The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
On Thursday Judge Linnincott held

On Thursday Judge Lippincott held
his weekly session of court.
Joseph Gibbs and John and Edward
Biehler, Mount Holly boys charged
with malicious mischief, were placed
in charge of the probation officer, after
promising tie be good hereafter. They
are the lads who endangered the hay
press and feed milf of Fenimore Bro
theirs by starting bonfire near the
buildings.
Cornelius Warner, aged Is, resi-
dent of Burlington, was brought up
for having disregarded the terms of his
probation. He again had committed
malicious mischief by having entered
the waiting room of the Bristol ferry,
at Burlingen, and with other boys,
had upset and broken a stove and com
mitted other depredations. He was
committed to the Jamesburg reform
school,
Milton Endicott and Earl Alcott,
Mount Holly boys, who pleaded guilty
to breaking and entering bungalows
along the upper creek, were put on
parole and made to pay the costs OF
prosecution and half the cost of the
damage done to the bungalows.
Alfred Page, of Smithvile, pleaded
not guilty to a charge of stealing a
raincoat from a passenger train. He
said he found the coat on tae floor of
the car and intended to return it to
the owner as soon as his identity was
ascertained.
He was found not guilty and dis
charged.
On Friday Judge Lippincott granted
licenses to sell liquor to the folio wing
persons:
John b. Miller, hotel, Medford, $50
Catherine Heating, hotel, East
-. Riverton, 125
Thomas A. Reeder. hotel Cross.
wicks, 1os1
Ellen Eastburn, hotel, Bridge
boro, 125
Cnarles Frasler, hotel, Marion Us
George V. Bozarth, hotel Chats
worth, 100
William c.. Lands. wholesale
Bridgeboro, 1901
The applications of Mary e. Wallace
and Charles II. Kern, of PALMYRA.
were laid over until Friday. In these
cases writ of certiorari had been
taken to have the result of the election
on the local option question reviewed |
by the Supreme Court, and the decis-
ion had not arrived when the applica- |
tions for license were TO be acted upon. |
1t is thought that an opinion will be |
handed down by Friday.
Yesterday Judge Carrow heard the
case of Nettie M. Bryan against the
Central Railroad of New Jersey. Mrs.
Bryan owns cranberry boys ia the vic
unity of Woodmansie. On the 10Th
and goth of May fire OCCURRED on the
boys, supposedly caused by sparks
from an engine of the railroad com
pany. James Mercer Davis represent
ed Mrs. Bryan and claimed that the
railroad company was responsible for
The fire. AT the point where the cram
berry boys are situated there is sharp
grade, and as trains go up the fireman
puts on coal. This causes smoke and
sparks to fly from the smakestack OF
,he engine in great volume. 1t was
liter trains had passed on the DAYS
that the boys were found to
De on fire. The claim was made that
| portion of one Of the boys was com
,letely destroyed and that other parts
we're so damaged as not to be of any
Falue for at least three years
George Holmes and Thomas Logan
5askill appeared for the railroad COM
'any and denied any negligence or re-
They said it would be
hown that the particular engine which
passed on the day in question was
quipped with spark arrester and
hat it had been tested before and after
he fire and was found to be in good
working order. Even if damages
hould be awarded counsel for defence
laimed they should be very small
mount, about $40
The jury rendered a verdict in favor
If Mrs. Bryan for 1000.
Blank books. l.. S. Boyce, station
II adv