Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — “Patsey” Gets There. [ARTICLE]

“Patsey” Gets There.

New York World. I For the thirtieth consecutive time “Patsey” Murphy been elected Constable of -Tompkinsville, S. EJ by the good citizens of that suburb. “Patsey,” as he is known to every child and adult of the village, is a character in the annals of Tompkinsville. Every ticket that has been nominated during thb past ten years for the suf-

frages of the citizens, whether Democratic, Republican, Labor or Greenback, has borne. “Pataey’s” name, and he points with pride to the fact that it has never been scratched. ' Murphy began his career in Tompkinsville when a lad, and, although he says he is not yet sixty, the oldest villagers say that they have a dim recollection of him as a watchman when they were boys. In his early life as a politician “Patsey” did n ot have such luck as receiving tbe nomination <jf both parties, and then he had to hustle to be elected. It was during the early part of the war that' he gained considerable notoriety and cash also by his doings as a guard at the soldiers’ camp on Staten Island. Before a soldier could leave the camp to roam through the village he had to obtain the consent-of “Patsey,” who was then constable of the village. Numerous residents of this'eity, who have spent a day hunting through the Staten Island woods for small game, know “Patsey” to their sorrow. He is credited with having invented the scheme of slipping A dead song bird into a hunter’s pocket and then arresting him for shooting it Although a Democrat of the Jefferson school, “Patsey” believes in securing the nomination of either of the parties in the 'field, and he usually gets there. There-has not been a' convention in Richmond county in twenty-five years that has not been graced by “Patsey’s” presence, and politicians say that he is always the first on hand. The salary of a Staten Island constable is naturally very small,but/'Patsey,” it is said, makes a very goed living out of the office. Beside* being constable, he is the official beach cleaner of the east shore of the island.