Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07

Charles F. Lutz was D witness in
Judge Osborne's court room on
Tuesday when he appeared as the
complainant against Samuel Vetucci,
Of Nutley whom Lutz accused of
stealing his watch last July Lutz
was asked by Assistant Prosecutor
Andrew Van Blareom why he
thought Vetucci stole his watch and
received the following reply from
Lutz: u was in the company of We
tucci and ! felt his fingers nibbling at
my pocket. When I looked for my
watch it was gone. So I thought he
ninbled it out of my pocket. "
Judge Joseph N. Roseberry. OF
Warren county, who presided in
Part III, Common Pleas Court, this
week, had a case before him for
hearing on Tuesday IN which a stat
utory offense was involved The tes-
timony was of very salacious char
acter and when Judge Roseberry no
ticed that the court room had filed
with persons who love to listen to
this sort OF testimony he ordered
the room cleared of all but the wit
nesses in the case, and issued orders
that persons not having business in
the court room would not be allowed
to enter during the progress of the
trial
An officious court attendant. one of
the very few at the court house. took
it upon his own shoulders to con-
strue Judge Roseberry's orders as
barring the working newspaper men
from the court room and refused
them access.
A note to Judge Roseberry from
the newspaper men, delivered, by the
way, by the officious att endant who
had barred them. brought back the
prompt reply that newspaper men
were not barred and the embargo
was lifted
In the meantime John ]. Cas-
coyne, county probation officer. had
entered the court room and took a
seat near the clerks desk. just after
Judge Roseberry received the note of
the newspaper men he spied Mr.. Gas
| coyne, whom he did not know per-
sonally.
Calling him to the bench Judge
Roseberry said: II am sorry to hear
that there was a misunderstanding
between you gentlemen of the press
and the man in charge of the court
room door. / want to say to you that
yourself and the other newspaper
representatives are always at liberty
10 enter THIS court room.
II am sure the newspaper men will
be very grateful to you" smilingiy
replied Mr.. Gascoyne. but | do not
happen to be one of them. ] am the
county probation officer" And Judge
Roseberry forgot for a minute he was
on the bench as he joined with Mr..
Gascoyne in laughing at the mis-
take.
Further examination of the min
utes of the Board of Freeholders back
in the early part of the nineteenth
century, reference to which was made
in these columns last week, reveals
more actions that appear queer al
most a century later.
On May "a, 1924, the clerk of the
board was instructed to lay before
the next grand jury the names OF
such tavern keepers as were selling
liquor without a license. Who the
tavern keepers were or the amount
of the license does not appear in the
minutes.
| In 1898 this item appeared; Re
| solved. That the clerk of the board
be paid the salary of SIS per annunl
for all services, ordinary and ex-
traordinary, rendered by him. The
clerk of the board at the present time
receives $500 per year for services,
but there is little doubt that If ex-
traordinary services were required
from him he would receive an extra
stipend for them.
Every one around the Court House,
and the entire county for that matter,
knows that Uncle Amos" Harrison is
no spring chicken, but it will come as
60 n
shock, to them when they are in
formed that Amos Harrison was
member of the Board of Freeholders
in 1890 and served for thirty-nine con-
secutive years at that time up to the
year 1929.
Amos Harrison hailed from orange
at that time and in 1898 was director
of the board. In that same year
Thomas Ward was clerk OF the board.
In the year 1914. 126 years later. Amos
Harrison is chairman of the finance
committee of the board, its most inn
portant committee and Frank E.
Ward is clerk. Amos Harrison seems
to have moved a little westward since
the name first appears in the board
minutes, as in 1870 he lived in Or
ange, while the present patriarch of
the board lives in Livingston.
On MAY -. 1898, the following reso-
luton was adopted: Resolved, That
there be erected. at the expense of the
county, two pair of stocks, viz; One
pair in the township of Newark and
one pair in the township of Eliza
BEETHOVEN, the justices and freeholders
to fix the place and erect the same.
Up to and including 1898 the JUS
tees of the several townships were
n Hoard
Freeholders, but after that year the
county was governed alone by the
Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Until 1850 the county collector was
allowed a fee or per cent. on all
monies collected by him in lieu of a
stated salary In 1850 this practise
was stopped, it being explained that
the per cent. fee was making the
salary of the collector too large, in
excess of 800, the exact sum not be-
ing stated. The salary was then fixed
at $500 yearly.
If Collector Richard W. Booth was
allowed a fee of per cent. on all
monies collected by him al the present
time, his yearly income would be be-
tween S160,000 and $4,000. He re-
ceives a salary of s4,5e0.
In 1918 it was resolved that the
sum of $4,000 be raised by taxation
for the use of the county in the year
1878" A year later $500 was raised
for the same purpose. From 1890 to
1880 the sum raised by taxation
amounted to about the same figure
each year, SO, 500 to 81. 800 In 1913 the
county tax budget was s4.1l0057.0l.
A year or so later, another sheriff,
Abraham Raymond, in entering pro-
test. stated that he needed about two
TONS of good iron to make the Jail