Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — MORE NEW JERSEY JUSTICE. [ARTICLE]
MORE NEW JERSEY JUSTICE.
An Illinois Alan Fineil Because Me Wore Uuhber I’ootß. They do things queerly in New Jersey, say a New York telegram. A young man dressed in the height of fashion, with his feet encased in a pair of rubber boots that reached to h's knees, was walking hurriedly through Summit avenue, Jersey City, late the other night. A number of burglaries have been committed in that part of the city, and Policeman Rockford met the fashionabydressed man, and concluded that he came under the head of suspicious characters, and arrested him. At the police station the prisoner, who d°clared his arrest an outrage, gave his name as Isaac P. S. Olivar, and said his home was in Tompkinsville, 111. He was locked up. He told Folice Justice Davis that he was on a walk ng tour when arrested. “Why' did you wear rubber boots?” a-ked the justice. “I suppo.-ed I had a right to wear any kind of boots or shoes I p.eased. ” replied the prisoner, “lou are fined $10,” sa d the justice. Hr the aid of popular sulscripti n, and after much agitation, the Metropjliton Musetjin in New York will hereaf-er be open on Sundays " , Mb. Ow is a city ' ouncilman of Eldorado, Kan.
