Abstract

Scab City: II. Making Jersey City Safe

This article presents information on criminal activities in New Jersey, during the local elections. Albert Kosrington Edward Topp, and Cornelius E. Klop, who went to police headquarters to make inquiries about the charges against these men and to have bail set, were given no information and were arrested shortly after leaving police headquarters. It was three days before counsel the cases came up, the prosecution moved for dismissal, since there was no charge against the prisoners. Frank Hague, perennial Mayor of New Jersey, brooks no opposition, especially at election time. In the 1929 mayoralty campaign he found himself up against an orator by the name of James Burkitt, anti-Hague "Jeffersonian" Democrat, hailing originally from that citadel of freedom, Alabama; but long a resident of New Jersey City.