Bridgeton pioneer., 1894-11-08
VOL. LXVI.
COURT LAST EEK.
sentence of Prisoners Natura-
lizaliOn Of FOreigners..S sent TO
The Penetentiary.

A special term of Court was b. IL
Thursday. Judges Hoagland, Hendee
and Ludlam on the bench.
Several foreign born citizens were
naturalized.
William @. Loper, of the Citizens
Municipal League, filed a protest with
Judge Hoagland against grantir g
ma 'urallzation papers to foreigners
who did not understand the English
language and who had not some
knowledge of the Constitution of the
United States.
Judge Hoag!and ques tened the sp.
plicants pretty closely on those points
and refused papers to several telling
them they did not know enough, or
they had more to learp.
Ephraim Cuff pleaded guilty to
breaking III to the slaughter house of
G.. b. Barth, and stealing therefrom a
gun worth $16.
Thomas Blizzard and Herbert Sooy
were put on trial for committing an
assault and battery on Eddie Daley.
They pleaded guilty of assault In self
defense.
They had no money, and the Court
said he would look out for their In.
terests.
Eddie was put on the stand, and told
how he was standing In front of the
Mission School door looking In, when
Blizzard and Sooy came up and told
him to go away. He did not go, and
they pulled him away by his coat
then he knocked him down and
blacked his eye.
David Frambes,a "a small boy, ,corroho.
rated Dailey's story.
The defendants were put on the
stand and told how valiantly they
sailed into this poor simple boy In
self-defense. They we're sent back to
jail.
A Philadelphia lawyer was In Court t.
representing Edwin Bird, accused of
horse stealing. He desired to haye
the case continued, and bail was fixed
at $1,000. Bird is still In jail, while
his friends are trying to secure bail.
When the Court convened In the af.
ternoon, Prosecutor Logue called the
attention of the Judges to the case of
Joseph B. Whitsett, the man from
Vineland, who, at the last term of
Court was acquitted of two charges of
aggravated assault upon his wife and
daughter, on the grounds of insanity.
Mr.. Logue thought that the Court
should review the case and ascertain
If the insanity still continues.
DR.. M. K. Elmer was called firs as q
witness, County Physician Thompson
not yet having arrived. He said he
had been re quested to make an exami-
nation of the prisoner, and Wis ted
him..on Tuesday laat. On that day
DIR. Elmer had q long talk with him,
and found him on particularly good
mood, and talked right we'll, although
he had erratic spells. His whole gen.
eral appearance showed an unbal-
anced mind. DR.. Elmer did not re-
gard him as man safe to be at large.
DIR. Elmer recalled the case of Mrs.
Annie Bowers who shot her husband,
and said that Whitsett was suffering
much as she had. The physician 81 id
that the man was suffering from soft
ening of the brain, subject to violent
turns, although he might be RS tlonal
at other times.
County Physician Thompson said
that he had had observs tion of the
prisoner since his Incarceration, and
did net think that there had been
much change In his condition. He
did not consider Whitse tt safe, and re-
commended that he be continued in
custody.
Sheriff Shinn in his testimony ex-
pressed the opinion that Whitsett was
unsafe, although at times he was per-
fectly rational. Yet he was Liable to
great excitement and at such times ap-
peared to be violent, and it was con-
sidered best In jail to keep him locked
In cell most of the time. Whitsett
also felt vendictive towards bis daugh-
ter and threatned her somewhat after
the recent trial.
The Court then continued the work
OF naturalizing applicants for Citizen
ship. There were many present for
that purpose, the large majority of
them being natives of Russia. The
Court questioned nearly all of them
closely, and quite number were re-
fused their papers because they did
not under, and the language, the
Court declaring that it had decided
that no person would be naturalized