The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-23
Court.

Judge Lippincott held court in the
grand jury room Wednesday and tried
the indictment against Peter Dolan for
stealing jewelry. This is the man who
was brought into court on the charge OF
receiving stolen goods and the Judge
said the waiver of indictment should be
set aside and the matter must be put be-
fore the grand jury. The trial resulted
in verdict of petty larceny.
The case of William s. Fryer was con-
tinued Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. There was much expert
testimony in the case and it caused the
trial to spread out over several days.
On the part of the plaintiff the endeavor
was to show that the water supplied the
people of Mount Holly was contami-
mated to such an extent that it was re-
sponsible for the outbreak of typhoid
fever in the latter part of 1911 and the
first two months Of 1912. The conten-
ton of the plaintiff was that the water
was properly filtered and was pure.
The jury in the case of Fryer against
the Mount Holly Water Company re-
tired Friday afternoon and remained out
all night, returning Saturday morning
with verdict Of $3.50 for Mr.. Fryer and
$50 for the daughter.
On Thursday Judge Lippincott called
some defendants for sentence. George
Witcraft, of Vincentown, was sentenced
to not less than one and half years or
more than Is years in the state prison.
Robert Peacock said he would make
motion for new trial on grounds that
will be presented to the court this week.
George Sloan and Samuel Lennon,
who had pleaded guilty to stealing
chickens, were fined $50 each.
Peter DoIan, convicted of petty
larceny, was sent to the county jail for
three months.
John Gontargeski, small boy from
Riverside, was brought up for stealing
peanuts and other articles from freight
cars at that place. He was put in charge
of the probation officer.
Yesterday Judge Carrow listened to
the case of DR.. Martin w. Curran
against the Pine Crest Sanitarium. ".
Claude Palmer and Robert Peacock ap-
peared for the plaintiff and Samuel A.
Atkinson and George w. Filaache, of
Jersey City, were counsel for the defend
ant. The plaintiff sued for amount that
he claimed was due him in connection
with sanitarium that was to have been
established at Chatsworth. DIR. Curran
had been with an institution of that
character at Winslow Junction but he
got into communication with some gem
tlemen and discussed the advisability of
starting one at Chatsworth. The site
was selected and DR.. Curran travelled
around the country to get doctors and
laymen interested in the subject with
the hope that the former would induce
patients to become inmates at the sani-
tarium to be established at Chatsworth
and that the laymen would invest
money in the enterprise. DR.. Curran
went to Chatsworth and had consulta-
tons with several gentlemen, the site
for the institution was secured and
articles of incorporation were taken out
For his share in the work DIR. Curran
was to receive 50, 500 in stock of the af-
fair. While the matter was being dis
cussed the doctor entertained those in
terested every time they visited Chats
worth, but he never received any stock
or other compensation for the time and
money he had spent.
The defendant asked for a nonsuit on
the ground that the plaintiff had not
made out sufficiently strong case to go
to jury, but Judge Carrow overruled
the objection and the case proceeded.
Mr.. Filaache, for the defence, said he
would put in a general denial" He
denied that Curran had ever rendered
any services that would entitled him to
compensation, that he purchased the
site of the proposed institution on his
own account, without authority from
any of those who were interested in the
scheme. He took possession and was
finally elected by process of law, and
there was no sanitarium in existence
and never had been and that whatever
money Curran had spent he had done Of
his own volition.
At the close of the case the defence
asked that the jury be directed 10 rem
der verdict for the defendant on the
ground that no contractual relations
had been shown to exist between the
plaintiff and the defendant. This wa:
opposed by Mr.. Palmer and the court
adjourned for the day without rendering
an opinion.