Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-10-13
JUDGE DEMANDS
BETTER ORDER
Says officers Must
Do Duty.
THE NOISIEST COURT
Circuit Court Judge Sharply Directs
That There Be Order in
the Court.

Circuit Court proceeded yesterday
afternoon.
In her suit in trial before Judge
Endicott yesterday to receive damages
for the death of her son, Frederick w.
SETTER, Mrs. Frances E. Setter was
called to the stand and testified as to
the age of the boy, his employment
| and wages, also as to her income from
$4,000 which her husband left at his
death, this sum to go to the son on
his reaching 21 years of age, but if
he died before reaching 81 the legacy
went to the boys mother, Mrs. Seit-
ter.
DR.. Edward Dare, Vineland den
tist, testified that he was on the train
at the time the boy was struck; saw
the motor cycle as it approached the
train; that the motorman of the train
did not blow whistle nor give any
warning. He remarked about this to
time. The witness thought the motor
cycle rider, hit the car back of the
smoker. Witness and Mr.. More were
sitting together in the smoker. 1t
was to Mr.. More he made the remark,
"They didn't blow the whistle.
Aneador More gave corroborative
| testimony, but Mr. Bourgeois put Mr..
| More through a scorching cross-exanl-
| ination but without shaking the main
! featAges of his testimony.
Henry Tumey, of Vineland, wentto
| Vineland that evening to identify the
boy and the motor cycle. He said the
motor cycle was not struck head on,
| from indications of the machine it
had been struck on the side.
| Herbert Walls testified that he was
| acquainted with the crossing of the
State road at the point of the acci-
dent; he said, on account of the woods
you could not see an approaching
train until you were upon the track.
| Other witnesses gave similar testi-
mony when the plaintiff rested. On
motion of Mr.. Bourgeois, for the w. ].
| R. r. Co., a non-suit was granted,
and the judge instructed the jury to
return verdict in favor of the de-
| fendant company Before this, how
ever, several witnesses were examined
for the defense. Motorman Richard
| S. Doughty, of Glassboro, who was
running the train at the time the
accident happened testified that the
whistle was blown at the State Road
| Crossing and that the first he knew of
the accident was when he got to At
lantic City with his train. Investiga-
tion then showed that something had
struck the second car of his train.
| Thomas Gibbs, of Mays Landing,
testified that he heard the whistle of
the train, and it sounded to come from
above the State Road Crossing.
| ]. e. Whillock, who was a passen-
| ger, testified that he saw Setter col
lide with the train; that about 25 feet
from the train he saw Setter turn
his motor cycle slightly as though to
avoid a collision. At this point the
| defense rested, and the motion of Mr.
| Bourgeois was granted, as above.
| The next case called was that of
VILLAS Hand against Captain Zadok
Sharp. Sr., and his son Zadok Sharp,
| Jr. These two oystermen had been
| indicted and pleaded non-vult to the
| charge, that of illegal dredging of oy-
sters, and this is a suit by Hand and
| Newall, his partner, to recover for the
oysters which the Sharps are alleged
| to have taken from their gounds, on
which they had been charged with
illegal dredging.
Louis H. Miller appeared for the
| plaintiffs and Albert R. McAllister,
for the defendants
Before the cases had proceeded very
far Judge Endicott took occasion to
call attention to the lack of order,
and the noise in the court room. He
said that the Cumberland Court was
the noisiest he was ever in and he
called the attention of the Court Off
GERS very sharply to their duty. He
told the sheriff that he must dispose
the officer about the room so that
complete order and proper decorum
would be observed.
| Wednesday Morning.
The case of Hand and NewaII