The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-26
CURFEW AND CRIME.
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Miner Criminals.

Miner Criminals.
Curfew was once tho warning bell which
rang cut tho hour Of putting out fire and
light in communities ssCouvreSfeu, (" 1t
was called in France covering the fire),
and eurfey, gathered into r word, is its
Norman derivation. Lister on in history
She curfew was s~upplanted by the night
Waterman who patrolled the streets and
cried out the hours Of tho night.
Colonel Alexander Hoagland, its orig
mater in america, says that it is the only
measure that win restrict petty crimes
among juveniles.
ssThe latest scheme on the part OF police
authorities in some places to offset tho
scurfew ordinance is the employment of
bloodhonndsinru running down minor Grim
~inals,n Colonel Hosgland is reported as
saying. ssThis sounds terribly harsh. In
this country Me connect them only with q
sheriff. posse On the trail of the perpe-
traitor of o heinous. crime. In e certain
western town the police force added a new
feature in tho shape OF Russian blood
hounds. Their first service was to run
down snisoreants who dcfaced the furni-
ture and marble floors OF one Of the public
DUlltl1lZS. t3 tlGAD iCl LIZ III 4]tO
the homes Of three young hsodluns, who,
On seeing the dogs and hearing their saw
age howl, sprang upon tho beds and tables,
shouting: Keep tho dogs back! Keep The
dogs baelsi Wo did it, and we will tell
you all about it,
ssOficials or various cities are advocat-
ing tho public fogging Of youths as d last
remedy for traaney and crime. All this
-.+1 - -1,.1Je11 l- 4fo n-1irorrc pf thu
curfew. Children will soon learn to obey
the warning he'll and return to their
homes. I cannot think of anything more
cruel, inhuman and barbarian than the
running down of youths with blood
hounds. 1t takes us back to the days Of
the dark ages. Think Of it-one of these
savage beasts, with crashing teeth and
bloodshct eyes, in pursuit Of your child,
wLo. may have committed a trivia depre-
dation because he roamed with bad COM
many at night ana N.ss drawn into the
te1Eptation bhs5 turks ia the dark!
1.-The Bloodhound idca should do more
than anything else II favor Of the curfew
ordnance. Tho authorities Of st. Joseph
and Indianapolis, where the curfew has
been established for some time, report an
almost complete e~xtirpation OF hoodlum-
iSfl. tiiE EDEJO u O14l1lSG ' 4kCA IL % fJAOBoSOA
to e~xtern1inate with b~loodhounds."
Two years age Mrs. Eliza Harris, who
was Tor a lo1g period the lnatron of the
four courts Of St. Louis, wrote to the
eighth annual convention Of the Curfew
association as follows:
II can count so ZONE who have been
arrested on an average of eight times a
year for the last ten years in this city.
These women have from girliiood been
frequenters Of prison celssand do net seem
at home in any other place. Many of
Thorn, to my own knowledge, wero street
hoodlums before they grew cut of their
teens. Tho majority of Ghsm died an early
death since / came here. What q blessing
TO mankind II some association had begun
this reform in their childiloodI'
There is practically no opposition On the
part of those dealing with al classes Of
criminals to tho curfew ordinance. The
shcritfs Of the United States, in national
convention tTo years ago at Denver, passed
resolutions indcrsing tho curfew and
called upon the city councils in all parts
OF the United States to pass the ordinance.
One Of their number stated that its en-
forceinent voala mean reducing thieyery,
robbery, hold ups asd train ditching at
least rs per cent. At the snrno tino it
would be y less Of one-balf the fees Of the
sheriff. Continuing, he said, "If there is
q sheriff ii odsco who wants crime to
thLivo chat he Say get q living, he ought
TO resign