Smyrna times., 1905-10-25
KENT COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CASES.
Court Convened Monday Morning With
Much Busiless-Cases of Local Interest.


and General Sessions convened at
Dover Monday, with Chief Justice
Charles B. Lore and Associates Grubb
aud Pennewill on the bench. When
the State judges opened the Court of
General Sessions, it was evident from
the first that the large number of Of
tenders in the Kent County prison |
charged with assaults or the use of |
firearms would be severely dealt with
1t was thought that the Court would |
charge the Grand Jury specially upon |
the disorder in lower Delaware, but |
the Chief Justice simply bade the
Grand Jury to get to work with the
mass of criminal business and handle
it with all possible haste. The cases
came up rapidly and the number of
pleas of guilty were surprising.
The question of whether or not a
man has the right to work on Sunday
if his neighbor objects to seeing him
thus engaged in worldly occupation,
will come before the Superior Court
this week, when Magistrate Cummins,
of Smyrna, shall turn over to the pro.
thonotary the final papers in the
Woodland Beach cases. which at
tracted much public attention in Della
ware and interested many Phiiadel-
phians all last summer. When the
supreme Court opened Monday the
Smyrna magistrate was in attendance
and he made return of most of the
cases against the concessionaries of
Woodland Beach, who were arrested
every Monday and fined for running
wide-open, their tobogans, merry-gO-
rounds, lighthouses and the minor ar
arrangements of pitching rings over
canes, etc. Every time the con-
cessionaries were arrested they re.
fused to pay their fines, and men and
J women alike, were committed to the
: Kent county prison. By the time they
) would reach the Jail doors however,
other attorney for the concessionaries
and President James R. Mott, of the
r Woodland Beach Company, would
3 meet them there with writs of certorari
4 appealing their cases up to the Superior
. Court
: Eugene Fisher, who re that he
=. was clerk in Philadelphia store,
who carried and shot a revolver dur
ing a baseball game at Frederick.
{ made stiff fight for freedom through
his counsel, George NJ. Jones. He
testified that he came to Bowers
Beach on a vacation and had a revol-
II yer, loaded with blank cartridges
l. which he had retained in his posses
sion since July 4. He had not the
"a slightest intention of doing anyone
70 bodily harm or of carrying the little
u pistol for unlawful purpose. Lawyer
u Jones dwelt upon the mans lawful in
zt tent, but Attorney General Richard
'n declared that would not go. eth,
~ very purpose of that law" declared
er the Chief Justice in his charge to the
ID case of the Wanamaker clerk, "was Il
prevent the carrying of weapons o
Id this character" He was fined S25
le which he paid. Harvey Wilson VIII
~ had been taken on a capias from las
a. term, for assaulting Patrolman Rober
rs E. Hurd, was pleaded for by Lawye
n, Kenny, who stated the young man wa
in a carpenter, at work for DIR. Stout il
Philadelphia during last court and di,
as not know when he was wanted. TIL
10 judges sentenced Wilson to imprison
n. ment for two months. The four case
nj against John q. Carter, for gambling
etc., and one against Edward Foun
i'll tain, were continued until the Apri
all term and bench warrants were issue
of for these defendants.
Ter Viola Masten, 81 years old, and a
RS. tired in light blue walking suit, al
peared in court yesterday afternoon an
IN, pleaded guilty to the grand iury's il
,re dictment charging her with bigamy
in marrying Thomas O. Poore, in Phils
sn- delphia, while still the wife of Amo
Masten, of Milford. Attorney Marsha
d., Immediately entered plea of guilt.
Ir. stating that the youth of the defendal
er. and the mitigating circumstanc,
which he could state to the cour
no together with her plea of guilty ar
at previous inoffensive record, warrantt
ma, him in appealing to the mercy of Il
,hn court. Chief Justice Lore impose
the minimum penalty of the law
l;s fine of $4OO and Imprisonment in ii
avs Kent county Jail for three month
I;ca The young woman accompanied Sher
Baker over to the prison, where g.
Immediately began her term.
his James Sullivan, who carried a co
=. oaaIad ravolvar in Dunk Oraak whe