The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-05-03
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The SHERMAN CASE.
I.AMRrRrvILLE. MAY |.

L.AMBERTvILLE, May /. 1905
EDITOR OF THE RECORD:
There appeared in The "a nbertville
Beacon of April 10th an article signed
by number of the supposed friends
of one George Sherman, of West AM
we'll township, calling attention to his
/ unlustlY arrest on two occasions by an
agent of the Society for the Proven
! ton of Cruelty to Animals. l have
been requested to state the facts as
! they are This Society has for two
| years received complaints about this
man Sherman for failing to provide
! proper care aud shelter 70" his stock
/ during the Winter. the first complaint
reaching us in March of last year. On
| April 1lth following we visited Sher-
mans place and found all that had
been complained Of. and much more,
| to be true. In corner of the barn
yard, i'll filth, stood several cows hud-
| died together, while III the middle of
them lay dead calf partly decom-
| posed, and beck of the barn (Which
was partly blown down lay the re-
| mains of Il COW. On the following day
Sherman was arrested and brought to
this city and given a hearing before
Magistrate William Lyman. lie plead
ed guilty 10 the charges and was fined
81 and cos,s, which he paid; also the
understanding that i'll the future he
must provide proper care and shelter
for his stock, which he agreed to do.
Now then. III regards to the last case,
which has broken the hearts of SO
many of Mr.. Shcrman's >iad neigh
bors : en- February sd Of this year
complaints again reached us lin fact
it was told broadcast by some of the
kind neighborS of Sherman1 that he
was again violating The law, having
failed to provide shelter for his stock
from the storms all Winter. We again
visited Mr.. Sherman's place and ask
| ed him to make some arrangements to
shelter his stock, agreeing to help him
| III any way possible tone of Mr.. Sher-
mans neighbors being present at the
time. lie refused to have anything
to do with us IN REGARDS to the matter,
| ordering lis OIL the place. On Febru-
AIRY 18th Sherman was again arrested
aud taken before Magistrate William
Lyman, and OH charges duly made ard
sworn TO and i'll the presence of six or
eight Of his neighbors (siguers of the
petition pleaded guilty, arrangements
also being made by these men to take
spItl llldll = SlDCk ana Sltiitt them I'LL
til proper plans could be made, which
they did. Now after two months have
passed these men have concluded that
the charge preferred is lie, or, as they
put it. damuable one. Don I it seem
just bit of for these men, some who
have never been on Sherman's place,
to come forth and after taking his
stock and caring for il to find the whole
t.a.r- g., IL. H. 1,
the magistrates Office and advised
Mr. Sherman to plead guilty to the
charges. Almost everyone knows that
it Is pleasure for one to plead
guilty to ch3rles, whether guilty or
not, lust for the fun of paving a fine.
We have as ye, to see any one fined i'll
any case before full proof of the case
is given. And now lust a word i'll re-
CARDS to the paper in which the petit
ton WAS printed THE Beacon. 1t has
always been the pleasure of this paper
TO try and down this Society, or its
agent, for what purpose we know not
Tor do we care1, as on several occasions
it has taken the opportunity to dig us
III its yellow way. Articles published
time and again that were hatched no
in their Office were nothing more than
u.s. anu illbliNHtAl Ibl Whatever III
jury they could do. Brothers Hazen
I'VE call them brothers for purposc)
might find articles right at their very
door that would interest their readers
more than certain lies that have been
published by them of late, Not only
that, let them act as men, and not in
two-taced manner. As they state
that there are two sides to every case,
perhaps they would be pleased to pub
fish the other side of cases that they
have taken the opportunity of ham
mering us on at different times. If
the editors of this paper have any
cause TO suspect that the undersigned,
as an officer, is not doing his duty,
why dom they get some one like them
selves appointed, and then they could
arrange the space that has been given
me on several occasions for better
cause, and not mislead some of their
readers in the future as they have tried
to do i'll the past.
Signed,
WALLACE u. THoRNToN,
A rent N < u G A