New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-30
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,-sTICE MAY HAVE M1SCARRIED.
.pprxrR DENIES HAVING BEATEN
u,s WARD AND IMPUTEs HIS TRIAL
ro NEDDI EsOME NEIGHBORS.


sn. New-York papers yesterday printed re-
..r,, Of the trial OF Chester G. warmer s'c"os
~ % the Collector Of the Port OF New-fork
npn' q, cruel treatment to a ten-year-old
On ,r,al was brought before Police Justice
rrs,s who imposed fine OF $40.
-. .,,cars that about five months ago MI war
.a b,s wife adopted Martha Hartman, tho
n"> .saro,d daughter OF Mrs. Amanda Hartman.
-,dow living in Phillipsburg. The chi'o hao
-, given for adoption by It's mother 10 superlh-
", romh Of the New-Jersey Children's So
- some Of the neighbors OF the warmers
,.d Of the frequency with which the child
.,~,sb.d and the matter finally reached the
-, cars The action before the Justice OF
~ uas then brought by the mother 10
-, possession Of the child. 1t Is UNDERSTOOD
..s, ore If the neighbors wrote the mother OF
'""' " .;shrent given The child by Mr.. War
liner l.st Friday night
,ho trial Mrs Z. l.. Edmunds and Miss Eta
,"u ho,h neighbors OF the Warmers, gave test-
ronv regarding the treatment Oh 'he eh'u' as wiz
49,, hy ,hem TIE child vas also examined In
IVES" - ~. rear OF the courtroom. and bruises
..,,ra ,,on her person. Mr.. and Mrs. War
W.. 80 under oath that they had punished the
~ua I'M, only when 1t had been necessary The
go ~ the child back into the custody OF
.,s ,rother and fined the WARMERS so
c.,,oo,or kibreth when seen by Tribune re-
,or,a- Yesterday afternoon. SAID that MT war
- haI been in the employ of the Custom
,Io,ss fo- about eight years. He knew nothing
-.so,soeyer about the alleged cruelty excepting
-. h. had read in the papers. Mr.. kibreth
-. ,ha, NJ Warmer was his stenographer,
-, fran, what he had seen OF him he had been
Lad m consider him amable. gentle ana KIND
hearted In fact, his traits OF character were such
tina, II would be hard 10 believe that he had been
,u,lty Of the charges made against him. When
,hs attention Of the Collector was called 10 the
,.c, that Mr.. Warmer had been fined $40 as re-
sui, Of the trial, he made tho remark that occa-
,lonaly there were times when justice went
sstray. "a
Another empoye OF the Custo-' House testinea
Yesterday TO the KIND and amiable qualities Of
Mr. WARMERS disposition.
Mr. Warmer himself has been much disturbed
BY the affair and yesterday caused the lohowns
statement 10 be given out:
In reference TO reports In The sun, J ME,ia
and journal about the case Of Matte Hartman
~ Arlington it seems that the Mariners TOOK her
from Superintendent Lamb OF the New-Jer ,or
Children's Home Society. on trial. Tor aoopuoi'
and nreyious 10 the arrest had written to the SO,
ciety that she 50 double-faced that the! "ouiS
1--WE her up and advising that she be given pacA
10 the mother They had whipped her but rev
,arIec,eS hu, for cases of especially aggravated
Sseei, and had assured her that II she told lie
without thinking and then immediately dscIain nr
Ii and told the real truth II woud nOI pe
Ms NJ c Hail and her daughter Etta rented
three rooms on the WARMERS second Moor pu!
jey, on July o. having been notified 70 leave anu
given a months rent free and on ,hlt uas
Mrs Hall had written an anonymous ana UNI, u,lI-
mi letter 10 the girls mother. alleging apuse,
whereat the mother contrary 10 her promise 70
,he Eex Mr. Boyd OF Phillipsburg. her pastor
end director of the Childrens Society. that she
Void NOT came 20 the MARINERS. took yea at
,heir house on Saturday, and left apparently sal
s-saa that her child had been treated rightly
J,ut through some influence she returned on I.o'i
day had Mrs Warmer arrested anu nleea rd
80 rirg the child went TO the Justices mouse anu
remainsd there ill the hearing Tuesday aftern1oh
a. which Mr. and Mrs. Warmer III,
OF cruelty and P5ovsG 1t the Th Rev
MIR Boyd and the Rev. Mr.. Lamp We're preseh',
toee,her with others well acquainted WIN ths
Warmer. and who had often visited them anu
,een The child making dolls dresses and Mrs.
Warmer making dresses for the glrl, ana "no
we're nj satisfied OF the Mariners good lnten-
Mons Mr. BOYD and Mr. Lamb standing reaoy 70
testify TO their knowledge OF the same. Inc re-
porters at the Tuesday hearing had poor places
I, The courtroom TO hear. and Tell INTO serious
error NJ, 1,,,,aa >ad
the child or heard the whippings. and the child
testified that she had enough TO eat II appears
TIA, III. Halls gave the child cake and lady
frgers on the sly, and questioned her az 10 the
Wsrr,rers' private affairs. speaking against tnem
ard Undermining the child's Affection for them
snd control over her. The girl was never iocKeu
IN and never left alone in the mouse was wen
ava fat sang a great deal. and both she and Mrs.
Warmer often wrote to the mother or her WEI
fare the letters passing through MT; Lamp or Mr.
Royd as the socie;y's rules required max ner
ybsreahou,s be not known TO the mother Tho
case was clearly one originating III sp''e' % "a
well known 20 many in Arlington