Some may guess as far back as the Pagano administration of the 1970s and 1980s. Others a little further back, to the time of national unrest and upheaval in the 1960s. But surely not as far back as the '40s when Schoeffel led the State Police during the Second World War! No, not as far back as that...Further!
The first account of a Trooper suing the Superintendent of the State Police was during the summer of 1924, when the State Police was just over two years old! The case of John J. Manyon v. H. Norman Schwarzkopf was argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court on July 17, 1924, and decided on September 20th of that year. The case stemmed from the dismissal of Corporal John Manyon #62 the previous year.
Very little is known about Corporal Manyon; when he left the State Police he somehow managed to remove his entire personnel file. What is known is that he was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States when he was eight years old. He was a veteran of the First World War, during which he was gassed. This led to his contracting Tuberculosis and he spent a good amount of time in the Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Glen Gardner, New Jersey. He lived in Arlington, Hudson County and had little contact with his parents and brother who were living in Manhattan at the time.
Manyon enlisted in the New Jersey State Police in September 1921, as a member of the first class. He was assigned badge number 62 and upon graduation on December 5, 1921, he was assigned to Troop "A", somewhere in Burlington County. The Troop Commander at the time was John C. Weinmann. Weinmann was one of "the appointed" - the four men who did not attend the Training School but rather were appointed in 1921 by twenty-five-year-old Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Superintendent and founder of the State Police, to serve as the initial officer corps for the organization.
John Christopher Weinmann was from Trenton, New Jersey when he joined the State Police, but he was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in December 1884. He and his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a year old. He was a veteran, having first served in the Cavalry from 1902 to 1904 and later, during World War I, as a Supply Captain in the Infantry. H was married and he and his wife lived on Chancery Street in Trenton, New Jersey. [1]
When Captain Bell resigned as Troop "B" Commander, Captain Weinmann was sent on April 7, 1922 to replace him. [2] The majority of the Troopers in Troop "B", however, did not care much for Captain Weinmann as Troop Commander. They had little or no respect for him, and many felt that Sergeant John Lamb, his subordinate, actually ran the Troop. According to Trooper Howard Dean, "I have heard him contradict the Captains' orders. When the Captain would give an order Sergeant Lamb would say, 'No, we will do it this way.'" [3] It was said that Corporal Manyon would make a good commander of Troop "B" because the majority of the men in the Troop liked him. [4]
Manyon and Weinmann had their first of many run-ins while both were stationed in Troop "A". Manyon was known as an agitator and trouble maker. "In my opinion...I had consistently opposed the element in the Organization which are disrupting it and have constantly stood in their way since I have been in the Organization. They have been trying for over a year to destroy me and didn't even let me alone when I was fighting for my life at Glen Gardner." [5] This opposition, as he called it, eventually caused him to be transferred to Troop "B" - specifically the Washington Sub-Station in Warren County.
Friction between the two men continued in Troop "B". It was most likely fueled on Weinmann's part by a combination of frustration at Manyon's actions and jealousy of his popularity tinged maybe with a little insecurity. Manyon was probably frustrated and even confused that his Troop Commander did not support his over zealousness. Regardless of the root causes of their feud, things got so bad that Lieutenant King J. Powell, the commanding officer of Headquarters Troop in Trenton, was sent on March 9, 1923, to interview Manyon about the issue.
Although the details of any previous incidents are not known, Lieutenant Powell documents the events of March 10, 1923 in interviews he conducted later in the month with all the involved parties. Early that Saturday morning, Troop Commander Captain John Weinmann and the Troop "B" Inspector Corporal James Kelly made their way from Troop Headquarters in Netcong to the boarding house that served as the Washington Sub-Station in Warren County. They were going there to confront the Station Commander, Corporal John Manyon, about several issues that had been annoying the Captain. "There have been no horse patrols out from that station. A boy at the house takes the horse out for exercise. The motorcycle has not been out on patrol. The way Manyon talked to the Colonel when he was up here for inspection made me so mad that I could have torn him to pieces. He is a Bolshevik A-1." [6]
After making a couple of stops at the County Prosecutor's Office in Phillipsburg and at a five-and-ten-cents store, the two Troopers made their way to the Washington Station. The station was a boarding house run by Mrs. Jackson. The Troopers had free use of the kitchen, dining room, living room and the upstairs bedrooms as well as the stables in the back yard.
