Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-04-29

on Wednesday night last, about 32
members were present after the business
meeting games were indulged in-at the
close OF which refreshments consisting Of
ice crea m and cakes We're served.
The Social Club will hold an apron
bazaar in the rooms down stairs in Red
Mems Hall, beginning Sat. May 2, and
continuing until Thursday eve. May Z
Oysters, Ice Cream. cake and candies to
tempt our fancy, and heaps of fancy
notions to tempt the pocket book,
Season tickets 25 cts, general admission
10 cts for adults, children cts.
Capt. Amariah Lake has gone to Gin
cinnati, Ohio, for a few weeks on bust
ness connected with his patent novel
ties Like all thoughtful citizens who
go away from home, for any consider
able length of time, he ordered the Press
sent to his present address. Life would
hardly be worth living if it wasn't for
the Pleasantville PRESS. Only one dol
lar per year in advance.
The Shore Road was lined with an
army of cyclers on Sunday-hundreds
having come over from Atlantic City to
join the large number from different
towns along the Shore. The day was
simply perfect being cool and partly
cloudy. All sorts of costumes were
worn, and a person who could not find
one to suit in such a variegated array
of fair cyclers would be hard to please.
"a constant Reader at Leeds Point
is informed that the name Of the writer
must always accompany items of news.
While we do not print or "give away
the names of our correspondents it is
equally true that we do not publish
anonymous communications. We are
always glad to get just such items OF
news as was sent US, but we must know
by whom they were written.
A dispatch to the Philadelphia Press
from Mays Landing says that: "a syn
dicate of Philadelphia capitalists, headed
by John S. Coyne, manager ofthe Lehigh
Oil Company, General Freight Agent E.
W. Coffin, and Lewis E. .Jeffries, of this
place, with number of Others inspected
the clay beds at Mckee City, owned by
Colonel John Mckee, of Philadelphia.
The quantity and quality We're entirely
satisfactory, and it is stated that brick
plant will be built at once. The clay
has been tested and produces brick OF
fine quality"
Petitions are being circulated asking
the Board of County Freeholders mot
to eXpend any more public funds in re-
pairing enlarging, OR improving the
County Jail or Court House at Mays
Landing" The same petition also asks
that immediate steps be taken towards
the erection OF New County Buildings in
Atlantic City or Pleasantville, where
they will be much more accessible to
Lawyers, Judges, Jurors, and all having
business at Court" Let every voter
who desires to do so call at Adams
Brothers store or The Press Office, and
sign the petition.
Freeholders Cordery, Irving, Jackson
and Jefferies, the Committee on Roads,
and Clerk of the Board J. c. Anderson
drove over routes for the purposed stone
road from Hammonton to Atlantic
City on Saturday. They were accom-
panied by State Commissioner of Roads
Henry J. Budd, of Mt. Holly, and En-
gineer of Stone Roads for Camden and
Gloucester Counties John Albertson.
They drove over the direct route to Alb
secon parallel to the tracks of the Cam
den and Atlantic Railroad, and returned
by the proposed route from Pleasantville
through Mckee City to Mays Landing.
The committee that is to finally decide
the matter in session at Mays Landing
as we go to press.
There was large attendance Of our
citizens at Court, in Mays Landing,
last week, to hear the trial of the young
boy, Lewis Jones, Indicted for criminal
Ii I ho al
year old adopted daughter of George W.
Leech. A large number of witnesses
were subpoened by the defence, but all
We're not called in Court. Several we'll
known and respectable citizens testified
to the honesty and previous good char
acter of the boy, and his own straight
forward testimony in behalf of himself
evidently made a favorable impression
upon the minds of the jury. The States
witnesses were badly ''rattled'' by the
merciless and microscopical cross-exam-
ination of lawyer John J. Crandall, of
Camden. the DEFENDANTS counsel, and he
scored them numerically in his sum-
ming up before the jury The medical
testimony, on both sides, was favorable
to the boy. Much of the testimony was
of such a nature that it could not be
printed in these columns, and it would
serve no good purpose if it could. 1t is
sufficient to say that the evidence
against the boy was not believed, by un-
prejudiced observes, to be of sufficient
weight to convict him upon such a SER
ious charge. The jury evidently took
the same view of it for they returned
with verdick of mot guilty in very
short time after they went out. As
none of the jurors were familiar with
the case, by reason of previous know
ledge, Mr.. Leech can regard the YER
dict as an impartial one based wholly
upon the evidence submitted to the jury.
1t ought to be, and doubtless is, much
more satisfactory to him than if the
same result had been reached with the
assistance of any our own citizens.
Public sympathy is almost universally
with the boy, and numerous hearty con-
gratulations awaited him on his release.
He owes it to his friends, who interested
themselves in his behalf, to show by his
future good conduct that their confidence
in him and their sympathy for him was
not misplaced. His widowed mother
was overjoyed at the verdict, and broke
down completely when her son was re-
leased from custody to accompany heI
home.