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Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05
Judge Swayze's Charge.


When the Grand Jury had been
sworn, Judge Swayze delivered his
charge to them. He said, "Gentle-
men of the Grand Jury, on the 18th
day of October last, Mrs Frank Rails
niger came to her death from two gun
shot wounds. These wounds were of
such character that they could not
have been self inflicted. Her husband
is in Jail charged with her murder.
II you shall find that he inflicted those
wounds, either with intent to kill her
or to do her grievous bodily harm you
should indict him for murder. The
degree Of murder can only be deter
mined by trial by traverse jury. I
know of no other matter with which
to charge you and you may retire. -
The grand jury selected Constables
Hilliard and Smith and withdrew to
the grand jury room.
The petit jury was called and then
Judge Swayze announced that he had
ia letter from Judge Endicott saving
THAT he would be here to try a
specified case on Jan. oath, and any
other cases that might be referred to
the circuit court.
4 The list Of causes was called, and
many cases were ready for trial.
n The list Of appeal cases was called
Py Judge Trenchard. and many cases
Fere ready and day set for trial.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05

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Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05
Caring for The Old Soldiers,

The annual report of the board of
managers of the New Jersey State
Home for Disabled Soldiers, Sailors or
Marines and their Wives and Widows
at Vineland has been handed to Cover
nor Murphy. 1t shows the present
| population of the home to be 1876, of
whom 81 are males and rs females.
There were admitted during the year
IA males and 90 females, a total of 42.
Seven persons were discharged during
the year, five males aud two females.
There oied four males and three fe-
males.
The financial statement of the
home shows receipts of SIT. $685. So, and
disbursements of like amount. The
expenditures for the year were made
up of these items Current account,
$3, 493.S SS; subsistence, $7,8S9. so !;
clothing, $615. 25; household, "a, 3s3. SO ];
hospital, $3.50 81 transportation, $6. 80 !;
farm and garden, $52SO2; repairs,
$4l2.64.
During the year the managers have
completed and furnished an addition
to the home, which was made neces-
sary by the act Of 1909, admitting
needy widows of honorably discharged
soldiers, sailors ami marines to the
home. In connection with the admis-
sion of widows the report says that it
is to be regretted that. owing to
misunderstanding or a misapprehen-
sion of a clause of the act OF 1909,
which was amehded, so as to permit
the admission of widowed mothers of
honorably discharged soldiers, sailors
or marines and army nurses failed to
become a law. The report saws that
only three women in New Jersey
would have been benefited by this,
and expresses a rope that the present
act may be so amended as to admit
this class.
The expenditures of the home were
kept within the appropriation, the re.
port says, by rigid economy, and
makes it known that expenses for re.
pairs should be provided for out of
the fund other than that for general
maintenance.
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Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05
Council for 1909

City Recorder, prompt on the hour
OF IL O'Clock, administered the oath Of
office to the five members of CITY
Council elect. and Mr.. johnson nomi.
| mated Charles D. Moore for temporary
chairman.
Mr.. johnson nominated David @,
Jones for President and the nomina-
tion was seconded by Mr.. Daniels.
Mr.. Jones was unanimously elected
and escorted to the chair by Mr.. J. F.
| Moore and Mr.. johnson.
He thanked the Councilmen for the
honor second time conferred upon
| him.
The organization was then continued
as previously stated, Mr.. j. F. Moore
nominating Mr.. Hewitt for Recorder,
and Mr.. Fox naming Barton f. Sharp
for City Comptroller, and both were
elected unanimously.
For City Solicitor, @. D. Moore
nominated Rex A. Donnelly and T. H.
Woodruff nominated Mr.. Potter. The
latter received votes and Mr.. DON
nelly 6. Upon motion of Mr.. Daniels
the election of Mr.. Potter was made
unanimous.
Other officers were elected as fol.
lows:
City Electrician. Albert Hahn.
: Delinquent Tax Collector, Walter
M. Sharp.
Janitor City Hall, Fred Gould.
Attendant Town Clock, Albert M.
| Woodruff.
Board of Health. two members
Second ward, Jesse q. Davis, Amos P.
Johnson.
The s'Daily Pioneer" was made the
| official paper for the year 1905.
Upon motion of Mr.. johnson the
salaries for the city officers were fixed
the same as last year.
The various officials selected were
present and took the oath of office.
Road Overseer, First ward, John
Baumgarten.
-sCuo ofOiSOOlB JCCOAQ WdIu, l1GWlS
Marks.
Road Overseer, Third ward, Samuel
g. Batten.
Road Overseer, Fifth ward, Joel
Venable.
There was no election in the Fourth
ward. Henry Dare and William Coney
were nominated, each receiving 7
votes. Mr.. I. II. Woodruff being abb
sent. There were four ballots and the
election was laid over until the next
meeting.
The Road Committee was selected
as follows:
First ward, David @. Jones.
Second ward, William w. Messick.
Third ward, J. f. Moore.
Fourth ward, g. d. Moore.
Fifth ward, Rufus Richmond.
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Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05
Frank Sharp, Hopewel..

