The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-06-27
Piano Tuner in Trouble.


The Camden Courier gives this accoun
of case in that city:
That music hath charms was developed
at the hearing of Mrs. Bessie virgins
against Henry NJ. McCorquodale in the
Camden Police Court Wednesday morn
ing McCorquodale was charged with
stealing gold watch, chain, stick pin and
about $1.25 in money from Mrs. virgins
room at the West Jersey hotel on Tuesday
night.
Mrs. virgins first met McCorquodale
about two months ago, at her home in
Mount Holly, when he went to tune her
piano. They met by appointment on Tues
day again in Camden. They went to Phil
adelphia and visited several saloons. At
the hearing they argued about the num-
Der of cocktails Mrs virgins drank
She said four. He insisted she drank
five. They returned to Camden about
11.30 o'clock and registered at the hotel
as man and wife.
During the night Mrs. virgins became
i'll and McCorquodale rang for the bell
boy, from whom he ordered more drinks.
When the boy brought the drinks he felt
in his vest pocket for the money to pay
for them, but couldn't discover a cent
You've got my money!" he playfully
remarked to Mrs. virgins.
You're liar, she said, "but I'll tell
you what you got; you got my watch and
chain and want them"
Words followed, and finally the night
clerk was summoned by Mrs. virgins.
The clerk testified that while he was
standing there Mrs. virgins shook her
hand in McCorquodale's face and shouted:
He's got my jewelry."
''McCorquodale, said the clerk, ''struck
her in the face and knocked her down
Then he left the hotel.
He was arrested about noon Thursday
Mrs. virgins appeared in court dressed
in white silk waist, blue skirt and wore
a brown turban and light colored CATERS.
From her throat hung a necklace on the
end of which dangled charm.
How is it you didn't lose that" asked
the Recorder.
"Oh, that was on my neck" she said.
"He couldn't reach that"
She asserted positively that she was not
drunk and stated moreover that she was
sufficiently sober to prevent McCorquo-
dale from taking ring off her finger. She
said she had been separated from her hus
band about five weeks. McCorquodale,
she said, wanted her to go back to her
live with him, get him to sign
over the piano and the rest of the house
hold buds to her and then leave him. She
Indignantly spurned the proposition.
McCorquodale is AZ years old, the son of
a doctor and Texan by birth. He is
very stout and has all the frankness of
the Southerner. He was anxious to relate
incidents in the career of Mrs. virgins
while she was in Mount Holly, but the
Court informed him that this was not
necessary. He denied Mrs. virgins
whole story. and declared she had asserted
to him that she had given her watch to a
young man in Philadelphia.
Attired in dress of lawn, Mrs. Wrig-
gins futtered into the City Hall Friday
and received her watch, chain
and pin from Chief of Police Foster. One
Of the chiefs men had gotten the jewelry
1T the hotel, where it had been found in
Bessie's room under a washstand.
Bessie had her husband at the City Hall
with her and held several te-a-tetes with
he police officials, answered telephone
call or two, and walked up and down the
corridor to show off her brown bonnet
and the symmetrical shape of the new
avn dress
Her husband went into the Jail and had
a few words with McCorquodale. whom
Bessie had arrested on charge of steal
ing the jewels.
my friend" said the husband to Nc
don't you bother with my
wife any more. You just let her alone. "
Don't you worry about that. respond
ed McCorquodale. "Just rest easy.
don't want to have anything more to do
with her."
Later McCorquodale was arraigned be-
fore the Recorder and formally discharged. |
AS he passed out the door Bessie gave him
a sly glance. but he just gave her cold
go-by.