The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-10

lived, and asked If the other man WI
dead.
Mrs Lena Weiland said Reiss woul
not tell Fritz but he would tell the hos
why he was going to leave. She sep,
rated the men down cellar, where SD
found Fritz holding Reiss by the wrist
and she saw him slap Reiss in the face
She did not see Fritz choke or kick him.
The state then rested.
In opening for the defence Mr. Peacoc
told the jury that Fritz wanted Reiss t
finish his work before leaving. At thi
Reiss caught Fritz by the throat and pu
up fight. The latter received injurie
during the scuffie.
Fritz testified as follows: when
tried to stop him from going up stairs
Reiss grabbed me by the throat and W
rolled down the steps together. He begal
to kick me and held him down. He at
tempted to strike me with a water pitche
and slapped him in the face twice. H
kicked me again, but he was too small
man for me to kick back at. After tn,
fight had scratches on my neck and
blue mark on my leg. There was bloot
on my clothes
Fred Roth, Philadelphia baker, b,
whom the defendant is employed, saw
marks on Fritz's body, who said he hat
been kicked in the stomach during tn,
| fight with Reiss
Gottlieb Weiland and Charles Lynch
were witnesses favorable to the defendant
good character.
rested Fritz, noticed blood on the latter
coat collar, who said he had been chokeC
by Reiss.
The jury rendered verdict of guilty Of
simple assault, and Fritz was fined 800
The next case was that OF Isaac, Joseph
and Moses Galanter, installment dealers
at Burlington. They were indicted at the
December term of court, but owing to the
illness of an important witness for the
prosecution, the case was not reached
until Thursday. The defendants were
charged with the unlawful taking of fur
niture, papers and five dollars from Frank
Lyzzak, to whom they had sold bill of
goods on Wednesday, November 1, 1909,
paying 81 30 down, and agreeing to make
dlstr1butlve payments, one of which was
due on the following Monday
The state was represented by Prosecu-
tor Atkinson and James M Davis. the
latter having been engaged by Poles
residing at Burlington. Eckard P. Budd
and George M Hillman appeared for the
defendants, who are Hebrews
On the day in question Joseph Galanter
called at the house in the morning to col
lect the payment due that day. At that
time Mrs. Luzzak. who was nursing a
baby three days old, was up stairs. After
entering the house Joseph went up to the
bedroom and asked for the money. Mrs.
Lyzzak rendered him % cents, being all
the money she had, and her husband was at
work In MeNeal's foundry. This was re-
fused by Joseph. who said he could not
accept such a small sum and he said he
would call that afternoon and remove the
goods. A horse and wagon was secured
and with an employee named Stokley,
Joseph drove to the house and removed
the goods, over three hours before the
business hours of Monday had expired
and before Lyzzak had returned from his
work, which is usually at o'clock He
never got his S. back, but Constable Nc
Cormick went to the store, opened
drawer In bureau which was included
in the bill of sale, and secured deed to
property, a revolver and some other
papers. The money was not there.
A woman with long Polish name tenn
employed at the house, told
Joseph not to go up stairs as 1t was too
iirty.
By request of counsel on both sides a
nolle pros was entered in the case of Isaac
md Moses, as there was no evidence to
connect them with any crime.
This left Joseph as the sole defendant,
ind while on the stand he said that when
lie went to the house the side door was
open. The housekeeper was sweeping at
he time, and she asked him In and told
lin to go up stairs. while In the room
below, Mrs. Lyzzak, standing at the top
# the stairs, said he could have the goods
he would leave the table, the first pay
nent having covered its cost. Joseph
aid he would If she would give him the
PASS book which contained credit for the
money. As she did not have the book
Joseph told her to bring it down to the
tore and he would refund her the money.
The defendant said he knew nothing
bout the S., and there was testimony to
he effect that this money had been put ia
N old bureau drawer. Before he left the
house Joseph asked for the keys of the
bureau that he might remove the contents.
tut Mrs. Lyzzak did not have them.
The defence was that there was no sale,
,ut the goods were leased with conditions
hat Galenter had the privilege to enter
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payment should be made at any time.
Mr.. Davis showed that parts of the paper
to be the lease had not been fill
,een made to the paper by two persons
Ifter Lyzzak had signed it.
The jury found Joseph guilty on the
ourth count in the indictment, consisting
# larceny without breaking.
Whof hid foir IN no vprv fnfQrpatfn O.
hearing was cut short on Friday morning.
t was on an application to grant license
or a hotel at Fieldsboro. Thomas A.
2eeder at one time kept the only hotel in
he borough; it was owned by the Trenton
Brewing Company. The tenant paid a
mall rent and purchased the company's
,eer Some of the customers desired
'ther makes of beer and Reeder deter
mined to accommodate them. Soon after
aking this stand his rent was increased
md he went to the owner of the place to
ret some relief. After discussing the
question an apparently amicablc adjust
neut was reached and Reeder went home
During the discussion he asserted that,
f be were not given the concessions he
Isked, he would build hotel. This was
lot considered possible and with the idea
hat even If he did take such action his
nance for securing license would be small
IS only one hotel could be licensed In the
)lace. He went home and In telling his
awyer about the result of his talk with
he owner the attorney asked Reeder If he
ook out lease. He replied that he had
lot, that it was not necessary and that he
vas safe as long as he wanted to keep the |
lotel. But he was mistaken and about |
he first of the year he received notice to |
Tacate the premises Then he got busy |
Already he had secured a piece of land,
md had an architect prepare plans 1t |
lid not take him long to get contractor |
md building operations were soon begun. |
The result is that there is In Fieldsboro
. new hotel, with modern improvements |
md one that is up to date.
The next thing was to get license and |
2eeder soon had a sufficient number of
igners to his application. John E. Curry
,ut in his application to continue bust
less at the old hotel. Out of 1877 voters
n the borough Curry could get but one
igner. But there is law which allows
persons owning property in the township
o sign applications and all such were
pulled into line, the result being a paper
With IA Names Harold B. Wells was en-
,loyed to present and urge remonstrance
against Curry's application. He found
hat OF the IA names on Curry's application,
me was that of the owner of the hotel prop
,rty, two were not freeholders, and one
,ould not sustain the required reputable
character, having been incarcerated in all
N addition to this out of the 1877 voters 100
ecorded themselves in favor of Reeder
Of the remainder 35 we're temperance men
md would not give their sanction for such