The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-05-26

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ers."
THE SoMERvILLE CASHIERS TRIAL.-The
jury in the case of the first indictment against
ex- Cashier Frech was sent for Friday morn
ing by Judge Dixon, after being out all night.
The Judge inquired why they could could not
agree. One of the jurymen said the trouble
seemed to be the question Of intent, and the
jury would like instructions. The Judge
said the case seemed plain enough. The
false entry was made, and the bank thereby
deprived of its lawful evidence of an overdraft
by its depositor. On one ground only could
the jury acquit the defendant, viz that it
believed he did not know it was wrong to
make false entry. If it thought he had not
enough mind to know the wrong, it could ac-
quit, but it ought first to be satisfied that a
verdict of acquittal would not involve its oath,
which was to follow the evidence, and there
was no pretense that he was ignorant of the
wrong. The jury retired, and in few min
utes returned with verdict of guilty.
The jury in the second indictment-of lar
ceny for taking the $4,000 Edgar bonds and
selling them-came into court about 1890 a.
M, Friday, with verdict of not guilty. Then
an extraordinary scene occurred, for Judge
Dixon looked at the jury and said "Gentle-
men, your verdict is recorded. So it will
stand, and the defendant is acquitted. But
there was no defense, and be was, as you
must have been satisfied, guilty. In acquit-
ting him against the evidence and charge of
the court, you have committed a greater
crime against society and this community
than the defendant himself committed in fe-
loniously taking the bonds You are now
discharged" The Court in sentencing Frech
on the first indictment, said that he was too
young man to go to State Prison, and he
would be given opportunity to reform. He
was then sentenced to pay fine of $500 and
costs, and to stand committed until paid. 1t
is believed that the Lay Judges prevented the
Presiding Judge f.om sending Frech to pris-
on, and while class In the community are
glad of the result for his family's sake, all
tttt Tic NcfulCt VI tub becOuu jury 10 De
wrong, and the sentence too light The
Court has adjourned for the term.
An interesting paper on the subject of high
railroad speed was read before the Phladel-
phia Franklin Institute on Wednesday last
in which the prediction was yentured that
within the next five years railroad trains
would be run from Philadelphia to New York
in an hours time. Inasmuch as the schedule
time of the fast trains is now two hours, the
realization of the prophecy would be simply
marvellous. In this direction the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company has been
making the experiment of running train,
drawn by locomotive of tremendous power,
between the points named in an hour and a
half. The experiment was not altogether |
success, but gave promise Of a not distant
realization.
While the collapse of the Reading Railroad
Company will cause regret because of the |
large number of innocent persons who will be |
heavy losers, either as stockholders OR employ
ees, there are many whose sympathies will not |
be particularly excited in favor of that corpor-
alton. People will be apt to remember how
seriously 1t retarded manufacturing and other |
business through the workings of the odious
Coal Combination, of which the Reading |
Railroad Company was the head and front. |
Smaller companies were drawn into that com |
they would he driven out of existence.
The capitalist, whether he had his money
invested in pottery, planning MILL a factory
or foundry was as much at the mercy of the
Coal Combination as the laborer who worked
for ninety cents a day. All alike were swim
died by wholesale A man could not boil his
teakettIe without yielding up his pound of
flesh to these modern Sby'ocks But the
path they had entered upon was by no means
q bed roses. The miners demurred at being
thrown idle for months at time, just to ac-
those who wished to advance the
price of coal, and we're perverse enough to
strike when they were expected to begin
work. long struggle ensued, in which the
poor miners suffered much, and the members
of the combination sustained immense losses.
which have no doubt been the remote cause of
their ruin.
Tie capital stock Of the Reading Railroad
Company is $35, 900, 000 seven hundred thou
sand shares at par value of fifty dollars
each. On Saturday, during the panic in the
stock caused by the suspension, it sold for ten
dollars share, so that few bold capita lists
could have brought the entire stock of the
road for seven millions of dollars, or a con-
trolling interest for little over half that
amount.
Yesterday morning, Mrs. 8. ]. Chandler
aud a daughter of Adam Exton were horse
back riding, and when on the corner of War
rem and Hanover streets, the horse ridden by
Mrs. Chandler became unmanageabe and
threw Mrs. Chandler off. She was picked up
and carried into the American house, when
after short time she was able to ride home.
Trenton Emporium, 2ist inst.
Application has been made to the Chief
Justice for summary investigation of the
affairs of the borough of Washington, Warren
county, it being charged that $l2 900 worth |
of old school bonds, which were taken up by |
new ones, were re-issued some six years ago, |
and the money applied to private uses.