Palisadian., 1925-11-13
State and County
News in Brief
Omitted from LAST weeks paper
due to lack Of space.)

No trace has as yet been discovered
OF Marion Brazier, the pretty young
woman who made her escape from
Bergen County's model Jail at Hack
ensack last week by the simple expedi-
ent OF saving a bar of her cell win
dow, after picking the window lock
with safety pin. Alice Cedarlund,
aged seventeen, of Ridgefield Park.
who escaped with her, was returned
to the jail by relatives with whom she
took shelter in New York. The Bra.
zier woman, said to be a clever forger
has a record of leaving a trail of
worthless checks both here and in
New York, being wanted as well by
the Metropolitan police for a clever
jewel robbery. The escape was not
without touch of humor, the Brazier
woman leaving note behind her in
which she "kidded" the Jail officials
1t stated that the saw with which she
severed the cell bar had been con-
cealed within her corset, and that it
had been overlooked when she was
searched by Mrs. Terhune, of whom
she wrote, "She couldn't find a flea
on hairless dog" She closed her
missive with laugh on the police.
The North Bergen police declare
that during the night they had been
informed by a taxi driver that he had
driven an escaped prisoner to the
Weehawken ferry-it being the Cedar
lund girl-and that when Lieutenant
Kissel, of that department, phoned the
Hackensack Jail to tell them to count
their prisoners" he was told mo one
ever escapes from this jail" Kissel
replied that better jails than that in
Hackensack had been broken. The
escape Of the notorious prisoner was
only discovered the following morn
ing when the matron made her rounds.
Most of the towns in the county are
making arrangements for their annual
Red Cross roll call which will be fol-
lowed shortly after by the annual
Christmas seal sale, the proceeds of
which are used in fighting tuber-
culosis.
New Jerseys death rate for Sep
tember was the lowest so far estab-
lished for any month in the year,
according to the report issued by the
Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State
Department of Health. There were
but "a deaths from pneumonia, al
though the average for the previous
twelve months had been 204 per
month. tuberculosis claimed 1873 dur
ing the month, the previous average
being 220 deaths per- month. The
September rate is almost a point less
than September, 1924
The nursing staff of the County Hos
pital at Bergen Pines held a charming
Halloween party and dance in the
gymnasium of the nurses home. The
convalescent patients staged "a party
of their own in the social hall of their
building.
One of the largest verdicts ever
rendered in New Jersey in breach
of promise action was handed down
last Saturday morning by petit jury
in the Circuit court at Hackensack
after trial which lasted three days
and presided over by Judge William
A. Smith. The winner was Miss Caro-
lyn Cohon, of s Bryant place, West
wood, and who will receive $4,000
from Jack Blackstone, wealthy New.
ark chemical manufacturer, for his
failure to live up to his promise to
marry her.
The plaintiff, who is pretty and
strikingly attractive, shed tears as she
told of her shattered romance, and
introduced love missives written by
Blackstone whose love, she charged,
grew cold when he learned that her
people were not rich. John Matthews,
who represented the defendant, de-
clared he would appeal the verdict.
"A short cut between Hudson County,
Hackensack and North Bergen County
points became an actuality on Satur-
day when the underpass at the West
Shore railroad on the boundary line
between Bogota and Ridgefeld Park
was opened to traffic by County Engi-
neer McClave. The improvement,
which took months to complete, be-
sides abOliShing a dangerous grade
crossing will considerably lessen traf
fic on congested portion of the Ber-
genpike in Ridgefeld Park and do
'away with the very dangerous double
crossing at the Little Ferry station.
Jersey City is summonsing and fin
ing apartment house landlords who
fail to give their tenants adequate heat
on cold days.
The State Board of Education to
whom was referred the matter of en-
ploying teachers who smoke have not
as yet rendered their decision and in
the meanwhile Miss Helen Clarke, of
Secaucus, whose use of the weed
brought the question to public atten-
tion, has been employed in the schools
of that town in a clerical capacity.
The decision is being awaited with in
terest throughout the state.
State Motor Vehicle Commissioner
William l.. Dill announces that the
issuance of automobile registration
plates for the year 1926 will begin
November Is, following the custom in
stituted last year. An entirely new
system will be inaugurated with the
advent of the new plates. In order
to avoid having the department
swamped with requests for low num-
bers by persons thinking that low reg
istration numbers will mean special
privileges On the road, the plates for