The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-17
REFORM ANGEL.
Some Little Things Godfrey
G. Dillaway Might
Tell the Gledhill
Committee.
JOURNAL" MANS SAYORY CAREER
Interesting Variety of Charges,
Civil and Criminal, Made
Against the Ex-Lieu-
tenant.

1t is understood that the Journai mas
provided another star witness to appear
before the Gledhill Investigating Com
rnittee tomorrow. The gentleman is God
frey G. Dillaway. Everybody knows
Godfrey. He was once constable and he
has also been engaged in variety OF
other occupations, some of them more or
less shady. There is one thing that stands
to his credit. He has never been IN
State Prison. He has been indicted, eut
never convicted in this county. Godfrey
always had a pull. On reflection, 1t
seems to be an injustice to Mr.. Dillaway
to designate him as merely star wit
ness. In comparison with JACK
O'Donnell. who gave full rein to his i'm
agination when he was before the COM
mittee last week. Dillaway is entitled to
rank as a planet.
There is no doubt that Godfrey can tell
the committee a great many interesting
stories if he chooses to do SO, with him-
self as the subject of them. Many OF
his exploits have been printed in the To-
cal papers, but as they do not circulate
in the sections of the State where the
members of the committee hail from the
information will be news for them. For
fear that Mr.. Dilloway has allowed some
of his exploits to escape his memory
ii NAV be as we'll to recall a few of
them If Godfrey should tell the COM
mittee about the visit Madge Vernon,
alias Maggie Brennan, made to his house
about some thing more than a year ago,
the committee would find it extremely
interesting He had been living with
Madge but had reformed and gone back
to his wife. The committee would be
interested in hearing how Godfrey hadn't
the courage to face the angry Madge, but
took refuge in the cellar and left his wife
TO bear the brunt. The young woman
ranted and tore around the parlor for
while. frightening poor Mrs. Dillaway
half to death and finally thrust the point
of her umbrella through Godfrey's picture
in his uniform of first lieutenant of Com
pany D, Fourth Regiment, from which
he was compelled to retire by pressure.
Dillaway had her arrested, but he
never prosecuted the case, and this is
what she told on January 4, 1897, to
News representative
Il have been living with Dillaway as
his wife for nine years. trusted him.
Then he got me into trouble with a furni-
ture man. I even sold my furniture to
help him out Afterward he got into
trouble at Asbury Park. l raised money
to help him. He has treated me shame
fully I found out that he was not as he
said he was, suing for divorce. :
When l saw his picture on the wall
smashed it with my umbrella. Godfrey
was upstairs and when he heard my
voice he came down and choked me. He
tried to throw me OUT
Dillaway some ten years ago became in
volved in a case of the late Police JUS
tice w. A. Lane and the Evening Jour-
nalv at the time made it exceedingly
warm for Mr. Dillaway by exposing some
of his misdeeds in Withholding insurance
monies from the widow of the Justice.
Godfrey might tell them how he came
to be accused by the United States Gov
ernment of selling his pension as vet
eran and what amount of wrigglng he
had to undergo to get out of that scrape.
Then he might tell the committee how
the late Prosecutor Winfield came to re-
lieve him from duty in the Prosecutors
Office. If he forgets the circumstances
attending that Lawyer Norman L. Rowe
can refresh his memory. Godfrey him
self, no doubt, remembers how some miss
ing papers were found in his pocket and
Mr. Winfield suggested that he might
take permanent vacation.
The story of his experience in the case
of a man named Schuster, the driver OF
a bakers wagon, would also be interest
ing Godfrey will doubtless remember
how be furnished a bondsman for the
man, gave a receipt for the money paid
to him for his services and was after
ward arrested on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretences.
After that he might tell about Edward
B. Carr and a forged check; and he
should not forget his experience at AS
bury Park. as that was the narrowest
escape he ever had from going to State
Prison He will surely remember about
his Indictment and conviction in the Mon
mouth County courts, and how Lawyer
Robert Carey went down there and sue
ceeded in getting him out of the scrape
There are other interesting episodes on
which Mr. Dilloway's memory might be
refreshed, but if he tells the committee
all about the matters which have been
suggested here it will be enough for one