The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-29
Shad Roo IL Ausgespiel!

The third of the non-partisan wardens OF
Ludlow Street Jail is out. He has been re.
moved, and probably the rule of non-par.
tisanship and of intermittent and ludicrous
escapes from that establishment is now at
an end. The new appointee of the Sheriff
Is ex-Police Captain PATRICK PICKETT,
who Is said to be q sort of Warden who will
let no guilty man escape, or any accused
man, either, without an order of court or q
warrant Of legal authority.
The first of tho non-partisan Wardens
who believed that business, not politics"
should be the rule in municipal depart
ments, was RAABE, the barber. fshed out
OF the German-American Reform Bund, the
members Of which consecrate themselves to
adherence to the proposition that the man
who has no politics is to be preferred for
public station to the man who is not afraid
to have his political convictions and parti-
san attachment known to everybody. Un-
der RAABE's administration of the War
denis Office there were numerous and anus
ing escapes, and to this day he deplores
the circumstance that the three Post Office
thieves who left the chail oud in a bunch,
selected the Fourth Of July instead of
Pfngst Montag for their departure.
The second Of the ~non.partisan Wardens
OF Ludlow Street Jail was ]. P. ARCHIBALD,
p~aper-hanger, n Of the Committee Of
Seventy, the members of which, moro es-
pecially such of them as nave since secured
offices under the present municipal admin
istration, profess the belief that politics
and the capable and efficient management
of public affairs are inherently incompati-
BILE. ARCHIBALD was chosen to keep charge
OF the prisoners in the county Jail, but he left
the task to others, while he went forth on
a mission of non-partisanship, with the re-
suit that he ended up in jail himself. He
secured his liberty on the payment of q
fine, a heavier penalty than has been exact
ed from those who have left Ludlow Street
Jail under its present administration by the
front door, open windows, skylight in the
roof, or by other convenient means of egress.
SHAD Roe, the poet, the military man,
the enemy of politics, and the foe of poll
~ticians, the man without a party, is the
third and last of the non-partisan Wardens
to leave the service of the county of New
York since the LIST of January, 1895. He
has been removed, and while it has not
always been possible to commend. easy to
explain lin English) or to extenuate the
course OF dwarf ]. Ii. DAMsEN in Office
as Landvogt, he is certainly entitled to
public recognition and support in his firm
though tardy dismissal of SHAT Roe.
AS the correspondence between the de-
posed Warden and his superior officer, the
Landvogt, shows, or rather as so much of
the correspondence as Is furnished by Roe,
the novelist, who wrote in English, and a
translation of the answers and inquiries
written by DANsEN in Plattdeutsch, dis
closes, SHAD Roe was insubordinate. In
stead of taking orders from his superior, he
assumed to give orders to his superior.
Instead Of complying with the directions of
his chief, he assumed to override them and
to disregard the most prudent of his pre-
for the safety of tho Jail and the
custody of its inmates. As a result of
his recalcitrancy (UngehorsamkeiD there
were additional escapes from the Jail
some months ago; and since March the
Sheriff had been investigating the matter.
Pending his decision. HEN MULvANEY, one
of the most active and most vigorous Tam
many workers" in town, has been In
charge of the Jail, and there have been no
escapes; and now PATRICK PICKETT has
received a permanent appointment.
The matter of the Wardenship of Ludlow
Street Jail, the circumstances attending
the appointment and departure of the sun
dry non-partisans, to say nothing of the
and more frequent departure of
under their charge, is instructive
illustrating the practical value of re-
warding non.partiSanship with public once.