The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-29
Court Affairs.

On thursday Judge 1lpplncOtG al
lowed the case of Mrs. Charles Ora,
against Mrs. Emma 7. Snyder to b
reopened. This was suit under tn
employers' liability act in which judg
ment had been rendered against Mrs
Snyder for SO week for 300 weeks. Ii
the original suit Mrs. Gray had no
Iput in a charge of S9l for funeral ex
penses, and this was granted by tn,
court.
In the breach of promise case O
Hazel Dennis against George Orfie
both of Riverside, the jury rendered
verdict of $1,000. The defence wa
that there never had been any prom
Use to marry, and that Orfe gave tn,
| girl up after he found she was keepin,
company with other men. This wa
denied by the complainant, who sale
Orfie had made a solemn promise t.
marry the girl, and under that prom
Use she allowed him intimate privilege;
which resulted in her giving birth to {
child. An attempt was made to have
Orfie keep his pledge, but he married
another girl. Charles Atkinson ant
George M. Bacon represented Miss
Dennis; Robert Peacock for Orfie.
Guiseppi Buanani was called for sen
tence for receiving stolen goods. He
had been convicted of buying chick.
ems from boy in Bordentown. Prose
cutor Kelsey asked for a severe punish.
ment. He said if the defendant had
been more careful and had made in
quiry into the matter he would have
discovered that the chickens had been
stolen. AS result of his work some
boys are now in state institutions for
stealing. The ease with which men
purchase goods without making dill
gent inquiry into where the seller gets
| them is what makes boys criminals.
Senator Wells made an eloquent APP
peal in behalf of Buanani. The latter,
he said, is a respectable citizen of
Bordentown, and but for the fact that
the city commissioners were organic
ing on the day of the trial they would
all have appeared in court to testify to
the defendants good character. Blu
anani knew Joy, who sold the chick
ems, to be employed by junk dealer,
and as he travelled all around the
county, he had many chances to pur-
chase chickens, so the buyer did not
stop to consider the possibility of any
thing crooked in the transaction.
Senator Wells spoke of Joy as one
of the worst boys in Bordentown, who
would not hesitate to lie and fix a
crime on some one else if he could
save himself. The fact that the jury
recommended the defendant to the
mercy of the court showed that they
did not entirely believe the story of
Joy. The latter had been in several
scrapes and had almost always tried
to implicate some one else. Judge
Lippincott said he would take the good
character of the defendant into consid-
Grafton and would place him in charge
of the probation officer. He could not
see his way clear, however, to have
the county saddled with the expense of
this prosecution and he ordered that
Buanani pay the costs, which amount
ed to $133.13.
Edward Crammer pleaded guilty to
stealing So from his mother. The
latter said she had put up with her
sons actions long enough. He did not
work steadily and did not do any
thing towards her support. This was
not the first money he had stolen.
Judge Lippincott sent the man to the
Railway reformatory. This was an
other case where there should have
been provision in the law whereby
the defendant could have been com
mitted to an institution for feeble
minded as the man is undoubtedly
deficient.
Theodore Beebe pleaded not guilty
to the charge of larceny of revolver.
Prosecutor Kelsey said he had looked
into the case and he did not believe
Beebe had any intention of stealing
the revolver. He had picked up the
weapon at his home and had put it in
his pocket. On this statement the
man was released.
Elijah Skipper, alias c. w. Lynn. a
,olored man, was brought into court to
answer the charge of atrocious assault
md battery on a man named Brothers,
at Roebling. But Judge Lippincott
lid not act on the case. Detective |
Clancy, of Trenton, was in court with
4 warrant for the arrest of Skipper |
FOR numbering a white man in Able
vile, Alabama, last September. Cap
5ain Clancy was about to arrest the
nan at Roebling when he was cap
,ured and brought to Mount Holly. |
Judge Lippincott considered the muir
Ter charge of greater gravity than |
hat in this county and he delivered |
he man to Captain Clancy. Skipper
lid not deny that he had killed the |
nan in the South but he claimed that |
he occurrence was an accident.
Yesterday Judge Lippincott dis
posed of several criminal cases.
John Malloy and Harry Devois sign
ed waivers of Indictment and asked to
nave their cases disposed of by the |
court.
They were charged with highway
robbery at Bordentown, the victim be-
ing Marris Daborits, who claimed the
stolen was SAL. The defend
ants pleaded guilty, but said the sum
stolen was $40.
The evidence showed that on the
night in question the three men got
drunk in a Bordentown saloon and
Their left to go home. They walked
to the outskirts of the city, where the
committed ten robbery and
divided the money, getting S. each.
1t was shown that drink was re-
sponsible for the crime. When sober,
both men create no trouble, and are
particularly Devois. The
other defendant, Malloy, stated that
for some time past he had been get
ting drunk once or twice week.
Neither heretofore had been convicted
for any crime.
Malloy had been working at the
Railway water works and Devois is
marine fireman.
Judge Lippincott stated that if the
excise laws had been observed in the
Bordentown saloon, the crime would
not have been committed, as it doubt
less was the result of intnxicatinn