Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-10-11

Ed. Fl Holmes-Two indictments for
stealing and dredging oysters; not
guilty.
Howard Hand-The same not guilty.
Chris. H. Gahre, Walter Toms and
Joseph Darrel-Disorderly house; not
guilty.
j. Frank Shores, VIM. Bitter, B. L.
Tuft, Joseph Fox, John Nolan, John
McQuig and VIM. Getz; Sarah Craw-
ford Philip X. Wells and John Hart
man, Jr., all indicted for keeping dis
orderly houses, were called, but did
not yet appear.
A jury was impaneled in in the case
of : George Emory, George Wills,
Joseph Anderson and Joseph Johnson,
a lot of tramp berry pickers from Vine
land, indicted for committing an as
sault and battery ON Constable Chas
E. Green. Constable Green was the
first witness called, and detailed how
he was set upon and beaten by the four
fellows.
Lawyer Mitchell appeared for the de-
PENDANTS. The assault took place in
Vineland near Mr.. Stewards store,
when it was quite light. He identified
the prisoners as his assailants Con-
stable Frank Nichols was sworn, and
told substantially the same story that
Mr.. Green had told of the assault. He
said that Mr., Green was pretty badly
bruised and battered up and his face
was very bloody from the effects of the
beating, which the four men had given
him. George Capon said he was in
store talking when he heard u noise
which he thought was row. He
identified positively, two of the prison
ers as some of those in the melee, MIR.
Panoni, sworn.
Mr.. Panoni said he saw the com
mencement of the affray pretty much.
He saw three men down on the ground,
one was Mr.. Green, and the other two
were fighting him. He identified one
of the prison ers as one who was fight
ing Green. VIM. E. Thorn was the
last witness called when the state
rested.
The defense was opened by Mr..
Mitchell, who declared that the 'defehdG1
ants had very different statement to
make. They were not the aggressors,
and would reveal very different state
of facts. They had been working in
Vineland during the week and had
gone into town to purchase some
groceries at the grocery store of Mr..
Tuller.
They had forgotten some of their pur.
chases on leaving the store, and one of
their number = George Emory-had
run back to get it. While running
back, they claim that Green
came up and struck or tripped up En-
ory and attempted to arrest him. He
did not know that Green was an Off
Ger, nor why an assault was made upon
him. The friends of Emory coming to
his rescue, knowing nothing of why
the assault should be made, soon found
themselves all arrested. They claimed
that the officer became the aggressor.
and they were innocent of committing
any crime.
Charles Emory mot George said his
home was in Gloucester, Mass; he had
been working in Vineland, and ON the
21st, of July last had been in to Tullers
store to make some purchases. They
had forgotten some of their things and
he had returned to the store TO get
them, when as he got in front of Siegler's
baker shop he was attacked by Green
who grabbed him and knocked him
down and attempted to arrest him.
Green did not state to him that he was
an officer and he did not know that he
was one. He denied having done any
thing to provoke an attack upon him,
| and when the officer said "Ill arrest
you'' he said ''All right I'll go along
with you" His defence was quite
lame.
The others of the gang followed with
evidence of the same character, de-
nial of the allegations of the prosecu-
tion, and this closed the testimony.
Mr.. Mitchell summed up for the de-
fence, and was followed by the States
Attorney.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
On the assembling of Court, Mr..
Hoagland summed up ON the part of
the prosecution. Mr.. Mitchell had
first concluded his remarks. This was
in the case of the four tramps who
were being tried for assaulting an
officer. These fellows, whether inno-
cent or guilty of this charge, were well
known to our police officers, to whom
they are known as professional tramps,
and they can tell graphic stories of
their acts in the lookup at divers times.
The Judge charged the Jury very
clearly, and they retired.
Charlos WorI o,oI Goo...