The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-06-15
Court.

. Prosecutor Kelsey was not quite ready
when court opened Thursday SO Judg,
Lippincott took up the case of The Bust
! ness Mems Association against Howard
Eckert. The trial was for the purpose O.
acting under an act of the last Legisla.
/ ture which allows creditor to secure q
!, percentage of the wages of man if they
excesd SIS per week. In this case Eek.
ert had bought clothing from Abram
Gerber and the latter had secured judg.
ment before Justice Risdon for the full
! amount. William A. Slaughter, appear
ing for Eckert, held that this act settled
the affair and that another suit could
not be brought under the present law
while the Judgment referred to was in
existence. Herbert s. Killie, who rep
resented Gerber, claimed that the law In
question wiped out the former proceed
ing and his present action was for the
purpose of discovery, to ascertain
whether Eckert was receiving more than
$l8 per week.
| The defendant took the stand and
said he worked for the Crew-Levick Oil
Company, receiving SIS per week for his
missions on the sale of certain articles.
This, he said, amounted to so cents some
weeks and had been as high as 81 cents
IN one case. He said he made returns
OF his sales every evening to Mrs. Oscar
Evan, who is the bookkeeper of the
company, and who paid him his weekly
wages. His commission came by check
from the company. 1t could not be
shown that the defendant owned suffi-
cient personal property to cover the re-
quirements of the statue, SO it was de-
cided to send for Mrs. Evan to show
that Eckert received more than SIS per
week. The bookkeeper did not come to
court but after Mr.. Killie had heard
what she would testify to he announced
to the court that he would abandon the
suit.
After Eckert won his case he was salts
lied with the result so far as he was con-
cerned, but thinking the matter over.
decided that he would not have the
charge stand against him, and he at
once made satisfactory settlement with
Gerber,
Harry Sullivan, who pleaded guilty to
stealing watch. was brought into court.
Judge Lippincott said he had cores
ponded with nearly all of the persons
whose names had been mentioned by /
the defendant and the answers were, in
the main, satisfactory. Still the offence
could not be treated lightly and Sullivan /
was sent to the county Jail for three
months.
Louis kilpeck, boy, IA years of age,
was arraigned on waiver of indictment /
charging him with stealing at various t
places in Burlington. Detective Parker Z
and constable Fleetwood told the cir I
of the case, which appeared
to show that the boy is one of gang
that has been operating in Burlington
for some time. The court asked Mr..
Slaughter to look after the interests of
the boy and the decision was reached
that the child would be better off at the
Jamesburg school than he would be at
home where his parents either could not
or would not control him, so he was sent
to the institution named.
In the case of Dorothy Stevenson
against Carrot ID. Logan, the court APP
pointed Charles A. Rigg referee to hear
the evidence. This will relieve the court
from trial that would take many days.