When Weinmann and Kelly arrived in their Velie, Corporal Manyon and Trooper Thomas Littell were sitting in the dining room. Trooper Littell let them into the living room and then went out back to the stables to check on the horses. "We found Manyon in bedroom slippers and the green sweater he wears." [7]
While the three men stood in the living room, Captain Weinmann "began to upbraid Corporal Manyon." [8] Captain Weinmann "...told him he was doing the same thing as he had done in Burlington County. 'You are starting the same agitation that you started in Burlington. I have held my temper for a year now and I am going to have a show-down with you.'" Weinmann made it clear that he was running the Troop and not Manyon. [9]
Weinmann accused Manyon of antagonizing the Warren County Prosecutor's Office. According to Weinmann's statement, "Mr. Smith, the Prosecutor, said (Manyon) was trying to run his office and (Manyon) was carrying waivers of indictment around with him, having them signed above the Prosecutor's Office." Weinmann also demanded to know why "that son-of-a-bitch Powell" was at the station the night before and why was the Dodge Troop Car not out on patrol? [10]
He further berated Manyon by saying, "...you are a dirty rat, son-of-a-bitch." At this point, Manyon stopped the Captain and asked him to join him upstairs so that the landlady, Mrs. Jackson, who was in the kitchen, would not hear their argument. He also called Trooper Littell in from the stables to serve as a witness. Captain Weinmann, Corporal Manyon, Corporal Kelly and Trooper Littell then went into "the larger of the two rooms occupied by us and we closed the door."
Once behind closed doors, Weinmann verbally landed into Manyon again. "I want to know why that car wasn't out! I want to ask you a lot of questions. I want to tell you what I think of you. You are nothing but a dirty rat and a stool pigeon...all you are good for anyhow is adultery and fornication and stool-pigeon work!" [12]
Not surprisingly, this angered Manyon who told his captain that "'when you speak to me like that you are not speaking as my Troop Commander; you are speaking as Drunken Jack Weinmann. When you say I am a stool pigeon you are lying and you know it!'" [13]
According to Trooper Littell, Corporal Manyon added, "'Now listen, Captain, you are making this too much of a personal matter. I'm not stool-pigeon and if you say so, you are a damned liar. If you want to talk on personal matters like that the only way you can talk to me is out behind the barn.'" [14]
At this point, things got ugly. Manyon had partially turned away from his Captain towards Trooper Littell. "As I turned my head in a half-left face, Captain Weinmann struck me a strong blow in the jaw, raising a lump and splitting my tongue, at the same time showering abuse on me. I turned and clinched with him, striking him an overhand blow with my right hand in his left eye. He fell across the room from the force of the blow on to the bed breaking the spring frame . he dragged me with him as he fell and the situation was that Captain Weinmann was lying on the collapsed bed and I was kneeling [on] him. I clasped his throat with my left hand and held him there." [15]
During the altercation, Manyon said that he saw Corporal Kelly moving towards him so he told Littell, to "'take care of Kelly.'" Later, Kelly asked, "'what [did] you mean when you said 'Littell take care of Kelly,' I can take care of myself!'" and with that he began to take off his coat. Trooper Littell tried to diffuse the situation. "'Now listen, Kelly, we don't want any more violence but if you're looking for something, I'll help you take off your coat!'" Kelly immediately backed down and put his coat back on. [16]
Meanwhile, Manyon refused to let Weinmann up "until I tell you what I think of you." Eventually releasing him, Manyon continued saying that "I won't recognize you any more as Troop Commander. To me you are only 'Bull-Shit Weinmann.' I am going to take this matter up with the Colonel!'" [17]
