Bridgeton pioneer., 1891-05-14

MONDAY.
Judge Hoagland and associate Hen
dee were on the Bench in Court this
morning. 1t is appeal day, but a mum
Der of prisoners were present to plead,
and some license business was taken
up. The Jurors were not present,
they having been dischared until Tues.
day morning.
Prisoners pleaded as follows:
VIM. Smith, larceny, two indict-
ments, guilty.
WIN. Daniels, assault with intent,
not guilty.
! Fred. Riley, assault on an officer,
guilty.
William Cummings, fighting, not
guilty.
Gao. Thomas, assault and battery,
not gallty.
John Kaufman, assault and battery
not guilty.
David Crowel, fighting, not guilty.
Joseph Jerrell, disorderly house. j.
L. VanSyckel entered plea Of not
guilty for the defendant. He declared
| that he had geod defense if sufficient
time was allowed, as his witnesses were
principally oystermen. who are away
during the week.
Geo. Zimmerman, disorderly house,
guilty.
Osborn Mclaughlin, disorderly
house, guilty.
VIM. Shellborn, disorderly house,
guilty.
Jacob johnson, disorderly house,
guilty.
Slonas Parent, disorderly house,
guilty.
Charles Payne, disorderly house, not
guilty.
Charles Watson, disorderly house,
guilty.
Nathan Goldstein, disorderly house,
not guilty.
John Penn, assault by shooting with
iutent to kill. Plea of guilty for as
sault, accepted by the Prosecutor
Horace Chamberlain, cruelty abus-
ing girl under 16 years, not guilty.
The protest against giving James
Fenton license to keep inn and tavern
in Deerfield, was next taken up, r. P.
Tuller represented Fenton, while Chas.
E...Sheppard represented those protest.
ing.
The base fell out of this case before
it commenced, for Mr.. Sheppard
handed up the application and moved
that it be dismissed as the affidavit
was not sworn to. Mr.. Tuller replied
that he had just come into the case
and knew nothing about the papers,
but asked that the affidavit be sworn
| to by the applicant who was present
in Court Judge Hoagland replied
| that the affidavit must be ia form
when presented on the first day of
Court, and dismissed the application.
A prominent attorney said this would
prevent Fenton from applying for one
year as the statute provided that
where license is refused a second ap-
plication cannot be made for twelve
months.
TUESDAY.
Court remained in session but a lit
tie after noon yesterday, only one ap-
peal case being taken up. The sud.
den collapsing of the Deerfield license
application saved a great deal of the
Courts time.
Before the appeal cases were taken
up, Judge Hoagland took up the list
and ran it over. Some of the cases
have been on the list for several years,
and nobody being in Court to repre-
sent them, they were dismissed.
Others were dismissed on motion of
Counsel All the appeal cases in
which Mr.. Mitchell is represented.
were laid over until next month, owing
to illness of that gentleman.
Walter Il. Bacon served notice on
the Court that the case of the city
against Lorenzo D. Woodruff, had
been taken to the Supreme Court.
Eighty-two dollars and fifty cents
was che amount of money in question
In the first appeal case which came to
the attention of the Court The list
shows that the case was Eli Earl, ap-
pellant and David Young, appellee.
Thecase had been previously tried be-
fore Justice Cobb, and Mr.. Young had
obtained a judgement. Hon. T. w.
Trenchard appeared for the appellee,
and Hon. j. l.. VanSyckel for Mr..
Earl.
Mr.. Young testified alone in his osn
case. He said he had sold thirty-three
cords of wood to Earl, at $3.50 per
cord. Earl refused to pay for more
than thirteen cords, as the balance
was such that he could not handle.
Mr.. VanSyckel put Mr.. Earl on the
| stand in hi, own defense His story