The Mount Holly news., 1919-10-07
The Assailant Was CAPTURED

4 About seven o'clock Tuesday ever
: ing detective Parker walked up Kin
2 street and went through the bac
1 streets to the jail. With him was
2 colored man, the fellow who had bee
/ sought by hundreds of enraged citizen
with shot guns and other weapons an
| who said they had seen the fellow i
: all sorts of places.
That he was in the marshy land be
, tween Hainesport and Lumbertol
nearly all night Monday is certain bu
he got away and went towards Ranct
cas- Park, finally landing in Noun
Holly. The watch over the marsh wa
kept up on Tuesday and, as is usual il
such cases, there were those who wer,
sure they saw the man movin,
around.
There is family in Mount Holly
that was known to be on friendly terms
with the colored man and they hac
been asked TO keep the authorities in
touch with his movements if he should
come around So on Tuesday the man
went to this house and begged to be
secreted. His request was granted and
detective Parker was notified He told
the people to keep the man until eve
ming and as soon as it began to grow
dark the detective went to the house.
Whiting, the man wanted, as soon as
he knew that the officer was after him,
gave himself up.
Handouts were put on him and the
march to the jail was begun. He
begged the detective to shoot him as
he feared that he would be lynched.
As the two reached the corner of King
and Washington streets Parker told
Whiting to walk ahead and nobody
would notice him but the man was so
scared that he refused to leave the
detectives side. There were number
of people on the sidewalk but they did
not seem to take in what was going
on, with the exception of three boys.
They took look and when Parker
and his prisoner reached the Jail the
boys were on hand to see them 60 in.
Whiting told Parker that he had
been in the marsh until late Monday
night when he swan the creek. He
was wringing wet and had terrible
cold. He did not attempt to deny that
he had assaulted the woman but said
he had not committed the serious
crime with which he was charged.
The offence having been committed in
Camden county the authorities there
were notified and they sent an auto
mobile to Mount Holly about mid
night and took the fellow away.
1t was at first thought that the grand
jury should be called to consider the
case but Whiting expressed willing
ness to waive indictment and be tried
by the court, Judge Hates convened
court early Wednesday morning and
assigned Powell X. Martin, prom
inent colored lawyer, Of Camden, to
defend the prisoner. The woman who
was assaulted was taken to the court
room from the hospital to be witness
She was still suffering from nervous
ness. She identified the man and told
how he had assaulted her and how she
had begged him not to harm her. for
the sake of her children. The man
tightened his hold on her throat and
she tainted
Whiting made defence in which
he claimed that in the fog he mistook
Mrs. Lotsey for girl he had been in
the habit of meeting. He said he told
her he did not intend to harm her and
then she tainted and he held her until
she came to.
That was about all he had to say
and Judge Hates declared him guilty
and sentenced him to not less than
twenty years nor more than thirty
years in the state prison. The story
was spread that the man had been sent
at once to Trenton and the newspapers
told of how speedy justice had been
meted out and that the prisoner was in
the state prison inside of 48 hours from
the time the crime was committed.
The fact is the story that Whiting had
been hurried to Trenton was to throw
off tho traok tho citv Doparc apd opv
who might create disturbance. Under
the law prisoner cannot be taken to
the state prison until 48 hours have
elapsel after his sentence has been i'm
posed.
This has been done but it has not
been legal. When the colored men
who committed crime in Willingboro
township and were brought here under
the guard of soldiers they we're sent
enced and sent to the state prison at
once. AS there was not anybody to
to object to their punishment nothing
was done but if objection had been
made they would have been kept here
until the As hours had passed. Whit
ing has gone to Trenton by this time
and his hair will be much whittier than
it is now before he gets his liberty.
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