Gloucester County Democrat., 1911-10-26
OCTOBER Term OF COURT.
Criminal Court.


Among the big list of indictments
returned by the Grand Jury last We'd
inesday, the following entered pleas Of
guilty.
Simpson and Densten, breaking and
entering. Judge Starr suspended SEN
tence on the breaking and entering
count, and fine of $25 on the charge
lof breaking telephone boxes.
Frank Gilbert. Lewis HALEY, VIM.
Booze, Douglas McCauley, Herbert
Urban and Peter Marshall.
The balance of those in custody
plead not guilty and trials are now
in progress.
Criminal trials opened on Monday
and the jury in the case of Howard
Jones rendered a verdict of guilty
with recommendation to mercy of
the Court.
Chas. Snyder, charged with larceny
OF a bicycle at Newfield, was acquitted
of a charge of larceny and VIM. Din
gle, of Paulsboro, was acquitted of a
charge of assault on his wife.
In regard to the Money case, three
of the colored men mixed up in the
cutting affair were found guilty of
atrocious assault and battery Pollard
could not be proven to have had a
hand in the affair. The jury agreed
on a verdict in half an hour though the
entire day was taken up in the trial.
Martha and Della Woods, colored,
indicted for keeping a disorderly
house near the Woodbury. Ice Plant,
were acquitted, as there was INSULT
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The case of John Locke, accused of
burning a boat house at Repaupo,
came up yesterday morning. Locke
was seen, drunk, around the boat
houses at Repaupo Sunday, according
to several witnesses, and threatened
to burn all the boat houses there.
The evening of the same day, one of
the said houses was destroyed by fire
and another one set on fire; Locke was
hunted for that night but could not be
found On the stand, Locke denied
having burned the house Vardman
and Brewer, who were implicated in
the affair with Locke, were convicted,
Brewer being recommended to the
mercy of the Court. Locke was ac-
quilted
The Freehold, Monmouth County,
Transcript, makes a strong, though
conservative plea for the election of a
Democratic legislature, in its issue Of
October 10th, from which we quote:
This year is what is known as an
eoff year in politics, and as conse-
quence it is difficult to discover a
great deal of interest, except in so
far as local officials and their friends
are concerned The candidates of
both parties in Monmouth are making
quiet though active canvasses Gov
ernor Wilson has been making a tour
of the state and spoke in Monmouth
county last week Naturally, having
marked out new path in the politics
of New Jersey, and having taken ad-
vanced stand in matters of legislation,
the Governor is anxious to have a
favorable verdict from the people as
expressed at the ballot box in Novem-
ber. And it seems to US that such
verdict is all important at this juno
ture, not so much as it may concern
the Governor personally, as it is for
the best interests of the state as
whole. The Democratic party was
put into power last year to perform
a definite work-that of enacting GER
tain legislation which had been long
denied to the people by the Repub-
lican party. A part of this work has
been accomplished, some laws have
already been enacted, and there are
still others of the same tenor needed.
In regard to some of the legislation,
notably the election law, there is dis
satisfaction among the old party
workers and machine men, and there
is great ado about the expense of its
operation, and other excuses to throw
discredit upon it and to pave the way
for its modification or repeal. Like
all new things, it may not work
smoothly for the first time, but it is
entitled to fair trial and it should
not be put in the power of a hostile
legislature to tinker with or repeal.
This is also true of some of the 9TH
er laws which were passed last, winter.
If it develops that the election law
or other laws passed last year, need
revision or amendment the work
should be done by the friends of those
measures rather than their enemies.
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