The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-02

The grand jury made its presentment on
Wednesday afternoon, handing to Judge
Gaskill seventeen indictments, as follows:
Harry Vennell. Southampton, assault on
Shreve Robbins and stealing $14 John
Williams, Chester, two indictments. lar
P. Jackson; Maggie Braxton, Chester,
larceny of a pocketbook containing 81,
property of Sadie Fairbairn; David g.
Smith, Evesham, atrocious assault and
battery on Samuel Prout; Charles E.
Binck, Burlington, assault on William A.
Nixon; A. Dean Seeber, Burlington, two
indictments, atrocious assault and battery
on Mary Saaybe and Martin Saaybe; Frank
Rigg, Jacksonville, atrocious assault and
battery on Harry Harker; Harry Assay
and Casper Lippincott, breaking and en-
tering the residence of the late William
H. Getzner, near Burlington, doing dam
age to the extent of nearly $1,000. The
latter two prisoners pleaded guilty, and
each was sentenced to two years and six
months in the state prison. Sentence was
suspended on another indictment for en-
tering the store house of the Public Ser
vice Corporation at Burlington. Frank
Market, Joseph Donate and John Doe, OF
Palmyra, were indicted for breaking and
entering the barn of Frank Deck and
stealing copper wire belonging to the
American Telegraph Company. Market
pleaded guilty; Donate, not guilty, and
Doe has not yet been apprehended Aman-
da Brewer, of Burlington, pleaded not
guilty to keeping disorderly house, and
J. Elwood Vanschuyver, of the same
place, entered plea of not guilty to an
indictment charging him with rape. Re |
becca Bovine, aged IA years, who was
taken from an an institution in Philadel-
phia, who lived with the defendant and |
his wife, is the complainant For steal
ing pair of spectacles from the home of
August Gsell, of Smithville, John A.
Houseman was sentenced to thirty days |
in jail
The court asked Joseph G. Bower, the
foreman, if they had any other matter,
and he said action had been taken on the
tramp question: and that Ogden Maths,
chairman of the committee, would read
the resolutions adopted. The present
ment follows:
To the Honorable Judge Of the Burlington
County Court:
The grand jury has given such con- 1
,ideration to the special matters referred !
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he limited time at our command would
permit.
We recommend that the Sheriff be di G
'ected to refuse persons committed as d.
ind D., that not being a legal commit
nent, according to Judge Hendrickson,
md that the Auditor and Freeholders re- }
use to allow and pay the officers and |
he board of the prisoners so committed.
We condemn the practice of receiving
prisoners at the Jail who come there of q
heir own accord; and we recommend that a
my commitment made afterwards be ig i
lored, and that no fees or board be paid i,
'or such persons.
We recommend that hereafter the Au-
litor require the Sheriff's bills to be item
zed, giving the names of the prisoners,
when committed and when discharged,
showing the number of days in Jail, and
which shall be sworn to.
We recommend that the Auditor and
Prosecutor be directed to have arrested
and indicted all Constables and Justices
who commit persons as drunk and disor-
Derby, where there is no satisfactory proof
that such persons were committing some
disorder or breaches of the peace, and to
prosecute all officers who in any way at
tempt to evade the law
We commend the Auditor for his faith
full work, and recommend that he refuse
to allow any and all bills of officers which
be has reason to believe to be an evasion
Of the law concerning tramps and disor-
Derby persons.
Judge Gaskill thanked the jury for
their service, stating that he would not
discharge them, but that they were SIM
ply excused. The trial of criminal cases
will begin to-day
On Saturday morning, previous to the
opening of court, Judge Gaskil admins
tered the oath of Office to the newly-elect-
ed freeholders.