The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-23
Monmouth County Courts


and duly authorized vender of wet
goods.
The hotel men were evidently en-
| lightened on this point as all those
who pleaded not guilty at the time of
their arraigninent retracted their
! pleas and stood non vult before the
court OF the several charges found
against them. Judge Foster, who
presided in court and administered
the sentences, stated clearly his po-
sition that hotel proprietors selling
] without license for the first offence
j should pay fine to the county equva-
lent TO twice the sum imposed as IL
crnse for the several classes of hotels
4 included in the list before him Thus
| as the Coleman House is first class
and duly licensed would be required
to pay $500 in the county treasury he
would impose a fine of 81 600 upon the
/ hrs indictment.
Assistant Prosecutor Stokes, after
the pleas had been received. moved
the dismissal OF the additional indict-
ments against the hotel men, asking
sentence only on the first indictment
in each case. Judge Foster. however.
said he would suspend sentence on the
other indictments aud proceeded TO
I
viously stated as follows: Frank b.
Conover, Coleman House, 81 900; Sam
uel Banta and William FL. Hilyard,
Hotel Bristol, $780, William AppIegate
Hotel Monmouth, 81 900; MAJ MAS APP
+ plegate, Hotel Raleigh, 81 600; John
Cleveland, Trenton House, $500; George
W. Ward, Commercial. $500; Benjamin
! Hixson. Philadelphia Hotel $500; Mrs
NJ. H. Frost, Hotel Lafayette, 300;
FREQ w Book, ST. James, $500; H. j..
! Bly,, Plaz4, $1,000: Fred j. Schoen,
Newark House, $700 Paul Pnpilla,
proprietor of the WestEnd pool room.
/ $780, The costs in each case, about
/ $40 nre added.
William Nodine, convicted of selling
4 from wagon, pleaded non vult aud
was fined $500.
John Boice recently convicted for
selling in It West Park restaurant, be-
i ing an old offender, was sentenced TO
+ six months imprisonment. Boicp. il
appears, had paid fines regularly foi
conducting his business on the West
4 Side.
Harry Abrams. indicted for the ille-
gal sale of liqnor ut 220 Goodman ave
nue. stood trial. The case against him
was proven in exactly one hour after
Y the Jury was drawn. Fuller agency
detectives were the only witnesses
against hrams They claimed to
/ have bought liquor at his place on
Aug 8. Abrams denied ever having
seen them.
In pronouneing sentence upon the
hotel meu,J Judge Foster called atten-
ton to the notoriety which Asbury
Park had attained through the prose
+ 81, III III
there was a sentiment. which was en-.
coprased in the grand jury room
that the hotel proprietors in Asbury
Park should be permitted to sell Liquor
TO their guests He desired it to be
1 understood, however, that 80 long as
! the law stood as it was, he would carry
( out its provisions aud do all in his
power to insure It's enforcement.
/ Sentence was suspended on the
other indictments.
Further proof to the effect that
Judge John e. Foster is determined
to put stop to the illegal sale of
liquor in Asbury Park was evidenced
/ Friday when he sentenced Harry A b.
rams, who during the summer wasthe
proprietor of II small restaurant on
/ Goodman avenue, to four months i'm
4 prisoninent in the county jail and the
costs of the prosecution.
! This sentence wiilnot be put into
effect Immediately, however, as coan-
sci for the defence, Charles E. Cook,
+ of Asbury Park, will take the case to
the supreme court on writ Of error,
claiming among other things that the
indictment did not specify the charac-
ter or the amount of liquor sold, if
any, at Abrams restaurant.
In imposing sentence, the Judge
stated that Abrams had been pre-
viouslv Indicted and convicted for a
like offence and that the usual fine
did not seem TO bother him. Your
sentence would have been six months
instead of four if the jury had not rec
ommended mercy" said his honor.
SolomonMichaelso became Abrams
surety in the sum of $1,000.
James NJ Hurley of Bradley Park
was acquitted of the charge of as
: sault aud battery preferred against
him by William Eldridge of the
same place. Eldridge swore that
he called on Hurley, who is his ten
ant, to collect his rent, whereupon,
! he alleged, Hurley attacked him.
4 This charge could not be sustained to
! the satisfaction of the court,
Dec. 81 was the date set for the trial
of Harry j. Rockefeller, proprietor
of Sunset Hall, Asbury Park. against
! whom there is an indictmenrcharging
i him with the illegal sale of liquor.
This late date was set by the court
owing to the absence of several wit
lnesses for the defence.
The case of Robert Never of West
Asbury Park, indicted for assault and
battery on Lavina Saunders was
tried Friday before Judge Foster and
a Jury at Freehold. The trial lasted
one hour, and the jury after being
out FIVE and one half hours returned
with verdict of not guilty. A. j. G
Stokes, assistant prosecutor, repre-
sented the State and Wesley b. Stou
the defendant.
Dan, Gates, proprietor of Gates Eng
llish Chop house on Goodman avenue
Asbury Park, was tried on Friday
before Judge Foster for the illegal salt
4 of LIQUOR. Thomas J. Smith and J E
Lepage, two detectives employed b,
the prosecutor, testified to having
bought drinks from 6ates on Aug.
last. Mr.. Gates denied ever bsvfes
sold liqour to the detectives ard ais
ldenied that he had a government Ii