The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-02-23
Mysterious Strangers.

There are three young men travelling
around Mount Holly who appear to need
watching. They have various ways OF
working. One of them went to a store
last week and after making a few pur-
chases asked the clerk his name and
residence, saying, "yNhy, you know me;
/ went around this county with Senator
| White, last fall, and stopped at the
Washington House." The clerk did not
recognize the fellow and declined to make
the acquaintance. Another of the three
went into Aliens drug store and after
taking a drink of soda water picked up
an umbrella. Two young ladies came
into the store, and the fellow remarked
Say. grille, is this your umbrella p
On being told that he was laboring I'M
der a mistake the fellow went out, TAX
ing the umbrella with him. This trio
has been seen in various parts of the
town, ringing door bells and annoying
residents, and on Thursday evening it
was necessary to send in a police call to
aid the residents of Madison
who were being pestered by the antics of
the fellows.
These men are reported as hanging
about the public school, and Saturday
morning followed two of the teachers to
the railroad station. Saturday evening
they were very active, following ladies
unaccompanied by escorts, and making
Objectionable remarks. In one instance
a lady went into a store on Mill street
and asked for protection to her home,
stating she had beer followed for some
distance by two men. Upon the o
ance of the store people one of the men
disappeared and a short conversation
with the other showed him the advisa-
bility of retracing his steps. Anoth er
lady, who was followed from the house
of a friend during a shopping trip and
back again, was afraid to go home, and
spent the night with acquaintance.
The party is said to have an automo-
bile, described as a black, enclosed
touring car 1t has been seer at night
in many parts of the town, and was in
front of the Madison avenue houses
whose door bells were rung on Thursday
night. 1t is reported to have stood on
Broad street nearly an entire afternoon,
while the men walked up and down the
street. About 1890 Friday night this
car stopped in front of a Mill street resi-
dence, and remained there nearly an
hour with the engine running. No reply
was made to demand for their business
there, and the car finally moved to the
other side of the street, two men getting
out and walking in one direction, while
the car went in another.
Early Saturday evening Mrs. Howard
Weeden, of Brainard street, was alarmed
at seeing the faces of two men staring
at her through a parlor window. She
called her husband, and when he came
into the the men jumped off the
porch and ran down the street. Mrs. |
Weeden recognized one of the men as
having applied at the kitchen door early |
in the day for a cup of coffee, she re-
marking at that time that the beggar
was particularly well dressed.
There are many reports in circulation
of other actions of this mysterious trio, |
some of which are doubtless exaggerated.
Nevertheless the fact remains that for
oyer a week three strangers have been
in Mount Holly, frightening women on
the streets, and annoying families. It'll
should be an easy matter for the author
tiles to put a stop to such actions. They |
should be watched and either put away 4
for a time or given orders to leave the
town.