The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-27
WILLIAM ]. THoMrsoN's RECORD.
Charges Which He Has Answered in the
Camden County Courts.
From. the Candsn Telegram.

Charges Which He Has Answered in the
Camden county Courts.
From the Camden Telegram.
Asse mblyman William j. Thompson's
official record in our courts is as fol-
lows
At the May tern, 1870, of the Oyer and
Terminer he pleaded guilty of selling
LIQUOR on Sunday and was fined $50 and
costs.
At the September term. 1871, of the
Special Quarter Sessions, he pleaded
guilty of selling liquor on Sunday, and
was fined IS and costs.
1t the same term OF the same court ne
pleaded guilty of keeping a disorderly
house aud was fined $40 and costs.
At tue October term, 1872, of the Oyer
and Termluer ne pleaded guilty of selling
LIQUOR on Sunday and was fined $40 aud
costs.
siors, he pleaded guilty Of selling liquor
on Sunday aud was fined $40 and costs.
AT tue september term, 1873, or the
Quarter Sessions. hs pleaded guilty Of
Keeping a disorderlY house, aud was SEN
fenced TO pay a fine of $50 and costs.
AT the same term Of The SANS court. he
pleaded guilty Of selliog liquor on Sun
day. and was iued $50 aud Gusts.
Al the October term, 1876. of the Oyer
aud Terminer, he pleaded guilty
of selling liquor on Sunday. and was fined
$40 and costs.
AT the January term, 1878, of the Quar-
ter Sessions. he pleaded guilty OF selling
LIQUOR on Sunday, and. Was fued $50 and
costs.
At the October term, 1881, of the Quar-
ter Sessions, he pleaded guilty Of selling
liquor on Sunday, but no sentence Is re-
corded against him.
AT the June term, 1883, of the Quarter
Sessions, he pleaded guilty OF selling
liquor on Sunday, aud was hned only S2o
and costs by Judge Hugg.
At the October Term, 1888. OF the oyer
and Terminer, he was convicted by a Jury
of selling liquor contrary to law Il nneG
$500 aud costs.
And at the same term in the same court
he was convicted by a jury of keeping
a d%isorderly house and lined SOU and
costs.
These last two trials (twelve and thir-
teen) were before Judge Garrison. who
~admonished the defendant that nothing
short of Imprisonment would follow the
next conviction before him.
AT the October term. 1891, he was tried
in the Quarter Sessions for Keeping a
| disorderIy house by Judge Hugg (his own
private attorney and the Lay Judges. be-
fore the following named jurors
One. Julius Bosch; Two, Joseph
D.. Sheppard; three, Elwood Snufiu;
four. Charles S. Folwell; five. Alden
Powell; six, Woodrow G.. Hughes; seven,
Newell A. Davis; eight, William }. Stet-
B. Jobes: eleven, Jacob B. Brown; twelve.
jacob L. Voigt, who found him not
| guilty, although the defendant did not
take the witness-stand to deny the charge.
At the January term, 1893, he was
called up for trial i'll the Court OF Oyer
and Termlner on the charge OF keeping a
d1sorderly house, before Judge Garrison
and associates. anu the trial was put off
by the Lay Judges against the Judgment
of Judge Garrison, who t~hereuDon
handed the case over TO the Quarter Ses-
sious to be tried. And that Court held by
Judge Vroom, and the Lay Judges, on
March 16. 1893. allowed the defendant to
Mead non wilt ~contendre, which, trans
lated into plain English. means that The
defendant will not contend with the
Court; it is, in effect, the same as a plea
of entity: and he was t~hereupon SEN
fenced TO pay a fine of $50 aud costs Pre-
vious to this sentence the deIendantS at
sorney addressed the Court, saying tnae
s.the Legislature had enacted that the
offence for which his client had been in
dicted was no longer q crime, and there
! fore the sentence should be mlnal.
And then Judge Vroom said:-"Mr.
Thompson. the sentence OF this Court Is
that you be fined $50 and costs" which
he paid and went his way rejoicing, no
| doubt, at the neatness and completeness
with which he has turned the edge OF the
| aveuglng sword of Justice.
The people are blind If they do not see
in this record their discontinue and
shame. When it is known that ne has
| been convicted fourteen times, ten times
| for selling LIQUOR on Sunday, aud four
times for keeping u dlsorderly house, for
which latter convictions he might have
been fined $500 aud Imprisoned at hard
| labor two years for each offence. the ex-
tent of his Judicial triumph and Legisla-
tive yindication will more clearly appear.