The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-06
Moorestown.

| mOOxGSCOWAs
Robert T. Evans has purchased the Nc
Donough farm. at Masonville.
| Robert M. Snyder has purchased the ole
canning factory from J. 8. Collins g. Son
and will convert it into dwelling houses
John Kern and George Thorn met OIL
Wednesday, and remembered that they had
an old grudge to settle and they finally
came to blows. This caused them to be
taken to Justice Pettit's office, and while
there they renewed the fight and an officer
was compelled to step between them.
As Kern appeared to be the aggressor he
was placed under 800 bail
When Thomas Pancoast, Camden can
dy dealer, left the store at Lenola on Tues
day evening he saw colored man watch
ing his wagon. This was not enough to
cause great alarm, but when the fellow
followed the wagon quite distance and
attempted to grab his horses head Mr.
Pancoast became alarmed The approach
of trolley car scared the fellow away.
Before Squire Petit and a jury, on
Wednesday, was heard the suit of Antoine
Keptler VS.. Edward L. Evans. The plain.
tiff was riding from Moorestown to River
ton, and met Evans in carriage. Kenfler
claims that Evans did not give him a suf-
fcient part of the road, and in turning out
Kenfier was thrown from his bicycle and
his wheel demolished. The suit was to
recover damages, but the jury said there
was no cause for action.
The recent murder has aroused the citi
zens, and there mas been much discussion
of the same. The colored people here OF,
rather, certain number of them, feel that
their race has been traduced, and that there
is disposition to place every crime on
them. They held meeting at which
speeches were made to the effect that
if the authorities ould look after the white
people little closer the colored people
would not be bounded. One speaker
thought the time had come to claim
''our equal rights, social rights, and de-
mand representation and spurn the glad
hand just before election time" Another
speaker said 'the murder was probably
committed by white man with his face
BACKED and went SO far as to name the
man. This meeting and the incendiary
speeches have aroused feeling In Moores-
town against those who participated in 1t.
The impression prevails that 1t would
have been better for the colored people to
have delayed their indignation meeting and
to show that attempts are made
to fasten every crime upon the colored
race. tits not just to denounce the colored
people for every wrong doing, but the fact
cannot be rubbed out that they do furnish
a number of our court prisoners. In the
murder case the crime has been fast
ened upon a colored man beyond doubt.
The outrage on woman near Burlington
was the work of colored men, Lingo's
nationality is we'll known, Small, who is
accused of completely In robbery is col
ored. the man in Jail just sentenced for
stabbing another at Marlton is not white,
the color of the fellow now serving in
State prison for committing an outrage on
a woman at Maple Shade is well known,
and so we might go on. There is no de-
sire to heap shame upon any human being
on account Of his creed or color, but when
hot headed individuals attempt to infiame
their hearers by injudicious speeches, and
try to show that injustice is being heaped
upon them merely because they are not
white, it does no harm to call attention to
the facts