Corporal Manyon again told Weinmann he would not recognize him as his Troop Commander but looked upon him as a "disorderly drunkard." [18] When Manyon gave his statement to Lieutenant Powell, he immediately accused Weinmann of being drunk. "The moment he entered the room, it was plain that he was drunk, the smell of liquor was on his breath..." [19] Powell pressed him on this. "Are you reasonably sure that he was under the influence of liquor?" "Yes," Manyon replied. "I smelled liquor on his breath and I am not ready to believe that a man [who] acted as he did was sober. He was what I call a very drunken man." [20]
Trooper Littell, in his statement, agreed that Weinmann was under the influence because "'you could smell it all over the room. I didn't know whether it was Kelly or Captain Weinmann so...I leaned over to see if it was Kelly. You could tell very plainly that it was not Kelly.'" [21]
Weinmann denied the accusation - an accusation that had been leveled against him before. "'I take Troopers with me on that account, to stop being framed. He [Manyon] tried the same thing while he was in "A" Troop.'" Weinmann went on to declare, "'I am going to resent that 'being drunk' proposition thing. I am going to put [Manyon] in jail for that...I want this thing brought to a show down. If they make that statement 'drunk' get it down on paper and when he does he is gone.'" [22]
Manyon refused to take orders not only from the Troop Commander but also from Corporal Kelly, the Troop Inspector. '"Corporal Kelly is my junior [and] the very fact that he is in your company would prevent me from taking orders from him even if he was my senior.'" [23]
Manyon then told both Weinmann and Kelly that they had to leave the station, that they had caused enough disturbance and that he would be taking the issue up with Colonel Schwarzkopf. Manyon and Littell left the room but were followed by Weinmann who stormed after them, continuing his ranting; this time complaining that the station's telephone bill was too high. "I told Captain Weinmann that if he did not stop his [verbal] abuse I would knock him down and [I] asked him once more if he was going to leave or not. With that Captain Weinmann and Corporal Kelly left...saying they would be back." [24] By three-thirty, they had returned to Troop Headquarters in Netcong. [25]
About a half hour after the event, Corporal Manyon telephone Major Mark O. Kimberling, the Adjutant and Deputy Superintendent, at Department Headquarters in Trenton. Kimberling was out of the office, so Manyon told Sergeant Brown, who had answered, that it was imperative that he speak with the Major immediately because "Captain Weinmann had been at my station drunk and caused a disturbance." A short while later Kimberling returned the call and Manyon told him all that had happened, and stating that he no longer recognized Weinmann as his Troop Commander because of it. "'Did I do right under the circumstances, Major, and what shall I do?'" he asked. "'Just sit tight and await further instructions from this office,'" came the reply. [26]
At around 9:00 the following morning, the phone rang at the Washington Sub-Station. As Corporal Manyon began to answer, he was cut-off by the voice on the other end. "This is Corporal Kelly talking." he asked to speak to Trooper Gardner whom he told that Corporal Manyon was relieved of duty and that Trooper Raymond was now in charge of the station. [28]
Manyon got back on the phone and told Kelly that any orders sent to the station had to go through him. Kelly's only reply was to once again say that "'you are relived Corporal. You are relieved from command of that station...I tell you, you are relieved!'" [29]
Corporal Manyon immediately called Lieutenant Powell at Headquarters in Trenton and explained the situation. Powell told him that Major Kimberling was aware and was "attending to it." Manyon then called the State House at about 1 PM to try to locate Kimberling. Trooper Wilton answered the call and told him that the Major had gone with Captain Weinmann to see Colonel Schwarzkopf at his home in Newark.
