The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-03
ROUND UP OF TRAMPS
Thirty three Caught in Har
rison and Brought
Here.

Detective Daniel McNally, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, assisted by
three railroad employees yesterday after
noon raided a lot of hoboes and tres
passers at Harrison. Thitry-three were
rounded up, hustled into box car and
brought to Jersey iCty at seven o'clock
last evening.
The car was halted near the Waldo ave-
nue yard of the company and three police
patrol wagons conveyed the men from the
to the Oakland avenue police station
They were in charge of Actin Captain
Reardon and reserves from the First and
Second Precincts. With the exception of
Louis Marc, upon whom was found
thirty-three calibre revolver they were all
boxed as "disorderlies.'' Marc was addi-
tionally charged with carrying concealed
weapons. Three of a number of negroes
were accused of threatening to get square
with the detectives and those who assist
ed in their arrest.
The big square pen in the Second Grim
inal Court was packed with the offenders
this morning when they were arranged
before Acting Police Justice Macs The
Acting Justice had hard task before him
in disposing of their cases. Quite num-
Der in the gang were respectfully dressed
and they apparently gave a good account
of themselves. Detective AIcNally told of
the depredations of gangs on the railroad
company's properties and detailed the
round up of the gang in court.
Only two escaped sentence. One was
fourteen-year-old Albert Fisher, a bright,
sturdy, neatly dressed lad in knicker-
bockers, who said that tramps had stolen
from him the money he had to pay his
fare from Philadelphia to New York. He
had walked, he said, all the way from
Philadelphia and was in search of rela-
tives He had a letter in his pocket that
led the Justice to believe his story.
The other member of the group who
was fortunate enough to escape sentence
was Cornelius Snicker who gave his ad-
dress. as Newark. He was young look
ing hobo. He told the acting Justice he
was stealing a ride.
You're honest. You can co. said the
Justice.
1t was thought that the balance of the
gang would follow his example. Only
one did. The others all gave different ex-
cuses for being found on the company'S S
premises. Archie Whitehead, an intelli-
gent, tolerably well dressed negro said
he gave a brakeman half a bottle of
whiskey for a ride.
Marc, the italian with the revolver, and
William Frisbie, Charles Brown and John
Williams, the three negroes who threat
ened the raiders, We're sent up for six
months.
| The others were given three months,
with the Understanding that they could
write to friends to prove their respectable
| ity, and if they did they would be dis
charged from custody.
They were booked as follows:-Walter
| Sudden, Newark; George Tighe, Newark;
John Post, Jersey City; John Enwright,
Chester Pa; John Carr, Philadelphia; ;
| William Ferry, Philadelphia; John
Owens Joseph Winnich, New York; Ed
ward Morris, Gillicothe, KY; Edward B.
| Higgin, Harlem; Fred Westerton, Boston;
| William Frisley, Philadelphia; Henry
Fischer, New York: Benjamin, New
| York; Isaac Ruddon, New York Peter
| Campbell, Philadelphia; Charles Brown
| Fall River: Cornelius Snickerson, of
Newark; Albert Fischer, Philadelphia; !;
| Harry Cross, Newark; Marvin Rothery,
| Newark; Archibald Whitehead, Hopewell,
| N. j.. John Barlow, Scranton, Pa; Louis
| Marc, Newark; Frank Davis, Newark; !;
/ Harvey Luider, Newark; Martin Strauss,
| Philadelphia; Louis Tompkins, Newark;
| Patrick Devne, Newark; Anthony Hughes
| Harrison,