The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-01-07
RECORD NUMBER OF
ARRESTS MADE 1912
Police Hale Many Into Court
Blf Town is Peaceful.


That Morristown's police force is
ALERT and ION its job is evidenced
by, the number of arrests made duI-
ingN, 1912. a total Of 710. But It's e1.
ficienev is shown, too, by the lack OF
sarior,s crimes in the town. The
.sdrunia and disorderly" we always
have With us but the street fights, a
commonS occurrence of the life of the
town years. ago, are now very infre-
uuent. There were seyenty-eightI
more arrestss made last year than IN
1910 and tha total number, 7lO, is
the highest ever made in the town.
Chief of Police. ., Frank Holloway re-
ports 10 the bPard Of aldeglnen that
it cost sl2,7e2)2s to run the depart
ment last yeaP
For disordArIy eonduct,A Including
drunkenness. pfnfanit ity, fighting, loifer-
ing and incoriigible. there We're BOB
arrests made fand for gambling, beg
ging, boister9fsness. abusive remarks
on the STREET. etc. the police gath
cred in 270( The balance of the ar.
rests were made for infraction of the
town ordinances or for criminal Of
fenses.
The police arrested 432 on view of
the officeIr and 2SS on complaints.
The cases were disposed of as fol,
lows:-S9ntenced to jail, 157; fined,
312; baIed, 80; committed to await
grand Jury action, So; reprimanded
and,/ dismissed, SO; dismissed, AZ.
police Justice Pierson tried 269 cases.
SJustice Howard 120; Justice Quayle
$50 and Judge Mills one.
Of those arrested 507 were resi-
dents of the town, 159 non-residents
and 54 tramps. The arrests included
126 colored and forty females and
ranged in age from seven to seven
ty-one.
Chief Holloway made 81 arrests,
Sergeant Morrison II, Roundsman
Rolf 30, Roundsman Holly SO, Patrol
man Naughtan SO, Patrolman Calla-
han 81, Patrolman Young SO, PATROL
man Meeker 81, Patrolman Wildey
IA, Patrolman Burney 60, Patrolman
Jennings 81, Doorman Vorholz 100,
Chanceman Collins 10, Private Noun
ted Officer Osborne 5, Watchman
Curley 1, Special Officer Paynter /.
The members of the force lost only
fifty-seven days during the year,
death in their families and illness
being the causes.
But there are lot of other things
done by the police besides making ar
rests. There were 631 persons giye2i
lodging in the lookup; twelve lost
children were found and restored to
their parents sixty street lamps were
reported out during the year; elev-
en- delinquents were served with
notices to remove snow and ice,
against SO in 1910
Sixty-five calls We're received auto
matically from the sewer ejector
chambers and reported to the Nor
ris & Somerset Electric Co against
So calls last year. Twenty-three fire
alarms We're rung in from police head
quarters, sixty-five stores found un-
locked and uncared for at midnight.
The police surgeon, Dr. George l..
Johnson, was summoned and an
swered to thil'ty-eight calls. A bag
gage wagon was used twenty-one
times to transport helpless "drunks"
to jail. The police received 400
complaints and reports and investi-
gated them and for which no arrests
were made One hundred and eighty
five truant school children were
rounded up during the year against
103 the previous year.
Chief Holloway reports the peace
of the town to have been better last
year than for a number of previous
years. Only one burglary and num-
Der of small thefts were the worst
offenses. Good results are mani
tested from the curfew and traffic or
dinances. The chief recommends the
purchase of patrol wagon. A small
auto wagon, he says, can be pro
cured for a nominal sum and would
more than pay for itself in the good
work of patroling the outlying dis
tricts of the town and in carting
helpless t'drunks'' to Jail and also
in answering hurry calls, and for the
Injured. At present the police have
to depepd upon the generosity of
citizens, in borrowing the use of an
auto if hurry call is received.