The age-herald., 1902-03-09
BY JOHN MARTHoL.

fame, who would shine in the limelisht glare of publicity, none can eclipse Will liam Travers Jerome. Explosions, mur- ders collisions, vice, all bring him to tbN front. His task is Herculean, his energy superb. It Is really amazing to see the work that has been cast upon his office He inherited from hls predecessor the Patrick-Jones murder case now on trial and the re-trial of Molneux. Since Ian uary first have come the Voepel murder. This Is the case of a woman aged 45 murdered with knife in her bedroom early in the morning. Her son was ar rested by the police and discharged for lack of evidence. As yet no indictment and no arrests. The Brooks murder. A young, beautiful and attractive girl. aged 19. arrested on fragment of evidence Coroner's jury inquiry passed over and examination held before a magistrate A great deal of scandal freely ventilated and little evidence obtained. Accused's counsel claims ability to prove an alibl at proper time. Procedure of District Attorney novel, but not effective Me- Auliffe murder. Coroner's Jury claim the dead man, a witness against Wardman Glennon, was murdered; newspaper press cry the man was removed" as threat ened to intimidate witnesses against po- lice. District Attorney accepts theory of death by accidental injuries. All these crimes, the Patrick, Burns, McAulffe and Voepel cases, are without precedent in the criminal field they cover.
 
 Then comes the awful disaster in the Park avenue tunnel. Jerome appears on the scene and interrogates witnesses. He proposes to seek the principals in the affair, to pass from servant to master, from employe to employer. A shiver passes over the financial world. Railroad' presidents stand face to face with indict- ment. The white-washing committee goes to work and poor devil of an en- gineer Is indicted. Then comes the dyna- mite explosion and the wreckfng of the Murray Hill Hotel, hospitals and houses. Again amid broken glass and over the yearning hole made by the dynamite stands Jerome An investigation begins As yet nothing done beyond the District Attorneys strenuousness exhibited by punching a Coroners clerks nose. Hor- TOTS on horrors accumulated The Park Avenue Hotel burns down and nineteen more lives are lost. Another investiga- tion and nothing done
 Again another class of woe The aero battle, oratorical Parkhurst complains of the open saloon. Jerome's views on sa- looms are not an indorsement of the law Par1hurst writes to the Governor, the Governor writes to Jerome. At once Jerome proceeds to care for his own head he sees the sword of State drawn for his neck He appears In two cases of excise violation and gives notice that he will force police captains to do their duty He threatens indictment of police cap tains. Promptly the captains respond and "a dry season. is once more the order of the day and the night. And now comes the notice in the public prints that the merry hum of the roulette wheel and the click of the faro dealers box Is heard throughout the county. Will Jerome out with his axe his hammer. his sleuths and serve warrants? The dull days of the saloon and the closed house or the gam bier have a "bearish tendency on the