The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-02-22
NORRIS COUNTY COURTS.
Verdicts Continue to Puzzle the
Public.

Public.
On the afternoon of Friday last the
Morris Quarter Sessions with Judge
Vreeland on the bench took up the
case of the State VS.. f rank VioIand
and Eugene Aoour, indicted for
keeping disorderly house in Stirling.
Owing to the number of witnesses
sworn it was necessary to lay it over
until Monday when the jury after be-
ing out about three hours, brought
in verdict of guilty.
After the jury retired in the above
case, Samuel Buan small lad of fif-
teen years, who together with another
boy named George Holmes, was in
dicted for breaking and entering
store in Dover, was brought before
the court, having been paroled in the
custody of his mother. He retracted
his former plea of not guilty and en-
tered a plea of guilty to the charge
CT larceny. The Court suspended
sentence On the indictment against
Holmes, who is three years his junior,
Prosecutor Mills entered nolle pros,
being unwilling to proceed against
him. Both boys were discharged.
The next case on the list was that
of the State VS.. James Hart for as
sault and battery. Hart formerly
pleaded not guilty to the. charge but
retracted this plea and pleaded guilty
to assault.
The next case ON the list was that
of the State VS.. Joseph Metagraph, an
italian, indicted for beating his wife.
Prosecutor Mills ON examining his
witnesses, who by the way, are all
members of the Metagraph family,
found that the stories they told then
were altogether different from those
they had given before the Grand
Jury and he stated the circumstances
to the Court and said that he had
considered it a very plain case of
assault and battery when the evidence
was given formerly but that the
statement of the facts as now related
by the witnesses made no case at all
against the defendant. 1t seems that
after he was indicted, Metagraph's
wife has been to see him twenty times
or more and before his case came up
ON Monday his wife and family were
in the Jail with him for hours. In
fact he came in court leading one
child while another. was in the arms of
the wife. The prosecutor refused to
move the case and it went over until
Thursday against the opposition of
Charles Stillwell, the prisoners coun-
sci.
Judge Garretson on last Saturday
morning confirmed the assessments
made by the Commissioners on the
State Aid road from Mendham to
Bernardsville and on the one at Sue
casunna. The hearing on the Budds
Lake and Netcong road was laid over
on request of counsel for one of
the adjoining owners.
The'jury in the case OF the State VS..
John William Williams Indicted for
aiding and abetting7 Henry Roth in
the burning of the Bertrand Island
House at Lake Hopatcong having
failed to agree in their verdict in the
trial.. ..late last week and the defendant
ON Wednesday was given another
chance. The case occupied all day
Thursday, the jury retiring at three
o'clock.
On Wednesday morning Lavinia
Pettinger was arraigned on the in
dictment against her for illegally
selling liquor at Milton. She pleaded
not guilty and trialIwas--set for RMon
day.
Late Thursday afternoon in Or
phans Court, Judge Vreeland an
nounced his decision in the Jonathan
E. Richards will case, refusing pro-
bate of the will.