The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-01-11
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FOR FLETCHER'S
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Court.

Court.
The trial of indictments was begun on
Tuesday. Before anything in that line
was commenced, however, some prisoners
were given a chance to plead.
Fred w. Kleinz, of Riverside, entered a
plea of not guilty to an indictment Oh arg
ing him with deserving his wife.
Rafael Corletti, of Burlington. pleaded
guilty to assault and battery on his wife.
Lizzie Malsky was put on trial for steal
leg pork from car of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company at East Burlington.
The evidence presented by the state was
that lot of pork had been consigned to
L. Stein, of Burlington. Suspicion point
ed to the Malskys, and an agent of the
railroad company visited their house and
after short search, discovered an iron
pot under step, in which there was lot
of pork. In it were cinders indicating
that the meat had been thrown to the
ground along the railroad before being
placed in the pot. The defendant is Pole
and an interpreter went with the railroad
detective to look for the meat. He heard
the woman tell her husband, ''they are
looking under the STEP"
An agent of the meat company identif-
ed the meat as the same kind sent to Stein
and he explained why he could distin-
guish it from other meat. When the
detective took 1t from the house Mrs.
Malsky asked him not to take the pot
The defendant said she saw the officers
find the meat under her porch but she did
not have any idea how 1t got there The
pot was her property, she having bought
1t at a sale. She declared she did not steal
the meat. Her husband had recently left
her and she does not know where he is.
Tho iYrru rop6orad of
AnnunZiati Lingia and Orazio Teti were
next called to answer to an indictment
charging assault with intent to rob.
Samuel Pastino was the complainant. He
is the boss of the gang constructing q
sewer in BordentOwn. According to his
story che two men broke into the shanty
where he and his men were sleeping.
This was on the night of the 22d of De-
cember. The first Pastino knew of the
presence of the men was having his leg
pulled and on awakening he saw a man
at the foot of his bed. The latter demand.
ed money, saying he knew it was pa, day
and that Pastino had cash around.
Pastino slipped out and got a policeman
who came and arrested the two men. The
| other witnesses in the case testified that
all In the shantY were asleep when the
men broke the latch and got into the
place.
The men claimed that Pastino owed
them money, but he denied this, and says
they were never employed by him but
were strike encouragers and were at times
around his men trying to get them tc
strike for higher pay. This the defend
ants denied. One of them said that FASTING
owed him $S5 and when asked by a credi
tor to settle Teti said he would do so al
soon as Pastino settled with him and Il
was for the purpose of getting $45 tha
was due him that he made the visit on tn,
night of December %. He said the doc
of the shanty was open and instead of the
men being asleep several of them were
awake and were playing cards. He ant
Lingia went In, were cordially welcomed
and were treated to lunch and some beel
and were asked to join in the game.
1t was shown that Pastino had served
In the state prison for perjury In securing
pension papers, and the Jury was not SLOW
in reaching verdict of not guilty.
Herber L. Haedrick, who had pleade,
not guilty to an indictment for the illega
sale of liquor at Florence, changed hi
mind and pleaded guilty.
Arthur Cheesman, of Beverly, was trie
for assault and battery on his wife TIL
evidence was very conclusive In this cas-
and verdict Of guilty was rendered wit