The Penn's Grove record., 1915-09-17
pARoLEp 10 pIE FREE MAN.
Court Of Pardons Opens Prison Doors
to $50 Offenders.

die within the prison walls, the court
of Pardons granted him a parole.
Brock was sentenced in 1905 to serve
a 3O-year term for the murder OF his
common-law wife, and is afflicted with
tuberculosis. The Court announced
it's action on applications heard at the
June term, two complete pardons and
148 paroles being granted out OF S2S
cases considered.
Leopold Ritter, II years old, of Cam
den, was granted a full pardon, after
serving three years, for the theft or
half a cooked duck from a Camden
restaurant, and a full pardon was CIV
en- Joseph TomSAof Essex, sentenced
in 1911 to 10 yeas for rape. h
Court decided that he was entirely in
nocent of the crime for which he was
sent to prison.
Paroles were granted to Giovanni
Bonanni, sentenced to 80 years from
Burlington county in 1905 for rape;
Daniel A. Dugan, Jr., son OF District
Court Judge Dugan, of Orange, who
was serving a sentence of from i've
to 10 years for manslaughter, having
been sentenced in 1912 for killing a
boy with his automobile, and F%larence
Murray, who was sentenced from Mon
mouth in 1912 to from II to 30 years
for killing a girl because the latter
gibed her about their mutual lover.
Others paroled were:
Samuel Smith, Atlantic, manslaugh-
ter; Lewis L.. Carson, Camden, carry
ing concealed weapons; Maud Jordan,
Camden, disorderly house; Harry Mum
yon, Camden, perjury; Hugh Quinn,
Camden, robbery; David Washington,
Camden, atrocious assault; Frank Al
len, Camden, breaking and entering;
Bert Carr, Camden, breaking and en-
tering; William Miller, Camden, rob-
berry; Isaac Morris, Camden, petit lar
ceny; Joseph Raymond, breaking and
entering; Harry Beechman, Camden,
breaking and entering; Morris Todd,
Cape May, forgery; John Ryan, Salem.
murder.
Steel Trust Decree Filed.
The final decree in the suit of the
Federal Government against the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation was filed
in the District Court here. Judge Buff
ington personally filed the decree,
which was signed by the four Judges
who tried the case, Burlington, Nc
Pherson, Woolley, and Hunt. h
brevity of the document was a sur
prise to those who had followed the
case. 1t was as follows:
THE case came on for final hearing
at this term, and was argued by coun-
sci, and thereupon consideration of the
arguments, pleadings and proofs, it
was ordered, adjudged and decreed as
follows, viz:
""That the prayer of the petition of
the United States of America be, and
the same is, hereby denied, and that
the said petition be, $d the same is,
hereby dismissed"
The decision in the case was handed
down on June 3. The Government al
ready announced that it would take
an appeal to the Supreme Court. n
Government has 60 days in which to
appeal, and the case probably will not
come up for argument before next
spring.
Schmidt Named Receiver.
Anton Schmidt, of Paterson, has
been appointed receiver for the w.
R. Ashley Silk Company in involuntary
bankruptcy proceedings by creditors
having claims ~aggregating more than
$4,000. The receiver was named by
Judge Haight, of the United States
District Court, after the company had
admitted it's insolvency.
The complaining creditors were
John B. Strum, of New York, as agent
for P. Colombo & Co., of Milan, Italy,
whose claim is $33,809; E. Gerli & Co..
of New York, with claims of $28,727.
and Veuve, Giverin & Filf, Of Lyons,
France, with a claim of $9,963. Of the
claim of Gerli & Co., $11,674 is repre-
scented by six promisory notes, the re-
mainder being for goods purchased by
the Ashley company. The entire
claims OF Veuve, Giverin & Filf is
represented by promissory notes, as
is $11,184 of the claim of Colombo &
Co.
The Ashley Silk Company has it's
principal office at Hackettstown, but
has several factories at other points
in the State.
File Answer to Lawyers Plea.
An answer was filed with the Court
of Errors and Appeals by the Court
of Chancery on the appeal of former
Judge Simon Hahn, of Newark, who
was disbarred by the Chancery Court
for ir1 egularities as counsel for Sam
uel Peaker, a negro, against Charles
Kase, of Newark, reputed to be very
wealthy.
Halsey M. Barrett, solicitor for the
Court of Chancery in thep roceedings
against Hahn, filed the answer. While
not acknowledging the jurisdiction of
the Court of Errors in the premises,
and protesting that the order of the