Bridgeton pioneer., 1893-05-11
WHOLE NO. 2349

Wnen subp4naed. and In the future
should be expected to be here.
zscheus Ray, pleaded guilty to
breaking and entering the slaughter
house Of Thomas Tice, and stealing a
quarter of beef.
A Jury was drawn from the panel to
try the appeal case OF Robert F. Ayars,
appellant, and Charles Garrison, Jr..
appellee. The case was set down for
July 10th.
William Edgecomb, the burly for.
eigner, who battered Officer Shull
about one week ago Saturday night.
was brought from jail to defend him.
self on charge of assaulting an off,
Ger. The Court appointed ]. Ogden
Burt to look after the interests of the
big Bayside fisherman.
officer Shull told the principal story
OF the prosecution. Edgecomb. he
said, was a very disorderly person
about the merry -go-round on Broad
street. He declared he could wipe out
the whole place.
Finally Officer Ehull and Officer Gar
rison placed him under arrest. He
finally broke away from the officer.
The policeman then went after him,
and as he took hold OF him, Edgecomb
struck him in the face and knocked
him down. The fellow then made his
escape.
Officer Garrison backed up Officer
Shull In his statements, and Fred An.
| pley drew a realistic word picture Of
the occurrences of the disorder, and
of Edgecomb's striking the officer and
telling him like log.
Martie Edwards, Jr., of Vineland,
who Is somewhat of an authority on
Scraps" saw the blow that knocked
Officer Shull down, and he described
1t as one that "just killed him the first
round" He said the officer was COM
pletely dazed, and the assailant jump.
Ing a fence escaped.
Charles Westcott gave color to the
case of the State, and the defense be-
gan its work of clearing up the charge.
Edgecomb seemed to think he was
the victim Of horrible brutality upon
the part of the police officers. He
was arrested for some reason, he
knew not what, and when he wanted
to go to the lookup quietly the officers
refused to permit him to do so, but
dubbed him seven times over the
head, with their rosewood billets. He
claimed he did not gee officer Shull
after that, and did not strike him at
all.
The cross-examination of the Prose-
cutor showed Edgecomb in a very
peculiar position, he admitted that he
left town in a great hurry going to
Bayside after his escape from the
|-office.
1t was but few minutes until the
case was given TO the Jury who re-
tired for verdict.
TUESDAY.
The interesting feature of yesterdays
Court proceedings was the beginning
of the trial of Elton Pitts, indicted for
assault and battery with intent to kill
Joseph Gallo, the Vineland Italian, on
April Sth, last.
From the opening of the case and
the evidence presented by the prose-
cutting witness, the case makes a very
dark showing for young Pitts, and it
is only through Providential mercy
that he is not being tried for murder
instead of for the attempt.
A disorderly house case was first dis
posed of.
Francesca Sonsini, an italian, was
called upon to explain that he did not
conduct disorderly house in the
quiet temperance town of Vineland.
r. P. Tuller, the we'll known Vinelsnd
lawyer, was employed to assist Fran
cesca in making his case clear.
The first witness was Frenchmap,
who gave the Court good deal of
trouble, claiming he could not under.
stand English. Mr.. Tuller said that
Tic Wlbuc5S OOui0 uHucIetduu dIlu balh
good English if he wanted to. Finally
the Court authorized Prof. T. D. Malan,
of Philadelphia, to be sworn as inter-
prefer.
The witness said the last time g
was at the home of francesca was In
October last. He was invited to play
a game of cards, and during the time
beer was produced by the defendant
and drank. The witness put up the
hard cash for four bottles, paying the
money to Sonsini. This was the only
time he had ever bought beer at this
place.
On cross examination the witness
said that the cost of the beer was d.
vided up. This led the Prosecutor to
go into the facts little further, and
he developed the state of facts that
whoever lost the game of cards should