Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-27
is DISPLEASED
WITH MARSHAL
Mayor BoIIschweiIer CRITICS.
es William Walters Way of
Serving as City Official.
MUST RESPECT COURT
Will Prefer Charges Against
Him Unless He Does His
Duty in Future.

As a result of complaints made to
Mayor Albert Bollschweiler steps
will be made to have City Marshal
w. w. Walters pay more strict at
tention to his duties for the city.
When given warrants to serve the
mayor says he must execute them In
the regular way and not return them
with excuses as to why and where
fore he was unable to secure the
persons wanted. The mayor declares
he must uphold the dignity Of the
recorders court and not appear there
in unfit clothes, or with cigar In
mouth and hat on head. He must
be quiet and in every other way help
to preserve the dignity characteris-
tic of a court room.
The mayor asserts that 1t has
come to his attention that Mr.. Wal
ters earns his monthly salary of $75
from the city rather easily. He does
comparatively little in return for the
money, it is declared, Very often
as in the case with Dog Catcher Ole
Olesen, he returns with no prisoner
but with numerous excuses. The
court has endeayored through Mar
shall Walters to have Olesen appre-
hended for the past week or more,
and because the marshal came with
excuses and no prisoner, the case
brought against him by Leo
Schwartz, had to be postponed so
many times that witnesses complain
ed of being called SO often.
Mayor Bollschweiler says that If
Mr. Walters will not live up to the
letter of his appointment and act
as he should in the performance of
his duties as city marshal, he will
prefer charges against him. The
city's executive insists that he must
bring prisoners before the bar when
ordered to do SO by the proper au-
thorit1es. He declares that he must
keep a clear and correct record of his
work and act while in the court room
in a decent and respectable man
ner. In the opinion of the mayor
such tactics might be tolerated in
small place, but Perth Amboy, he
says has outgrown them.
Mayor Confers With Marshal.
Mayor Bollschweiler says he spoke
to the city marshal yesterday after
noon and told him that his tactics in
handling that position would have to
be changed. He adds that he inform
ed Mr.. Walters that If his position
with the city interfered with his pri-
vate business he had better give up
eitherEone or thS other. He declares
he informed Mr. Walters that future
complaints would result in action be-
ing taken against him, as there were
plenty of men fully competent of be
ing marshal who would gladly accept
the position.
The mayor told a NEWS representa-
tave that Mr.. Walters need not stand
behind the Democratic administra-
ton of the city and do as he pleased,
for he, as head of the police depart
ment, would not tolerate such action
and being in that position he could
make things rather unpleasant for
the marshal. The city's chief execu-
tive asserts that he will demand of
Mr.. Walters that he live up to all Or
ders of the recorders court SO long
as he serves as city marshal. There
must be so slip-ups in any branch
of the work, the executive states,
and to that end he will endeavor to
keep a watchful eye on the city mar
shal in the future. He declared en-
phatically that the shake-up was not
temporary, but that the work would
be carefully watched in the future.
He conferred with Recorder Henry
w Kehoe on the subject last night,
shortly after 7 o'clock.
Friendship Don't Count.
That the marshal must perform
his duties in a proper and conscien-
tious manner is the mayors demand.
He declares Mr.. Walters friendship
or his party affiliations cannot stand
habipd him IN LOT i'm 40 az he D1aaSpS
If he shirks duty People must obey
the order of the courts, Mr.. Bollsch-
weller contends, and If they do not,
the city must have marshal compe-
tent and willing enough to go and
get them and bring them before the
bar of justice. And, Perth Amboy's
courts are as important as those in
any other place of the Ind, he states,
and they must be respected accord
ingly.