The Sunday Tatler And Jersey City Express

TOM FUREY'S STORY
Jumping into the River to Escape His Boarding House Keeper.
A peculiar case was before Police Justice
Stilsing in the Gregory street Police Court
yesterday morning. At about nine o'clock
Friday evening the Erie officials received a
dispatch from the conductor of train 150,
directing them to have a policeman on
hand to arrest a passenger. He was dripping wet, the dispatch said, when he
boarded the train at Nyack, and the man
who put him on board said that he had
picked him up in the river. The
fellow gave the name of Thomas Furey. He
said that he had been employed in the Cro-
ton aqueduct pipes at Tarrytown—which is
opposite to Nyack—but that the laborers
had broken into a riot, and that he was
obliged to jump into the river to save his
life. He was locked up. Chief Murphy
telegraphed to Tarrytown for information,
and received in answer a telegram informing him that there had been no riot in
Tarrytown, and that Furey was neither
wanted nor known there. Chief Murphy
concluded that the man had, while in liquor,
imagined that there had been a riot in
Tarrytown, and impelled by his heated
imagination, had leaped into the river in
fright. But subsequently the story came
out. Furey owed the man with whom he
boarded $40. He took French leave when
he got his money, and the landlord pursued
him till Furey leaped into the river to
escape him. He will probably be discharged
by Justice Stilsing.