The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-19

To simplify matters, Mr.. Spencer resigned !
and the appointment of Mr.. Liddle is ex-
pected.
Constable Lore, of Bridgeton, has for
some days been working upon a lot of
chicken thieving cases, Cumberland
county farmers having lost great numbers
of poultry recently As a result there
have been % arrests, and a little village
south of Bridgeton, known as Faycemire-
town, has been entirely depopulated
Over 900 chickens were caught in the raid
the most of them having since been iden-
titled
There was mortgage for 100000 900
placed on record at Elizabeth, on Thurs
day, in the Union County Clerks office.
1t is given by the United States Ship
building Company, recently formed by
Lewis Nixon, to the Mercantile Trust
Company, of New York. The mortgage
covers all the plants acquired by the
United States Shipbuilding Company,
whose capital is placed at $45, 600, 900, and
it will be recorded in the various states
and counties where branches of the com
for thirty years.
Jerry Williams has made a peculiar
demand upon the town of Belvidere.
Back in the sixties, when General Lee
surrendered, the citizens had a great
celebration. An old anvil that was over
charged exploded and Mr.. Williams was
struck by one of the flying pieces and his
| leg had to be amputated Now old age
and infirmities have made him sort of
public charge and he demands a pension
of 500 per month from the town. Of
course the council has refused the demand
but the citizens will see that he does not
want for the necessities of life.
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art, of
New York, filed at Trenton on Thursday
an answer to the bill of Virginia Henrisch
to have set aside the will of Jacob S. Rog-
ers, the Paterson millionaire, who left the
bulk of his fortune to the museum. The
will was probated some time ago after a
contest Mrs. Henrisch, in her bill, claims
that her interest was not properly pro-
tected by counsel for the contestants.
The Metropolitan Museum of art denies
any knowledge OF failure of anybody to
properly guard Mrs. Henrisch's' interest,
who. it is claimed, was natural and not
lawful daughter of Rogers father. 1t
is also claimed that in the settlement,
which resulted in the payment of $3.50, 900
to the contestants, Mrs. Henrisch received
only 81, 900 as her share.
"A case was tried in the district court
at Paterson, on Wednesday, in which the
amount at issue was cents The plain
tiff was ]. Edwards Hunter, Pompton
photographer, and the defendant was the
Erie Railroad company. Hunter boarded
the train at Pompton one day without a
ticket The conductor demanded 80 cents
fare from Pompton to Little Falls Mr..
Hunter counted the miles between the
points, and told the conductor that he was
entitled to fraction over 80 cents. The
conductor demanded 80 cents under pen
atty of having Hunter put off the train
Hunter paid, and the Erie railroad was
adjudged guilty of breaking an old state
law of overcharging, and a judgment of
800 was given against the railroad COM
pany. One-half Of this goes to Hunter
and the other half to the state
William o. Garrison, county collector
of Cumberland county, is selfconfessed
defaulter to the amount of $500 He
left his home in Bridgeton on August g.,
presumably to attend the meeting of the
grand lodge of Elks at Salt Lake City,
Utah. On Monday night of last week a
clerk in Mr. Garrison's general store re-
ceived letter from that gentleman, post
marked New York, directing the clerk to
open the safe and deliver a number of
letters he would find there. In each of
the letters to the members of his family
and to the clerks in the store were state
ments that he had embezzled from the
county funds little more than $25, 900,
statement showing where the money had
been taken from and upon what dates.
He babe all the members of his family and
clerks an affectionate farewell and de-
clared that he would never return. The
letter to the Director of the Board of
Freeholders was his resignation as Collec-
tor, to take effect Immediately, and the
letter to the Elks was his resignation as
Exalted Ruler of the lodge On the day
he left home Mr.. Garrison had note dis
counted in Bridgeton bank for Sc, 900,
part of which amount he took with him.
also other considerable sums. Garrison
stated in his letter that his embezzlement
had continued for ten years, ever since he
had been In office, and he said he was
leaving the countr y forever.