Bridgeton pioneer., 1896-05-28
WHOLE NO. 25O3

| az Fih aiter Delng sworn said he
was coal dealer, and had his business
headquarters at the Central depot. Barr.
ne said, lived directly opposite the sta
tlon. Parvin had been annoyed by per-
sons stealing coal. He arranged to watch
the bin, and one morning about six
o'clock he found little girl about nine
years old filling bucket with coal, He
took the girl and her bucket to Mayor,s
| office. Barr came around to the office.
ana SAID the girl was his child. He de-
clared that he did not burn coal, A
search warrant was procured, and it was
found that he had TWO stoves with coal
hres burning. Coal Was also found in
Barr's cellar.
Afterward Barr sent an agent to Parvin
with the IDEA OF settling the case, but Par
vim declined, a. he said the case was be-
yond his jurisdiction. Had Parvin been
permitted he said, he would have settled
the case for s..
Officer Charles Garrison te stiff ed to the
fact that he had made search of Barr's
cellar, and found crai there, which re-
sembled that in h bins of Parvin.
John Jay, ticket agent of the Central
Railroad Co., said he had seen Barr's girl
and boy take coal from Parvin's bin and
| carry it to the home of Barr. He said
that the dealers were greatly annoyed by
persons stealing coal from the bins.
Ephraim Mills said he had seen the
children carrying buckets from the direc-
ton of the coal bins, but did not know
what was in the buckets.
c. R. Carnes, watchman of the Iron
Works, said the Barr children were con-
tinually stealing coal from the Iron Co.'s
bins in the Central railroad yard.
Mayor Appellate said that after the az
| rests had been made, Barr said his wife
sent the children out to pick up stray
pieces of coal, and he thought that the
children possibly might have gotten toe
far inside the bins. Barr further said
that the coal in the cellar was some that
hepurchased of Charles Chambless.
Charles Chambless, coal dealer, said
that Barr had not purchased any coal of
him since January, 1895. This was about
a year before he was arrested.
Joseph Barr, in his own defense, testi-
fed that he was naturalized citizen.
| Dali ucAlSu tudt liz ever still Lu0 11ttlG
children out to get coal.
Barr further testified that he purchased
a big lot of old wood from the Central
Railroad Company, and some coal from
Chambless. These materials he used in
his stoves in his house, and had no oe-
casion to have his childred steal.
Barr said that man came to him and
said that Parvin wanted S. to settle the
case. Barr did not want any further
trouble, and he went to Parvin and offered
to settle the matter. Parvin said that he
4 would settle toe matter if Prosecutor
Logue would allow him to.
The other evidence for the defense was
to the effect that the children only picked
up coal in the roadway in front of the
bins. Further, Mr.. Trenchard called
witnesses to prove that the reputation of
the defendent for honesty was good.
1t was further shown that if by any
means the coal was stolen, it was not
known by Barr when he allowed it to
come in the house.
After some little rebuttal the case went
to the jury.
Tuesday Afternoon.
The session of Court opened with the
temperature away up somewhere in the
uncomfortable notches, and the people
who were obliged to be in the Court room
were pretty well dragged out.
Court business has been dragging along
wearily now for more than three weeks.
Prosecutor Logue, who begins his fourth
week, is naturally tired, and anxious for
the session to end. He has tried many
cases, and almost without exception,
they have been hard fought by able
counsel. Some of the cases have had tive
or three lawyers in them, and some five,
and Mr.. Logue has worked against them
oil without any assistance.
Judge Hoagland is ready to quit. He
is obliged to sit up on the bench all alone,
not even having the company of the ex-
Lay Judges, who were deposed by the
Legislature.
The judge who sits in Judgment, is
obliged to listen to all the cases, drink in
all the evidence and give it to the jury in
his charges. The Court manages to in
terest himself by drawing weird pictures
upon sheet after sheet of legal cap, and
whiting down pen holders until he
makes them almost useless.
The jurors started in court with vigor-
Gus enthusiasm, but as the days length
ened into weeks, and the weeks became
a full month, their patience is well nigh
exhausted, and they want to go home.
Prosecutor Logue said just before the
Court session began this afternoon, that
he had four more cases to try, and he did
not care how soon they were over with.
Just before Prosecutor Logue moved
his next case, the Joseph Barr jury came
in and rendered a verdict of not guilty,
on the charge of receiving stolen coal.
Then Rosenhayn troubles were venti-
lated in Court. To properly report the
i case oiuino the testimony as nrnduced