Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Alexander Davidson, Sheriff of New York; James Bowe, Warden of the Ludlow Street Jail; Deputy Warden Philip Kiernan,. David McGonlgal and Jacob Wertheimer, clerks in the Sheriff’s office, were arrested the other day to answer indictments found by the Grand Jury of New York City charging them with extortion, fraud and malfeasance in office. In addition, Bowe is charged with perjury in making false affidavits as to the number of persous in jail, and Kiernan with forgery in placing names on official pay-rolls to enable him to draw salaries never earned. Wertheimer is also charged with perjury. The slaughter-houses in Jersey City and Hoboken, employing 200 butchers, have been forced to close on account of the competition of dressed beef from Chicago.