Bridgeton pioneer., 1890-05-22
CUMBERLAND COURTS.
ENDING OF THE MAY TERM.
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acted--Pr1soners Sentenced.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Mrs. Darr had somewhat recovered,
so as to testify before the close of the
morning session, and her evidence was
quite positive and apparently convinc-
ing. s s-g
With her evidence the State rested
it's case.
The defense opened, and, as outlined
by Mr.. Berault, was total denial of
all the facts presented by the State.
Henry A. Cotton, the defendant was
put on the stand as the first witness.
He admitted on cross-examination,
having left the state and gone to Ala
bama last winter; where he remained
four months, returning and giving
himself up to the authorities about
three weeks ago.
Before the resumption of the case in
the afternoon, Lehman Pierce, who
had been brought from Bay Side in
the morning and placed in Jail, was
brought into court to plead an indict-
ment found against him, together with
Anthony Pierce, a cousin, for larceny.
Lehman was sick with black measles
he said, and as soon as he had entered
his plea of not guilty, he was taken
back to jail.
The trial of Cotton was resumed and
the evidence disclosed one of the most
remarkable cases of an attempt to
suppress prosecution that has been
developed in the courts of this County
for many day. Only the evidence
of the defense in detail can give fair
idea of the scene resorted to by the
Counsel and friends of the accused on
last November, on the day that young
Cotton was first arrested.
The young man was arrested, it ap-
pears, on November 2sth last, and be-
ing released on bail, a paper was pre-
pared by his Counsel, containing a
full and complete retraction by Mr..
Darr and his daughter, of the charges
they had made against him, and also
an agreement not to appear against
him before any Court or Grand Jury.
Darr cannot read, and his daughter
reads very imperfectly. They were
induced to sign this paper after being
worried by several persons until long
after midnight to do SO, the induce
ment, the evidence showed, for them
$4,000. Darr claimed that the paper
read to him and which he signed with
his crossword made no retraction of
the charges.
Such men as Carlo CARROLL, Mr..
Weston, Melville Grace, Frank Dixon
and Vineland's public spirited citizen,
Chas. Keighly, being brought into the
affair on that night, as well as Con-
stable Creecb, all of whom gave testi-
mony. Mr.. Keighley, who testified for
the prosecution, sat by the side of
Prosecutor Logue and gave him valu-
able assistance. Mr.. Logue's shrewd
conduct of the case, and the admirable
tact he manifested, was in direct con-
trast to the fioundering of the counsel
for the defense, who was bent on get
ting this fatal paper in as evidence and
by doing SO got himself into the mud,
and at every turn sank deeper into the
mire. His own witness CARROLL, the
Italian, under Mr.. Logue's skilful
cross questions g~t Mr.. Berault into
such quagmire that he took the wit
ness stand himself in his own personal
vindication. When court adjourned
in the afternoon the general impression
was that the defense had not scored
single point, but that nearly every
one of it's witnesses had been of benefit
to the prosecution.
THURSDAY MORNING.
The morning session begun with the
summing up in the Cotton case. Mr..
Boraust consumed more than an hour
in his address. He was followed by
the Prosecutor, Mr.. Logue.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
The Grand Jury had found an in
dictment against James M. Hand, an
engineer on the the West Jersey Rail
road, for mansiaughter, in the killing
of Allan Linikin, who was struck by
his train at Vineland, a few weeks ago,
and killed, while driving across the
tracks.
Hand had been away on his vaca-
tion, and did not know that he had
been indicted. Constable Ayars has
been in Viueland some days looking
for Hands, with a warrant for his ar
rest.
The Railroad company received word
that an indictment had been found,
and, as soon as Hand returned from
his vacation yesterday, he was imme-
diately sent down here to plead to the
indictment.