Bridgeton pioneer., 1894-10-18
CUMBERLAND COURTS.
COURT BUSINESS
OVER.
Acquitted; Their Bartender
Guilty. The Sentences.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Court will probably wind up this
week, and sentences will be imposed
by the Judges.
The Whitsett case was continued
this afternoon.
John Mason was ''star" witness
He came from Mays Landing, and If
ne was not fool, which he didn't ap-
pear to be, he was a rank coward for
whom Ounce cap would be suitable
ornament.
He said he was short distance from
the house during the assault; saw the
man knock the woman down; saw him
return into the house. The woman
passed him where he stood mouth
open, staring at them, and the yonug
lady who was holding her throat with
the blood streaming down, threw her
hands toward him and cried out ''You
see he has cut my throat" and he
drawled out "Waal you'd better go'n
hev i'm arrested
His explanation for not going to the
assistance of the women was that he
was afraid of getting hurt. He placid
ly stood there In the road and saw
these two women being butchered and
the house burn down without taking
any hand in the prevention,
The manner of giving his testimony
caused much laughter in Court In
which both Whitsett and his wife
joined heartily.
Thomas Yorke and his son Frank,
were two of the persons who went and
rescued Whitsett from the burning
house, the circumstances of which
they detailed.
The rasp, identified by Thomas
Yorke, was offered In evidence and the
State rested.
The defense was opened by Mr..
Berault who offered to put MIR. Whit
sett on the stand. Mr.. Whitsett OBJ
jected and requested that his wife
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Mrs. Whitsett said that her husband
had been out of his mind at times for
the last three years. He was not al.
together right two or three weeks be
fore the assault, On the Saturday
week previous he had set the house on
fire.
He went home with his son to New
York on the Monday morning follow
ing; ha objected to going because he
said they were putting up job on
him to get him in the Asylum at
Trenton.
They assured him differently and he
went.
He came home from New York
when they did not expect him. She
said papa why did you come home
80 soon, We did uot look for you for
a month yet" He replied IT came
home to shoot you, for you belong to
the Free Masons."
This was on the Wednesday night
following.
She felt In his pocket and found he
had a pistol; he also had bottle of
laudunum.
When Mrs. Whitsett left the stand
the second time she did not take the
chair by the side OF her husband; she
showed evident signs of being afraid
of him. She stated on the stand that
she had not seen him since the day of
the assault, until to-day.
DR.. Adams was called to the stand
by the defense, to prove that the man
was insane.
He said the man had insane hallu.
cinations. Whitsett came to his office
one night in May last. He called the
doctor up at night, and wanted to be
treated for poison on his hands, as he
imagined.
He stated that he had been fooling
with Free Mason cut, and had got
poisoned. The doctor saw that he had
madman to deal with, and he fixed
up some simple medicine and sent
him away.
The defense rested. Whitsett was
not put ON the stand.
The jury in the Whitsett case came
In when Court convened this after
noon, rendering verdict of "acquitt-
ed ON the ground of insanity; not a
fit man to run at large"
Charles II. Homan and Jennie Ho-
man, indicted for assault and battery
entered a plea, through their counsel
w. Berault, of non vult, which the
Prosecutor accepted.
Prosecutor Logue moved the case OF
the State against Jay Buzby, indicted
for Illegal liquor selling, and a jury
was impaneled.
Jay Buzby, an old man, conducted
his case himaelf as far as 1t was neoes-