Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1892-09-21
BUSINESS OF THE
COUNTY COURTS.
Thirty-FiVe True Bills Found
by the Grand Jury.
AN UNUSUALLY SHORT SEPTEMBER TERM.

A MAJORITY OF THE CASES OF MINOR IMPOR-
TANCE EXCEPT TO THOSE DIRECTLY IN
TEREsTED AN INTERESTING BIGAMY
CASE BREAKS THE MoNOTONY.
The shortest September term of court
in great while, was brought to a con
clusion yesterday. The Grand Jury. out
of sixty -eight cases acted upon, returned
thirty-ive true bills. Those against
whom indictments We're found, who were
within the jurisdiction of the Court We're
arraigned and plead as follows:
Lloyd Fox, (colored) assault, plead dnot
guilty Tried and convicted.
Douglas Wilson, (colored assault, guilty
Fritz Stohr, assault, not guilty. Tried
and convicted
John McGowan, assault, not guilty.
Tried and convicted.
William Fisher, larceny, not guilty.
Retracted and plead guilty.
Alexander T. Meyer, bigamy, not guilty.
Tried and found guilty.
This case attracted considerable atten-
ton both in and out of this State. The
defendant was first married in New York
city to ID Miss Pasquay, but after a very
short honeymoon, was arrested on IL
criminal charge. He was convicted and
served a short term i'll prison. At the
expiration of this term, instead of again
seeking his wife, he went to Atlantic City
and there as a single man, wooed and
won a pretty little German girl and
eventually married her. The deserted
| wife read of his second venture in the
paper and Immediately came to that city
and had her unfaithful spouse arrested.
She appeared against him, but the poor
child, for his second wife is scarcely more,
is soon to become mother, and her tes-
timony had to be received by proxy.
The defendant founded his defense on the
fact that there was no evidence that the
marriage certificates We're genuine, but Il
confession which he made to Attorney
Shinn, soon after his arrest, conclusively
proved him guilty, and so the jury found
him. The extreme penalty for this Of
fense is ten years and it is probable that
Meyer will get a good share OF this time.
Alfred Petet, issuing bogus checks,
guilty.
William Clark, breaking and entering,
guilty.
Albert Davis, robbery, not guilty.
| Tired ana acquitted.
James Sample, larceny, not guilty.
Tried and convicted.
William Segears, assault, not guilty.
Tried and convicted.
y Sanulel Anthe-: = .sss...a,.lt not s::,;l :;
the Atlantic Fire Company gave ball at
Albrecht's in honor of their visiting
friends, but neither was very literally
The race of the sloop yachts ut the
Inlet Saturday drew "a large crowd.
This event was also rather slow, there
being but tour entries and the prize, a
splendid diamond ornament, was easily
captured by Captain Samuel Gale in the
yacht John f.. Mehrpr. The yachts
Egner and Alert took second and third
prizes respectively. The only one unfor-
tunate enough not to receive IL prize be-
ing the Cornet, which got fourth place
without any trouble or need of hurrying.
A POSTAL CLERKS DOWNFALL.
4 genuine sensation was occasioned i'll
this city on Saturday when the tact be
came known that Rowland Hewitt, Il
trusted clerk in the post office, had been
arrested on a charge of piifering regis
tered letters and other money packages
from the mail. Complaints have been
coming i'll to the department for some |
time OF valuable letters that have gone |
astray, and quiet investigation had |
been started which resulted i'll Inspector |
Grigg appearing on the scene Saturday |
and making the above arrest. The usual |
method of sending several decoy money |
letters through the mail was used to |
trap the offender, and the Inspector
claims to have IL clear case against |
young Hewitt, who is only twenty-five |
years old, and was to have been married
in the early part Of next month to Miss
Sallie Davis, one of last years High |
School graduates. About I.30 Thurs
day morning Hewitt asked to be allowed
to go out for something to eat, and with
out permission left the city. After being
arrested he told the Inspector that he,
went to Barnegat and there took a train
for Jersey City Friday morning. He then
went to Washington, d. G., and tried to
board a train for the south in that city
without "a ticket, but was threated with
arrest, and realizing that lie had made IA
mistake returned home Saturday moNl-
inc. when he was arrested by Il deputy
marshal.
Hewitt's position in the post office was
newspaper listribu ;iifg eierkN aud he had
very little to do with the letter mails, eX7)
cept to assist i'll distributing them after
his own work was done.
ALOsT OR STOLEN TRUNK.
Daniel jackson, a colorcd eXplpssman,
was held under bail by Justice Harry
Williams, Monday, for a further invest-
cation of a charge of larceny Of trunk,
preferred against him by O. b. Ripple, an
| Altoona business man who spent a por
| ton of the Summer season here. When
leaving for his Pennsylvania home he en-
gagged Jackson to cart trunk to the de-
pot. The eXpresslnan took charge of it
and drove off and Mr.. Ripple has not
seen his trunk since. Jackson insists that
he left the trunk in the baggage room ut
the depot, but Sergeant Leeds who has
made an investigation, discovered that
articles answering the description ofthose
contained in the missing trunk had been
offered for sale in the lower part of the
town by Il colored man who shipped.
The contents of the trunk We're valued
at about $400.
A CLOSE CALL FOR THE BABY.
A baby which Mrs Burroughs, who
resides OH Baltic avenue above Missouri,
was wheeling i'll Il baby carriage across
Atlantic avenue ut Ohio yesterday morn
ing, had an almost miraculous escape
from DEATH Mrs. Burroughs was about
half way across the street with the car
riagc when big grey horse attached to
a heavy wagon, became frightened al
the music of band and bore down upon
10, 10, hot