The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-11-11

Court.
ii At session of court held on Thurs
day, Thomas Wiley, of Riverside, plead
ed guilty to selling some household goods
that belonged to heirs of his deceased
wife. His excuse was that he thought
he had right to do so. The court was
willing to give the defendant an oppor-
tunity to make restitution, as Wiley said
he did not want anything that did not
belong to him. Prosecutor Atkinson
said it would be impossible to get all the
goods back, as some pieces had been
sold to people living in Beverly and
Philadelphia. The defendant was Or
dered to furnish bail in the sum of 5000
for his appearance at a session of court
to be held ON the goth instant.
Judge Horner stated that because of
the absence of V. Claude Palmer, who
was engaged in another court, he would
postpone, until November goth, the
question of granting new trial to Rob-
ert w. Barckley, of Burlington, who
was recently convicted of assault on two
indictments.
George Ward, of Delanco, who will be
q years of age next year, made an I'M
usual record by paying fines and costs,
amounting to S24.4S, ON his conviction
of carrying a blackjack. A prison SEN
tence was suspended and the young man
placed on probation. He got into trouble
with some young man and said he only
carried the weapon that night as he
feared he would meet with bodily harm.
The next complaint was that of the
overseer of the poor of Chester town
ship against Joseph Callahan, who was
charged with nonsupport in a bastardy
case, in which he had been ordered to
pay So per week. The young man had
been in Jail since July "a, because of his
inability to get work. The court ordered
the release of Callahan, who is black
smith, on the statement that he had a
job in Burlington, which would enable
him to meet his obligations.
| Thomas johnson, colored, who con-
ducts barber shop on High street, was
Convicted and fined S. and costs for
failure to make his son, Henry, attend
the Samuel Aaron school, full account
of which proceedings are to be found in
another column.
| Atwood Tallman, of Water street, was
tried and convicted on charge of as
saulting his wife, who said she could not
| live with the man any longer.
Prosecutor Atkinson showed that Tall
man had been convicted several times
and had been committed to the state
prison. The passing of sentence was
laid over.
Yesterday morning Judge Carrow pre-
sided at the court house and called the
list of cases. After receiving the required
replies he ordered jury drawn for the
trial of the first case on the Supreme
Court list-Bertha Stone VS.. the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. Miss Stone
was represented by A. S. Woodruff.
He opened the case by stating that
Miss Stone is resident of Riverside
and is student in the High school at
Palmyra, committing between the two
places. Her brother has a store in
Moorestown and the young lady helps
him on Saturdays. On the day on which
the accident occurred for which suit for
damages is brought she was on her way
to the latter place, going by way of
Camden. When the train reached Pal
myra she started to get off in order to
purchase ticket to Camden. There
were some passengers ahead of her and
by the time Miss Stone reached the door
the train gave sudden lurch backward
causing the young lady to grab the door
lamb. The door swung shut and caught
Miss Stones finger. She went to the
ticket Office and got her ticket and while |
in the station she called the attention of
lady to the hurt finger. The two tried |
to remove glove, but it was found that |
in doing so the nail and a portion of the |
finger might come with it. Miss Stone |
went to Camden and by the time that
city was reached she was suffering from !
pain. Two physicians attended her and |
she continued her journey to Moores- |
town. She tried to attend to her duties in
the store but was compelled to give up
and go to the house of lady who lived
near the store where she remained all
day.
On arriving home she was looked after
by a physician who attended her for
several months. Miss Stone had just
enrolled as a student in conservatory
of music in Philadelphia. OF course she
could not use the injured finger and was
compelled to lose the time she had ex-
pected to employ in perfecting her mu-
steal education. She also aided her
father in his store at Riverside in the |
evenings and on holidays, but was
compelled to desist in this because of
the inability to use the hand on which |
was the injured finger. In addition to
the pain it gave her it was always in the |
way as such members generally are and |
was constantly being knocked. Be |
sides the injuries sustained by the |
young woman, it was claimed the father |
was entitled to compensation because of
the loss ofshis daughters services.
Judge Gasl<ill then said that in ac- |
cordance with rule established by the |
Supreme Court he would open the de- |
fence. Under this ruling it is now re- |
quired that the defence must be disclosed |
at once in order that the jury may have |
both sides before them while the testi- |
mony is being heard. He said Miss
Stone was commuter between River |
side and Palmyra. On the day of the |
accident she had used her ticket to Pal |
myra and was getting off the train to
purchase an excursion ticket between
that station and Camden. There was
not anv motion of the train beyond the |
usual jar which accompanies stop.
There was not any necessity for the
young lady to take hold of the door
jamb, as there is on every passenger car
side irons which are intended for those
on the trains to use in getting on and
off the cars. Had she taken hold of one
of these she would not have been injured. |
He thought he would be able to show
that Miss Stone was in great hurry to
get out and buy ticket before the train
again started and in so doing got to the
door before the train stopped In any
event the damages could not be very
great and he would show that the in
juries were not as serious as had been
represented.
The jury rendered verdict of $3.50 in
favor of the girl. There was another
suit which was brought by the father,
and both cases were tried together, the
same testimony covering the two suits.
The father was awarded SO.
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