- NAAA h0HNA T., LII opCW W6l~.
John Stoddart, Lawrence.
Calvin Chambers, Maurice River
Frank Lore, Maurice River.
Howard S. CARL. Bridgeton.
+. Lee Langley, Millville.
John z. Richards, MillvilIe.
Elmer Johnson, Deerfeld.
John 9. Carroll, Mlllville.
Ernest A. Pierce, Vineland.
William W. CARL, Stoe Greek.
Samuel Bateman, Fairfield.
Joseph Shropshire, Commercial.
William @. Woodruff, Bridgeton.
Belford Ogden, Stoe Creek.
Frank E. Robinson, Bridgeton.
William A. Harris, Vineland.
Edward Davis, Hopewell.
Edward O. Beebe, MillviIle.
John w. Fox, MillviIle.
John D. Brandriff, Millville.
Oscar Humphreys, Bridgeton.
Harrison Taylor, Fairfield.
John O. Vannanm, MiIlville.
William G. Champion, Millville.
Major McDaniels, Commercial.
John P. VanDyke, Lands.
William @. Chance, Maurice River.
William Broadway, Commercial.
Samuel A. Laning, Bridgeton.
George W. Pashley, Commercial.
James Mulford, Fairfield.
Walter s. Hates, Nillville.
Frederick Renne, Greenwich.
Harry Lincenburg, Lawrence.
William Maxwell, Lands.
Charles H. Wiltsey, Millville.
John Entriken, Vineland.
George Vannaman, Stoe Creek.
Joseph Cook, Greenwich.
Furman N. Reeves, Millyille.
Richard Hand, Downe.
1t is estimated that the entire case
can be tried in two days, SO that it
may be that on Tuesday night next
the verdict may be made known.
The evidence is in small compass.
1t is quite likely that the technical
evidence will require more time than
the positive testimony at the COM
mand of either State or defence. OF
course very much depends upon the
confession that is said to have been
made by Rasinger. shortly after the
This confession has been
closley guarded by the State, and will
not be made known until it is pre-
sented at the trial next week. There
is little doubt but that the confession
will have great deal to do with in
the jury if Rasinger is con-
vited.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05
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Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05
Applegate Are stad.

Yesterday afternoon Appellate was
located in Philadelphia and arrested
upon warrant charging him with
this bunco game, and he is now held
therc pending extradition. The ar
rest OF the other fellow is expected
soon.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05
iWednesday Jan. AZ

