The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-09-09
Court.


Judge Homer presided at a special ses-
sion of court held on Thursday.
James Norbeck, charged with COM
hitting an assault and battery on Ethel
DeHart, of Riverside, waived Indictment
and entered plea of guilty. He hit the
girl on the head because she refused his
advances. The case was laid over until
September IS, when all cases taking the
same course will be tried.
A plea of guilty was entered by John
Watson, of Palmyra, who was charged
with desertion and neglect of his family.
He had no good excuse to offer, and it
was only the intercession of his wife that
prevented the imposition of a severe
sentence. She agreed to give him one
more trial and Watson is to pay her S.
per week out of his wages for the support
of his wife and child. Judge Horner ex-
pressed doubts about Watson keeping
his agreement, but told him that il he
was brought back on a similar charge he
would be sent to state prison, and under
such conditions was told to tell his friends
that his address would be at Trenton for
long time.
John Lehman, of Maple Shade, charg-
ed with stealing fruit from farmers near
Moorestown, pleaded not guilty, The
case was laid over
Elwood Nixon, of Mount Holly, was
given four months in the county jail.
He pleaded guilty to stealing vegetables
from the lot of Frank Stewart, of Pine
street.
Lewis Monaghan was too intoxicated
at the time to remember if he committed
an assault on Thomas w. Holland, OF
Beverly, which was the charge against
him. BY order of the court plea of not
guilty was entered.
Byron Cahill, IA years old, was another
prisoner who said he was not guilty, and
he will spend some time in the State
Home for Boys. His parents live in the
tenant house ON the farm of d. Budd
Coles, of Lumberton, from whom the
boy admitted stealing thirty chickens at
various times. He brought the fowls to
Mount Holly and sold them for fifty
cents apiece. The money was used to
purchase cigarettes, attend moving pic
ture shows and for other pleasures.
| George Wilson, regarded as a tramp.
was the most important before the bar.
He was charged with committing an as
sault and battery with intent to kill
Justice of the Peace Grogan, of Riverside.
He stabbed the latter in the neck with
knife close to the juglar vein because
he could not get his pay at the time foI
some work he had performed. Judge
Horner asked Wilson if he was aware OF
the seriousness of the charge against him,
to which Wilson answered in the affirm.
alive, saying that it was his intention tC
kill Grogan. He was sentenced to not
less than three years and not more than
twelve years in state prison.
Charles Schafer and Ellsworth Watson
the two boys who systematically robbed
Elizabeth Shreve, aged 80 years, of Med.
ford, of 1915, pleaded guilty, but owing
to other facts which demand further in
vestigation in this case, it has been laiC
over.
Thomas Poullot, small boy living al
Palmyra, also an incorrigible, pleaded
guilty to assault and battery on Ray
mond Moll. Defendant has run away
from home several times. He was sent t.
the State Home for Boys
The license held by Andreas Henning
of Beverly was transferred to George
Mount, of Burlington. The latter was 1
member of the liquor firm of Mount s
Floody, and has sold his interest to hi
partner.