Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-01-18
4Garry'ss Fifty Years Of OfficiaI Life.

With the close of the year 1911,
ends fifty years of my official life,
when my term of Constable expires.
For the United States:
In 1861 was appointed Postmaster
which Office ] held for twenty (20)
years, being principally conducted by
an assistant who rented my store
property. In 1897 was appointed
Deputy United States Marshal for
four years. In 1902 l was re-appoint-
ed, served for one year and resigned,
on account of failure of eyesight
For the State of New Jersey:
Food Inspector to regulate the sale
of "Oleo'' in six lower counties. Dep
uty Fish Warden, Sergeant-at- Arms
Of the Senate Committee in the in
yestigation of the Hudson County
election cases occupying 104 days.
Door-keeper of the House of Assem-
bly, two sessions.
For Gloucester County:
Sheriff for three 90 years, special
Deputy for ten Sheriffs to assist in
criminal cases, acted detective for five
prosecutors of the county, including
the investigation of the Hillman-
Seideman murder case, this | worked
alone, and produced 127 witnesses
who formed chain Of evidence that
caused conviction. Chief of Washing
ton Park for four (4) years. Deputy
Sheriff at Glassboro to preserve or
der during the glass-blowens' strike
in 1890. Special Officer at Camp
Meetings, Fairs, Excursions and Pic
MICS. Agent for the s. p. c.. A.
For Woolwich Township
Constable for forty-four (44) years.
Collector of Taxes and Overseer of
the Poor for sixteen (16) years.
For the Borough of Swedesboro: e
Marshal for four (4) years. Night
watchman in Philadelphia seventy
four (74) nights over a plant expected
to be injured by an employee who was
discharged. At Cape May City six (6)
nights in plant expected to be en-
tered by burglars with false keys.
In Swedesboro National Bank eight
cen (I8) nights during the erection of
a new vault. Served writs for forty
three (43) Justices of the Peace of
the county in every township.
i have held four of these offices at
one time. With the exception of Past
Master, they were originally unsoli-
cited, none of them had yearly sal
AIRY, principally depending on fees
only, and after my work is done there
is no pension or half pay for services
rendered. All the reward have for
my work is the thought that | have
given protection to the citizens of the
community by many arrests that /
have made, and never failed to ans
wer their calls day or night. | have
made over seven hundred arrests in
six States, in eleven counties of New
Jersey from Cape May to Ocean coun-
ties and from Atlantic Ocean to the
Delaware river, including five charged
with murder, twenty-four (24) horse
thieves, and have recovered thirty
two (32) stolen horses in four States.
Have received acquisitions from sew
prisoners here for trial; and as
Deputy U. S. Marshal removed pris-
oners for trial to Richmond, Va,
Pittsburg, Pa, Baltimore, Nd, and
Washington, D. c.. Have done de-
tective work for nine prosecutors of
the State, and for Pinkerton's, Lin
den's and F'rankIin1s Agencies.
have never been seriously hurt in
my work, but have had several mar
row escapes and never ran after or
from a man, and have caught many
by my head
4 challenge any two-legged officer
in the United States, being partially
deprived of the use OF one of mine
since childhood, to produce such a
record in the same line of business,
as to the number of offices filled and
the time of service. / invite the
public to visit me to receive proof of
my work, having over nineteen hun
dred (1900) clippings of the news
papers in scrap books, with the names
of those arrested with their crimes.
On November 7th, last, I was re-
elected constable for one Cd year,
to fill the unexpired term of one who
had left the State.
GARRY"
nee Henry Clay Garrison.
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