Frank Rasinger, the young farmer
charged with killing his wife, yester-
day afternoon declared before the
Court that he was not guilty.
AS stated in the "Pioneer'' yester-
day the Grand Jury at once took up
the murder case upon It's being sent
out by Supreme Court Justice Swayze,
and it was but shortly after two
O'Clock when the Grand Jurors filed
in Court and made single present.
ment to the Court. That presentment
was the Indictment against Frank
Rasinger, and the charge fearful and
awful, was the willful killing of his
own wife. Immediately the indict-
ment was handed to the Court the
Grand Jury retired and Justice Swayze
ordered Sheriff Diament to present
Rasinger to the Court to plead to the
indictment.
There were but few persons in the
Court room at the time. Captain
Samuel Iredell was present and with
Prosecutor J. Hampton Fithian, was
the only lawyer in the room.
Shortly afterward two consrables
brought Rasinger from the Jail. The
big husky chap has not been out of the
prison since the Saturday in October
following the murder. There was
little about him to indicate that prison
life disagreed with him. Through
the rain he walked fast from the
Sheriff's Office to the Court House,
and mounted the steps fairly vigor-
ously.
When the defendant entered the
Court room, he for the first time in
dicated fear. His iron nerve which
has stood by him from the day of the
murder until now, seemed suddenly to
fail him.
Somewhat slowly Rasinger made his
way to the front of the Court room,
and took chair beside Captain Ire
dell. He did not converse at all.
Prosecutor Fithian had Rasinger
stand up and face him while he read
the formal indictment which charged
him with the murder of his wife
Elizabeth, on October 18th, last. AS
he listened to the words falling from
the lips of the Prosecutor, Rasinger's
paleness increased, hisface was ashen.
He stood weakly as if his courage was
completely gone. In appearance he
indicated that if the ordeal was to
continue much longer, he would col
lapse. When the Prosecutor had fin.
ished reading the indictment, he slow.
ly propounded the question:
Are you guilty or not guilty?''
For some seconds Rasinger blankly
stared at Prosecutor Fithian. His
tongue seemed unable to frame words.
Finally, weakly, he stammered out,
"I'm-I'm not guilty"
Rasinger was then removed from the
Court room and conducted back to his
prison cell.
The time for the trial was set for
next Monday morning at ten O'Clock,
when Justice Swayze will return here.
Arrangements were made yesterday
for the drawing of the panel of forty
eight jurors, from which the twelve
men will be selected who will finally
determine whether Rasinger is to live
or die. The panel was drawn this
morning in the presence of counsel for
State and defence and Judge Trench
ard. They are as follows:
Richard Fox, Bridgeton.
John Ogden, Bridgeton.
Charles Ewing. Greenwich.
Samuel p Robbins, Commercial.
Frank Cobb, Lawrence.
David Reeves, Greenwich.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05
JANUARY COURT = ERM
BEdAN TUESDAY.

1t was bat few moments after ten
o'clock Tuesday when Supreme
Court Justice Swayze for the second
term, appeared upon the bench Of the
Cumberland County Court House, to
open term of Court. Accompanying
him when he came from the retiring
room, was County Judge Thomas W.
Trenchard
There was sea of faces upturned
to the Judges as they appeared, the
auditorium room being filed. OF
course many were jurors and others
interested in the cases upon the Court
list, but there were also many spec
tators who were attracted to the Court
s room by reason of the Rasinger MUIR
der case. There will be large num-
Der of people who will not miss any
opportunity to hear everything per-
tanning to the telling of the story OF
this horrible tragedy.
OF course Rasinger was not present.
He yet remains prisoner in the Jail
with only charge hanging over his
head. He cannot be considered much
ofla part of the case until he shall be
indicted by the Grand Jury, if there
be sufficient evidence to warrant that
action. OF course there is little doubt
of an Indictment being found, for
there is no defence submitted to the
Grand Jurors.
The bar was especially we'll repre-
sented, there being a number of law
yers from out of the city. The Cam
den bar was especially we'll repre-
sented.
For the first time at regular term
of Court, County Clerk Samuel M.
Sheldon appeared in his official capac-
ity, and the little experience he has
had at the special sessions seems to
have fitted him for the important work
he is now called upon to perform. All
of the other officials were in their
places when Court was called and the
opening tormalities were soon dis
y pensed with.
The Grand Jury was then called.
Sheriff Diament had made his list for
the Clerk, and the public first learned
1 the gentlemen of the Grand Inquest
when their names were called by the
4 Clerk. The Grand Jury is as follows:
u H. L. Tyler, foreman, Bridgeton.
NJ Charles d. Carney,
John S. Ware. f"
George J. Mayhem, "
William L. Evans, "
Alex M. Taylor, Lands.
George Leach, +"
Ralph Weston, b"
George Poulton, {"
E. Wilson Harris, Millville.
John Hampton, :"
William F. Lee, i"
Charles M. Ware, {"
John Whitaker, Fairfield.
Frank M. Bateman. Cedarville
John Shull, Downe.
Mortimer Campbell, !"
Enoch Sharp, Commercial.
Joseph Sutton, Maurice River.
Providence L. Wheaton, Hopewell.
Charles Fox, Stow Greek.
Frank Goodwin, Greenwich.
Elijah Parvin, DeerfieId.
William 7. Ross, Bridgeton.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-01-05

