Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-04
TRUSTEES BLAMED
FOR JAIL ESCAPE.
Under sheriff HyIand Scores
= Freeholders' Prison Commit
tee for Not Hiring Keepers.

Under Sheriff James F. Hylano' pc
fore the prison committee OF inc
BOARD of Freeholders yesterday put
he blame for the escape of four pris-
oners from the county jail a month
az the custom OF using TRUSTEES
Tor the work ordinarily performed ny
keepers. d,
sheriff Monahan had beer invited
nv the committee to appear anu sive
req som for his request that Tour au-
ditional keepers be hired for Inc Jah'
He was unable to attend the meeting
or account of a death in his fanny
h,,+ WAS represented by the unoer-
sheriff. -.
There shouldn't be any TRUSTEES at
,up Ar uvland said, after he had
exnlained the need of the keepers ina
nad oeen ASIA Evans took exception to
this. -.
evans Defends Trustees
oI7sing TRUSTEES he said, is a goou
system. If judgment Is exercised III
their selection"
"Rut - objected Warden McGinnls'
at was a trusty who IL p'ssiOis
for the four prisoners To escape an"
n seems to me that a better selection
of a tr,,sty than that man could not
have been made"
Under the present system, the war
den explained, no Improvement can
re made on the method of guarding
the prisoners.
r,,,;s NOS In answer to a question by
Freeholderi Malta regarding the pos
eibility of distributing the present
force of keepers to bring a hlshe'
state of efficiency into the JAN man
agement.
The keepers at the Jail. the warden
went on. now work In eight-hour
shifts and are given a holiday every
six days. This, he said, gives them
ave free DAVIS every month, and they
are also allowed every fourth Sunday
off. $50
Appointments Are Tabled.
The committee laid the appoint
ment of the new keepers. whlcn VIII
mean an annual expenditure OF S4,ooV,
on the table.
During the discussion Under-Sherl1
uvland precipitated a clash with
~Ereeholder Malta by declaring that
4he sheriff was able to purchase better
and cheaper supplies in his W way
than nv the competitive bidding plan
which has beenin force for two years.
Stationery that had been purchaser
by the committee, of Which Mr. MAI
tia is chairman, the under-sherl1 de-
clared. was the cheapest that a ever
come into the jail.
Malta Defes Sheriff.
'If anybody says they were COM
PEELED to accept inferior stationery IN
the Court House purchased by the
stationery committee they lie" said
Malta. heatedly; "and l defy any
body to prove that they have.
"Sce here Hyland said, you'd
better not defy the sheriff 100 much
or | might tell something
You can't tell anything about me
that I'm ashamed Of" insisted Mat
tia. after which the subject reverted
again to the guard matter.
The committee against refused to
sign bills for supplies other than
food stuff, which had not been pur-
chased at its sanction. Those held
up are: Haussling e. Bladder, hard
ware, $685.; Roeber &c Kuebler,
drugs. 1921 and $23.74; c. H. Mckee,
horse shoeing, $17,3S; David Strauss
& Co., dry goods, $197; Red Horse
Harness Company. stable supplies,
$40, and r. Heller, drugs, -.
A fat refusal was made to paying
a bill of William Schriever of $9O.2S
for tobacco Tor the reason that the
money realized from the sale of the
tobacco to the prisoners had been
credited by the warden to the sher-
IFS account instead of to the free
holders.