Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-24
COURT HEARS PLEAS
Of Is PRISONERS
About One-Quarter of County
JaiI's Occupants Brought
Before Judge.

! Just about one-uuarter of the per-
sons making up the population of the
county Jail were transferred to the
Court House today to either plead
| to indictments against them or else
stand trial in Quarter or Special Ses-
sions Court.
There are at present about 300 per-
sons cofined In the county Jail, and
| today seventy-five of those We're
| brought to the Court House. OF this
number forty-eight were brought to
court to plead to indictments, sixteen
| for Special Sessions trials and eleven
| for General Sessions trials, making
the biggest list of prisoners by far
ever brought from the county jail in
a single day.
| OF the forty eight prisoners brought
down to plead twenty-five of them
! pleaded guilty or non vult to various
charges and were remanded to jail
| for sentence next Monday. The re-
naming twenty-six entered not guilty
pleas and will be tried early in Oc-
| tober.
Among the pleaders who pleaded
non vult was Mary LentZ, who while
employed as a maid by Mrs. Frieda
Shuckmann, of IL New street, East
Orange, almost cleaned out the house
of women's clothing and silverware
on July 10 last. After making a big
haul the Lentz woman, who is about
| twenty-four years of age, disappear
ed, but was later located at Spring
| field avenue by the police OF the
Fourth precinct and the East Orange
When araigned today she pleaded
not guilty to an indictment charging
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goods, but later, after a consultation
with her counsel, former Assistant
Prosecutor Frederick r. Lehlhach,
changed her plea to non vult. Among
the goods stolen by the Lentz girl
were a caracul coat valued at $500,
set of furs worth $780, the remainder
of the loot being made up of other
articles of clothing and silverware.
Another house thief to enter a plea
of non vult was Jacob Holsmann,
alias Jacob Scheller, who admitted
he had entered the dwellings of WILL
tim Scharringhausen 239 Fourteenth
avenue, and of Jessica II. Kidd, lat
South Tenth street, on September 1
last. At the Scharringhausen home
he got away with $136.50 worth of
loot, while at the Kidd home the loot
amounted to $69.50.
A touch of humor was given the
courtroom scenece as offender after
offender was called on to plead by
Carmine Del Percio. who lives at
Bridgeport, Conn, and when arrested
by the Orange police on September 2
had loaded revolver in his possess
sion. When called on to plead Del
Percio, who does not speak English,
told Interpreter Joseph Federico that
he was not guilty. 81 had the gun,
but l did not own it, he explained.
When he was motioned away after a
plea of not guilty had been entered
for him. Del Percio refused to leave
| the prison bar, and said, plaintively,
| in the italian tongue, II want to go
back to Italy" Federico told him he
would have to go back to Jail until
he had a trial, and this brought forth
the reply from the prisoner: 81 have
no time to be in Jail. 1 want to earn
money to go back to Italy," Later,
after talk with Federico D lePercio
changed his mind and pleaded guilty
to carrying concealed weapon, and
will probably have a chance to go
| back to Italy in short time.
Others to plead guilty were Ellen
| Sullivan, charged with shoplifting;
John McElen, carrying concealed
weapon; Robert Voorhees,, who stole
| jewelry and clothes valued at 81 from
| val Il. Dyer, or Gouvernor street,
on June 20 last; Charles Thomas, as
sault and battery on his wife, Kate
Thomas, at Ga Arlington street, on
August 81, and David McCloud, who
pleaded guilty to two charges of
atrocicus assault and battery, he
having cut Policeman John F. Walsh,
of the Second precinct, with a knife
on August 81, while on the same day
| he also assaulted Dennis Foley.
| Ralph Mallet, young lad charged
with obtaining four shirts under. false
| pretenses from a local department
store on August 26. pleaded guilty, as
| did Edward Johnson, a negro,
charged with carrying a concealed
weapon and William Nolan, charged
with assault on Abram Finkelstein,
| of 100 Broom street, on August II, he
having used a club on Finkelstein's
| head during an argument. George
Standbinger pleaded guilty to being
| the aggressor in a similar affair with
~ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.