The Monmouth inquirer., 1894-06-07

of the firm of Patterson & Vannote,
represented Kleist; he argued before
the Court for some time upon the
evidence given by different witnes esses
which were sworn upon the trial of
Herman Kleist. The Court being
unable to come to q conclusion, post
poned it until June 7th. The SEN
fences of Kleist upon the charges of
unlawfully selling liquor in Wall
township were also postponed until
that date
The Supreme Court case II, of VIM.
w. Embley VS. John Eyles, jury
having been waived, which wastrans-
ferred on the first day Of the term to
the Court of Common Pleas by Chief
Justice Beasley, was tried. This was
an action brought by Embley, the
plaintiff, who is in the carriage and
wagon business at Asbury Park,
against Eyles, the defendant, who is
in the same busin ess at Sea Bright,
previous to the fire there a few years
ago, to recover a balance of 1898 43
for wagons, blankets, harness, whips.
&c,, claimed to be due The plain
tiff claimed that he sent such goods
to the defendant to Sea Bright. to
sell and to divide the profits equally.
At the time of the fire when Eyles
was burned out, Embley swore that
he was told by the defendant that
none of the goods were burned and
he saw some of the things in the
street near the fire. The defense
claimed that there were credits due
for goods that were returned. for
which credit had not been given,
among which was a credit of $45 for
a wagon and a credit Of 50 for a set of
harness. 1t was also claimed that
the defendant had paid all that
there was due to the plaintiff before
the fire and that he was not response
BILE for what was lost in the fire. The
Court reserved its decision. r. T.
Stout repr esented the plaintiff and
Edmund Wilson represented the
defendant.
Edward L. Haines, charged with
grand larceny, of stealing a lot of
rigging off of the boat Lydia A.
White was brought before the Court.
John w. Swartz addressed the Court
in his behalf, asking the Court to
the verdict given by the jury
for grand larceny to petit larceny.
The Court stated that the Jury by
their verdict had fixed that, but that
it would deal with the matter as if it
were petit larceny He was SEN
fenced to three months in the County
Jail and costs and to stand commit
ted until paid.
john Griffin plead guilty to break
and entering the house of D. Mark
Blumersthall, at Long Branch. May
29th, with intent to steal He also
plead guilty to committing fornica
tion with Mary E. Lippincott May
Goth, at Long Branch He was SEN
fenced to three months in the County
jail and costs and to stand commit
ted until paid on the first charge:
sentence was suspended on the sec
ond charge
Mary E. Lippincott plead guilty to
committing fornication with John
She also plead guilty TO breaking
PlumersThalI May 29th at Long
Branch. She was sent to the reform
school for girls ON the first charge and
sentence was suspended on the
second charge.
VIM. Shafter, colored. for commit
ting an atrocious assault and battery
on Richard Pollock May 27th, at As
bury Park, retracted his plea of not
guilty and plead guilty to waiver
OF indictment charging him with
committing b simple assault without
battery. He was sentenced to three
months in the County Jail and costs
and to stand committed until paid
Francis Elliott plead guilty to a
waiver of Indictment charging MIN
with committing an assault and
battery on Laura Elliott, his sister,
and attempt to commit rape, on
May 20th. at Red Bank. He was re-
manded to await sentence which
was set for June 9Th.
James Ford was brought in court |
for the purpose of pleading TO a
waiver of Indictment charging him
with breaking and entering the house
of VIM. Test, MAY 18th, in Milestone
township, with intent to commit an
assault and battery. When asked
how he would plead, said that he did
not break or enter the house of VIM.
Test, but when going along the road
stopped to look in the window and
accidently broke out a window glass;
he stated that he went down to Mr..
Test on Sunday last to settle for il,
but that he would not receive pay
for it. He was remanded for the
purpose of ascertaining whether the
justice had not made mistake in
drawing the complaint
Wednesday, June Sth. Geo. Henry
Schanck, colored aged years, plead
through Counsellor E. w. Arrowsmith
Jr., who was appoined by the Court
to consult with him, guilty to steal
ing ten cents worth of chewing gum
out of the store of James Cooper at
Red Bank Feb. 18th. Mr.. Arrow
smith stated to the Court that the
boy acknowledged that he had taken
the chewing gum and presented a
letter to the Court from his school
teacher who stated that nothing
could be done with the boy. The
Court granted an order sending him
to the State Reform School at James
burg.
Kate Britton's sentence was sus-
pended indefinitely.
Francis Elliott, colored, was before
the Court for sentence His mother
stated to the Court that he was q
very bad boy, that he had been to
the reform school before and that she
seen him make the attack upon his
sister. His sentence was deferred