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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 37.

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A Mayor Arrested for Refusing to Enforce Sunday Laws

By W. A. C.

THE Sunday-closing crusade in Atlantic City, N. J., reached a sensational climax on September 4, when the mayor, Mr. Franklin P. Story, was arrested on the charge of “misdemeanor in office for alleged failure to enforce the Sunday-closing laws.” Two weeks before, the mayor had refused to receive an order from State Attorney-General Wilson, placed in the hands of one of the local “reformers,” demanding that he give immediate attention to forty-eight alleged violations of the Sunday laws. His excuse for this was that the order was “not served legally.” The order for his arrest was likewise sworn to by an agent of the local reform organization, and served by the secretary of the New Jersey State Law and Order League. The mayor gave five thousand dollar bail for his appearance later before Magistrate Hughes, but up to date no further attempt has been made to prosecute him. In the meantime, however, the reformers have kept up their crusade. W. A. C.