The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-25

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Wolfrom to Frank Brewer. The appli
cant is resident of Gloucester count
and subsequent disclosures showed why
he wished to get away from his presen
surroundings.
George M. Hillman appeared for Vol
from and Brewer and presented the usua
papers that are required to be filed
Judge Horner spoke about the hotel and
said he was DESTROYS that the applicant
should be thoroughly aware of al
the circumstances and incidents that
might be connected with this trans
action. If the license should be transfer
red at this time that was not a guarantee
that it would be renewed when the time
came for that movement. 1t was a ques-
ton whether there was any necessity for
this hotel to exist. Another matter to
which the Judge directed attention was
the fact that the applicant is under indict-
ment for the illegal sale of liquor in Glou.
cester county. The case has been tried
once and the jury disagreed. The court
asked Mr.. Hillman if the latter thought
it would be proper to grant transfer with
this charge still hanging over Brewer.
Mr.. Hillman could not see where the in
dictment could cut any figure. The fact
that the jury disagreed showed that the
evidence was not absolutely conclusive of
guilt. The Prosecutor of the Pleas Of
Gloucester county has not given any in
timation of again trying the case and If
the charge is continued indefinitely 1t
would work great injustice to the appli-
cant If it was held over him every time he
applied for the privilege to sell liquor in
another locality.
Judge Horner could not see where there
was any necessity of acting on the matter
hastily. Heexpressed surprise that twelve
men would sign paper recommending to
the court as proper person to receive the
privilege sought while they were sppar-
emily ignorant of the character of the man.
They either did not know he was under
indictment or they did not care. Under the
circumstances no harm could come from
laying the matter over and the Judge said
he would postpone further consideration
for two weeks.
James Mclaughlin was charged with
stealing watch at Riverside. He
having the timepiecesbut
said he found it. He looked on the board
in the factory where he worked, but failed
to see any notice of the watch being lost.
He said he tried to explain the case to the
justice when arrested but the latter would
not hear him. The case was laid over for
further investigation.
Benjamin Assay was the next man to be
called up. His crime was stealing coat
from Thomas Jordan and selling it for ten
cents. He said he had been drunk for a
couple of days and found the coat in a
hotel yard. He was not sufficiently sober
at the time to be able to discover that it
was not his own garment, and wanting
another drink sold the coat to Jere Still
When he sobered up he tried to buy the
coat again, but Still was not disposed to
give up good bargain. Assay was sent
TO the county jail for two months.
James Smith, colored man, who was
arrested In Bordentown for assault and |
declared his entire ignorance of
the affair. He had the same old story |
that is repeated by two-thirds of those
brought before the court-"being on a
drunk" This case was not settled, but
was laid over for further investigation.
Melvin Wells, aged nine years, and |
William Orser, ten years old, were |
brought into court on the charge of having |
fred the barns of William ]. Evans, near
Marlton. These lads seemed to have been |
mbued with the desire to see a fire, and |
while they were of an age to tell right |
from wrong, it was a question whether
they really understood the enormity of |
their offence. Some time before the |
Evans fire they were playing around the
store of George T. Middleton and were
seen to throw a match into box contain |
ing excelsior. Fortunately the material
was damp, otherwise there might have
been a fire then. The failure to see fire
was an incentive to try 1t again
One of the boys lived in the tenant house
On Mr. Evans farm. 1t would appear as
If the boys were just at poiut where
they might go to the bad. One of them
had been recently expelled from school for
some offence, the nature'of which was not
disclosed.
Judge Horner said he did not feel dis
posed to send the youthful offenders to
Jail or to the reform school. He felt that
there might be something done to aid
them in getting into the straight path.
He sent them home with instructions
that they were to go to school every day
and to Sunday school every Sunday for
month. On their way to and from these
places they were not to loiter nor were
they to be allowed to run at large or play
with other boys. If these directions were
the case would be taken up at
the end of the month and given further
The boys seemed to I'M
derstand the position they were in and
promised to obey the court.
Harry Bennett, who has been In jail for
a long time on charge of assault and
battery on his wife, came into court and
said he could not get along with his wife
and children. He wanted the court to
consider the sentence which sent him to
Jail and to suspend further action. On
the promise of Bennett that he would go
to work, leave rum alone and pay all costs
of prosecution within six months he was
allowed to depart.
The case of Adams Express Company
against Harry D. Ford was tried before
Judge Horner and jury yesterday.
Thomas Logan Gaskill appeared for the
plaintiff; Harold B. Wells represented
the defendant.
Ford was the Adams Express agent at
Bordentown. In October. 1907, pack
age containing fur coat was sent by ex
press from Gimbel Brothers store, Phil
adelphia, to Mrs C. E. Burr, at Borden
town. The express was prepaid and the
package was marked as valued at 800.
1t was traced to Bordentown, where agent
Ford receipted for it, but it was not de-
livered to Mrs. Burr. The latter sent a
complaint to Gimbels about not receiv-
ing the coat and they made demand on
the express company for the package or