The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-09-25
Criminal Gases Heard

A number of criminal cases were
heard by Judge Lippincott at the
weekly session of court held on Thurs
day.
Elwood Davis and Frank Smith
pleaded not guilty to a charge o.
threatening to blow up the keystone
watch case factory and other buildings
at Riverside. The defendants offered
the hackneyed excuse that they were
drunk at the time and did not know
they had made any threats. They
will be given hearing at some future
date.
John Hickey entered plea of guilty
to stealing S. C. Fenimore's bicycle al
Riverside. Sentence will be imposed
at another session of the court.
Joseph McCloskey was brought up
on charge of violating the terms Of
his parole. Last October he was con.
victed for assaulting an officer. He
was placed on probation, after he had
agreed to pay S44.35 costs and to alb
stain from the use of liquor for one
year
On September Sth he was arrested in
Beverly and sent to Jail for 80 days or
a charge of drunkenness.
Having failed to keep his promise to
abstain from the use OF liquor, Judge
Lippincott sentenced him to pay fine
of $50 and to spend six months in the
county Jail. The defendant will be
given employment on road repair
work.
Fred w. Taylor, charged with as.
sault and battery on Elsie Bryan and
Isabel Atkinson, at Beverly, pleaded
not guilty.
Taylor and woman named Mrs.
Ollie Atkinson had gone to Beverly in
an automobile to get possession of the
latter's child. Mrs. Atkinson and her
husband are not living together, and
there was dispute as to which had a
right to the custody of the child. Tay-
lor and Mrs. Atkinson saw the child
on the street and took it into the auto
mobile. Misses Bryan and Atkinson
thought it was a case of kidnapping
and endeavored to pull the child from
the car. Taylor pushed them away,
which they claimed constituted the as
sault.
On motion of Prosecutor Kelsey the
charge was dismissed.
James Jolly pleaded not guilty to
indecent assault on Maize Cramer,
near Bordentown. 1t appeared that
he visited her house to sell some kind
OF medicine, and while there made in
decent remarks to Mrs. Cramer, but
not sufficiently bad to constitute a
crime, SO he was discharged.
Isom Blue, colored, pleaded not
guilty to charge Of stealing chickens
from Samuel Muffett, near Maple
Shade. The testimony placed Blue in
suspicious light but there was not
sufficient evidence to convict, SO the
defendant was discharged.
Thomas Monahan and William
Murphy were placed on trial for steal.
ing Ford automobile from William
II. Hopkins, at Wrightstown. The
car was standing under the hotel shed,
unattended. Murphy proposed to his
companion that they take Joy ride.
The electric switch key had been re-
moved from the Hopkins car by the
owner, SO Murphy took key from an
other automobile, started the engine,
and the two men drove away toward
Plattsburg at high rate of speed.
Murphy drove so fast that he ran into
the wall of small bridge not far from
the hotel and damaged the car con-
siderably. He then tried to eIude
officers who Immediately gave chase
by running across field, but he was
captured. Monahan made no effort to
escape. He claimed he thought the
car had been borrowed.
Murphy was found guilty and was
sent to the State Reformatory. Mona
han was acquitted.