclaime&e
Il want to see Judge Potts.
What for?" asked the Captain.
one OF your men arrested my son fo1
nothing and that man Potts made hirn
and If don't get it I will make the
Judge fight a duel or will blow his head
on. 1t was an outrage and you know it.
Ihls is tyranny, but the Judge won't get
Captain Cox knew Dolan and after all
lowing him to- rave for a while, inter-
rupted him by quietly remarking :-"Pops
ting that IS back as I have of gettfns
York"
This angered Dolan and he swore all
kinds of vengeance on Judge Potts and
the police. He finally became so abusive
that Captain Cox elected him.
Dolan, the Captain subsequently learned.
is unbalanced mentally. His condition is
due to his efforts to perfect a patented
passenger coach.
After the old man left the station house
a crank was after him and intended
challenging him. With apparent uneon-
Germ the Judge laughed and walked away.
An hour later the Judge had occasion
to call up his office.
Is. there anyone there to see me?" he
asked of the clerk.
By large majority" was the answer
There is q man named Dolan here who
wants to fight a duel or shoot you IL .
you don't return some So
Justice Potts dropped the receiver, ex-
claimed Why, that, - crank is at my
office"
Recovering his nerve, the little Judge
had Dolan called to the telephone. He
heard something murnbled about s., a
duel and being shot like dog. That was
enough for the court. He dropped the
receiver and hurried to the police station.
Captain Cox has detailed a bodyguard
of policemen in citizens dress to keep a.
watchful eye on the Judge while justice
is being dispensed. and while he Is at his,
office in Montgomery street Efforts to
catch Dolan have so far been of no avail.
The police fear chat In his present state
of mind he may do Justice Potts bodily
injury.
A year ago Dolan paraded through the
city with a shot gun looking for former
City Collector P H. O'Nefil, who he be-
lieved had imposed an excessive tax on
his home in Wayne street. Detectives
are out looking for the crank. Justice
Potts has gone to Trenton to avoid an
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