The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-10-08

7 Court.
On Wednesday Judge Horner impose,
+ some sentences. Oliver Leedom, indicted
v for breaking and entering the house O
William A. Horner, of Florence, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to four month";
in the county jail.
William Barnes pleaded guilty to rob
bling house at Riyerton and was sent tc
the Railway Reformatory.
Edwin NJ and Mary Watson. Of
Moorestown. pleaded not guilty to q
, charge of manslaughter. They are the
: Christian Science people who failed to
employ medical assistance for their child
+ in an illness which proved fatal Their
trial will begin tomorrow.
A. Dean Seeber pleaded guilty to carry
ing a concealed deadly weapon, but
pleaded not guilty to the charge of COM
uniting an assault and battery on Char les
Branin, in Burlington, when it was al
legged the revolver was drawn.
William and Michael Shepherd and
William Urban pleaded not guilty to an
Indictment charging them with assault and
battery on Frank Miller, of Hainesport
George r. Clark, alias Reed. pleaded
not guilty to the Indictment charging him
with assault with intent to kill Thomas ].
Barrett, of Roebling. Clark was also
indicted for attempting to break Jail and
he pleaded not guilty to this count.
Jane Mclaughlin, an aged woman from
Burlington, was called to answer to five
indictments, four for selling liquor
Illegally and one for keeping a disorderly
house.
E. Floyd Hess pleaded not guilty to
charge of assaulting Oliver Cook, of
Palmyra, using a revolver in the act
Hess told the court he did not have law
Iyer to defend him and he was advised to
get one as the case was of great
gravity.
Frank Banca was placed on trial for
carrying concealed deadly weapons.
Joseph Kinsley, who is policeman at
Roebing, told of the man being drunk and
flourishing revolver, threatening to
shoot people. The officer took the
weapon from the man and put him under
arrest
Banca is Hungarian. He either could
not or would not speak English, so an
interpreter was secured. The prisoner
admitted that he carried revolver but
said he used it for self-defence, and never
threatened to shoot anybody. The jury
rendered verdict of guilty.
The next indictment to be tried was
that against John A. Cook and Joseph
Haywood, charged with breaking and en-
tering the house of Annie E. Hurff at
Mount Laurel, and stealing quantity of
silverware.
Haywood was caught in Philadelphia in
the act of pawning the goods. He said
they belonged to Cook who had asked
him to dispose of them. Mrs. Hurff iden-
titled the silyerware as her property and
told how it was stolen from her house in
June. The house, she said, was ransacked
from cellar to garnet and was in great
disorder
Cook testified In his own behalf and said |
he lived with a sister in Philadelphia and |
had never been in this county until !
brought here under arrest. He was work |
ing in Pennsylvania town at the time of |
the robbery and bought the goods from a
man who claimed to own them.
Mrs. Steinfeld, Philadelphia store
keeper, said she had known Cook for
lon limo nd haA sold i'm dc |
her store. A man came to her place one
day and offered her some silverware, but /
she did not buy it and referred him to
Cook, who happened to be there. The
latter bought the goods.
Cooks sister testified that he was at
work at Mount Airy, Pa, on the day that
the robbery was committed, and that he
was not out of the house that night.
Haywood, the other defendant, declared
that he had never been in Burlington
county before, that he knew nothing of
the robbery, and merely pawned the goods
at Cooks request.
The jury returned verdict of not
guilty.
On Wednesday the trial of indictments
was continued. The court tried, without
jury, the charge against Leon johnson,
colored resident of Moorestown, for as
saulting Isaac Reeve, a trolley conductor,
and pulling razor and revolver on him.
The evidence was so conclusive of the
fellows guilt that there was no defence,
and johnson was convicted and sentenced |
to nine months in state prison
A. Dean Seeber, of Burlington, who |
pleaded not guilty to assault and battery |
on Charles Brown, retracted and pleaded |
non vult contendere.
E. Floyd Hess, of Palmyra, also re-
tracted and pleaded non vult to the charge
of drawing a revolver on Oliver Cook. |
Prosecutor Atkinson said he considered
this offence more in the nature of reckless
ness than malice, so sentence was sus-
pended on the promise of the boy to re-
form.
A jury was then called to try William
and Michael Shepherd and William Urban
for atrocious assault and battery on Frank
Miller, at Hainesport on the fourth of
July. All of the parties are Poles, and
had been celebrating the nations birthday
| rather hilariously. AS result there was
free fight, in which the defendants and
Miller took the most prominent part
Miller was knocked down and while in
that position was hit on the head with
brick. One of the witnesses said he
thought Miller was killed. He was SO
badly hurt that it took the services of
doctor to restore him to a normal con-
dition.
->Eor-th the defence it was claimed that
Miller was solely responsible - e. IL
damages he received anu that he started
the fight. The jury, however, was of a
different opinion. They convicted Michael
Shepherd and William Urban, and &C.
quilted William Shepherd. The jury felt
that 1t would not have been bad idea If
Miller had also been indicted. The fight,
in their opinion, was nothing but
drunken brawl, the result of the ease with
which liquor is obtainable at Hainesport.
In addition to rendering the verdict the
jury made this recommendation: "We
recommend to the court that special efforts
be made to break up the operation of such
drinking places in the foreign settlements
In this county, as has been testified to in
the proceedings in this case"