Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1892-09-15
SPECIAL COURT.
Last Weeks Special Session Con-
t1nued ON Monday Before
Judge HOaglanG.

JuuEe bOuSkHnWs
Before Judge Hoagland and Lay
Judge Hendee, this morning, court
business was again taken up.
1t wes half past ten O'Clock when
Judge Hoagland ordered the crier to
open court. There we're a good many
about tho auditorium who were inter
ested in the criminal business which
the Prosecutor produced before the
court Then too, there was consider
able excitement AS to the sentences
that the court would announce in the
cases tried last Saturday.
Gyon Robbins pleaded guilty to a
charge of assault and battery on James
B. Pierce.
Mr.. Ware, said he desired to say a
few words regarding Robbins mitiga-
ton of his crime, according to his
statement Robbins and others were
drunk, and the little scrap that fol-
lowed was owing to the drunk. Mr..
Robbins said he Yves very penitent,
and further that he had a position in
the West, and if he was confined in
jail, he would lose his job and prob
ably be thrown out of work for the
entire year,
The Prosecutor then moved the case
of the State against Belford Hinson,
charged with indecent assault upon a
little girl named Amy Culiins. James
8. Ware represented Hinson.
Mrs. Phebe Cullin, mother of the
girl was first brought to the stand to
give testimony on behalf of the State.
She said her home was in Mlllville.
Amy Cullin, her daughter, is seventeen
years of age. The story told by Mrs.
Cullin is to the effect that she goes
out working by the day. On the 18th
of May, she was out to service. She
left home about $50 in the morning,
returning at seven in the evening.
Her eldest daughter, Amy, had been
left in charge of the house.
She did not suspicion anything
wrong until two days later, when a
neighbor told her of suspicious actions
upon the part of Hinson. Mrs Cullin
then questioned her daughter, and
she said that OF the 18th Hinson came
there and offered her five cents to take
improper liberties. The girl refused
and then Hinson pulled down the cur
tains, and the little girl put them up.
He put them down again, seized her
and threw her upon the settee and at
tempted to assault her. The child's
clothing, which were exhibited before
the Court were nearly torn from her.
Amy Cullin, little girl for her age,
gave her testimony very clearly and
convincingly, telling her story exactly
as her mother had given it upon the
stand. She said she did not tell her
mother about the affair for fear of a
beating.
Samuel Barber was called, and said
he knew Belford Hinson, and some
time after the assault Hinson came to
him and asked him ii he would not be
friend to friend. Hinson continued
and said he wanted Barber to go to
Mrs. Cullen and offer her $5 or $40 to
settle the case. Hinson acknowledged
that he had taken liberties with the
girl.
The State deemed this sufficient evi.
dence, and Mr.. Ware without any
opening, called Mrs. McKensie, who
occupied store adjoining the house
of the CulIins. There is but thin
partition between the house and store,
and she can hear any ordinary CONVEX
sation in the Cullen residence.
On Saturday night after the assault,
Mrs. McKensie said she heard Mrs.
Cullin ask Amy if Hinson had been
improper to her, and the girl said no.
The girl said she had torn her under
clothing herself, because they were
small. Mrs. Cullin also told her
daughter what to swear to before the
Mayor.
Mrs. Madciff said Amy had told her
that Hinson had not made any i'm
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further said that the underwear pro-
duced before the Court, were not the
clothing Amy had shown her day or
two after the alleged assault.
Belford Hinson went on the stand,
and denied the charge in toto. He
admitted being at the house on that
day, and said when he was there a
man by the name of McOlintock went
back to the house and Amy called him
In and made improper advances to him,
and he refused to have anything to do
with her
The case was ended here and the
counsel for the defense and the Pros
ecutor summed up the testimony.
There are two other cases to be tried
to-day, and the verdicts announced
and sentences to be imposed.
MONDAY AFTERNOON.
George Miller was charged with
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