The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-03-10

Several matters of interest were


the bench Franklin B. Lewis arose and
said: 1T is with very great regret that
: bring to the notice of the court at this
: time the death of our fellow member,
:, Samuel W. Shinn, who died on February
25 He was cut down in the prime OF
= very useful in the community. He had
9 the confidence of the court and the respect
of the members of the bar, holding posi-
y lions of honor and trust On motion Of
the speaker Judge Horner appointed Mr..
: Lewis, Eckard p Budd and Prosecutor
s Atkinson committee to draft suitable
= resolutions for action at the next regular
3. session of court.
f Walter s. Conley, who engineered the
feat of raising two deers to the top Of the
North american building, at Philadelphia,
D distance of nearly three hundred feet,
riding with them in their ascent, during
the Elks' convention, was in court in
connection with litigation over his fathers
estate.
The first prisoners to receive attention
were James Brooks and Mrs. Bertha
Fisher, both married, and living in Mount
Holly. They were charged with serious
crime that resulted in breaking up both
; homes, and to which each pleaded guilty.
Against Brooks there were two other
charges, that of assault and battery and
carrying concealed weapons.
Prosecutor Atkinson said Brooks had
wife and child in court. He had con-
Quoted dancing school and Mrs. Fisher
was one of his scholars. When his wife
was confined he employed Mrs. Fisher at
the house as nurse, and it was there that
they were detected by the wife, whom he
had beaten and misused for years The
wife says she has no means of support.
Because of this fact Mrs Brooks and her
mother had asked the Prosecutor to be
lenient. 81 have little sympathy for wife
beaters," remarked the Prosecutor, 'and
if had my way / would have this man
taken out in the yard and publicly
whipped with the lash. This is the first
l have ever heard anything about Brooks,
who is reported to be good workman,
but his employer would not go his bail
because of the serious nature of his Of
fence. He might be released under a
suspension of sentence, so that he could
go to work"
Brooks said he would like to haye
another chance as he had never been in
trouble before.
when you get into trouble you get in
it all over" remarked the court. You
have committed enough crimes to send
you to state prison for five years."
Mrs. Brooks didn't express any great
desire to live with her husband again, but
she said she was willing to take chance
as she needed his support.
Judge Horner showed much feeling in
addressing the prisoner. He said: Brooks,
if you had taken the whole decalogue of
crime and tried to break every one of
them, you couldn't have made better !
success of the job. You are brute and
moral degenerate. can hardly find
words in the English language to express |
my contempt for you. All the punish |
ment 1 might infict will fall upon your
wife. l will act on her request and sus-
pend sentence. You are placed in charge |
of Probation Officer Slaughter, to whom
you must make weekly report of your
conduct. caution you to keep away |
| from other women and bad associates. In |
case you fail in these instructions, or
violate the probation rules, you will be
recalled, and 1 will make it my personal |
business to solicit support for your family, |
and you will be sent to state prison for a
sufficient number of years that will be a
warning to Others"
Clemency was also shown to Mrs. |
Fisher, who said she had nothing to say, |
She was reprimanded and placed in charge
of the probation officer. She was eau
toned as to her future conduct. 1T is
too bad that such young woman as you
should SO far forget your duty to society"
remarked the court, Il hardly know which
of you two is the most guilty"
Theodore H. Carlin, charged with
breaking and entering house at Borden
town, and stealing goods to the value of
SO, said he was guilty of larceny, but not
as to the other charge, as he boarded at
the house and had right to enter. This
plea was considered good one and was
accepted. Carlin said he took the goods
as joke, they belonging to New York
detective, and he wanted to see If the lat
ter could find them. The joke, however,
had gotten him into lot Of trouble, and
he said if the court would be lenient he
would stop drinking liquor, which was
the cause of his downfall. Carlin was
sentenced to sixty days in the county Jail,
to-date from the time of his commitment.
Samuel Anderson, colored, and Louisa
Cathcart, almost white, but who stated
that she was a colored woman, entered
pleas of guilty to a charge of adultery.
Circumstances, however, caused post
ponement of the case for two weeks, and it
may be that the charge will not stand.
The woman came from Pennsylvania,
and Constable Nelson Peak, who made
the arrest, said Asa Krusen, who preferred
the charge against the defendants, had
induced the woman to go down in
Shamong township and live with Ander-
son, as he had house furnished and no
one to look after him. Louisa has not
seen her husband for three years, and as
she has been living with Anderson for
eight months, it is believed to be case of
common law marriage
Judge Horner asked If Krusen was not
guilty of crime as an accessory before
the fact, as he got the woman to go there,
then had her arrested. Krusen also
wanted the woman to live with him.
Prosecutor Atkinson said he did not
think much of Krusen, who had been ar
rested himself more than once.
Anderson admitted that he had been in
prison before, having been charged with
rape.
The adjourned case against Thomas
Koinercy, the young man who pleaded
guilty to robbing the Catholic Church at
Riverside, was then settled by the
prisoner being sentenced to state prison
for one year. From record in the
possession of the court the prisoner was
, shown to be a thief; that brother, who
was Catholic priest, had sent him out of
the country year ago and told him to
remain away. Koinercy admitted having
robbed St Joseph's Church, Manayunk,
and the Allegheny Avenue Church, Phila-
delphia. AS Judge Horner read extracts
from his record of crime, the prisoner
: au;dantlv committed neriI1rv nv his an