The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-01-30
TUESDAY, JANUARY 80, 1900.

ACTING under the INSTRUCT ons Of Judge
Garrison the grand jury has taken re-
cess and will soon reassemble to consider
the charges against persons who have been
conducting gambling house near Bur
lington. In his charge to the Jury Judge
Garrison referred to the open manner in
which this place was run and said it was
the duty of every citizen who valued the
good name of the county to give the Pros
ecutor of the Pleas information that would
lead to the indictment Of the guilty par
ties. There has been little attempt to con-
ceal the operations of this place and there
must be persons who could aid the county
very much In its efforts to suppress the
evil. But it is doubtful If they will come
forward. There is too much of that spirit
which is willing to see the law enforced
provided they are not brought into prom
inence in the case. Some years since an
editor of paper in this town was asked
to touch UP certain places. He did SO,
secured the enmity of the parties attacked,
but the actions of the latter were for q
time suppressed. When 1t was thought
the matter had blown over, the places
started again. A second time the news
paper man was asked to begin crusade.
He suggested that the complaining party
go before the grand jury. That settled
it; that was asking little too much. In
Trenton minister has been denouncing
various forms Of vice, intimating that II
is nerfectly easy to secure evidence, but
Z he declines to go before the grand jury to
testify. There is but one of two things tc
do. If you know anything that will prove
of value to the authorities and If you are
anxious to aid them, do SO openly and
vigorously; If not, do not, criticise failure
OF apparent neglect In the matter.
An interesting case involving the rights
of passengers in public conveyances was
recently tried in London. A woman en-
deavoring to enter a car of which every
seat was already occupied, one of the
passengers protested against her doing So
She persisted, remained standing through
out the journey, used abusive language te
the protesting passenger, and at the jour
ney's end hunted up her husband and in
cited him to assault the passenger with q
club The latter procured the arrest Of
his assailant and the matter was brought
into court. In passing judgment upon
thcsaAfendant and fning him for his as
sault upon-the protesting passenger the
Judge declared that no enc had Egh4 to
enter car of which all the seats were al
ready occupied. The passengers occupy,
ing the seats had paid fares for the use Of
them and of the car. 1t was an infringe
ment upon their rights for others to crowd
into the car perhaps jostling and incom-
moding them, and certainly deprivine
them Of air and light. Persons in car
which was already full had a moral and
legal right to prevent, by force II neces-
sary, the entrance of any more passengers.
No one had right to Inconvenience pas
sengers already in their places. If the
railroad company issued more tickets than
there were seats in the train, passengers
might demand return Of their money OF
might recover in an action for damages.
There were, he added. the legal as well as
the moral principles of the case, and the
sooner they were understood by the pub
letter it would be for all concerned