The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-10-24
The Albury Case.

Considerable comment has been occasion
ed by the failure of the recent grand jury
to find bill of Indictment against young
Albury, of Beverly. who was charged
with assaulting young girl. On the day
of the Republican convention, which was
three days before court began, Prosecutor
Budd was accosted by resident of Bey-
erly who intimated that the case was to be
hushed up. Mr.. Budd said that no such
action was contemplated so far as he was
concerned, but up to that time he had no
knowledge of anything having occurred
except as he had read it in the papers.
The gentleman who was talking to him
said the papers had been sent. The pre-
liminarY examination took place before
Mayor Adams, and with the idea that
there might be some hitch in the matter or
some adverse criticism, the Mayor had
taken unusual precautions about the
papers.
According to the statement of the gen
tleman the Mayor had gone to the post
office and showed to the postmaster pack
age of papers which he said were the
papers in the Albury case. That there
might be no mistake later he asked the
postmaster to mail them to the Prosecutor.
As the latter official receives many
papers during the course of a week, and
as those in question had been alleged to
have been mailed two months prior to the
conversation, he determined to make q
thorough search He told the gentleman,
however, that the law required all Jus
tices of the Peace to send their dockets to
the Prosecutor of the Pleas ten DAYS be.
fore the converting of court and he had
not yet received that of Justice Adams,
and suggested that the latter officer be in.
formed of his omission.
Mr. Budd then went to his office and
made thorough search for the,missing pa
pers. He was unable to find them. On
the day before the grand jury met the City
Marshal of Beverly entered the office OF
Prosecutor Budd and handed him pack
age of papers They were the missing
Albury case. They were not in an envel.
ope, nor were they addressed or stamped
In response to the inquiry of the Prosecu-
tor as to where the Marshal got the papers
he said he had found them in the office OF
the Auditor, where they had been slowed
away among some bills.
There was not much time to get the
matter in shape but Prosecutor Budd al
once sent subpenas for the girl mentioned
and her father. He also sent to Mayor
Adams several blank subp9nas with the
message that if the latter official was as
anxious to have his skirts clear as he ap
peared to be he could have the papers
served on those who would be witnesses
in the case, as there was nothing in the
papers sent to Mr.. Budd to give him in
formation on that score
That was all that was heard of the mat
ter. Then Mr. Budd wrote to the gentle
man with whom he had first conversed OF
the case and told him the circumstances
The fact that on the grand jury was one
man who had served only six month";
prior on similar body and another from
the same locality whose fitness to serv,
has been severely questioned, leads t.
the impression that there was evidently
an intention somewhere that the cas-
against young Albury should not to b
heard.