The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-03-14

with the writing of a notice inserted in a
local paper, offering to return the wallet !
and cash by addressing Snyder, Post
Office" On this evidence the domestic
was put under $500 bail. She declared
her innocence.
Almost helpless when clouds of smoke
warned her that her home was afire, Mrs
Michael O'Day, of Plainfeld. grasped her
4-days-old baby in her arms and staggered
to the door, where her screams summoned
neighbors. They found a fierce blaze
raging in the interior of the house. AS
the O'Day home is in the suburbs, beyond
reach of the Plainfield fire apparatus,
bucket brigade cut holes in the roof and
poured in water until the blaze was ex-
tinguished While thus engaged one man
on the roof slipped and fell to the ground.
sustaining serious injuries.
In William Stevens the police of Nor
ristown believe they have long-sought
prisoner, suspected of the murder of John
s. Day, Newark contractor. who was
shot in Port Morris last October. 1t is
also believed he is the perpetrator of the
burning of the Kenvil Hotel, last fall, and
of holding up twenty station agents in
various Lackawanna offices. The Morris
town station was one of these, when a
year ago. in broad daylight, a burglar
stole $3.50 and left $4,000 Again, three
months ago, night agent Tower beat off
the burglar after fight, in which dozen
shots were fired. Stevens was held with
out bail.
While police and a posse of twenty
armed citizens surrounded the post office
building, at Gloucester, on Wednesday
night. prepared to capture. dead or alive,
burglars who, it was declared, were rifing
the coffee store of George D. Vickers,
located in the building, the culprit escap-
ed from an unguarded window. A man
was seen to enter a cellar window under
the coffee store by Mrs. Charles F. Wat
kins. who lives opposite. She raised an
alarm, and officers and citizens, with
weapons much in evidence, rallied for the
man-hunt. When the police entered the
cellar it was found that the burglar had
escaped through a window in the printing
office of Charles E. Thompson, in the
rear of the store. The police believe the
culprit had planned to loot both buildings.
The Methodist Protestant Church at
Westville was crowded Tuesday night.
when members of the Sunday school
related how they had invested 112
pennies distributed among them by
Superintendent Charles c. Dempsey
month ago in order to raise funds
for improvements. Over $3.50 was real
lied. The women folks made and sold
pies, cakes and soup, while the men sold
matches, soap, clothespins and candy.
William Dilkes, prominent young mem
Der of the church. and popular citizen of
Westville, after investing his penny in
various ways, realized enough money to
purchase several gross of clothespins,
which he sold in the village. Most of the
women sold soup and the men folks will
draw the line on soup for weeks to come.
The decision of the Court of Errors
in the suit brought by John Spille, of New
Brunswick, for a divorce from his wife,
Sc ems to bear out the contention that a
wife is not bound to follow her husband
about, and that it is up to him to provide
fixed domicile for her Spille is a rail-
road engineer. His wife is New Bruins
wick woman. Spille moved about each
time his runs were changed, and finally
his wife left him and returned to her pa
rents. He sued for divorce on the ground
of desertion. She contested the suit and
won, The Chancellor's decision, refusing
the divorce, was appealed to the Court of
Errors, but the court sustained the Chan
cellor, indicating the wife's right to OBJ
ject to Spille's moving habit.
Judge Rellstab, at Trenton, on Tues
day, sentenced the notorious Roberts fam
lily, the confessed perpetrators of whole
sale robberies. Belle Roberts, the wife
and mother, was sentenced to twelve
years and 81, 900 fine, in reality sentence
of twenty-four years in state prison, the
Judge blaming her for the downfall of
her family. Harry, the eldest son and the
ring leader in the robbery raids, was Civ
en- twenty eight years, and Edward, the
younger brother, was given seven years.
Thomas Roberts, father of the boys, was
allowed to go on probation that he might
earn living for blind son and two
daughters. William Daniels, son-in law
of Roberts, was committed to the Railway
reformatorY.