Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1895-01-10
the ruin of his daughter, Sallie Hamp.


The jury came In just before six
O'Clock, rendering a verdict In favor
of the plaintiff for $4O0.
The defendant is under bail, and
whether he will appeal, pay or 60 to
jail has not yet appeared. His bonds
men may surrender him 1t he declines
to pey, and In that case he will be
locked up If appeal is not taken.
MONDAY MORNING.
Court resumes It's sessions this morn
ing, that is the Common Pleas Court
is in session, and Judge Hoagland pre-
siding. There are sufficient appeal
cases marked ready on the List of
Causes so keep the Court busy for a
week, but the general rule is that
these cases generally go over from
time to time until they are put off the
list.
No juries are present to day, they
being discharged until tomorrow,
when a Circuit Court case will be tried
with Judge Reed presiding. Then will
follow the criminal business, and some
of the officials about the Court House
this morning think that the entire
business will be concluded this week.
The first thing the Court listened to
was some orphan Court business that
was presented by the Surrogate.
MIR. VanSyckel counsel for Wasser-
man and ,Braunstein, indicted for lar
ceny, made application for post
ponment owing to absence of mater.
ial witness, the Court reserved de-
cision.
The following pleas were accepted.
O. G. Cast, Illegal sale of liquor, not
guilty.
Elias Braunstein, larceny, not
guilty.
John Buck, illegal sale of liquor,
guilty.
Mr.. VIM. NJ. Martin, Illegal sale of
liquor, not guilty.
TUESDAY MORNING.
The Court resumed business this
morning. Judge Reed was on the
bench when Court opened, to try the
case of John Tyler, Jr., against Chas.
Headly, Ia the Circuit Court cases be.
fore the beginning of the criminal
business.
On this case Mr.. Mitchell represented
Mr.. Tyler, and Walter II. Bacon ap-
peared for Mr.. Headly. A jury was
impaneled to try the case.
As usual at the beginning of the
Criminal Court cases, the Court room
was crowded with spectators.
Judge Reed and the jury trying the
Tyler Headly case retired to the Grand
Jury room.
Prosecutor Logue called several de.
PENDANTS to plead to the indictments
found against them.
James Harris, Joseph Bailey, Chas
Garrison, Alfred Biggs and James
Campbell, all pleaded guilty to the
indiet rert charging illegal sale OF
liquor. and their witnesses we're all
discharged. The witnesses In the case
of Wasserman s. Brauns teln were also
discharged for the term.
Orlando g. Parent pleaded guilty te
selling liquor illegally, and the wit
nesses In his case were discharged
Jacob Sherman and Moses Schc!niA
did not appear when their names were
called.
The case of Peter Keets and John
Green was moved.
A panel was returned to try them
and r. P. Tuller was assigned by the
Court to defend them. They were in
dicted for fighting.
Officer Parvin was called and de
tailed the fight which he witnessed be
tween the two on Saturday night two
weeks age. He was corroborated BY
ex-off1cer CARL.
Keets was put on the stand In de
fense and told pretty lii tie fairy tale
which made the jurymen smile. Greer
corroborated this little novelette, anG
the jurors smiled some more. They
we're not fighting-not they; they were
only sparring for fun.
TUESDAY MORNING.
The Judge made a short charge t.
the jury after the lawyers had made
their arguments. He said If the jury
believed the story of the defendants
they should not be convicted, for /
their story was true, they were no
fighting In the eyes of the law.
The jury retired and Keets ant
Green we're taken back to jail.
Moses Sobotnik was again calle,
and pleaded guilty to Illegally selling
liquor, and the witnesses In his cas-
were discharged.
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