All the cases of Thomas E. French.
receiver, against defendants in the de-
funct Mlllvile Fire and Marine Insur-
ance Co., running from No. to No.
1874, inclusive, were set for trial on the
first Monday in March.
An application for tavern license to
VIM. G.. Hendee at Mauricetown,
Judge Trenchard said was received,
and also remonstrance was in his
hands. The application and remon-
STRANGE will be heard at O'Clock next
Saturday morning.
The first case called for trial was
Edwin r. Laning against William H.
Taylor, on contract, Supreme Court
issue; Walter Fl. Bacon, attorney for
Mr.. Laning and Assemblyman Louis
H. Miller for Mr.. Taylor. A jury was
empaneled. This suit was to recover
on note the amount and interest
being $438 SO The defendants could
make no defense and the Court in
structed the jury to return a verdict
for the full amount for the plaintiff
All Jurors were then excused until
next Monday morning. January 9th.
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and convincingly; carrying them with you; LAND
ing" clearly in their minds whatever lines you have
to say without ever disturbing the illusion of
real life which you creating In my latest play,
The Woman in the Case | have carried this
further than | attempted before in story of
strong emotions The voices are kept down
repression rather than outburst is the rule sugges
ton rather than the least attempt at defamation.
This is the rule of our daily lives, though it is
opposed to the stage convention which long has
held sway. If a suicide should take place in
Fifth-ave. family, the accompanying scenes would
be scenes of silence shock whispers and repressed
agony. This is life This is drama-not melo-
DRAMA as it is often miscaed. Melodrama is where
the scene is treated without realism: for in
stance, everybody rushing and shouting; the per-
secuted hero heroine getting arrested for murder
To continue this example in real life on the true
stage the last loud sound would be that of the
pistol shot The family choke back their cries,
and even the servants softly obey hushed orders
close the house. keep out all intruders. 1t is the
absence of the my Gawdsl and the noisy COM
plications of the "buttng-in" actors, the nom
beating of the theatrical drum, that marks the
difference between pathOs crude dramatic emotions
and the real thing-Realism. Herein lies the
proper portrayal of life as against the fasity of
stage convention. 1t represents the steady march
evolution of the drama in response to the ever
increasing refinement of the public taste.
traffic of the stage is crowded a series of events
which rarely if ever take place closely and
tinuously in ordinary life The effect, if the work
well DONE real the illusion Of Reality is unds-
turbed. Yet life is not like this In ordinary life
these events would be inte1spersed with many
other events prolonging the time and diluting the
dramatic strength. All these the dramatist has
eliminated. The result is a condensed strongly
accented, Unprecedented lies of related and har-
monious events, which interest the audience deeply
and may move it profoundly. This exemplifes the
general law of dramatic effect which is an extension
of the general law of literary effect. But if the
important events not eliminated the audi
ence would become bored with and weary of the
story, much as they would become bored and weary
of it in actual life Again if took place in
this condensed WY in actual life quickly should
break down. We could not long endure the excite
ment and the strain.
Realism, under whatever name it poses is ever
the goal OF the drama and of literature 1t is the
unchanging ideal to which dramatic evolution ever
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In 1927 Victor Hugo broke the spell of classical
tradition which bound the French stage, with his
Cromwell" and of stage method super
vened, which lasted pretty well throughout the
century In place of decorous and stilted decama-
ton describing feeling, he gave the audience real
feelings, portrayed before their eyes and expressed
in the real and natural words in which real feeling
finds expression.
This was a great change indeed and its advisa-
bility and expediency debated and fought
over by all the great critics of the time. His
school the battle because it was in harmony
with the evolution of the popular taste.
Romanticism and the conventions of Romanticism
dominated the worlds stage for sixty years until
writer arose to create another revolution, and
Realism took the name of Ibsenism. Ibsenism
RED the drama into the simple life of the home
Abandoning the narrow traditional field of the
dramatist of the romantic period, Ibsen took ord-
nary human-nature in its variety compleXity and
its human simplicity.
Realism tends toward simplicity in de-
picting the individual. And when the true mean
ing of Ibsen's message dawned upon u.s. we found
that he had broadened and deepened the field of
the drama immensely. In the light which he had
shed upon the question, the old Romanticism soon
became stilted and unreal to as the classical
tradition had appeared to the people of Victor
Hugo's time. Ibsen had carried us a step closer
to real life from outside to inside the real and
