The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-03-19
EASY DAY IN COURT.
Four Cases Set for Trial
Postponed for as Many
Reasons.

The bottom fell completely out of the
calendar in the General Sessions Court
today. Assistant Prosecutor Van Wrinkle
had prepared himself to try four cases,
and it was through no fault of his that
they were not tried.
The most important of the four was an
Indictment against Thomas Ellison,
James Fulton and Paul Luther for grand
larceny. These men, who were employed
by William ,,B. Somers. truekman' at
No. 1872 Warren street, were sent on Aug
ust g. last year, to Staten Island to bring
a load of scrap iron, consisting OF boiler
punchings, from the Burlee drydock, ana
deliver it at the Ames Spike Works in
Jersey City The loaded up about l,00o
pounds of the iron on the truck and start
ed back. The iron had not been weighed
at the dock as it had been arranged to
weigh it at the Spike Works.
The day was very warm and the defend
ants decided to get rid of part OF the
heavy load in order, probably to relleVe
the horses and incidentally to make few
dollars for themselves. They thought this
would be perfectly safe as the load had
not been weighed. The defendants drove
to Nicolo Vazzaro's junk shop. No "
sold him about one half the iron Tor
twenty cents per 100 pounds
. Unfortunately for them an employe
from the dry dock had followed them
and reported the transaction to MS en-
ployers. The police were called in and the
defendants were arrested. Some OF the
iron was recovered from Vazzaro by
Detectives Griffin and Foley of Bayonne,
-
and the remainder by Detective Prescott
from a junk shop in this city. The trlai
has been postponed several times ana
when 1t was called this morning the de-
PENDANTS retracted their former plea and
pleaded non vult, thereby disposing OF
that case.
Joseph Colletti, of No. 800 Palisade ave-
nue., West Hoboken, failed to appear for
trial on an indictment for assault and
battery on Adolph Wiesenberg, druggist
at No. 1873 Summit avenue, West Hobo
ken. and his bail was forfeited. The
trouble was the outcome of a dlthcuity
between the druggist and DR.. Collettl,
Joseph's brother. The story is that
Joseph went to the drug store to ascer-
tain why Wiesenberg had refused to put
up one of the doctors prescriptions. The
druggist alleges that Joseph became noisy
and abusive and wound up by striking
him
The trial of Harry Solomon, of No. 454
Avenue C, Bayonne, for alleged larceny,
was laid over to oblige lawyer Isaac
Goldenhorn, counsel for the defendant.
Mr.. Goldenhorn told Assistant Prosecutor
Van Wrinkle that he called on his best girl
yesterday and was therefore unable to
notify his client to appear in court this
morning. This explanation touched
sympathetic chord in Mr.. Van Wrinkles
heart as he had been there himself and
he readily consented to a postponement.
Solomon is charged with stealing $40 from
the money drawer in Morris Stoub's dry
goods store, No. 366 Avenue D, Bayonne,
on January a.. Solomon was at the store
to collect butchers bill, and Stoub and
his wife say that they saw him reach
over the counter and take the money out
of the drawer.
The fourth and last case on the list, the
trial of Vito Barlo, for keeping an alleged
disorder1y house in Bayonne, was post
poned by the State because important
witnesses were absent.