The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-01-18

! TO the girl, never uttered an indecent
e word to her, did not say he had committed
9 state prison offence, and never made
: an improper movement towards her. He
0 had third conversation with her and
e that was on the day when he had called
/ her from the line as she had testified
t Told her he had been talking to Adele
: Goodwin, who had cleared herself with
t reference to McKaig, but that Mathews
2 had been so emphatic about Hattie's in.
, timacy with the man he was compelled to
, disbelieve her story. He told her his
/ motive was not to punish, but to warn
her and advise her for her own welfare.
The information he had was sufficient to
suspend or expel her as she was not fit
!, person to be pupil In the school, and if
he laid the matter before the Board of
Education that body would certainly
expel her. At this Hattie broke down
and cried, but she still denied being with
McKaig to any great extent. and said she
had not, In any manner, compromised her
SELF He told her to go to one of the rooms
and wash her face and dry her eyes and
it was while she was there that the call
came over the telephone. His reply that
she had just left was strictly true. Mr.
Penhollow did not go home to lunch that
day and that was frequent occurrence
i When Hattie returned in the afternoon
the superintendent was standing near the
office door. The girl went to him and
asked for an excuse for being tardy. He
wrote one and gave 1t to her. 1t was that
which Miss Bloomsbury had refused to
had gone away and she had to get her own
dinner. She had ample time to go home,
eat her dinner and return under ordinary
circumstances. He did not meet her at
] the gate and give her the note without
her asking for it as she claimed The
first time he heard OF the charge against
him was on the third day of November,
when he was In the Office of George Swift,
a member of the Board of Education. He
had talked with Edwin Griscom about
Mrs. Aaronson charging him with signing
her name to the note. He also spoke to
Mr.. Thompson, another member on the
same subject, and on the advice of the
latter tried to get the excuse from Miss
Bloomsbury, who told him she had taken
1t home.
On cross-examination Mr.. Penhollow
said he had met Mr.. Mathews, the truant
officer, on the street prior to his appoint
0fa kal !
with him. He at first was inclined to give
Hattie the benefit of the doubt when
Mathews made his first assertions, but as
the latter repeated his story, it became |
that there must be some truth In 1t. He /
never told MIR. or Mrs. Aaronson, any of |
the teachers or any member of the Board. |
Mr.. Atkinson tried to get in evidence
that Mr.. Penhollow had been compelled |
to leave another position on such charge |
as this but the court ruled the question |
out.
Emory s. Thompson, a brakeman on |
the Pennsylvania railroad, knows McKaig |
and saw him with Hattie Aaronson on the |
evening of the 23d Of December, near the |
Railroad station. 1t was about quarter
to ten o'clock. Witness did not know the |
girl then, but she had been pointed out to
him by Mayor Gabel since.
Howard Apologize said he saw McKaig |
and Hattie leave passenger car standing |
in the Bordentown yard about ten o'clock |
on the evening of January s, this year.
John Mathews, the truant officer, testi- |
fed to seeing McKaig and Hattie together
on two occasions Oh lot on Railroad |
avenue. Both times were In the evening |
after nine o'clock. He sent note to the |
girl on the subject but did not get any
answer and heard the note was burned. On
cross-examination the Prosecutor asked
Mathews if he had not been convicted in
the court. Objection. was raised to this
by Mr.. Budd on the ground that the
credibility of the witness could not be i'm
peached in this way. Mathews, however,
insisted on answering, and said he pleaded
non vult contendere for assault He said:
Il soaked Dago in the jaw, and would
do it again for the same thing he did to
me-"
Edwin A. Goodwin corroborated Mr.
Penhollow's testimony about his hearing
of Mrs. Aaronson saying the superinten-
dent had signed her name to note, and
he advised defendant to get the note and
turn it oyer to the Board of Education.
Hattie Aaronson was recalled and asked
some questions about what she had said
before Harold G. Wells at the meeting of
the Board of Education.
Harold G. Wells was then called and
told of the meeting referred to. He con-
tradicted Hattie in many particulars, and
his evidence was corroborated by George
W. Swift, Jr., and James G. West, both
of whom were at the meeting.
| Allen Thompson was then called to
show that William McKaig had made
certain statements to him, but the court
sustained an objection of the Prosecutor
and Thompson was compelled to leave
the stand.
This ended the defence and the first act
of the state In rebuttal was to cali William
McKaig to the stand and put in the very
evidence that Mr.. Budd wanted and to
which the Prosecutor had objected. Nc
Kaig denied being with Hattie Aaronson
on the evening of December 20, but was
with another girl. Remembered meeting
two men when he had her. Was never
with Hattie on Railroad avenue or in
passenger car, and then he went on to tell
that he had never had any conversation
with Allen Thompson with reference to
Penhollow. That was all that Mr.. Budd
wanted and he allowed the witness to go.
James Rossell testified to seeing Nc
Kaig and girl named Holmes on the
evening of December 90, but admitted it
was early in the evening and that he
might have been with Hattie later.
Mrs Aline Johnson and Mrs. Aaronson
testified that Hattie was out of the house
but a few minutes on the evening of De-
cember %.
Mrs. Larue said she was in the Aaron
son home on the evening of January 5,
and that Hattie was in bed, but Hattie
when she was recalled said she was in
Mrs. Larues house when the latter was
In her home.