"After waiting all afternoon I called up the Colonel at his home in Newark explaining the situation briefly and asking for orders. The Colonel said that Major Kimberling was handling the situation and I had better report to him." [30]
That Monday, March 12th, Lieutenant Powell was given verbal instructions to conduct an investigation of the events of the previous Saturday. During his interview with Captain Weinmann, he asked, for the sake of the Troop, what did he suggest be done to finally resolve the issues with Manyon? "Get rid of him," Weinmann said. "The Troop was running fine; we never had any trouble until he came up here." [31]
Corporal Kelly, it turned out, was the most difficult witness to interview because he refused to say anything! "I made a statement the other day to the Colonel. I told the Colonel the whole story and that is all I intend to say." Although he was steadfast in his refusal to speak, he did add that, "if there is no action taken in this case, I intend to have a warrant sworn out for [Manyon's] arrest." [32]
Lieutenant Powell left the Washington Station and headed to Phillipsburg where he interviewed Mr. Sylvester C. Smith, Jr., the Prosecutor of Warren County. Powell was surprised to learn that, contrary to Captain Weinmann's accusations - that the Prosecutor had said Corporal Manyon was antagonizing and trying to run his office - Smith said that his only objection was that Manyon "...is a little over-anxious" and "over-industrious." He said that Manyon does not have the "power of elimination" where he can pick and choose the more important crimes to prosecute. Smith said that if Manyon were to lock up everybody he felt that should be, "we would lock up 3/4 of the people" in the county. [33]
While Manyon needed someone to correct him at times, Prosecutor Smith admitted, "that Corporal Manyon has considerable detective ability." Finally, Powell asked Smith outright if it was true that Manyon was trying to run his office to which he replied, "No, he does not." [34]
Later, when Prosecutor Smith gave his official deposition, he reiterated that "Manyon was industrious, that he brought minor matters to my attention as Prosecutor and used a great deal of my time in that way...Manyon is energetic, industrious, and as far as I have been able to learn, a hard worker in his position." [35]
Colonel Schwarzkopf called Corporal Manyon to his office on March 25th and demanded his resignation because he refused to obey an order given to him by Captain Weinmann. Manyon refused to resign. "I consider the demand for my resignation and the circumstances surrounding the demand to be absolutely unjust." He argued that when Weinmann punched him, his official capacity automatically terminated. "I had a perfect right to place him under arrest then and there...that very moment he was a criminal under the laws of our State, having committed an assault upon an officer of the law." [36]
Rather than resign, Manyon demanded a Court Martial, with both a lawyer and stenographer present. "I am not questioning the fair-mindedness of the Colonel or Major Kimberling when I make this request. I merely want the proceedings spread upon the record in order to allow me to exercise my right of an appeal to the courts." [37]
On March 27, 1923, charges of insubordination and disrespect toward a superior officer were preferred against John J. Manyon. The charges specified that,
Corporal John J. Manyon did...at, Washington, NJ, on orLess than a week later, Schwarzkopf issued Special Order Number 34. Effective on April 1st, Captain J.C. Weinmann "...is hereby relieved from command of Troop "B" and is hereby attached to Headquarters Troop...until further notice." Captain Charles H. Schoeffel was placed in command of the Troop in his stead. Corporal John J. Manyon was also "...hereby relieved from duty with Troop "B"...and attached to Headquarters Troop...until further orders." [39]
about March 10th, 1923, use insulting, insubordinate and
disrespectful language toward an officer of the New Jersey
State Police, who was then in execution of his office, by
saying to him, 'When you speak to me like that, you are
lying, you are not speaking to me as my Troop
Commander. I will not take an order from you, you are not
my Troop Commander, you are only Drunken Jack
Weinmann, Windy Weinmann, Bull Shit Weinmann, Hot
Air Weinmann, and I will not recognize you as my
Superior Officer' or words to that effect. [38]
Manyon's hearing was on April 7th at 10:00 in the morning and was conducted at State Police Headquarters at the State House in Trenton. Schwarzkopf heard the sworn testimony of three witnesses for the prosecution and one for the defense. Francis M. McGee, who stood in for the Attorney General, represented the State Police and Martin P. Devlin represented Corporal Manyon, who was also present. The hearing was public, and the testimony was taken down stenographically as Manyon had requested.
