Bridgeton pioneer., 1894-07-12
yoUNG CARsTEN ARRESTED.

VOTING CARSTEN ARRESTED.
Mayor Appelgate Committed
aim In Default of $500 Bail.
ae is suspected of Numero MS
RObberies.
Chester Oarsten was arrested Tues
dav afternoon and held In default
Of $500 bail by Mayor Appelgate on
suspicion of committing the robbery
At Alfred E. Richmon's on Monday
last.
The day of the robbery Mr.. Mar.
shall's little girl saw a man take chair
from Mr.. Richmon's portico and carry
Il around the house. Mr.. Richmon's
house is not far from Mr.. Marshall's,
on the Buckshutem road.
Shortly after this the little girl was
out side the yard along the road and
the same man came down the hill and
seeing the little girl out In the road
told her to run home for there was
mad dog up there he said, indicating
towards M. Richmon's.
Mrs. Richmon, who had gone to
Persons store. was on her return
about that time, and met the same
man little farther down the road
When she got home she found her
house had been robbed, and her sus
picions at once centered on the man
she had met; Mrs. Marshall also saw
the:same man at the time her little
girl saw him, and when Mrs. Rich.
mon informed her of the robbery she
also suspicioned the same person.
APIoNEER reporter secured des.
cription Of the man seen and com.
municated with Mayor Appelgate,
The Mayor immediately visited Mrs.
Richmon and Mrs. Marshall, and
from the description they gave his
suspicious were fastened upon a young
man whom he had already suspici-
oned Of other robberies in the same
vicinity, and warrant was issued
with the result that young Oarsten
was arrested.
When he was arrested he became
very nervous and asked what he was
arrested for. Officer Parvin, who made
the arrest, told him that it was for
that racket he got into at East Bridge
ton on Monday. Carsten said he was
not In East Bridgeton on Monday,
that he was In Haddonfield on that
day. This the officer knew was not 80,
for he himself saw him on the street
about / O'Clock on Monday.
The officer arrested him In Russel's
hack where he was sitting and at once
took him over to jail.
The Mayor and q PIONEER reporter
visited Oarsten's home and there
learned that the young man was not
out of town on Monday, but that he
was home at dinner time.
The Mayor gave him hearing In
the Sheriff's Office Tuesday night. Mr..
and Mrs. Richmon and Mrs. Marshall
and her little girl were present at the
hearing and the ladies and little girl
all pc sitively identified the young man
as the one who they saw on Monday
as stated.
oarsten denied being there, andrde.
olared that he was ne yer east of East
brldgeton station In his life.
Inc May or committed him in default
OF $500 bail for court.
oaes'en Is suspected as being the
person who entered the house of Mrs.
D. u Bright, few Sundays ago; also
tne mouse Of Nathan Gould near the
reservoir.
oarston was seen to pass the pumping
station the day Mrs Bright's residence
was robbed, ,and the footprints that led
rom Mrs. Bright's house, corresponds
with those made by Carsten. when he
passed the pumping station. He had
= narrow escape from arrest at that
'ime' but the evidence was deemed in.
somcient to hold him. He was also
suspected of being the one who at
sempted to get into the residence OF
FRANCIS Seeley, about three weeks ago
out the description given Of the fellow
would hardly warrant his arrest at
that time.
Inis time, however, the evidence is
very strongly against the young map.
ano ne Is locked up. He gives his age
as twenty-three years.
The New Ground.
Inc south Jersey Traction Company
~ having the new base ball park and
athletic grounds, at the Tumbling
lam put In good shape for the season.
ana everything will be in readiness for