The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-08-28
Get Back in Line
Auto Trap at Shrewsbury

Charges involving the illegal filming
OF over 100 motorists ON the road to
Eatontown thru Shrewsbury Saturday
and Sunday of last week likely will
be made by enraged automobilists
who were victims of an alleged
unlawful scheme of justice OF peace
Frank e. Vanderhoof of Long
Branch. The scheme finally went
amiss at the hands of Justice of
Elmer G Wainwright of Red Bank,
bur not until total fines of over 81 900
had been collected.
Scores of motorists were subjected
to humiliation during Saturday and
Sunday at the hands of the enter
prising justice, whose two consta-
bles one colored man, busted them
selves nabbing anyone who commit
ted the overt act of attempting to pass
slower moving cars.
The fines averaged So and costs. a
total OF $10.55 or this amount the
Justice pocketed So, the constable max
ing the arrest So. 80 and the state got SIS.
1t is possible that the state will return
its share of the fines and order the en-
terprising Justices returned also
Vanderhoof put in his appearance
Saturd ay morning at Shrewsbury
bringing with him Charles Robinson,
a negro and Irving Harrison. both OF
Red Bank. The Justices wife acted asI
cashier, keeping count of the fines on
a baseball score sheet. Fifty-four mo-
florists coming to the shore for holi-
days were arrested
Justice of the peace Wainwright got
wind OF what was going on. He hoped
a Carlo showed the Wallingford ofLong
Branch section 81 of the state motor
vehicle law, upon which Vanderhoof
hastily adjourned court. This section
provides that defendant must be ar
rested and brought before magistrate
on written complaint sworn to by the
arresting officer.
Vanderhoof had been filming motorists
on verbal charges, after merely taking
their names.
he recently made an arrest on
Main Street, Asbury Park, and told the
driver he would have to appear in
Red Bank for hearing. and Police
h ave sked: How GOMEZ,
Justice of Peace Wainwright Sc.
verely arraigned the saturnalia of ar
rests which motorists are complaining
of in the Red Bank section. On Ma
pie Street, seven property owners
have been sworn in az special officers
and a uniformed motorcycle cop annoys
drivers by trolling them at the
least suggestion of speed.
Justice Wainwright said:
These arrests are driving people
away from Red Bank and making it q
very unpopular place. The way
things are going a man can't drive at
any nominal speed without being ar
rested. | am very much opposedto such
tacties.,,
Vanderhoof's troupe of motor vehi Gle
reformers, it was said was augmented by
q Monmouth county official, one Harry
g. Borden, freebooter and reputed
special motor vehicle inspector. MIR.
Borden is native Of Shrewsbury where
the saturnalia OF arrests took place.
Armed with q great shiny badge that
nearly blinded motorists, so the story
goes, the freeholder-special inspector
made merry with Squire Vanderhoof
at the expense Of automobilists who
disturbed the complacency OF the
sleepy little village of Shrewsbury.
For some time motorists who have
been forced by circumstances to ne
gotiAte Shrewsbury and Red Bank
have reported the county official post
ed somewhat inconspicuously be-
hind a high rail fence in front Of
what is thought to be his home,
emitting rancuous vocal instructions
along this somewhat trite line:
Get back in linel Get back in
iinel Get back IN inel'
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