The sun., 1905-11-05


burgh has increased over 100 per cent. IN
1880 II was S3lS 334, This year II iS sBSl 800.
Perhaps the most amazing revelations
that have been made concerning barelaecu
grating by, the UdellrinE were brought OUT
the other claY by Supervisor John Temple,
ton. he IL a candidate on both the CHiHens
and the Democratic ticket for Supervisor
from. the First ward. The 0del gang
offered him the nomination on the machine
ticket, He couldn't stomach the croWd,
and refused. He was assigned to look AFTER
Coroners' accounts, among other things,
There was Il Coroncr's case reported from
Goshen on one of these bills. The toro-
ner had charged 50. the physician
s5 At Goshen Supervisor Templet9n
met the son Of the dead man Temple
death le replied that 1t was cancer OF
the stomach. Death had come after long
illnees His father was ~ years old. rem
pleton asked the son how it. came to be q
No Coroner had been near his home, nor
had doctor been there fora week or two
previous to death.
Supervisor Tcmpleton found the Sheriff's
bills in even worse condition. On Decem-
ber ?S 1903, Just four Gays prior to Sheriff
Herman twho was rut in offce by Odeil
and who is a rampant Odellitel going out OF
Office, the Rccorder of Middletown com
mittnda man for four months. Herman had
ut four days of tns, Sheriff Gumaer getting
tie laIance, which carried the time to April
70. A few days Eefo q the man s term ex-
pir, i bench warrant was sent to hold the
man in Jail. The warrant was dated April
49, and the charge began on that day al
though the man was llready there on the
roll. On June another warrant was
served and back went the charge to some
time IN May. Boarding prisoners is profit
able,
4 tramp was sent to Goshen Jail for ten
days. Next day he was taken i'll and
charge Of S5 was made for taking him to
Orange Farm, There was a charge ofSl6
for watching the man, and another charge Of
81 for taking him hack to Goshen. The law
gives cents mile for the transportation
of prisoners. The Sheriff, taking ten
prisoners from Newburgh to Goshen, charges
$50, or S. for each man.
The visiting committee of the Board OF
Supervisors makes two or more visits an
uuclly 10 r2ch Of the iaiIs. One of their
duties is 70 report the number Of prisoners
in jail at the time of their visit. On October
20 they found 81 prisoners, The Sheriff
charged for 81. On June II the committee
found but rs in confinement. The Sheriff
charged that day for 80.
The most fragrant illustration OF the
Ode brand Of graft is described by Mr.,
Tempeton in this way:
During the last two weeks Of Sheriff
Herman'S term there were a number OF
persons reported to have been committed
during four days by Justice Of the peace
at Chester. Some of the names struck me
as cllriously familiar. thought it would
bear Investigation. | found the names
on that list to be those of men who are
honest. straightforward citizens Of New
burGn, honorable as the best of citizens,
men with excellent reputations yet there
were their names one after another on the
criminal records of the county OF Orange.
Here are the names with the commit
ment numbers, and Ncwburgh people know
these men we'll:
7l-Coe B. Atwood, farmer at Aims House.
7?-James Ieghorn icynan. $50 Ann street,
7j-John Nandermarh. mill hand, 2s7 Ann
stree.
SO Henry Armstrong. engineer. 3l6 Wash
S7-,Lyman BEDFORD. formerly West New
% Norman Buchanan iceman. "A Lake
street.
N3-Danel Hogan. Lander street.
44-Ihumas Jamtson, foreman, 10 Carson
avenue.
Io7 george Owen, Ann street.
lOs-Fred MCEwen, florist, ll3 broadway.
lI?-Arthur kershaw. general yard master.
Erie. 10 Liberty street.
ll3- levi Jones.
iiI-Charlns Hall. laborer. 345 Broadway.
I2Q-lames McMtrkin wholesale butcher.
Az Broadway.
The only explanation which has been
made by Sheriff Herman is that the bills
were all right and he couldn't help the men
Eeing committed under the names given,
Col. Weygant has started movement to
have these and other facts placed before the
District Attorney. Whether the revolt
against Odellism succeeds or not tiHre will
We no letup. Col. WeyEant says in tho at
tempt To expose whatever crookedncss has
cen going on under the protection Of Boss
Odell.
Next Tuesday night the clean citizens Of
Newhurgh will know the answer to the ques-
ton that Col. Weygant has been asking:
is Odeilism stronger than. decency?
There is fair chance, despite all the power
the Boss wields, that the question will he
answered tlatly in the negative and that the
gang will lie turned out but even in the
event of the Oddities triumphing again, the
fight will not stop. The citizens who object
to licensed prostitution, to rank misgovern-
ment and the fattening of Odell cattle at the
public II ough do not intend to give over.
This is fight, says Col. Weygant, that
has got to be fought to finish 1t we can't
kill the snake this tme,we are sure to scotch
it badly. It is a fact that Newburgh people
are beginning to understand, for the first
time, perhaps, what Odel has been to his
home town. We are putting the facts and
them if they believe the purity Of their own
terruptedly of dsorderly houses, brazen
street walkers. saloons that are agencies of
prostitution, insolent violations of the ex-
else law and all such features of the Hon.
B. B. Odells Ueneticent rule We are asking
if they care to support this sort of thing out
of their own pockets. Sooner or later, JUS
az sure as there is a God in heaven, we'll rid
the city Of Newburgh of the Odell gang"