The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-29
JUDGE WARNS JURORS
How They Get Credit for :
Days Attendanee-Tfials
in General Sessions
and Supreme
Courts.

At the opening of the General Sessions Cour,
this morning Judge Hudspeth said that the
attention Of the Court had been called to the
fact that several jurors make a practice of
answering roll call in the morning and then
disappearing. Others answer during the day,
but are not on hand when called to serve on
a panel. This" said the Judge, SIS unfair to
the other Jurors who do their duty faithfully
and the practice must be stopped. The Jurors
are here to serve and 1t is not fair THAI some
should escape duty. The Court will excuse
any juror when there is good reason for it.
Hereafter Jurors must respond to their names
when they are called and If they fail their
names will be stricken from the list Tor that
day l will not repeat this warning"
Albert was tried in the General
Sessions Court yesterday afternoon on an in
dletment for embezziing $685. from John H,
MehI. Mehl is a produce dealer in Hoboken
and mman was in his employ as a sales
man and eolieetoft When he QUIT working for
Mehi the latter,s books showed ne owed s2s.52
be somewhat defective. He tried to get Bram-
mann to sign a note for $50 and get 1t en-
to go for rent owed by and s2S to
pay his supposed deficiency. Bramrnann de-
alea owIns any t ! and did not get the note
cheney the defendant was acquitted.
Patrick. William and Mary Walsh were
tried in the General Sessions Court yesterday
O. 2 EOltO anu III
George O'Brien- All the parties Interested live
in the Town of Union On Decoration Day
they got into a row and the Waishs meta
phorically wiped the floor with O'Brien.
Patrick Walsh struck him on the head with
a picket fence and fractured his skull 1t
wasn't badly fractured, however, as he was
able to go to work two days Pat
rick and William Walsh were convicted as
charged and Mary was convicted of assault
and battery.
Oscar L. Carpenter and Burt w. Miller were
partners in the real estate business at No. 1913
Payonia avenue until September 16. On that
day Miller went out TO Rutherford to sell
some lots He returned between nine and ten
o'clock that night. Carpenter was sitting In
front of the door. When Miller came along
Miller told him what he. had done. Carpenter
said: We'll, that makes $3.50 that Coarts owes
pay" Miller demonstrated with Carpenter and
said that he ought not to apply such an
epitaet to Coarts. Carpenter then applied the
same epithet TO Miller. and SELLING a revolver
fred. Carpenter was tried In the General
Sessions Court this morning for assault with
intent to xiii Miller testified that when Car
Carpenters hand and the bullet lodged in the
ceiling. Carpenter testified in a somewhat con-
Trajectory way that Miller threatened to break
him in two and he pointed the revolver at
him to frighten him. Then he said that he
fired to give an alarm and supplemented that
statement by saying that he didn't think the
OF simple assault.
Charles Qpinn's saloon at No. $40 Henderson
street was entered on the night Of September
"a and $751; so taken from the tin. Thomas
Murphy James Courtney and Edward Courtney
were arrested on suspicion. They were put on
trial in the General Sessions Court today for
breaking, entering and larceny. There was no
evidence against them and Prosecutor Winfield
abandoned the case. The jury acquitted the
defendants by direction of the Court.
William MeKenny was brought from Bay
onne to the General Sessions Court this morn
ing to give bail on a charge OF manslaughter.
McKenny Is a motorman on the Bayonne line.
At eight o'clock this morning McKenny's car
ran into a truck in Avenue c, between
Twenty-ffth and Twenty-sixth streets. Frank
Nicholson. the driver, was hurled to the pave
ment and his neck broken. Judge Hudspeth
fixed the bali at 81. 500 and 1t was furnished
by william Ryan.