Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-16
BY DUKE WELLINGTON.

The action of the first April grand
jury in recommending on its retire
ment from duty that prisoners on be-
ing discharged from the county peni-
Tertiary at Caldwell be given more
than the ten cents cartare now al
lowed them, is worthy of the greatest
praise, and should not be allowed to
drop simply with the recommended
ton.
At the present time prisoners after
finishing their terms of Imprisonment
are given ten cents, just enough car
fare to bring them to the city of New
ark. They land in the city dead broke
and in many instances without
place to sleep or where they can get
anything to eat.
The result is that they are at once
forced to commit a crime in order to
live. If they were given enough
money to tide them over the first day
many of them would be able to find
employment and with the remem-
brance of the time spent in the peni
tertiary, some of it probably at hard
labor in the stone quarry, they would
take good care not to do anything
that would result in their being sent
back to the institution.
grand jury that brought forth the
idea of giving more money to dis
charged prisoners, said last night:
THE turning of prisoners loose on the
community with only ten cents in
| their possession really amounts to an
invitation to commit further crime,
for 1t makes it almost a necessity for
the friendless prisoner on his release
to commit a crime in order to live.
The ten cents given him by the peni-
! Tertiary officials is just enough to
provide him with carfare to Newark.
He is penniless when he gets OFF
| the street car in this city. He cannot
! get into the lodging houses without
money. If ,he hangs around the
streets he is spotted as a released
prisoner and is liable to arrest as d
vagrant If he begs on the streets
| he is liable to arrest, so for certain
class, the friendless, homeless sort,
there is really nothing else for him
to do except commit some crime in
order to raise money to live on. l
firmly believe that if given enough
money to support them for day OF
so until the released prisoner could
get his bearings and find work the
percentage OF men returning TO the
penitentiary a short time after their
/
In the hearing of the Hope-Donnel-
! ly suit and counter suit for SANDER
before Judge William p. Martin the
other day, 1t developed that the ap-
relation "crook" had been applied to
one of the parties by the other be-
ccause in a friendly poker game il
was discovered that one Of the men
! held six cards.
! After considerable argument be-
tween the lawyers in the case as te
whether the holding of six cards in
a. poker game would warrant one
party calling another "a crook,
/ Judge Martin settled all arguments
by quietly remarking: 81 believe botf
sides will agree that Ave cards is
generally accepted as constituting 9
hand in a game of poker"
County Counsel Benjamin F, Jones
as POSTMASTER at the testimonial din
ner to Director Walter A. Evans, o.
the Board of Freeholders, last Tues
day night, caused quiet laugh K
go around the Kruger auditorium b,
his manner of introducing the frs
speaker of the evening.
After quite a bit of fiowery Ian
guage, sextolling the virtues of tn
coming speaker during which at NJ
time did Mr.. Jones mention the nam
of the speaker, Mr.. Jones said: 1t
gives me great pleasure at this tim
to call on former governor of thi
State as the first speaker"
After getting that far Mr.. Jones
paused as thepaudience commenced t.
cheer, while former governors Ed
ward c. Stokes and Franklin Murphy
who sat on each side of Mr.. Jones
! looked at each other wondering Il
which one of them the POSTMASTER
was referring. They knew in min
ute when Mr.. Jones turned to Mr.
Stokes.
Just as soon as the news that Free
holder William Cardwell had intro.
duced and had passed a resolution
| granting all county employees wht
might be called into service in wal
with Mexico the payment of theil
full salary during the time Of sucf
service. had gained currency around
the Court House. there was a rush
of county employees to sign the
muster roll of Captain Patrick
| Creams company.
Cream, you may remember, started
| the organization of a company in the