The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-11-23
Tax Matters.

e Tax Matters.
e The Burlington County Board of Taxa
: ton has been visiting various townships
? during the past month and is today sitting
g at the court house. The increased ta1
rate In some of the townships has caused
= considerable complaint, but the valuation:
| appear to be satisfactory thus far, as in %
townships there have been but 38 com.
! plants. Of these 10 have either been
withdrawn or settled, the others being
held under advisement.
There are one or two points that owners
of property do not seem to be able to take
proper consideration Of One is that pro-
perty is assessed at its true value or that
the assessors try to reach that end, and the
other is that some think one property must
not be assessed at its value because another
near 1t is not rated as high as it should be.
Judge Gummere, in the Court of Errors
and Appeals, on Monday of last week,
handed down an opinion on both of these
points A manufacturing company ap-
pealed from its assessment and in its ap-
peal made two claims, first that the value
placed upon the property was relatively
higher than that placed upon other pro-
perty in the city where situated, and
second, that the value placed upon its
property was in excess of its true value.
The chief justice said that manifestlY the
Supreme Court rightly held that the first
claim made by the prosecutor was without
merit. The action of the taxing author
tiles in assessing other property at less
than true value afforded sno reason, the
chief justice said, for reducing the assess
ment upon the company's property to less
than its true value, for to do otherwise
would be violation of the constitutional
provisions.
As to the second ground that the pro-
perty was assessed at more than its true
value, the court held that this was find
ing of fact not renewable unless no cyl
dence whatever had been submitted to
sustain it in the lower tribunal. That
] bnCAC w oo OOuo4OCAdOlC CNlQCuCC LII lulo
purpose the court said was disclosed by
an examination of the dispositions re-
turned with the writ.
Court.
Judge Horner had full day on Thurs
day when he held his weekly session of
court. The first case to be disposed of
was that Of Clara Resgle, who has been
Jail for some time, charged with Illegal
relations with married man. The wo-
man has incipient tuberculosis, but there
is doubt whether her case is as bad as g
ported. At any rate the Judge felt it
would be wise to have her in some insti-
tuition where she could be given better
care than would naturally be given in a
prison, and he sent her to Catholic
Home where the court can be kept inform
ed of her condition.
The man In this case was William
Lamb. His wife asked that the court deal
mercifully with her erring husband and
the Judge imposed sentence of one year
In the state prison.
Joseph Kain, the boy from Burlington,
who shot little girl, was sent to the Re-
form School. Ernest Watts pleaded In
behalf of the child for supervision of SEN
tence, but the court thought the boy
should be confined In some institution.
The lad is bright little fellow and will,
with proper management, make good
man. 1t is rather hard to have him start
in life with such load on his shoulders.
William Drukemiller was called to an
swer charge of stealing goods belonging
to Abraham Saltzman. Drukemiller is
the man who entered building on High
street. Mount Holly, by means of false
key and gave the police good run before
he was captured. As he has been before
the court on another occasion, and had,
when caught, the paraphernalia for pro-
fessional housebreaker, he was sent to
state prison for two years. This appeared
to affect the prisoner very much and he
fell in swoon. He was carried to the
court house steps, where some one sug-
gested testing his eyes. On lifting one of
the lids the eye responded promptly and
showed that the fellow was shamming,
Later in the evening message was sent
from the Jail to the effect that Druke.
miller was very sick and said he was dy
ing from a broken heart. The prison
physician visited him and gave him good
dose of physic which seemed to restore
the hearts action.
John Ellsworth. the man who was cap
tured in Chicago, charged with the theft
of money from Schuyler Rainier, of Flor
ence, was brought before the court He
had come to New Jersey without waiting
for requisition, and waived his right to
indictment and trial. He pleaded guilty.
Sentence was suspended for few days in
order to look into some other matters con-
nected with the man and with this case.
After disposing of these cases, Prosecu-
tor Atkinson presented the remonstrance
against granting a license for the hotel at
Jacksonville. Ernest Watts and James
NJ Davis appeared for the applicant.
The evidence in favor of the remonstran-
&C was bO JuO c40Cb budb Iuc HObCl 10 Out
81 feet from the church, and that services
there were frequently disturbed by the
noise made by drunken men at the hotel.
The place is also too close to thesschool-
house and the children attending school
can easily witness sights not at all edify-
ing to the young. That whiskey was sold
there on Sunday was claimed by one wit
ness who saw the landlord put package
on the fence and beckon to a man to go
and get it. Stronger testimony on this
point was given by witness who said her
husband had purchased liquor at the hotel
on Sunday in her presence.
That boys of Is years of age had bought
liquor was clearly shown. There were
any number of witnesses who testified that
hotel was not needed at Jacksonville, as
there were times when the travelling pub
lie had been refused accommodations, aud
all who desired liquor could go to Column
bus, Jobstown or Mount Holly.
After hearing the testimony Judge H0r