The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-02-09
Court.

Judge Lippincott held a long session
of court Thursday, it being six o'clock
before he raped the gavel for adjourn
/ ment.
Charles and Samuel Goldy, two Water
5 street boys, were before the court on COM
: plant OF Samuel K. Gaskill, truant Off
Ger. He said the boys would not go to
school and would not obey their mother.
Every attempt to get the boys to obey
the law was fruitless and it seemed there
was nothing left but to put them il an in
stitution where they would be under re-
%straint. They were accordingly commit
ted to Reform school at Jamesburg.
Fred l.. Sigmund was put on trial on
an indictment charging him with desert
ing and negIecting his family. This fell
low left his wife in 1910 and began pro-
ceedings for a divorce. He charged his
wife with cruelty, saying that she kept a
club by the side of the bed and hit him
with it and threatened his life. He said
she got after him once with an axe.
The statements OF the fellow on this
point were quite ludicrous when it was
seen that he is a large, husky fellow and
his wife is a slight woman
Sigmund, when on the witness stand.
did not create a very favorable i'm
preston. 1t was shown hat he had
been arrested in Philadelphia for some
misdemeanor and that he was sent to
jail and when he was released he was
brought to Mount Holly to answer the
charge of desertion.
Aninteresting point was raised whether
the man was a fugitive from justice.
1t was argued that he was in Philadel-
phia and could easily have been reached
as his whereabouts were known. If he
was not a fugitive her the point t be
settled was whether the crime with
which he was charged had not been out
iawed, V e two years having elapsed be-
tween its commission and the finding of ,
the indictment. Another point raised
was that the man had not neglected his
family as he had sent the wife 81 a week
for some time. .
In reply to this Mr.. Palmer, who aid
ed the state in the prosecution, said the
S4 was paid by order of the Chancellor .
pending a decision in the divorce pro- ,
ceedings and that it was not a voluntary
to the support of the l
family. l
! The court decided that Sigmund was
fugitive from justice. He said that as :
0 as a man vas wanted for a crime q
in this state and removed from the juris- !
dlctIon OF the court he was a fugitive. :
even though he was in reach of officers =
OF the law. Until the proper papers are :
made out and served to get him back he !
must be considered a fugitive. MIR. Pea I
cock, representing Sigmund, took ex- y
to this idea and Judge Lippin- Z
said he would be glad to have a q
brief submitted on that point.
1t was at first decided 10 adopt this
plan, but later Mr.. Peacock said he would T
ike to have the case settled at once. It y
was shown that Sigmund had been z
living in a house in Philadelphia with a n
whom he claimed was his house :
keeper, but who, witnesses said, went by \
name of Mrs. Sigmund. Judge Lip =
pincott decided that the man was guilty
rs he wa charged. He placed him in e
custody of the probation officer, with in \
to pay the costs of the suit, I
amounting to $47.77, in cash at once. /
Sigmund was also ordered to appear be- :
the court on the fourth Tuesday in =
April. He will also be compelled to pay
'he $4 per week ordered by the Chancellor :
Until the divorce proceedings are settled. +
The legislature is trying to find some /
way to punish men who abandon their v
families. AS the law now exists the !
husband and father is sent to 4
prison and enjoys himself immensely !
while his wife and children have a
dickens of a time getting along, or is !
allowed to go under the care of the pro- !;
patton officer.
The wife beaten, or the husband and !.
father who spends his time and money 7
IN saloons while his family suffers be- !
cause Of lack of food and clothing, when Z
arraigned before the court, is sent to the i
the county Jail or the state
and is assured a comfortable bed, a
plenty of clothing and a full stomach. I
In the meantime the members of the \
are dependent upon charity for Z
their daily needs. :
The thing to do with scamps of this T
is to send them to solitary confine- !
ment. They should be locked up in a
dark cell, permitted to talk with nobody, >
given the simplest food and time to take !
a complete inventory of their lives. If =
they like that sort of treatment it should :
be handed out to them just as long as
they enjoy it. G
Valentines at Boyce's. adv \
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