Corporal Manyon was charged with violating a Special Duty of the New Jersey State Police by "refusing to give prompt obedience to all lawful commands as such dities [sic] are set forth in General Order #1, Par. 2, of December 5th, 1921..." [40]
After hearing all of the testimony, Colonel Schwarzkopf concluded that Corporal Manyon had no authority to disobey his Superior Officer when ordered to relinquish his command. Schwarzkopf stated that Manyon should have relinquished his command when the order was given, "subject to later confirmation or rescission from the Adjutant or Colonel." He was not justified in his refusal to obey that order and the order to obey Corporal Kelly." [41]
Schwarzkopf felt that the entire affair was "reprehensible" and that, although he was not at this time commenting or passing judgment on the actions of Captain Weinmann, "I conclude that any impropriety of conduct on his part did not justify Corporal Manyon acting in the manner proven." [42]
In the end, Schwarzkopf found that the charges against Manyon had been "fully proven to be true" and that Corporal Manyon was "guilty as so charged."
I find the cause as charged a just one and that his usefulnessAs he said he would, Manyon filed an appeal with the New Jersey Supreme Court. "I am sure to give the 'Kaiser' [Schwarzkopf] an awful beating in the Supreme Court, and he will have to give me back pay and allowances for the time I have been out. Of course I wouldn't go back, but I can and will beat him." [44]
to the Department is at an end and direct the removal from
office in the Department of State Police of Corporal John J.
Manyon. [43]
No longer a Trooper, Manyon was required to turn in his uniform and equipment, however he failed to do so. Major Kimberling proposed that he submit an affidavit to the effect that he lost it. "Of course, I shall do nothing of the kind, for the very good reason that I didn't 'lose' it." In a letter to Major Kimberling, dated May 1, 1923, Manyon explained that when he was relieved of duty and ordered away from his Station on March 30th, his uniform and equipment was left behind intact. He claimed that Mrs. Jackson, the landlady, and the Troopers at the Station last saw it on April 3rd. "I returned to the station on Wed. April 4th. I had two suit cases with me when I came to the station on the 4th to use in packing up my things...There was nothing to pack up when I got there. So no one knows what became of my clothing, equipment, camera, rain coat and documents?" [45]
Manyon wrote that he immediately phoned Kimberling and Sergeant Cunningham, who was temporarily in command at Troop "B" Headquarters in Netcong. He also spoke to Kimberling in person about his missing property. "As soon as Captain Schoeffel took command at Netcong [as Troop Commander], I told him about it...the only reply I ever got to my complaint of the things having been taken was: 'you are responsible for your equipment, Manyon!'"
Manyon continued his "agitation" and "propaganda", as Kimberling referred to it, in another letter dated May 9, 1923:
I have another matter to call to your attention...While I wasWhile Manyon continued his complaints against the State Police, the Warren County Prosecutor's Office had a complaint of its own against Manyon. Prosecutor Sylvester Smith, Jr., submitted a phone bill to Colonel Schwarzkopf in a letter dated May 18, 1923.
stationed at Washington a citizen of the town presented me
with a Harley-Davidson motor cycle and side car, the cycle
in need of some repair, but the side car practically new. I
wrote a Special Report in duplicate on the matter, setting
forth that the machine and side car were presented to the
New Jersey State Police. I have since learned that Sgt.
Cunningham destroyed my Special Report, and he and
[Trooper] Righter converted the cycle to their own use...At the
present time Righter calls this machine his own property...I
wish that you would see that the [motorcycle] is credited to
the State police, or allow me to dispose of it as I see fit --
which certainly would not be to deed it to Cunningham or
Righter. [46]
Manyon, while still in service, made several telephone callsIt would be over a year before the State Supreme Court heard the case of John J. Manyon vs. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The case was finally argued on July 17, 1924 before Associate Justice Thomas W. Trenchard. Tenchard had been on the bench since 1899. "He was a 'tall, dignified, scholarly looking man with a keen mind and a forceful demeanor.' Noted for his decisiveness, he was a 'stickler for the proprieties' in the courtroom." [48] Martin Devlin continued as Manyon's lawyer and both Francis Mcgee and Attorney General Edward Katzenbach represented the State.
