The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-03-17
SATCHEL
SNATCHER GUILTY
Other Cases Receive Judge
SaImOn'S Attention.


said he came from Pittsburg, left his
satchel with his clothing in it under
the D. L. C w. station, at Dover,
while he went to locate his brother,
whose address he did not know.
When he found him and returned for
his satchel it was gone. About week
later he saw Kubiza in saloon
wearing some of his clothes and
promptly had him arrested. Kubiza
told the judge he had purchased the
clothes from a man he did not know.
Upon motion of his counsel, John
Fennell, he was adjudged guilty of
receiving stolen property and re-
manded for sentence.
Albert VanGiesen, who with Lulu
Anderson, was arrested on March 7th
pleaded guilty as did the Anderson
woman. Both are colored. Matte
Jones, who was accused of stealing
fifty dollars and pleaded guilty to re-
ceiving twenty dollars of the money
and not knowing anything about the
balance, was given hearing. Tracks
in the snow led to her arrest on the
charge of taking the money. She
said the twenty dollars had been
given her and she had sent ten dollars
to South Carolina and the balance was
found on her when she was arrested.
,, Judge Salmon remanded her for SEN
tence.
Sitting in the Orphans court, Judge
Salmon has ordered the executors of
the estate of the late A. L. Apgar to
appear before him with a full account
of the estate. Philemon Woodruff
representing the widow and the child
ren appeared before the judge and
stated that this accounting had been
pending for three years and nall
and his clients were anxious to have
the matter settled. e. A. Quayle, Jr.
appearing for the executors asked
| for little more time saying the ac-
counting was almost completed. Judge
Salmon directed that the accounts
should be filed not later than We'd
nesday of next week, to which Mr..
Quayle agreed About $4,000 is in
volved in the estate.
G. Franklin Wilson, representing
! John M. Mills executor of the estate
of Anton Skibik, filed q petition to
show cause why the real estate of
the late Skibik, at Whippany, should
not be sold to pay his debts, amount
I ing to $92.65
w. F. Cooper, of Dover, appeared
before Judge Salmon with the request
that the estate of his father be set
tied. He represented his sister and
said they were ready for a hearing
concerning the sale of the Cooper
property at Dover, which he said he
understood his brother was not sat
OF Tho hno rim
April 18th.
Jail sentence was suspended Friday
by Judge Joshua R. Salmon in the
case of James and George Laurino
and Frank Kinney, the three youths
indicted for holding up gateman of
the D. L. & w. railroad at Rockaway.
A fine of fifty dollars was imposed,
however, and the trio was placed in
the hands of the probation officer,
Edward Byram, for one year.
Sentence was suspended also in the
cases of Henry Cullen, of Boonton,
charged with assaulting his wife and
William Meyers, of Mt Hope, for
stealing a roll of towelling valued at
six dollars.
Arthur Poyer and Norman Lee were
remanded for further consideration
of their case by the judge.
Annie Jones, colored, pleaded not
guilty to a charge of larceny of fifty
dollars.
James Bolitho, William H. Mathews
and Charles P. McFa4 were each
fined $500 by Judge Joshua r. Sal
mon. The three men were indicted
for criminal libel on the basis of an
y
County Educator, socialist paper
which has since suspended publica-
ton, and the latter pleaded guilty
to the charge and the former non
vult. Bolitho is a Roekaway lawyer
and Mathews and McF'all were editor
and business manager, respectively,
of the Educator. In sentencing the
men Judge Salmon severely repri-
manded Bolitho, who is a member of
the bar. Sentence was suspended
on Louis Schrier, of Dover, in
dicted for selling commutation and
fifty trip tickets, it being his first
offense. Edward Lonergan, of Madi-
son, found guilty of assaulting fell
/ low-workman with a pair of ice tongs
was fined $25 and costs. Harry
Hought, alias Henry Houck, indicted
for breaking and entering was also
fined $25 and costs Leroy Wood
hull was given two months in the
county Jail and must pay the costs of
| court. Sentence was suspended on
Albert and Ellis Earls, for stealing
horse blankets from wagons under
the Mansion house sheds Edna BraX-
ton and Eva Martin were sent to the
state home for girls as incorrigibles.
Judge Joshua X. Salmon suspended
sentence Wednesday morning on
George Gebhardt, of Dover, who
pleaded guilty to stealing a small
quantity of clothing from a bungalow
at Lake Hopatcong. Alyah II. Peer
was also allowed to go on the count
of assault, of which the jury in his
case found him guilty Judson Kelly
was fined $50 for assaulting an Of
ficer and allowed to go on the charge
of carrying concealed weapons Kelly
had pleaded non vult to both the
charges.
Carl N. Grehlock, of Basking Ridge,
was fined $40 and costs by Justice
Guerin in Bernardsville Thursday for
beating his horse with the butt end
of the whip Agent of the s. P. C. A
James E. Welsh, of this town
made the complaint against the man
Mr.. Harmon Spoke.
Tho Rav u Watson Harmon ad-