The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-12-19
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Court.
Judge Lippincott heard number Of
criminal matters on Thursday.
James HI. James, colored, pleaded not
guilty to stealing an overcoat at Moores-
town.
Thomas Cunningham entered plea
OF not guilty to charges of breaking,
entering and larceny at Roebling. Al
so not guilty to attempting to break
! Jail.
George w. Scott, charged with
breaking and entering at Bordentown,
was sentenced to not less than three
years and a half or more than seven
years in state prison. He has a pre-
vious record of a term in the reforma-
tory and two in state prison.
Clarence Roberts, colored, charged
with burglary of store at Green Tree,
who pleaded not guilty, was notified
that his trial would take place Deem
Der 18th. He said he had no funds to
employ counsel. The court said coun-
sci would be assigned.
Rlcnard simmons, river pirate,
with record of having served various
terms in prison, aggregating about IA
years, pleaded guilty to breaking and
entering the boat house of John H.
Sinex, at Beverly, and stealing a
canoe, and also to stealing row boat
from Edward ]. Collar, of Beverly.
He sold both boats.
For the Sinex robbery he was sem
fenced to from two and half to seven
years, and for the Collar crime from
one to three years in state prison, the
sentences to run consecutively. The
defendant is 55 years of age.
On Friday Judge Lippincott heard
the case OF Susanna Treusch against
the Keystone Watch Case Company,
an action under the employers
liability act.
|. The plaintiffs husband was en-
ployed at the company's factory in
riverside. On Saturday, June II, 1916,
he completed his days work at noon,
but was requested by one of the fore
men to assist in unloading some bags
OF castings from an express wagon.
This work required about twenty
minutes time.
Treusch, while returning home, was
noticed to be not looking well. He
went to bed and physician was called
that evening. The doctor came again
on Sunday and Monday; on the latter
day Treusch died. The cause of death
was strangulated hernia, which the
plaintiff claimed resulted from the eff
fort required to unload the castings.
Inc company produced physicians
who testified that il hernia was the
cause OF death, it must have developed
before Saturday noon, to have resulted
fatally on Monday.
Argument and decision will be made
later.
Thomas Logan Gaskill represented
the plaintiff; ex-Judge Lewis Starr APP
peared for the company.
Mordecai s. Haines pleaded guilty. to
failing to file an account of his ex-
penses after the recent general election,
when he was elected township COM
mitteeman in Westampton township.
He stated that he had not complied
with the law within the time specified
in the act, but had since done SO. He
stated that he had had no expense ac-
count. He was fined SIS.
Yesterday morning the Jurors were
called back to try criminal cases. The
first was against George King, who was
charged with burglary and larceny.
King is one of the men who was sup
posed to have entered the residences of
James T. Royle and John p. Lippin-
colt on the evening before Thanksgiv-
ing. The evidence was very convinc-
ing, showing that King, by his own
admission on the stand, stood on the
front step OF the Lippincott home
while the other fellow, who got away
rom the Moorestown officer, commit
ted the actual entering. King admit
ted that the identified stolen goods
in his r. 81 L
could not have done anything else, as
there were those who searched him at
Moorestown and found the articles in
his pockets. He claimed, however, that
he was handed the stolen property bv
the other fellow, whose name is Jimmy
Adams. King declared he did not have
anything to do with the breaking and
entering and that the goods were passed
over to him and that he was really the
goat" in the affair. Clifford Powell
put up good defence for the prisoner.
and tried to get the conviction to one
of receiving stolen goods, but the iurv
thought otherwise and returned YER
dict of guilty.
Eugene Kendall, who was indicted
with Clarence Roberts for larceny at
Evesboro, retracted his plea of not
guilty and entered q plea OF non vult
contendere.
Clarence Roberts, colored, was placed
on trial on charge of breaking and
entering and burglarizing the general
store of Louis Paletta, at Green Tree,
on the night of January 10, 1916.
There were two other colored men inn
plicated in the robbery.
The next morning the proprietor
found that the store had been entered
by the breaking of window, and lot
OF clothing, shoes, underwear, revolver,
razor, etc., stolen.
Robert Truitt and Eugene Kendall,
both colored, who were indicted with
defendant for this robbery, admitted
that they and Roberts went together to
the store that night. They said Roberts
entered the building and handed out
the stolen goods. =
Constable Clarence Horuer testified
that on November 9th, when returning
with Roberts from the court room to
the Jail, the prisoner broke away and
ran up High street. The officer chased
the defendant and was compelled to
shoot the man to prevent his escape.
Roberts took the stand and made q
complete denial of the charge; said he
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was not at the building, and that he
did not take or receiveany of the stolen
goods.
The jury found the defendant guilty..
The other two men, Truitt and Ken
dali, had previously pleaded non vuIt
contendere to breaking and entering
and larceny, and are awaiting sentence
by the court.
Abner Coombs, who had pleaded not
guilty, yesterday changed the plea to
non vult contendere. He was indicted
for the larceny of jewelry, clothing and
money from the house of Joseph Simp-
kins near Florence, while the family
was attending the Mount Holly Fair
| in 1915.
Henry Pasquiline was placed on trial
on charges Of assault with intent to
kill Tony Carly and Galenti Cosimi,
at Florence, on September %. The
defendant shot both the complainants
twice each with revolver. Carty got
two bullets in the leg.
There had been bad feeling between
Pasquiline Carly previous to this af-
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