The Jersey City news., 1904-02-04
ANOTHER TROLLEY
CONSPIRACY.
Three Men Held in ST, 900
Bail for Faking In
juries to Defraud the
Public Service.
MANY PRO- EcUTIONS COMING
Claim Department Taking
Vigorous Measures to
Suppress These Out.

Alfred Stineberg, of No. 1914 Grand
street. Edward Alton, of No. 23S Monti-
cello avenue, and James Dummer, of No.
2091a York street, Jersey City, were ar
raigned before Police Justice Frank j.
Higgins in the First Criminal Court this
morning and held in $1,000 bail each for
examination tomorrow morning on the
charge of having censpired to defraud
the Public Service Corporation out of
5000 by means of suit for alleged in
juries to Steinberg, who declared that he
was thrown from trolley car January
6 and sustained a fracture of rib.
This is the second case of alleged con-
spiracy that John P. Feeney and the de-
tectiyes of the Public Service Corpora
Charles Steele Hall and EdwardB Brit
ton, of Woednere, Long Island. are now
awaiting trial on the charge of having
conspired to defraud the company out of
$500 by means Of a fake suit.
1t is said that other similar cases are
in preparation. In each of the cases
now before the court the Public Service
Corporation had men live with the prin
cipal conspirator and claimant for dam
ages and learn all that was going on
with his confederates. These detectives
will be produced at the trials. In the
year last past, Mr.. Feeney alleges, the
corporation has been mulcted out of
thousands of dollars by means of fake
damage suits.
The claim department has decided to
take vigorous methods to prevent the
wholesale robbery of the Public Service
Corporation, and will prosecute to the
limit the conspiracy charges.
The three prisoners arraigned this
morning were arrested late last night at
the rooms Of Stineberg, where they were
comforting about the case. The arrests
were made by Detective Bennett,
Roundsman Robinson and Policeman j.
w. Murphy of the Headquarters staff
Chief of Police Murphy has secured
from Alton and Dummer confessions of
their part in the conspiracy. Stineberg
is known to the police. He was recently
released from New York State prison,
where he had served six and one-half
years on ten-year term for having COM
mitted arson in New York City.
Stineberg alleged that he was pas
senger on trolley car of the Public
Service Corporation on the evening Of
January 6 and that at Henderson and
York streets he was thrown from the
car because of the conductor starting the
car before he had alighted. He had, on
January Z, a fractured rib, which he al
legged was the result of the trolley accl-
dent. DIR. Hornblower and DR.. Morgan
Jones certified to the fact that rib
was fractured.
The number which Stineberg alleges
| was on the car on which he was riding
| at the time of the accident, the trolley
| company declares is not upon any car
in the service.
Chief Murphy, said he was married and
| has two children. He had been out OF
work fo rsome time. While an agent
for the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
| Company last December he had become
| acquainted with Stineberg. Stineberg,
on January Z, he declares, came to him
and asked him to accompany him to the
! law Office Of Louis Merton and there
| swear that he had seen him thrown from
a trolley car on the night previous and
/ that the accident was due to the care
lessness of the conductor. He did so
He was to receive $25 for making the
false afidavit He committed perjury
giving as excuse that he needed ths
money for his family. Drummer swort
that stineberg was to give him $40 fol
his testimony.
stineberg has retained Henry Melosh
/ He insists that his claim for damage il
valid one and denies the conspiracy
charge.