The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-09-07
Court.

Judge Horner disposed of number of
criminal cases on Tuesday, the list being
as follows:
Alcade Sorden, colored, who committed
a number of robberies at Moorestown,
was sentenced to two years and six months
in the state prison.
Mark Laumaster, Burlington horse
thief, was given fifteen months in state
prison, and Jesse Jackson, colored, steal
ing vegetables from farmers at Beverly,
got one year.
Sentences to the county jail were as
follows:
John A. Hausseman, of Mount Holly.
keeping a disorderly house, ninety days,
and when liberated he must leave town.
Joseph Coleman. stealing So from Po-
lish woman at Florence, ninety days.
John Thompson, larceny at Chester
field, sixty days.
Thomas and Lidie Mcguire, larceny at
Moorestown. ninety DAYS.
Hugh Marcowski, of Riverside, larceny,
ninety days.
For cruelty to a horse at Riverside, s.
G. Mutt was fined $25.
Katie O'Neill, formerly of Mount Hol-
ly, the woman of mystery" in the recent
Burlington sensation, who previously en-
tered plea of guilty to larceny charge,
was committed to the Home of the Good
Shepherd in Philadelphia.
Some criminal matters were considered
on Thursday.
what does non vult contendere mean2''
Judge Horner asked of Collins Read, and
the answer caused the audience to smile.
That is the plea which the defendant en-
tered when charged with deserving his
family in Newark.
1.-The firm l worked for were unable to
pay me my wages, that's what it means,
and couldn't give my wife any money. u
Mrs. Read said she was willing to go
back to Newark if her husband would
keep his promises. He had only given
her So in three months.
After telling him what he must do to
keep out of state prison. the court placed
Read under parole. The probation officer
of Essex county will be requested to keep
tab on Reed, and to arrest and return him
to this county il he deviates from the
path of duty mapped out for him.
There was well defined expression OF
concern on the face of Walter Gibson, OF
Riverside, when his case came up for 8
second consideration. He was arrested as
suspect in connection with larceny
case, and when apprehended and given 8
hearing assaulted Policeman Charles Dor
ton and Justice Ziegler.
"Gibson, don't think you are much
account" remarked the court. 'You
drink too much and even little makes
you wild. You have a quarrelsome dis.
position and are no good to the commu.
nifty. You ask your wife to come and
see you. Talk the matter over with her
as she is the best friend you have in the
world l will not settle this matter now,
but will remand you to Jail until Septem
Der 49," At the mention of a probable
state prison sentence the prisoner shook
perceptibly and broke into tears
Two youthful barn burners from Mari
ton appeared before the court and gave 6
good account of themselves, a proceeding
they must be able to repeat on November
4 or go to the reform school.
George Poole, of Mount Holly, who Ii
under parole, was ordered to cut out booz
and get along we'll with his wife. Hi
conduct in this respect is matter to bt
reported on at the first session Of court II
November.
The license of Alfred Wolfrom, pro-
prietor of the West End Hotel on Wash
ington street, was transferred to Harry
M G. Fry, of Merchantville, former
Camden liquor dealer.