from the office of Smith and Smith...total due and owing
$1.80. These calls were charged to our private firm
account. Manyon never paid for these calls. It is a most
reprehensible practice and done without my consent or
permission, and although he was warned by the
stenographers in the office that these charges were against
the Firm account of Smith & Smith, and had nothing to do
with the State. [47]
It took Trenchard two months to render his decision and he delivered his opinion on September 20, 1924. After examining the record, and in light of the arguments presented by counsel, Trenchard concluded that the court should not interfere. "Under the statute the Superintendent of the State Police has the power to remove a corporal for sufficient cause, upon charges and after notice and a hearing." He continued that, "in my judgment the prosecutor [Manyon] was charged with conduct justifying his dismissal, and after due notice was duly and fairly tried before the proper authority as requried by the statute and was found guilty upon evidence which formed a rational basis for the judgment against him. The judgment and order of removal were therefore legal, and must be affirmed, with costs." [49]
Meanwhile, on July 30, 1924, twenty-three-year-old Postal Clerk Eugene L. Stack was working his early morning shift at the local post office in East Orange, New Jersey. His duties included meeting the "newspaper train" that carried mail, newspapers and "home-going suburbanites" at the Lackawanna Railroad Station. It was expected that the train would also be carrying at least $50,000 in Federal Reserve notes.
Stack met Train 353 at 4:50 in the morning and, with the help of assistant baggage man Golden B. Treadwell, gathered all of the mailbags onto a cart that he then wheeled into an elevator to take him to the street level. At the same time, they noticed two men jump off the rear of the train as it pulled out of the station.
While Stack wheeled his cart to the elevator, Treadwell walked over to one of the other baggage men to pick up a letter. The two strangers were now making their way up the platform, pretending to be drunk. When they saw Treadwell put the letter in his pocket, they thought he was reaching for a gun. The strangers "opened fire...from a distance of about ten feet. The shots went wild. Stack, in the meantime, leaped into the waiting elevator and stood guard next to his mail. [One of the strangers] fired again but he missed his mark the second time." Two bullets however hit Stack in his right thigh and his right thumb.
"'I backed into the elevator, where I quickly took my revolver from the holster...the men kept coming toward me, one of them following me into the elevator. I got behind the baggage truck. One of them fired low and I returned the shot. He must have fired three or four more times." [50]
The bandits tried to get away. One made it down the stairs to a waiting taxi and escaped. The other, who allegedly fired the first shot, was about to descend the stairs when "...Stack aimed once more and pulled the trigger. The bullet pierced [his] heart [and] he fell down the flight of steps and was picked up dead a few minutes later." [51]
Several local policemen who were going off duty heard the shots and ran towards the train station. They rushed Eugene Stack to the hospital and removed the dead criminal to the morgue. "The slain bandit was first identified by William Bross, a policeman of Orange, New Jersey, who [was] also an ex-member" of the New Jersey State Police. He had heard the commotion and wandered into the morgue simply out of curiosity. He was stunned to discover that the dead man was John J. Manyon, the ex-corporal who had been recently dismissed by Colonel Schwarzkopf.
In Manyon's pockets, the police found $60 "and some loose change, a 14-inch lead pipe, a police whistle and a key similar to that used for police alarm boxes." The editor of the State Police newsletter, the Triangle, wrote that this ordeal was "conclusive proof that the Colonel acted in the proper manner and that he was absolutely positive of the fact that Manyon was not the type of the man for our organization when he made his decision to dismiss him." [52]
The $50,000 that Manyon and his confederate thought was on the train was, in fact, sent on a different train. There was little or nothing of value for Manyon to steal from the train and before the robbery, young Eugene Stack had never fired a pistol. However, an autopsy showed that Manyon was not long for this world anyway; his Tuberculosis had gotten much worse and he would probably have lived only about another six months. [53]
Ironically, John Manyon died in the early morning hours of July 30, 1924, while the State Supreme Court was still deciding his suit against Colonel Schwarzkopf.
NOTES
[1] Weinmann, John C. Application for Commission. August 10, 1921.
[2] New Jersey State Police. Special Order 163. April 7, 1922.
[3] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[4] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[5] Manyon, John J. to Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Refusal to submit resignation. March 26, 1923. Manyon had been gassed during World War I and suffered from acute tuberculosis. He spent time in the Glen Gardner asylum for Tuberculosis patients in 1922.
