Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1902-10-23
JOB WILLIAMS
FOUND GUILTY.
A Verdict Reached After Four
Days Trial.
PRISONER is INDIFFERENT
viii Pay the Penalty for the
Murder of John S. Holmes
and Catherine Shute on No
vember Goth.
[From Daily Pioneer, THURSDAY, Oct. 1871

[From Daily Pioneer, Thursday, Oct. 16.l
Prosecutor Fithian. yesterday, was
sworn as witness in the Job Will
lia1ns trial for the purpose of intro
ducing the confession made Witness
said he had known Job Williams for
20 years. Went to the Jail on Friday
after the fire and had talk with JOB.
Told him he did not have to talk if
he did not want to, as anything he
would say might be used against him,
but if he had anything to say, he, as
Prosecutor, would like to hear it.
Job made some statements then. On
the following Wednesday, Sept. Sd,
he saw Job again, when without any
promises of gain whatever, Job made
a statement in the form of confess
sion, after first saying that he thought
he would feel better if he made a
1 clean breast of it. The statement
was offered in evidence at this point,
but Mr.. Iredell objected to it until
/ after he had called some witnesses.
Job Williams, the defendant, was
sworn and on examination of Mr.. Ire
dell, said that he was the defendant,
and that he had been asked by Chas.
j. Fithian to make statement Mr..
Fithian had said to him that if he
would make statement to the rob-
bing Holmes house. that he would
see that he got bail. He was subse-
quently asked on two other occasions
to make statements, once by Con-
stable Lore and again by Prosecutor
Fithian. On the occasion when Mr..
Lore saw him about statement, wit
ness said that Mr.. Lore walked up
and down the room crying and that
Lore said to him that if he would
make statement to the effect that he
did the robbing, and that while in the
act, he did shoot and kill Mr.. Holmes
3 and Miss Shute, that he would see
& that he was provided with good ooun-
sci at his own expense and that he
would give him back $50 of his
money, which he did. Mr.. Lore
4 further told him that nine hundred
and ninety nine persons out of every
thousand thought he murdered these
Il two persons and if he would confess
to the robbery and the shooting, under
the impulse of the moment, that he
could not be hung for the crime, but
that it would only be considered man
slaughter, and that he would get but
eight or ten years in State prison.
Gross examined by the Prosecutor,
witness said that he made the state
ment entirely on the promises of Mr..
Lore and that he had never said he
wanted to make voluntary state
ment. Witness admitted that he had
asked the Prosecutor for the money
\ which Mr.. Lore had promised to give
Z him, but that it wasSnot given him
until after he had signed the state
ment
The Prosecutor again took the stand
and made denials of some of the state
ments made by Job Williams, as to in
AuOClnOAbo OlCI0Q W oIdW lIOu llllu
confession.
# Constable Lore was recalled and
also denied Jobs testimony in toto.
Mr.. Lore was very positive in his de-
malls
Chas. J. Fithian, recalled. Said
ME- that he had heard the Prosecutor ask
sN Job Williams. whether there had or
Y had not been any promises made to
him by any one before he made the
Statement. The witnesses said that
Job said there had been nothing prom
ised him.
The Prosecutor then offered the
statement made by Job Williams in
evidence. 1t was objected to by Law
yer Iredell son five grounds covering
points of how the confession was
Il gotten out of the defendant under
" hopes of reward, and that the state
ment signed by the defendant, was
mot done voluntarily. Prosecutor
~ Fithian met the objections and cited
authorities on the subject. The Court
n retired for a brief time to consider
the evidence touching the confession
#and to look over the authorities
quoted. Before concluding it's deci-
sion, the Court asked to have Sheriff
Hendee testify in rebuttal to some
statements made by the prisoner when
on the stand, relative to the Sheriff