The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1891-11-17

"A Cape May county worker" who
presented politicians check for $50, for
payment at the bank after election, used
some very vigorous language when it was
returned marked mo funds"
Three thieves rushed out of shoe
shop in Jersey City and into the arms of
Tax Commissioner German. He held on
to two and handed them over to the po-
lice. They had robbed the cash drawer
of $50.
In the swamps of Cape May county
is man who for nearly two years has
eluded arrest. He keeps Speak easy"
that is the resort of debauched men and
women, who make the night hideous
with their orgies.
On account of one of Lawyer Flor
ance Hogate's forgeries, Mrs. Sarah Hope,
of Cumberland county, will probably
haye to pay $500 on a mortgage to Cap
tain Charles Brewer, although she paid
the money two years ago to Hogate.
Margaret Rainey, while suffering from
delirium tremens at Paterson Wednesday
evening. swallowed dose of Paris green
and died few hours afterward in great
agony. She had been drinking liquor to
excess for more than week. An Swear
old child was alone with her in the room
when she took the poison.
A large wild cat was caught in
steel trap by Samuel Fenton, of Peters
burg, Morris county, on Thursday. The
animal succeeded in dragging the trap a
considerable distance, but was tracked
and shot by Mr.. Fenton. The animal
had got fast in trying to plumber a trap
which Fenton had set or foxes.
Snakes are getting lively in South
Jersey. The gunners have stirred them
up in the woods and they are retaliating.
While John Evans was cunning near
Bridgeton, on Tuesday, he was attacked
by snake six feet long. He fired at the
reptile but missed it. A fellow gunner,
attracted by the shot. came to his assist
ance and killed the snake.
The Blue Line express, running
through Plainfeld at sixty miles an hour,
struck and hurled man fifty feet in the
air Wednesday afternoon. The man was
William Ziegler. As he crossed the rail-
road track near Grant avenue station. he
stepped hurriedly out of the way of an
approaching coal train and upon the track
directly in front of the express. He was
caught up by the COW catcher and flung
fifty feet in the air and over into an orch
ard by the track. The engineer thought
he had struck man and backed his train
up to the station. Before this was done a
bystander had taken Mr.. ZIegler to the
Muhlenberg hospital. The injured man
will probably recover.
AT Elizabeth, on Saturday morning,
Judge Mccormick sentenced Samuel
Beekman, colored, and Jennie Wyley, his
white paramour, to ten years each in
state prison at hard labor. The woman
tainted when she heard her sentence.
Beekman made great scene. He defed
Judge Mccormick, defed the law, and de-
fed the officers in the court room to en-
force it. Two deputy sheriffs seized him
and tried to hustle him out of the room.
Beekman. however, fought them of.
Other officers went to the assistance of
the deputies, and Beekman kicked, bit
and clawed at them like tiger. 1t took
twelve men to overpower him and place
him in cell. After being locked up he
cursed and raved like mailman. Jennie
Wyley was revived and led of to her
cell. The couple were convicted of caus-
ing the death of Beekman's little daugh-
ter, Pearl, whom they beat and starved
until death ended her sufferings