The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-02-25

i ON the conviction OF crime Inc sefereS
penalty should always be meted out =
this class OF people.
| Nine hundred and forty-eight persons
were arrested for the commission Of crime
against property. one hundred less thai
/ last year. One hundred and eighty felon
lfous entries of stores and dwellings were
leffected during the day time, from A. M
ito P. NJ. and two hundred and eighty
four during the evening and night tours
| But one robbery reached the amount o.
lone thousand dollars, four as high as nvs
hundred dollars and the remainder were
of small amounts
| The total value Of property reported az
stolen was s25.SS7.S4. against s2S,47i.1s las'
YEAR. The amount recovered by the po-
| lice and restored to owners was sio'ooa
| against sS,66a the previous year
Our usual system of guarding vacant
| houses during the absence Of the occu-
pants was adhered to last summer. Five
hundred and eighty-ive were looked after
and visited, doors and lower windows ex-
| amined six times each twenty-four hours.
The result of this watchfulness is to be
appreciated when it is known that but
four vacant houses were entered and
robbed.
by my direction Inspector Archibald
and a squad of men made systematic
investigation of suspected names upon the
| lreg. .sery for voting. About twe1ve hundred
names were inquired into with a result
that six hundred and seventy-one were
found TO be illegally thereon. Many Of
those names were put down by people
who appeared in person, the majority
were registered by the affidayits of over
jealous partisans who were either per-
sonally acquainted with the men whom
they registered or were told the individual
resided at the place indicated In the
former cases we were unable to find any
one at the places given as their resi-
dences In the latter ave found those
registered TO have removed to other parts
of the city or were dead. In others of
those cases names were duplicated and
some were non-voters. The atlantis were
asked to come to these headquarters and
explain their conduct; no prosecution was
entered into as it seemed to be but fol-
lowing a custom, as our subsequent ac-
tion would prevent these names being
vote upon. In other cases, however, We
foun what appeare to be felonious at
tempt to pad the registry and in those
cases arrests were made.
Before election day we sent list of all
the names found by us to be Illegally upon
the registry to each of the political parties
and list was also sent to each polling
place where those names were Illegally
registered Many arrests were made of
people who attempted to vote on these
names.
This duty was done in an absolute fair
and impartial manner, all the investiga-'
tions were made by policemen in pairs,
one of each of the principal political par
ties working together.
The policy of this department for years
back has been to do all within its power
to aid in an honest election. In my opin-s
ion we very materially helped out in that
direction last November
Twenty fugitives from justice who fed
from other states were captured in our
city and sent back to the jurisdiction
from whence they. fed, We apprehended
four Of our criminals In other States and
brought them back for trial.
The twelve detectives constituting the
detective squad under the command of
Inspector Archibald have continued to
demonstrate their usefulness by many good
arrests. Among the most important cap
tures was the arrest Of the Hin and Fish
er gang of burglars in the northern part
of the city. This gang of thieves con-
sisted of Benjamin Hill. Joseph Fisher.
Joseph Tillewine and Wilbur Fuller, their
headquarters were at Hilis home on
Leonard street, from where they operated
through Bergen, Passaic. Union and Es-
sex counties. They committed seven bur-
elaries in this county and also through
parts of the State of New York. Detec-
tives Gallagher and Hottie for nearly two
weeks watched Hills house from a room
in a house across the street. The detec-
tives were finally rewarded by seeing Hill
leave his home with a bundle and after a
long chase Gallagher caught his man.
Hottie continued his watch until Gala
CHER returned. when the house was sur
rounded by Captain Wohlleben and the
Sixth Precinct reserves. Fisher was found
In bed asleep in Hill's house and arrested
A patrol wagon full of stolen property
was found in the house and a lot of pawn
tickets for jewelry and siiverware- Tile
wine and Fuller were subsequently cap
tured. Portions of thirty-one burglaries
were recovered by this arrest. Inspector
Archibald and others OF his squad ably
assisted in this important case.
Another good arrest was that Of man
who had forged and uttered a number Of
checks upon our merchants. he was traced
to Philadelphia and captured by Detective
Larkins.
still another good arrest was that OF two
colored men who had held UP and robbed
man on the street of a large sum of
money. Detectives Prescott and Lee To-
Gated these men at Coney Island and
brought them back. They got ten years
in prison.
The detective squad made eight hum
dred and ninety arrests or over one-tenth
OF the entire amount during the year
Some months ago received number
OF green goods circulars from people in
the South and West that had been mailed
in New York city. The people who re-
ceived these circulars were told to tele-
graph by Western Union Telegraph Com
pany to Claremont station on the Central
Railroad or to Western Union office at
Danforth and Ocean avenues. soon
discovered that the actual swindling did
not occur in this city, but as this fact Is
only known to those who do business with
tho green goods people the good name of
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