The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-01-03
HObOKEH'S POLICY
QUEEN.
Young Girl Of Eighteen
Caught With the Goods
on Yesterday.
FOLEY A MARK TOO EATS THE EVIDENCE
Would Have Swallowed the
Slips But the Police Made
Her Cough Them Up.

Eighteen-year-old Kate Kelly, daugh-
ter of the late Policy King of that name,
was garroted ON the street by two de-
tectives in Hoboken yesterday afternoon
until she disgorged three policy books"
which she had tried to swallow after
being placed under arrest. When the
detectives finally recovered the tissue pa
per slips they were badly damaged. but
enough Of them remained to serve as con-
yincing evidence that the girl has been
engaged in the same illicit enterprise
which resulted so often in the arrest
of her father.
When Hugh Kelly died his widow was
suspected of carrying on his policy busi-
ness in the rear of her unpretentious
candy shop at No. 81 Adams street.
The police watched the place csoselv. and,
although several arrests We're made from
it, they We're never able to link any Of
Kelty's family with the game.
When Chief Hayes began his crusade
against policy he assigned Detective
Kiley and Quinn to keen a steady watch
on the place The detectives enga ged an
empty apartment across the street and in
three weeks made as Ilany arrests. They
We're convinced with the Chief, however,
that the real suppression of the enter
prise lay in arresting one of the Keltys,
and had been directing their energy in
this direction since last Monady.
Kate Kelly was seen to leave the shop
every day at about noon and come in the
direction of this city. The detectives
concluded that it was she who was doing
the running" for the game, and CON
cluded to arrest her yesterday.
They didn't approach her after She
left the place until she had gone a good
distance up the block. Then they r,lsh-
ed from Il .doorwa ysand told aer.slle was
under arrest The girl is big for her
age and when she began to struggle the
men had all they could do to hold her.
TRIES TO SWALLOW SLIPS.
She finally got one arm free and grab
bing something from the bosom of her
jacket thrust it into her mouth.
Caught with the goods, eh?" said
Quinn, letting go her other arm and en-
cireling her throat in his grip. Kiley did
likewise. Neither is ordinarily a rough
man, but they realized that it was use
less for them to arrest the girl if she
got rid of the slips, and they began to
give a practical illustration of the fgura-
tive strong arm of the law.
s'Spit EN- cut. little one said Tiley.
..1hey can't go down."
They're bad for the digestion, lass, .
warned Quinn.
The girl is about as plucky as they
come III IIoboken, and she didn't eject
/ the slips until she sunk to her knees and
was on the point of fainting from ex-
haustion. When arraigned before Re
| corder Stanton today she waived exami-
nation, and was held ii $500 bail for the
Grand Jury. An hour later Ki'ey and
| Quinn arrested John Murray, Of No. 31s
| Newark street. who, they claim. is another
atfachee Of the Kelly policy mill
POLICY NOT GAMBLING.
Chief Hayes has received a Letter from
| Captain F. Norton Goddard, the policy
crusader of New York, complimenting
him upon his crusade against the game
/ i'll HobokcI.
Policy is not gambling, says Cap
! tain Goddard in his letter. 1t is oe.t.
larceny syndicated in an immense con
| splracy against the poor and ignorant =
/ The writer goes on to say that the
game has been pretty nearly eradicated
from New York. but its ultimate sup
! preston vii lnot be practicable if the
/ police of nearby municipalities permit its
/ promoters to flourish within their bali
/ wicks.