The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-02-21
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day.
I Edward Hugg, colored, who is alleged
to have fourished a revolver in his at
tempt to rob woman at Burlington. was
the first prisoner to receive consideration
The young man had pleaded guilty to a
previous charge made against him, and
because of the intercession of friends,
sentence was suspended, and Hugg was
placed in charge of the probation officer
The defendant was remanded to Jail until
next Saturday. In the meantime an in
vestigation will be made to ascertain if
the boy has broken his parole. If not he
will be discharged, otherwise Hugg will
receive combination sentence.
Samuel Harrison and George Dennison.
OF Lakewood, having confessed their
guilt to breaking into railroad stations
along the line of the New Jersey Central
Railroad and stealing money from slot
chewing gum machines, were committed
to the State Reformatory at Railway by
Judge Gaskill. Sentence had been sus-
pended on the young men for two weeks
pending an investigation of their char
acter, which was not satisfactory to the
court. 1.-THE best information l have"
said the Judge, "shows that you are not
especially vicious, but generally unem-
ployed. Word comes to me that one of
you has been arrested twice before, and
that the community in which you live
does not look upon you with any great
favor. The court thinks you ought to be
punished, but the crime is not sufficient
to send you to state prison, neither will
keep you ia Jail any longer. The state,
fortunately, has provided reformatory,
to which l shall send you, but for no
definite period, where you can learn
| trade and then become useful citizen
The next contention was the appeal case
of Henry Greenwald VS.. Harry Barkalow,
to recover a bill of ST for electric light.
The Democratic committee of Chester
township rented a room in the post Office
building, at Moorestown, owned by Green
valid, for one month during the campaign
of last fall. The several tenants in the
place use electric light, all the wires being
attached to one meter. A transparency
was erected, and this Mr.. Greenwald
agreed to light for 50, stating, according
to testimony, that if the expense ran
higher than that figure, he would stand
for it. Two lamps, of 90 candle power
each, were taken from the banner
and produced in court. Noticing the
great excess in his electric light bills for
October, 1904, Mr.. Greenwald sent sever
, al bills to various officers of the club for
$17, representing the difference in con-
sumption, upon which payment was re-
fused. The rent of the room was settled
for by Mr.. Barkalow, whose offer to pay
50 for lighting the banner was not &C.
cepted.
Of the several witnesses who testified,
Mr. Barkalow, who has charge of the
local Office of the Public Service Corpor-
alton, said he supplied two candle power
lamps for the transparency, and that the
lamps offered in evidence were not the
ones he furnished. The candle power
lamps were sent to the room by colored
man under his charge, given to Mr.. Sny-
der, and the latter placed them in position.
Judge Gaskill said it had been estab-
| lished that a contract for extra lighting
had been made with Mr.. Greenwald, and
that he was entitled to compensation
The court held that Mr.. Barkalow was re-
sponsible for the two dollars and reversed
the judgment of the court below.
The following business was passed up
on in the Orphans court:
On motion of Samuel K. Robbins, a
new trustee was appointed in the estate of
James T. Sipple, and the executors were
discharged.
In the matter of the estate of Abraham
Marter, the exceptions to the account
were completed and the account ordered
to be restated.
The hearing of the will case in the es-
late of G. s. Earl, was set down for March
A, on motion of Samuel w. Shinn.
At the request of G. L. Cole, the hear
ing Of the William NJ. Shepherd will case
was set down for April 1.
On motion of William D. Lippincott,
and per agreement of other counsel in the
case, the court rendered decision in the
Ma rtha H. Coles case, on exceptions to
the account. In this matter there was an
agreement signed by most of the heirs at
law, from the fact that Martha Fl. Coles
attempted to make a will, but failed in
the attestation of the same. The agree
ment was to the effect that Emily G. Coles,
sister. should have the use and income
of the entire estate during her life As
this agreement was signed by many who
were not of age, and some of the heirs
being minors who did not sign, including
lunatic, Judge Gaskill came to the fol-
lowing conclusion: That all parties of age
who signed the agreement are bound by
the same. The lunatic is not bound by
the agreement and neither are the minors.
The agreement was made without con-
sideration, and with the understanding
that Emily G. Coles, upon her death, was
to make an equal division of the whole
estate, including her own, among the par
ties signing the agreement. Upon her
death, to their surprise, she left the prop
erty entirely different.