The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

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insane, and an order was made out for her
commitment to the insane department of
the almshouse.
Jason Archer and Albert Jones were
put on trial for chicken stealing. These
two men had been operating in the neigh
borhood of Moorestown. The evidence
against them was very conclusive and the
jury had no trouble in arriving at a YER
dict of guilty.
On Wednesday Fred Wood, a good
looking colored man, was called to an
swer two indictments. One charged him
with assault and battery on Mary E.
Shinn, at Bordentown, and the other
charged robbery of Mrs. Shinn's house af-
ter the assault. The prisoner lived in the
house next to that of Mrs Shinn. On the
night of the robbery Mrs. Shinn heard
some one at work at the kitchen door. She
went down to see who it was and on open
ing the door the prisoner entered and
grabbed her by the throat, at the same
time applying chloroform to her nose.
She fell insensible and remained in that
condition until discovered by her son,
who noticed the marks of fingers on her
throat. There was sufficient light at the
time of the assault for Mrs. Shinn to see
and identify Wood as her assailant.
The defence Was an alibi, which was
not sustained. 1t was shown that the
character of the defendant was bad and
that he had served a term in State prison
for assault. The jury returned a verdict
of guilty.
The next trial was that of Harry Mount,
of Camden, indicted for stealing a yacht
at E~dgewater Park. The defence in this
case was also an alibi, and it was more
successful, as the jury failed to agree.
Before Court adjourned for the day,
Judge Gaskill imposed some sentences.
Jason Archer and Albert Jones, convict
ed of chicken stealing, were given a Sc
we're lecture, in which the Judge said it
was his intention to make chicken thiev-
ing a costly business in this section. He
sent each of the men to the state prison
for the term of four years.
Fred Wood was sentenced to the State
prison for three years.
John Coston, for larceny of $15 at
Moorestown, was given six months in the
county Jail.
Carlton Smith, who was arrested for
stealing copper wire from the trolley road,
was sent to the Reform School.
On Friday an appeal case was tried. 1t
was that of Frances Ereon VS.. American
Star Council, No. so, Junior Order United
American Mechanics. In September last,
a man named Apgar went to the home of
Mrs. Ereon to board. He had been there
but a very short time when he was taken
sick with what proved to be typhoid fever.
Mrs. Ereon discovered that the man was
a member of the order of American Me-
chanics, holding membership in a Council
at Williamsport, Pa. She notified the
Council at Bordentown and that body
communicated with the Council in Penn
s%ylvania. The latter directed that the
sick man be given proper care and medi-
cines and they would pay the bill. APP
gar died in November. Mrs. Ereon pre-
sented a bill for $780, so, which covered
nursing for four weeks, value of a mat
tress and blanket on which the man died
and which was burned after his death,
and for preparing the body for the grave.
The defence claimed the bill must not
! be paid because there was not a written
contract, but the Court decided that such
a contract was not necessary in this in
stance, as the statement of the visiting or
relief committee of the Bordentown Coun-
Gil that Mrs. Ereon should go ahead and
care for the man and they would pay the
bill was sufficient.
The jury was out but a short time and
returned a verdict for the full amount.
Mrs. Ereon was represented by Isaac E.
Antrim, the Council being looked after by
Samuel w. Beldon.
Prosecutor Budd had one Indictment
left which be wished to dispose of, and a
jury was ~empanneled to try it. 1t was
against Benjamin F. Smith, Jr., and
Charles Dixon, for assault and battery on
Albert Weston. The plaintiff told his
story, which was that on the night of March
81 he was in a hotel in Medford, drinking.
He left the place about half-past eleven,
going to the home of a friend named
Cline, near the bridge over the railroad at
the northern end of the town. When he
reached the bridge he was suddenly as
saulted by three men, one of whom struck
him in the back of the head, while another
hit him in the face, cutting him over the
eye. The third man jumped on him and
the whole gang threw him around in
rough tanner. Weston was not at al
certain about the identity of his assailants
and, by his own admissions, was very
much intoxicated.
Cline, the man with whom Westol
staid on the night of the assault, said tn,
latter came to his house ON the night O
March 81. He had a slight cut on tn
face and his overcoat was very dirty. Ii
reply to a question Weston told Cline h,
did not know how the affair happened o