Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-17
DEPUTIES ARE
CHARGED WITH
MANY THEFTS
Accused OF Holding Up and
Robbing People, Hug and
Kiss Girls.

Much dissatisfaction has been ex-
pressed in public over the acts of
Sheriff Albert Bollschweiler' depu-
ties about the plant of the Ameri-
can Smelling and Refining Company.
Some of them have openly admitted
they committed highway robbery
while on duty and boasted of the
fact, while one of the youngest depu-
ties on Saturday boasted of the
crime of holding up a girl and hug
ging and kissing her.
VIII Sue Authorities.
Peter Larsen, a painter, we'll
along in years, who lives at Amboy
avenue and Neville street, was ar
rested, robbed and roughly han
died by deputies Friday night and
asserts he will commence suit
against the authorities. He claims
he was roughly handled and search
ed twelve times in the improvised
guard house and despite the fact he
warned the deputies he had some
money and valuable papers on his
person, he claims he was robbed Of
about SO and two checks. He pro-
tested to being searched SO many
times, but says he was told to shut
up OF Suuult W CluDDIuB'
The tactics of several of the depu-
ties, whom he classed as thugs and
thieves from the underworld, so dis
gusted oe of the Newark men en-
ployed by Jerry O'Brien, that he quit
working as deputy Saturday night.
He viyidly described how a number
of the deputies came in after shift
and gloated over highway robberies
and other crimes committed during
the night. One young deputy from
New York, rough-looking and
poorly clad individual, told the
Newark man Saturday morning he
had gotten "a dollar and four bits
from one guy meaning he had
robbed a man of $3.50. Before that
a prisoner in the improVised guard
house at the southerly end of the A.
S. and R. yard complained that a
deputy had robbed him of SO while
searching him for concealed weap-
ons. Other individuals have de-
clared that they were robbed of va
rious amounts after they had en-
tered within the dead lines" and
were searched for concealed weap-
ons.
The police were notified on Sat
urday that two deputies were bring
ing whiskey to the guarding camp
for use by the deputies who craved
for drink They were not caught.
Deputies Want More Money.
Deputies under Lieutenant
Northrup at the A. s. and r. plant
complained on Saturday about re-
ceiving So and less day. They de-
clared the agency who engaged them
received SIS and Sc man and there
fore wanted a larger division. They
threatened to strike. The difficulty
was overcome when number or
them quit and returned to their
homes. Other deputies fought over
possession of a Uunited States Army
gun in front of the main entarnce
to the A. S. and R. plant last night.
When complaint was made to the
sheriff and acting mayor on Satur-
day that the dead line" extended
too far into the city proper, 1t was
removed northward close % ne
southerly side of the United Lead
Works plant. The ruling was
broken last night and deputies went
as far southwark as Pulaski avenue
Joseph Massopust Complains.
Joseph Massopust was one the com
plainants who registered KICKS WIN
Sheriff Bollschweiler. He declared
it a disgrace that men were allowed
to come into the city as far as his
place at State and Wayne streets
and shoot. He claimed he was near
ly shot at his home Friday night
following the trouble when seven
young men and boys were shot.
The men engaged as deputies
most strenuously objected to, 1t is
declared are from a New York
agency. A majority of the men sup
piled by Jerry O'Brien. a former
local man, now of Newark, appear to
be approved of, as being able-bodied
men who act with discretion.