The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-02-24
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: ed but the most interesting was tn
L OF the question of revoking the licens
OF the Moorestown hotels.
The first business transacted by Jud,
, Horner was the sentencing of LeonaI
Foresman, charged with bigamy. LIE
nard was sentenced to the state reform
tory at Railway.
William H. Giberson, of Pemberto,
! was brought before the court on con
plant of the Board of Education of IL
township of PembeIton. Mr.. Giberso
has son who has not been attendiu
school since September. The faith,
commended that it was detrimental to tt
boys health to have him go to scho,
and that physician had given a certit
cate to that effect. The certificate. how
ever, provided that the boy should ne
be allowed to go out on stormy day
when the walking was wet or damp as
was against his health. Judge Horne
decided that the weather had not bee
continuously bad since September an
there was no real excuse for the bow b,
ing out of school all that time. TIL
father was fined S. and was directed t
see that the boy attends school.
Former Judge Gaskill asked the coul
to instruct the executors of Natha
Haines, deceased, how to distribute Gel
tain trust funds. Under the will of MI
Haines SAC, 900 was left in trust with tn
Burlington County Safe Deposit an
trust Company, the income to be pai
70 Mrs. Haines during her lifetime, tn
principal, at her death, to 20 to som
charitable institutions. Judge Gaskil
had list of securities and he wante,
the Trust Company to accept them 70
the amount mentioned. The Trus
Company objected to this and elaine,
they should have the $40, 900 in cash t,
invest as they saw proper under the law
In order that they might have that sun
at the time when the final requests wer,
to be made. The matter was laid owe
for two weeks.
Mrs. Christopher Smith, of Burlington
has been receiving a widows pension
was before the court on the charge thai
she had been getting more money than
was due her. Judge Horner advised the
woman that she must be careful in the
statements she would make as they
might be used against her. Mrs. Smith
took the stand and testified that she an.
Piled for pension for herself, represent
ing that she had certain children but if
was afterwards discovered that one of
the children was her grandchild. 1t
looked as If the woman had committed
perjury as she swore that the child was
her own. She explained this act by saw
ing that she had the control and bring
ing up of the child and considered it as
her own. 1t was also shown that the
other children of the woman had not
been attending school.
Miss Frances Day, who represents the
Board of Children's Guardians. was
present and said she had investigated
this case and it had the appearance of
defrauding the county out of money.
After hearing the facts Judge Horner de-
cided that new order should be made
out for the payment of the pension but
that nothing should be given Mrs.
Smith until the amount which she had
unlawfully received had been recovered
by the county.
Following up this matter Miss Day
went to Burlington and preferred a
charge OF perjury against Mrs. Smith.
There are other cases of this character
that are being looked into. There are
some in Mount Holly which have been
attracting attention and Miss Day will
be here next month and will proceed
against some of the widows who applied
for pensions but are is..ofiflg the law re-
the4n 10 send their children to
school.
BARRY REMoNsTRANCE CASE.
Having disposed of these cases Judge
Horner took up the application to re-
woke the license of Henry Barry, who
keeps hotel at Moorestown.
John Lavefy was the first witness and
he testified that he~had been in the
hotel several times since April, 1913, the
date on which the license was granted
He never got intoxicated there and>,.as
never there under the influence of liquor.
He could not say whether he had ever
seen intoxicated persons in the hotel.
John O'Connor had drank in the
hotel several times, but he never noticed
anything out of the way. In fact he
thought it one of the most regular places
he knew of.
John Donley had seen Lavery in the
hotel but never saw him under the in
fluence of liquor. He had had several
drinks at the place but never got in
toXicated.
Amos Willetts had been refused
drinks at the hotel when the bartender
thought he had enough, but had never
been refused since April, 1918. He had
never been in the hotel in an intoxicat-
ed condition.
Louis O'Donnell was never under the
influence of liquor when in the hotel and
had never been refused liquor He
generally drank beer and had been able
to get what he wanted.
Thomas McDonough had gone into
the hotel in an intoxicated condition,
having bought his drinks at other places.
He never got anything to drink in the
hotel when under the influence of liquor
He had remained in the place probably
a half hour while drunk.
William McElwee said he had taken
many drink in the hotel, but was
never allowed more than two drinks at
any one time. He had got drunk out
side lots of times when somebody would
buy liquor and bring it out to the horse
sheds where crowd would drink it.
Henry Marshman had been served
with beer in back room where he was
in company with woman. He was
drunk when the beer was served to him.
He said he was so drunk that he could
not tell how long he stayed in the hote
nor was he able to notice who were in
the place. He said he got drunk al
some other place, but was served beer al
Barrys hotel while in that condition.
Patrick McKeown was never able t.
get more than three drinks at a time
He was under the influence of liquor OF
the 18th of November and was not re
fused drink. He had never seen any