Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1901-01-10
HUNT BROTHERS.

= Prosecutor Fithian explained the
nature OF the Indictment, which had
In 1t four counts. First, the larceny
of one horse, driving cart and har-
ness. Second the receiving Of the
horse knowing it to have been stolen.
Third, removing the horse tempo
rarily from the possession OF its
owner, and Fourth, conspiriBg to
take the rig with Andrew X. Wells.
The state contended that it would
show that Jennie Fitzpatrick, a
Philadelphian, some times visited
Cape May, and on the 18th of Decem-
ber, Cape May liveEyman sent Dan
iel Russell to Philadelphia afser Miss
Fitzpatrick horse. On the 10Th of
December, Russell reached Millville
and put the rig in Walter Kates' liv-
cry stable. Russell is married man
but he had an acquaintance with a
Bridgeton woman named Emma War
rington and known as Emma Ford.
He wrote her and asked her to meet
him in Bridgeton or Millville. Con-
stable Dare, who had been an inti-
mate acquaintance with the Ford
woman, learned of the contents of
the letter, and become Jealous. and
started to do Russell up.
Dare sent note on the evening of
the 10Th of December to Andrew K.
Wells, by hackman George Brown,
asking him to come to his house.
Wells went to the house of Dare. but
he was not at home. Afterward the
two met down town and Dare eX-
planned the whole matter to him and
Wells started out to locate Russell.
He could not find him in Bridgeton,
ana Dare said to Wells that he would
make Russell walk home. Dare then
went to the telephone in his Office
and called up Hates stable in Mill
vile, and told the hostler he was
Russell and would send coIored man
after the team that night.
Then Dare went to his stable in
BridgetOn, and got out his own horse
and told the hOStler he would have to
drive some ten or twelve miles in an
hour. Dare and Wells then started
to Millyille with Dare's team, start
ing about ten O'clock. Arriving
in Millyille Dare and Wells met
Russell and the Ford woman, and an
alteration enSued. Dare even went
so far as to draw a revolver upon
Russell. The latter not wishing to
have any trouble went to his room
and went to bed.
Wells thereupon went to Kate s
stable and asked for the horse that
Russell had telephoned for. The hos
tier hitched the team up and gave it
to Wells. The latter drove the Fitz-
patrick team across the pike and
Dare drove his own horse. When the
bottling place, known as Buffalo, was
reached, Wells and Dare unhitched
the horse and put it in a she'd. The
Prosecutor further said it would be
shown that the motive was jealousy
and that Dare was under the infiu-
ence of drinking.
Daniel Russell was the first witness
called by the state and his evidence
was as outlined. He was upon the
stand when the Pioneer report for
this morning was concluded. He. is a
man of little more than thirty, and
rather pleasant fellow. He is not
in many respects willing witness.
He is in an embarrassing position,
but he impreSSeS one as willing to
tell the truth and anxious to clean
up the mystery.
The defense is alert and rigorous
and while Russell was giving his teS-
timony Mr.. Bacon fairly rained in
objections and asked for exceptions
when rulings of the court were
against him.
The story, as portrayed by the wit
neSseSs, together with the defense,
will be presented fully tomorrow in
the "PiOneer.