The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-03-09
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/ Inc QrSL cases given COnsluclaGlOu WcI
in the orphans court. The Judge calleC
attention to subject which he considere
very important, and he took this oppor
tunity to mention 1t as there were mum
Der of persons present who were interest
ed in settling estates. He found 1t haC
been custom for those intrusted will
these duties to claim allowance for aid Ii
preparing accounts This was wrong
The only persons who can legally be giveI
an allowance are the attorneys who may
be called In to assist in litigation or tt
give advice. The administrator or exc
cutor is supposed to be of sufficient intel
ligence to prepare an account for the
court. If he is not and is compelled tc
secure aid he must pay his assistants from
the commissions that come to him fol
settling the estate.
Having disposed of the orphans court
business Judge Horner took up criminal
matters. Several prisoners had been
brought In to answer to charges.
The first to stand up was Leon Godown,
who was indicted for the theft of money
from Mrs. Eliza Claypoole, in Mount
Holly. Prosecutor Atkinson detailed the
facts, which were the same as published
in THE News last week. The Prosecutor
said there might have been some careless
ness in allowing pocketbook containing
$27 to lie around where it could so easily
be stolen, but he did not think that a
sufficient excuse for the boy to commit an
act which he undoubtedly knew was
wrong.
Judge Horner questioned Godown about
his past life and asked him about some
occurrences which had been brought to
his attention. The boy declared that he
had never done anything Of this kind
before. The Judge said he had made in
quiry about Godown and his life and he
thought no harm could come from send
ing him where he would be subjected to
discipline which seemed to have been
neglected at home. He sent the boy to
Railway Reformatory.
Oliver Resger pleaded guilty to enter
ing the office Of William N. Cooper, in
Burlington. In company with John
Koran, Reager entered the Office during
the noon hour and began work on the safe.
They tore out the iron work only to find
that the safe was empty, consequently no
theft was committed. Koran ran away.
Reager had been arrested once before but
sentence was suspended on him. This
time he did not fare so we'll, being sent
enced to the Railway Reformatory.
John Jones, indicted for the larceny of
two ducks from Pearson Taylor. at
Wrightstown, pleaded guilty. Another
man who was indicted for stealing a pig
was Atwood Tallman. Prosecutor Atkin-
son showed that these two men were con-
nected with many thefts in the neighbor-
hood, but those for which they were in
dicted were all that could be fastened
upon them. Jones said he was alone when
the ducks were stolen, but that he was
with Tallman on the night the pig was
taken. He did not know anything about
the matter, however, as he was down on
the ground drunk at the time. Tallman
said this was the truth and when asked
who carried the pig away, Tallman said
he did 30 unaided. The pig weighed
about 300 pounds. Under the circumstan-
ces sentence could be imposed only for the
crimes fastened on the men. Jones was
sent to the county jail for five months and
Tallman was given fifteen months in the
state prison.
Frank HENDERSON was called to answer
to the charge of assault and battery on
Harry Hansbury, trolley conductor on the
road between Burlington and Florence.
HENDERSON pleaded not guilty. He said
he was not able to engage lawyer, and
the court told him the matter would be
looked after. The man started for the
Jail but had not gone far before he return
ed and said he wanted to retract and plead
guilty if he might be allowed to say
word. This was granted and Helberson
said he was on the trolley on the night in
question, and that the conductor was teas
ing him and finally took hold of him and
tore his coat Then HENDERSON said he re-
taliated and struck Hsnsbury. The Pros
ector said his information was that Helber-
son was under the influence of liquor and
committed the assault when the conductor
tried to make him be quiet. Helberson
does not look like an offensive man and he
sobbed bitterly while telling his tale. The
Judge ordered him back to jail and told
the Prosecutor to have the crew of the
trolley car present on Monday.
Evan Alloway pleaded not guilty to
charge of stealing $40 from the Office of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at
Frank Boyer pleaded not guilty to an
indictment charging him with the theft of
sS5 worth of metal from the Riverside
Metal Works.
Frank Wilkie pleaded not guilty to the
charge of assault and battery on Augustus
Holten, at Florence.
Ignatius, Vicenzius and John Spivak
were called forward and. through an in
terpreter, were informed that they had
been indicted on two charges of assault
and battery on Frank Gogle and Joseph
Gogle. Their plea was not guilty.
Thomas Carey was the next to answer.
The grand jury, last week, indicted
Thomas for atrocious assault and battery
on his wife, Carey stood up before the
court with winning smile and in his
most polite tones denied that he had COM
mitted the crime. The Prosecutor then
requested him to enter plea on another
indictment charging assault and battery
on Charles Gilbert, an officer in the dis
charge of his duty. With the same smile
Thomas said he could not deny that he
struck constable Gilbert, but he did not
do so until the officer began to handle him
The Prosecutor told Thomas he
must plead guilty or not guilty. The lat
ter still insisted on giving an explanatory
plea, but he was rounded up by the court
with sharp order to plead guilty or not
guilty and to do it quickly. The smile
vanished from Thomas face and he said
he was not guilty. He was released on
bail, which was fixed at 81 800, his bonds
man being Thomas Dolly, who owns the
blacksmith shop at the corner of the Bor-
ton Landing road, east of Moorestown.
He said his propertv was worth sc, 900 or