Bridgeton pioneer., 1900-05-10

tlme suspended.
Henry Whitsell, guilty of larceny as
bailee, was committed to thirty days
in the county Jail to date from the
time of arrest.
Mayer Weisman, of Carmel, APP
peared in court and entered a plea Of
not guilty of the Illegal sale of liquor
The application of Adam f. Young,
to sell liquor at wholesale in Hopewell
township, was refused by the court.
Jacob Kiple of Mauricetown, made
application to keep an inn and tavern
in Mauricetown, but almost immedi-
ately was withdrawn.
Court then adjourned until ten
O'Clock Monday morning.
Monday Morning.
This mornings session of Court
opened at 10 o'clock.
Attorney John S. Mitchell asked to
have day fixed for the trial of the
case of George W. Green VS.. Afford
5. Lupton. Judge Trenchard fixed
June 26th as the day. Mr.. Mitchell
also asked that day be fixed for the
argument in the will case of Miss
Joanna Casey and the day fixed by
the Court was June 14th. The time
was also fixed for a number of other
cases of this nature.
Loren e. Davis, larceny, as bailee,
appeared and pleaded not guilty.
The list of cases of the Common
Pleas for the term was gone over and
the time fixed for most of them.
Tuesday Morning.
Criminal Court opened this morn
ing with Judge Trenchard upon the
bench. 1t is not quite certain how
long the sessions will continue, but
there are suggestions among the
officers Of the Court that the business
may be finished up this week There
are one or two lengthy cases, how
ever, and it is hardly likely that all of
the trials will be disposed of before
the week has slipped by.
Before the Prosecutor began his
work, Judge Trenchard called Bella
Coles to the bar. She had pleaded
guilty to the illegal sale of liquor and
she was sentenced to fine of SIS and
costs.
These defendants entered pleas to
indictments:
Lon Terry, Illegal sale of liquor,
not guilty
William Fidler and Robert Nc
Guiggan, Illegal dredging, not guilty.
Prosecutor Fithian then said he
was ready to move the Indictment
against Wallace Taylor, and strong
fighting case was precipltated at
once. That Taylor does not intend
to be convicted without a contest,
was evidenced from the fact that
Samuel Iredell, and former Judge
John W. Westcott appeared as his
counsel. Two stenographers were
present to take the testimony. Both
the State and defense exhausted their
challenges before the jury was sworn
Each side is allowed ten challenges
SO that twenty men were excused be-
fore jury of twelve was empanelled.
Upon two occasions was Wesley
Tuttle at the house of Wallace Tay-
lor, out on the Lebanon road in Deer
/ field township. Once he was there
an hour, the other Occasion he pro-
| longed his visit for a couple of DAYS.
Each time he purchased beer, order
ing it from Taylor and paying for it
at the rate ofsfive cents glass. Tut
tie treated those in the house, some
! times eight or ten being present.
There was no cross examination.
Isaac Barnett gave testimony exactly
similar to that given by Tuttle He
visited the place several times and
several times bought beer of Taylor
and paid for it.
Nora Lee said she was employed by
Wallace Taylor to work at the house
on Lebanon road and remained there
ten days, or until the house was
raided. Her evidence tended to show
that Taylor ran the place and she fire.
quently heard persons order beer and
whiskey. which Taylor promptly fur
niShed.
Tuesday Afternoon.
The state did not have any trouble
in producing testimony enough to
convince jury or anybody that Wal
lace Taylor sold liquor or beer to lots
of people at house on Lebanon road.
The defense did not attempt to. con-
trovert the testimony, but Judge
Westcott raised the novel point that
the state had failed to prove that the
Lebanon house was in Cumberland
county. 1t might be that the house
was in Cape May or Atlantic counties,
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