The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-01-15
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L Ne JTldl Oh bue ldSC indictment IOun
at the present term of court, that O
A criminal assault against Edward Boyer
of Mount Holly, was begun on Wednes
day in the presence of large audience
and the trial consumed two full days
The charge against the defendant alleget
; that on Sunday afternoon. December 2
while in a piece of woods back of tn
Hainesport road, between the latter Llac
Il and Mount Holly, he assaulted Mrs Doll,
k Bluhm, housekeeper for Adam Greifzu.
John w. Harris, surveyor, figured az
q the first witness in explaining map tt
e the jury. which he had prepared at tn,
request of Prosecutor Atkinson.
Mrs. Bluhm testified that on Decem
Der 2 she left the house at O'CLOCK
to go to the home of Charles Yoos. Aftel
passing Skaters barn she met man com
!, ing along the path. He walked ahead Of
her to the bridge. Then he stopped
looked around and came back. Witness
spurned an improper proposal which he
made. Then he struck her over the head
and choked her. He wore a long black
coat, steel colored hat and had light curly
hair. 81 took his picture out of his face,
said witness She was then dragged into
the woods and assaulted. The witness
described her retreat to the home of Char
les Yoos, where she tainted and was car
ried into the house. Her hair was down
and she had lost her combs. Pointing to
Boyer as he stood up, witness said: Yes,
sir; that's the man, that's him." Witness
said the defendant approached her with
his left hand behind his back. and when
she was struck she heard crack. The
blow was not delivered with his hand
The shirt Boyer had on at the trial was
the one witness said he wore when he as
saulted her.
While testifying on cross examination
Mrs. Bluhm was twice seized with a ner-
vous spell and tainted Dr. Prickitt gave
the witness some medicine and she soon
recovered.
| Charles Yoos had known Mrs Bluhm
for seventeen years. She was particular
friend of his wife. 1t was just 2. 80 when
he got up to take a walk. He saw Emily
waving her hand and noticed that some-
thing was wrong. She fell at his gate
and she was bleeding near the right eye.
Yoos picked her up and she managed to
make the situation known. Yoos called
on Charles Colder and they secured the
woods for the man answering the descrip-
ton given them.
DR.. H. r. Faringer was the first physi-
clan to see the woman, and he described
her external injuries He made no ex
tended examination of her condition other
than to see that no bones were broken
DR.. Elmer D. Prickitt said Mrs Bluhm
was his patient. and previous to this oc
currence she had no nervous spells. He
has been supplying her with medicine
since that time.
William Binn, Theodore Harmon, Sam
uel Heller, Harry Ward and Howard
Glass are five of twenty or more crap
shooters who were at the Medford junction
with Boyer. They told how the defendant
was dressed and all said he left them at
Ito o'clock. They fixed the timeIbecause
some one asked Binn what time it was
and after getting an answer Boyer left
and went down the railroad, turning at
the Y in the direction of Hainesport.
Henry Welch, who lives on the Haines-
port road, saw man answering Boyers
description going in the direction of
Hainesport between and o'clock
Mrs. Fred Yoos was the first witness on
Thursday morning. At 1.30 O'Clock she
saw man pass her house, and of the men
in the Court House she picked out Boyer
as the man. When Boyer was ordered to
stand up she said: HE is the man" He
passed the house from the opposite direc
ton in about fifteen minutes. She was
sitting at the window with her baby, and |
house that afternoon.
Charles Frazier, of Holeman street, was |
employed with Boyer in the construction
of the trolley road running through |
Mount Holly, and saw defendant coming |
east from Bidwell's pond. Frazier went
across the street to the home of Michael |
Mount, to see him about a rooster. As
Boyer passed by Frazier spoke to him and
told Mount who he was. The witness
said that Boyer was left-handed This
testimony was corroborated by Mount.
With her father and sister Miss Anna |
Albright was on her way to Sunday school |
about Q o'clock. Passing through the |
woods they saw a man walking slowly |
near the bridge, but she could not identify
him. Neither could her father.
Charles Colder told her how he and |
Charles Yoos searched the woods. At a |
point where the ground showed evidence
of struggle, Yoos found comb.
On that day Lena Walters. of Haines-
port, was visiting her mother, living near
the scene of the crime. Witness went out
for walk and found stick and comb on |
the path by the wire fence in the rear of |
the Shafer property.
Alfred Norcross knew Boyer about four
years. Saw him pass through Monroe |
street between $50 and 80 o'clock.
Ellis III. Parker, state detective, then |
gave history of the arrest of Boyer after |
evidence had been secured which war
ranted the belief that Boyer was guilty |
He told how his clothing had been Sc
cured and of the Identification of the de- |
PENDANT by Mrs. Bluhm at the Jail, where |
she picked him out after a number of |
prisoners had been lined up in the Jail |
parlor.
When Adam Greifzu called at the home
of Charles Yoos and made inquiry for
Mrs. Bluhm, Fred Yoos said: There she |
lies half dead" Witness said that the |
injured woman tainted after being
shown picture of Boyer
The state then rested.
V. Claude Palmer asked that his client
be discharged on the ground that it had
not been shown that any assault had been
committed, or that the defendant was in
any way connected with any crime. The
motion was denied.
Mr.. Palmer said his defence would be
alibi. He did not deny that the crime
was committed, and said it was physical
impossiblity for his client to have been at
the scene of the crime. 1--WE will show
that our version of the time is correct, and
the states witnesses are mistaken" said
counsel.
The defence opened its case at the be
ginning of the afternoon session with the
defendant as the first witness. Boyer said
he was 81 years old, and had been here
four years. He has wife and two chill
dren. On December he was boarding
with Mrs. Ella Bishop, on Pine street.
He was arrested on Thursday evening,
December 6. On the Sunday in question
he arose about 8 o'clock and went out of