[6] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[7] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[8] Schwarzkopf, H. Norman. Court Martial Summary. April 10, 1923.
[9] Powell, King. J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[10] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[11] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[12] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[13] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[14] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[15] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[16] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[17] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[18] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[19] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[20] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[21] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[22] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923. In his deposition, Warren County Prosecutor Sylvester Smith, Jr. stated that Captain Weinmann had visited his office and that he “appeared in a very jovial disposition. I smelled liquor on his breath. I cannot swear that he was intoxicated or drunk.” (Smith, Sylvester C. Jr. Affidavit. April 6, 2923).
[23] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[24] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[25] Schwarzkopf, H. Norman. Court Martial Summary. April 10, 1923.
[26] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[27] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[28] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[29] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[30] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[31] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[32] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[33] Powell, King J. Investigation. March 21, 1923.
[34] Smith, Sylvester C. Jr. Affidavit. April 6, 1923.
[35] Manyon, John J. To Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Refusal to submit resignation. March 26, 1923.
[36] Manyon, John J. To Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Refusal to submit resignation. March 26, 1923.
[37] Manyon, John J. To Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Refusal to submit resignation. March 26, 1923.
[38] Kimberling, Mark O. Charges Against Corporal John J. Manyon, New Jersey State Police. March 27, 1923.
[39] New Jersey State Police. Special Order No. 34. March 31, 1923.
[40] Kimberling, Mark O. Letter to M.P. Devlin, Attorney for Cpl. John J. Manyon. April 2, 1923.
[41] Schwarzkopf, H. Norman. Summary of Court Martial. April 10, 1923.
[42] Schwarzkopf, H. Norman. Summary of Court Martial. April 10, 1923.
[43] Schwarzkopf, H. Norman. Summary of Court Martial. April 10, 1923.
[44] Manyon, John J. Letter to Tom [Littell?] April 30, 1923.
[45]Manyon, John J. Letter to Major Mark O. Kimberling. May 1, 1923. The letter continues for almost a whole page with a series of what could best be described as “accusatory questions” before getting back to the topic of his missing uniform.
[46] Manyon, John J. Letter to Mark O. Kimberling. May 9, 1923.
[47] Smith, Sylvester C., Jr. Letter to Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf. May 18, 1923.
[48] Falzini, Mark W. Their Fifteen Minutes: Biographical Sketches of the Lindbergh Case. iUniverse, Bloomington, IN., 2008. Page 136.
[49] New Jersey Supreme Court. Manyon v. Schwarzkopf. 100 N.J.L. February Term 1924.
[50] New York Times. Dead Mail Bandit Once State Trooper. August1, 1924.
[51] New York Times. Dead Mail Bandit Once State Trooper. August1, 1924.
[52]Death of Manyon Proves No Mistake in Dismissing Him.” Triangle. Volume 1 Number 5, July 1924, page 2.
[53]“Death of Manyon Proves No Mistake in Dismissing Him.” Triangle. Volume 1 Number 5, July 1924, page 2.
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Manyon, John J. Letter to Mark O. Kimberling. 1 May 1923. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
Manyon, John J. Letter to Mark O. Kimberling. 9 May 1923. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
Manyon, John J. Letter to Tom [Littell?]. 30 Apr. 1923. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
Manyon, John J. "Refusal to Submit Resignation." Letter to Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf. 26 Mar. 1923. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
Manyon v. Schwarzkopf. 100 N.J.L. February Term. New Jersey State Supreme Court. 1924.
New Jersey State Police. Special Order 163. 7 Apr. 1922. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
New Jersey State Police. Special Order 34. 31 Mar. 1923. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
Powell, King J. Investigation. 21 Mar. 1923. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman. Court Martial Summary. 10 Apr. 1923. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
Smith, Jr, Sylvester C. Affidavit. 6 Apr. 1923. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
Smith, Jr, Sylvester C. Letter to Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf. 18 May 1923. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
Weinmann, John C. Application for Commission. 10 Aug. 1921. NJ State Police Museum, West Trenton, NJ.