woman of to-day, animated and controlled they
are by the complex emotions with which we are
villains no longer were entirely bad They had their
conflicting impulses; had become, in short,
human.
Ibsen had and has his limitations however
He nearly always hurts: he opens wound; he does
not heal it. He is most often the apostle of the
ugly and there is no logical reason why Realism
should not deal with the beauty the poetry and
the exatation of life, since they exist, as we'll
with its more depressing and more sordid
R1it tha vol nft ha f1C1
the wider field, opened up by Ibsen made per-
fectly clear, and his followers naturally will find
and deal with the high lights of daily life well
as with the shadows upon which his personal pre-
objections have led him to dwell unduly
And Realism found inspiring field
than the complex American life of to-day, Our
daily life is filed than filed, with the
most complex ambitions, the most vivid drama.
Under large black headlines in the so-called
yellow" journals, it becomes melodrama; told
SOberV and SucCinCtV nj he VatiV
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Realism the stage is the illusion of Reality
To create this illusion is the endeavor and the goal
OF author, OF actor and of scene painter And each
of the three is SO bound by the conventions of
authorship, OF acting and of scene painting re-
spect1vely-the conventions of Art which are its
very essence-that the idea of Reality as insisted
upon by the classes Of people named seems an idea
too impossible, If not too absurd, for discussion.
Many years ago, for instance, when my interest
IN the theater was great, and my experience of it
slight, remember staring at something on a stage
curtain, in scene painters studio and wondering
what on earth it could be- The figure of a man
roughly and rudey laid in l could recognize: but
the thing beside it small dash of white with
two smaller dashes of brown at the top Five
minutes careful study of it at close range a dis
lance of two feet, gave me no clue whatever as to
what 1t was meant for. As | backed away from it.
it slowly grew into an intelligent semblance of
something. At distance of twenty feet it was a
good pointer dog, and at thirty feet it was an e-
cellent dog indeed. 1t had been painted to be
looked at from a distance The painter had not
dealt with Reality but with the illusion of Reality
under the conditions prescribed. This simple in
stance well illustrates the point in question point
which applies with equal force all the contributory
branches of the dramatic art.
To speak naturally the stage as far as loud
ness and emphasis are concerned, is to speak I'M
naturally as compared with ordinary speech; yet
In1S Is something which manV theater-gOerS will
find it difficult to believe. They are entirely I'm
conscious of the illusion They do not realize that
the actor actress has been trained to speak thus
and has instinctively seized the pitch" of the
auditorium. The proof of this would be found if
trained actor and actress should go through
their scene in a drawing-room exactly as thew do
upon the stage. When rehearsing "Her Own
Way, a young woman of the cast said: But
that is just the way l should say it in drawing
room But you are not saying it in drawing
nom rNlur mad A,,1
1t to Miss Maxine Elliott; but in reality to the
person who is sitting in the last row of the gallery
which is a long distance away. Now, if you say it
IN too low tone he will not hear it. and if you say
1t too quickly he will not grasp it. You must con-
slder him, prepare him, deal with his eye by your
gesture or expression before you speak that his
eye alone if he fails catch the words will convey
to him passably the meaning of your communica-
ton"
This subtle point of appealing to the eye before
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DEALlSM and Reality on
N the stage are as far
apart as the Poles.
None the less, many young
actors and actresses of nova
days make the mistake of
believing that the latter means
the former "a conviction
which they cannot abandon
too quickly-while a large
class of theater-goers believe
and declare that the exact re-
production of life is the field of
the modern drama, and that
such a reproduction would fill
them with delight, instead of
boring them to distraction as
certainly would be the case.
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F I T G III
of Beau Brumme ell.
THE Moth and the Flame"
Captain Jinhs of the
Horse Marines" Etc.

ence between the professional
and the amateur actor-be-
tween good acting and bad act
ing as a general rule. 1t means
handling the audience skilfully
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must tend. To hold the mir
ror up to Nature is ever the
task; but the mirror must be
held more and more skilfully
in each generation, because
the audience ever and ever
grows more sophisticated.
What satisfies one generation
will not do at all for the next,
as is seen by the crude effect
of certain plays when presented
to-day, which twenty years
ago were regarded as mar
vels of naturalness. So it is
in acting; SO it is with every
thing connected with the
drama.
Nearly century ago Real
ism was called RomanticiSn.