The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-01-02
State Notes.

Was it cruelty to feed whiskey-soaked
corn to chickens SO that they became in
toxicated7 This was the knotty question
that confronted Recorder Stackhouse, on
Wednesday, after Julius Stronger, of Fiji
teenth and Carman streets, Camden, swore
that the fowls of his hennery, including
big rooster, had a typical jag on Christ
mas day He charged George Jones and
Henry Clarke with throwing the corn to
his chickens, and Policeman Paul said the
prisoners admitted their guilt Three
hens and the rooster were found in their
possession, and Paul said he smelled liq-
uor on the chickens breath. Stronger,
however, said these fowls did not belong
to him: but he was of the opinion that
Jones and Clarke were trying to get all of
his chickens drunk so as to make more
easy their capture. THAT big rooster
was bleary-eyed and staggered" testified
Stronger, land he tried to crow and
couldn't" The recorder said he would
hold the case under advisement as there
was a question of whether theft was in
tended, while guilt of giving liquor to the
fowls was admitted.
Attacked by two savage bulldogs at
Maryland and Atlantic avenues, Atlantic
City, John Kerns was pulled from his
bicycle and rolled in the street with the
two animals tearing away at him. The
dogs had been fighting as Kerns rode up,
and resented his interference, forgot their
battle and united in an attack upon him.
The strange incident was witnessed by
many pedestrians and created intense ex-
element among the women, but Kerns
was given no assistance by the men and
was obliged to beat off the dogs single
handed This he accomplished only after
he had been badly lacerated and hiscloth-
ing was torn to shreds.
-Lorenz Monier, of Trenton, and his
father, w E. Mon;er, of Williamsburg,
Va, spent the holidays together, the first
time they have seen each other in IS years
The son had always believed his father
dead, as the latter left home following a
family disagreement when the boy was
too young to take notice. few weeks
ago the young man decided to make last
effort to find his father and placed adver-
tisements in various newspapers. A friend
of the elder Monier found one of the adj
vertisements and the reunion was effected |
The State Civil Service Commission
has notified Sheriff Monahan, of Essex
county, that Jail Warden James B. Riley
should be reinstated. Riley was dismiss
ed for having one of the prisoners have
him in the Jail and the jury decided that
the charges were too trivial to warrant
dismissal.
Dog prisoners are wantonly killing
valuable animals in Bridgeton. One Irish
setter, valued at SIS, was destroyed and
another animal, valued at $50, was
killed.
George Weller, of Egg Harbor city, a
barber and the father of nine children,
who received an attack of blood poison
ng from slight cut i'll finger, which
was amputated to stop the blood poison
from spreading, was hurriedly removed to
the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia
on Tuesday morning, where probably his
hand and perhaps the entire arm may
have to be taken off.
Shot in the left eye by small boy
with an air rifle he received as Christmas
present, Patience Carly, ten years old, of
Pleasantville, was taken to Cooper Hos
pital, Camden, and it is stated that the
child will in all probability lose the sight
of the eye. The boy was shooting at a
sparrow.