The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-05-19
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acquitted.
Michael and Samuel Capona wer,
tried for atrocious assault on Samue
Doughty. The assault occurred at Riv
erton where all the men reside and they
were all employed at one place. One o
the Capona brothers was notified hi!
services would be dispensed with anC
the two men gained the idea tha
Doughty was responsible for the result
They took violent dislike to the lattel
and this caused the assault The yer
dict was guilty, but the jury recommend
ed Samuel to the mercy of the court.
Romeo D'Antonio, who pleaded guilty
to assaulting some men in Beverly, was
sentenced to six months in the county
jail. Romelo D'Antonio and Ralph Ar
cangelo, indicted with Romeo for the
same offence, had pleaded not guilty
but they changed their plea to that Of
non vult contendere and sentence was
suspended and they were ordered to pay
the costs of prosecution.
Thursday was the regular monthly
session and Notwithstanding the bust
ness had been pretty well cleared from
the calendar there was sufficient left tC
engage the attention of Judge Lippincott
Jacob Nerod was brought in to answer
a charge of burglary and carrying con-
cealed deadly weapons. Jacob broke in
to the railroad station at Maple Shade
one evening last week. One of the
Moorestown constables happened to be
passing the place about half past ten
and saw the prisoner at work. The fact
that Nerod had revolver ready to use
in case of emergency did not scare the
constable and he went into the station
and took the prisoner. Jacob waived in
dictment and pleaded guilty. He was
given term in the state prison ranging
from three and half years to seven
years. He is an old offender. In 1910
he was sent to the state reformatory at
Railway and was kept there one year in
accordance with the rules. He broke his
parole and was sent back, remaining in
the reformatory until 1913, and then he
again began business by robbinga farm
er near Easton, Pa. The authorities
were looking for him but did not sue
coed in their efforts to capture him until
he turned up in this county.
Harry J. Kelly, Fred Ertil and John
A. Cain, convicted of assaulting en-
ployees of the trolley company between
and Trenton were next call
ed before the court. Robert Peacock
made plea for leniency. He said he
thought the young men had been taught
a lesson. Drink was the cause of their
being in the position they now occupy.
They had promised to abstain from the
use of intoxicating liquors for any time
the court might designate. All of them
are working for the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company and there was no doubt
about their continuing to walk straight
hereafter. Mr.. Peacock suggested that
q suspension of sentence in the case of
Ertil and Cain and light fine on Kelly
would meet all requirements for punish
ment.
Judge Lippincott was not inclined to
take such view of the case. He said it
was serious matter. The assault upon
the employees of the trolley company was
bad enough, but the case was aggravat-
ed by the interference with the running
Of the car. This might have led to SER
Ious consequences. Passengers might
in their fright, have leaped from the car
and been seriously if not fatally injured.
Those who use the trolley cars or any
other public conveyance must be assur-
I'd at all times that they will be protect
ed and men under the influence of liquor
must not be allowed TO parade through
cars, asserting their power to chastise,
and everybody, thus terrifying
those who are in the car. The fact the
prisoners were young men was taken
fully into consideration and the fact that
they were young, with this lesson early
in life, might make some impression ON
them. He gave them one year in which
to keep from intoxicating drink. Mr..
Peacock said the young men were will
ing to have longer time imposed, but
Judge Lippincott replied that if they
could abstain for year there was no
of putting more time on them.
He then imposed sentence. Kelly,
who was convicted of assaulting the
conductor and motorman, was fined 800.
On the charge of hindering the progress
of car sentence was suspended and
Kelly was placed in charge of the pro-
baton officer, to pay the cost of prose-
cution within six months. Ertil and
Cain were each fined $50 for assaulting
the conductor. Sentence was suspended
on the conviction of assaulting the
motorman and the two men were put in
charge of the probation officer for two
years, with orders to pay the costs of
prosecution within 81 X months.
Michael and Samuel Caponi, convict
ed OF atrocious assault and battery on
Samuel Doughty, were next considered.
The jury, in rendering its verdict, recon-
mended Samuel to mercy and this was
considered to the extent of suspending
sentence, placing the man in charge of
the probation officer for two years and
an order that he pay the costs. Michael
did not get off SO easily. The judge told
him that it was lucky thing that he
was not before the court for sentence on
a murder charge. He attacked Doughty
with heavy club, striking blow that
fortunately, did not touch vital spot,
Michael was sentenced to the state prison
for period not less than than two years
and six months or more than seven
years.
Michael was somewhat staggered al
this sentence and when he got back tt
Jail he denounced everybody, especially
his brother, who, he said, was the mair
offender, he being the brains of the
occurrence, and he ought to have gone
to the state prison also. Michael's wife
when the sentence was pronounced gav'
way to fit of weeping and went to thu
Jail where she was as fierce in her de
nunciations of the brother as was Michael
The application of Mrs. Mary E. Nc
Carter, to sell liquor at the White House
Browns Mills, was withdrawn.
Isaac Jones was brought in on com
plant of the Board of Education of tn
Township of Northampton, the diff