Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1900-05-17


Mrs. Sarah B. Bullick, charging lar
ceny. The allegation is that fifty
shocks of corn stalks were stolen, the
shocks being valued at S1.00 each.
1t seems that James Bullick leased
farm of Robert Shull up in Deerfeld
township, and after he had left the
farm his wife Mrs. Sarah r. Bullick
and John Smith, neighbOr of Mrs.
Bullick, went to the farm and re-
moved some of the shocks sometime
during last November.
Mrs. Sarah r. Bullick and John
Smith the defendants in the case,
were defended by ex-Judge Hoagland
and j. W. Acton, of Salem.
John G. Lewellyn, Justice of the
Peace at Deerfield, said the lease was
drawn by him and witnessed the per-
sons place their signatures to it.
Isaac Sagers testified he was carting
stalks for Thomas Tice at the time,
and paid Mrs Bullick for the stalks
got 25 punches and paid S5.
No cross examination.
Thomas NJ. Tice said he had bought
40 or so punches of stalks from Mrs.
Bullick and also paid Mr.. Shull for
them but did not do this to keep the
case from going before the Criminal
Courts. He paid for the stalks twice.
Thursday Afternoon.
The case of the state against John
Schmidt and Sarah Bullock came to
an end this afternoon, and the jury
decided the defendants were not
guilty of stealing corn stalks. The
audience exhibited it's pleasure with
the verdict by applauding. OF course
this was promptly checked by the
court. The case had been elaborately
tried. Prosecutor Fithian was assist
ed by the counsel for the complaining
witness, while Judge Hoagland of
this city, and Prosecutor Acton ap-
peared for the defense. The old time
court visitor could not quite get used
to Judge Hoagland practising at the
defendants table. The Judge had
been twenty years sitting by the
Prosecutors desk and ten years on
the bench, and this was the first
criminal case since his retirement
from the bench that he had acted as
counsel for defendant before jury.
Prosecutor Acton did not seem to be
entirely natural upon the defendants s
side of the House, but the diStin-
guished gentlemen cleared their
clients and that was what they were
there for.
Henry Mick was then called to the
bar to stand upon an Indictment
charging him with larceny. The af-
ternoon sped away before the state
had submitted all it's testimony to the
| jury.
The case comes by the way of Vine
land. Mick is charged with stealing
from George BowleS quantity of
wheat, some feed and set of har-
ness.
George BowleS qualified himself as
a witness by taking the usual oath,
and explained to the court and jury
that he was a milk dispenser in the
Borough of Vineland. He has a pc
culiar feed made by the H. o. Oat
Company, of Buffalo, N. Y, which is
not generally used in this section.
Some time since BOwleS noticed that
his feed bin was open, and some of
his feed was missing. He showed the
jury some of the feed to explain more
fully the difference between that and
other feed.
Elmer Bowles explained in detail
that his attention had been called to
the disappearance of the feed and he
looked around bit. He discovered
foot prints which led to wagon tracks,
and the wagon tracks, were found
upon investigation to lead to the
property of the defendant. Some i'm
tracks had been made in plaster of
paris and were exhibited to the jury
for what they were worth. Following
up the tracks the witness found him.
self at Mick's barn and in the barn
was some of the peculiar "H. o."
feed.
Constable George Nickerson, Edgar
Bowles and William Ellis had also
followed these tracks the morning af-
ter the robbery and they each detailed
how the tracks led from Bowles' barn
to the barn of Mick.
The hour for adjournment came
along at this point and court was adj
journed for the day.
Friday Morning.
The last days session of court for
this week is on, and the end of court
will probably come about the middle
| of next week. Few people will be