Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1906-05-10
BRlDGETON N. j., TIL HURSDAY MAY 10 1909

case to considerable extent. and the
jury retired. but returned in short
time with a verdict of guilty.
1 Prosecutor Fithian then moved the
case OF the State against Albert Stew
enson, indicted for breaking, entering
and stealing from dwelling house in
VineIaud.
The articles stolen consisted of a
trunk containing clothing and about
Sloo in money. Stevenson and Harry
frisby are accused of doing this rob-
oery and Frisby has run away.
Miss Margaret Ward, of the Grove
House in Vineland, said she was en-.
ployed there on the 7th of March last ::
she had trunk containing her cloth.
ing and slo8 in cash in an adjoining
cottage, where she slept. When she
left the Kitchen at the Grove House to
go to her room, she dIcovered that
her cottage door had been broken
open; she found her trunk and money
had been stolen. She knew Harry
Frisby, who had beensemployed at.the
Grove House. Stevenson had been
coming there almost every day to see
Frisby.
Constable Nickerson was sworn. He
said he Was called upon on the night
of the robbery to investigate it. Saw
Frlsby and Stevenson together, short.
~ after O'Clock the night the trunk
was taken; they were coming from
towards the Grove House; he found
the trunk in the shed of the Episco-
pal Church the next morning about 9
O'Clock; watched Stevenson and found
him to have money to spend; Frisby
had disappeared; found $31 that Stew.
enson had spent while he was under
surveillance.
Miss PurnelI, residing on Wood
street, Vineland. near the Episcopal
Church, said she was out ON the street
on an errand when she met two col
ored persons coming from the church
yard; thought one of them was Stew.
enson.
Miss Ward was recalled and said
the robbery occurred shortly after it
got dusk, between 6 80 and O'Clock.
| Officer Joseph Spencer testified; said
that Stevenson admitted that Frisby
had given him $35.
Albert Stevenson was put on the
stand in his own defense. He said ne
was a butcher by trade. but was doing
whatever he could get to do. He de.
MED all knowledge of the robbery He
denied being at the Grove House on
| March 7th.
The defence ended, the case went to
the jury. The jury returned verdict
of guilty without leaving its seat,
The Indictment of DIR. Jose (not
Joseph) O. Howell charging the prac-
tice of medicine unlawfully was tried
before Judge Trenchard the trial be.
ginning Tuesday afternoon.
Assisting Prosecutor J. Hampton
Fithian for the State were Lawyers
Roy P. Tuller and Edwin F. Miller,
of Vineland, while for the defen dant
appeared former Judge Howard Car
row and William j. Kraft. Esq, of
Camden, and Lawyers Curtis F.
Baker and Herbert @. Bartlett, of
Vineland.
The case assumed a fighting stage
from the very beginning.
! On the one side is arrayed the regu-
lar school physicians while on the
other side is lined up those of the new
tangled osteopathic doctrine (or doc
| toring.)
Before jury was empaneled Judge
Carrow withdrew the plea of not
guilty temporarily, in order to make
a motion,
He said the statute read ''any per-
son practising medicine or surgery
two separate offences. The indictment
charges practising medicine and
surgery two offences in one count
f the Indictment, which he said was
| atsc pIoouibS-d Jo1AuoI VI tWo
fences in one count is faulty, and
the defendant may be in doubt as to
which, charge he must plead.
The motion was to quash the in
dictment. The Court denied the mo-
tion and plea of not guilty was
entered
The panel of jurors was exhaused
by challenges and the sheriff had to
choose tabsmen from the audience be-
fore jury could be empaneled.
| The law is that before person shall
practice medicine in this State he shall
procure a license from the State
Board of Medicine.
The Prosecutor said the law does not
prohibit the practice of osteopathy-a
kind of manipulation or massage, but
it does prohibit the practice of medi-