The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-05-21


the foot print of the horse, the animal
being 'center-sprained, he had no diff
Guilty in following the same The trail
landed him at Joseph Lemons house near
Browns Mills. Here he saw the timber
back of Lemons barn. He asked Lemon
about the wood and the latter expressed
entire ignorance of the matter stating that
| he had been asleep when the wood was
brought there, but that his partner Dick
Sooy might know. Later Pitman secured
the services of W. H. Thompson, of Penn
berton, and together they went to Lemons
house and sawed off the butts of half
dozen of the trees and taking them to the
woods fitted them exactly on the stumps
as left in the ground. These butts and
stumps were brought into Court and of
fered as evidence.
Benjamin F. Dunbar, father-in-law of
Charles Fl. Pitman, was simply called to
corroborate the previous witness state
ment in regard to the locality of the cut
timber.
Asa Pitman, son of Charles Pitman,
went with his father to Lemons and saw
the timber lying there. Witness identi-
fed it as coming off the Upton tract.
Lemon and Sooy were engaged in making
crates for crockery and the lumber used
in their manufacture was the kind stolen.
M. Warner Hargrove who keeps store
and is postmaster at Browns Mills, testi-
fed that Lemon and Sooy weresin partner
ship and that mail often came addressed
to Lemon & Sooy'' That on the morn
ing of finding the timber, he and two of
his men were engaged in filling an ice
house. and that while thus employed Sooy
came by driving Lemons horse This
was about 7.30 o'clock He came back
about 1920; this time the wagon being
loaded with trees. He was driving from
the neighborhood of the Upton tract.
Harker was with him.
John Bowker, the next witness, testi
fed that he was unloading wood that day
in the neighborhood of Browns Mills and
that he also saw ''the boys" with the
wood They had Lemons horse and
wagon. Witness stated that the horse was
the only one of its kind ever seen in the
vicinity; it appeared to ''have been run
over in front. Witness denied having
told Mary Harker that he saw Dave Carr
cut the wood.
Bert Earling was with Hargrove help
ing with his ice and he too saw the two
defendants, Harker and Sooy, with the
wood Witness also stated they were
coming from the Upton tract but that the
Black tract was also in that direction
William Henry Bozarth, who objected
strenuously to being addressed by Mr.
Budd as Henry Bozarth, next took the
stand He was at the hearing before
Squire Joyce and heard the remarks al
luded to above as having been made by
Harker.
Thomas Scattergood also was at the
hearing and heard the same statements.
He said that Harker further said to Pit
man, IF he had his just deserts he would
have been in prison before he was 81 years
old"
William H. Thompson, constable of
Pemberton, merely corroborated Pitman
in regard to the fitting of the stumps
Witness said that the day he and Pitman
went to make the trial matching" Sooy
was there, but as soon as they arrived he
departed
Leander B. Joyce, justice of the peace
of Browns Mills, was next called. He
gave the men hearing and held them for
Court Mr.. Joyce was little reluctant
about stating that Harker had made the
statements mentioned above, but upon
being hard pressed by Mr.. Budd he ac-
knowledged that Harker had said he was
thief and would always be thief. This
closed the States side of the case.
A brief recess was held, at which time
the lawyers and Judge occupied the
Judges private room. When they APP
peared the Judge instructed the jury to
release Lemon owing to a lack of evidence
connecting him with the larceny of the
timber Lemon was therefore given his
freedom.
Leander B. Joyce was the first witness
called by the defense. He stated that he
was agent for a tract of land adjoining
Mr.. Upton's tract, belonging to Alfred
Black, and that he had given Lemon per