Bridgeton pioneer., 1896-05-28
BREWER IS FREE.
He Goes at Once to New York
City.
HE TERM A VERY LONG ONE.
Disorderly House Cases Now Occupying
the Attention of the Court.
Wednesday Afternoon.


present in the court room, snd it
seemed as if they were all personally in
terested in the Brewer case. Crowds
stood wherever they could find standing
room.
The first of the session was taken up
with little bit of the defense, and bit
of the rebuttal of the State. The greater
part of the afternoon was taken up with
the oratorical efforts of the counsel in the
case.
The defense closed up it's case in this
wise:
County Clerk Trenchard testified to the
articles of Incorporation of the McPher-
son Furniture and Carpet Company.
The incorporators are John Mcpherson,
Arthur Mcpherson and III. K. McPher-
son. The capital stock of the company
was shown to be $4,000.
The defense rested, and Mr.. Logue re-
called Mr.. Brewer for cross examination.
He denied that he ever authorized Asher
Robbins to write letter to Mr.. McPher-
son.
Mr.. Robbins was called and said that
Brewer came 10 him and asked him to
write note to Mcpherson and send him
the keys to the pigeon house.
r. P. Carman said that Constable FL
well went to the sale with him. The sale
was not over when they got there, and
Carman bid on several things in the
house.
John S. Mitchell, Esq, testified that he
drew chattel mortgage for the McPher-
son Furniture and Carpet Company,
given by John L. Brewer. 1t was ac-
knowledged by Brewer and his wife.
When the mortgage was drawn the
schedule was read over to Brewer and
he never said that any of the goods mem
toned had gone out of his possession, as
Brewer said he did.
John Mcpherson was recalled. He
denied that Brewer had rendered him
any money on account
This closed all the testimony in the
case, and both sides prepared for their
final argument. The defense insisted
upon an opening from the Prosecutor.
Mr.. Logue did not think it necessary to
make an opening, but after the insistence
of the defense, so strongly put, Mr..
Logue did say few words, when S. Nor
ris VAIN, of the Philadelphia bar, be-
gan his argument for Brewer. He was
particularly vindictive against McPher-
son, the complaining witness. He claim
ed that Mcpherson was not defrauded
out OF penny, but rather made money
out of the entire Brewer transaction. He
claimed that Mr.. Mcpherson compelled
Brewers wife and himself to leave the
town so that he could grab the goods.
Mr.. Vain was followed by Colonel
Potter. The Colonel did not continue his
remarks at length. He claimed that the
indictment charged that Brewer had OBJ
tained money from John Mcpherson
under false pretenses, while the evidence
showed that Mcpherson personally never
advanced any money to Brewer, but the
S6OO cash was given over by the Furni-
ture Company. He felt that Brewer was
good citizen of the State and entitled to
the sympathy of the jury. In closing the
learned barrister declared that if it had
been possible to obtain the Mcpherson
Furniture Co.'s books it would be shown
that there had been comfortable profit
made by the Company out of the trans
actions with John l.. Brewer.
Prosecutor Logue made very strong
summing up of the case for the State. He
declared that the case had stopped over
to that extent that it was almost impossi-
BILE to determine what was really the is
sue between the State of New Jersey and
John l.. Brewer. He went over at length
the testimony of the case, culled out all
that mass of testimony which he con-
sidered material and held the atten-
ton of the jury closely to what he con-
sidered were the real facts in the case.
The Court adjourned without the
charge Of the Jury.
Thursday Morning.
The dull weather did not seem to have
much effect upon the attendance at court
this morning, the room being uncomfort-
ably filled.
Many We're there as witnesses in other
criminal cases to follow. Prosecutor
Logue has seventeen indictments yet to
move, and if none of those indicted for
selling liquor plead guilty the chances
are that court will continue for at least
another week.
This morning much interest was GEN.
tired in the charge of Judge Hoagland to
the jury in the Brewer case. The i'm
preston seemed general that so much
had been introduced in the case which
was not material that the decision of the
jury would be largely dependent upon
the charge of the court, when he swept
away much that was not considered
material in the cause. The defense had
handed up number of points that it was
decided to charge, and many were de-