Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-07-15
COURT NOTES

Ad0L hCuLC0doJ a SOO01J SAO"0
gathered in the court at Cape
May Court House to hear the cases
brought before Judge H. H. E~ldredge.
The first case was an old lady, named
Mrs. Aaronson, who had her husband
committed as a state charge.
The next was the case of Charles
Shaeffer, who was accused of felonious
entry with breaking and larceny at
wildwood on the evening of June 10th.
1t was alleged that he was sitting on
the porch of the home of Frederick
Biddle and when the family went for a
walk on the boardwalk he entered the
house and took 1920 in cash. He
pleaded guilty. The state did not move
for sentence then, but will next We'd
nesday.
Albert Weiner, the Wildwood board
walk druggist, did not appear in court.
The witnesses were excused, but
Weiner's bail will not be forfeited as
there might have been a mistake. After
the court was over, Weiner appeared.
His LAST will be heard next Wednes-
day. He is charged with assault upon
Joseph S~aunderson.
The third case was that of James
Lee, the seventeen-year old colored
boy, wo broke the gas meter in the
Hotel Portland, where he had gone
on the Konowitch grocery truck. He
was employed around the Konowitcn
store. He waived indictment. He
lives at Rio Grande station. This is
at least his third offense. His parents
appeared and his father spoke for him.
The old lady cried during the trial.
The father said that he wouldn't obey
his orders, and laid the cause of his bad
behavior to travelling in bad company
and drinking whiskey. AS Lee was too
old for Jamesburg, he was sentenced
to the Railway Reformatory.
Moses Meme, a Finn fisherman, was
accused of atrocious assault and cut
ting with a knife on June 10Th at An
glesea, upon the person of John Kay
ander. Chief of Police Thompson, of
Anglesea, said that Kayander had APP
peared before him with a big cut on
his arm and complained against Meme,
who can speak very little English and
didn't seem to understand what was
going on. He said he arrested Meme
and then went to the house where the
fight had taken place. The proprietor
said that he had thrown the knife out
the window into a field. The chief
went out and found the weapon, which
was a heavy seaman's clasp knife.
Kayander testified that he had gone
out for a walk with his little daughter
and had gone into the house of Peter
Tine, where he drank a whiskey glass
and a half of liquor. Meme was there
already, he said, and appeared to be
drunk and argumentative. He claimed
up his arm and caught the knife
across his elbow. Alex Riddell, who
was also at the house, ives called and
said that he had one drink, but that
he was not in the oom where the
fight took place, Tine stood up and
the witnesses identified him as the pro-
prietor of the house. Cole moved for
sentence. Judge Eldredge said they
sentence the owner of the
house and deferred sentence on Meme
until next week. In the meantime Cole
is to investigate Tines establishment,
all the witnesses wor that
they had not paid for the liquor they
drank.
D1Iln UonConf ruhO UyaQ onn1Cpd 0f
assault on P. Gould and his wife,
did not appear in court and his bail
was forfeited. A bench warrant was
and the witnesses were excused.
Complaints against John Doe, whose
only known name is Nick, a fisherman,
and Mary Roe, identified as Mary
we're heard, accusing them of
keeping a ~disorderly house at Ottens
Harbor. Palmer Way defended the
woman. Prosecutor Cole said that a
warrant had been served on Mrs.
but that she had thrown a fit
each time that they had tried to arrest
her, so that they had given up the at
but that she was in court. A
warrant had also been gotten
out and the place had been ra1ded.
Cole alleges that he found Mrs. Forte
there and her five children and two
other women and a man called Nick,
who was claimed to be a boarder. Mrs.
May Johnson, of 11S West Burk ave-
nue., was called as a witness. She
Identified the woman as the owner of
the house on the corner of Burk and
Arctic avenues. She said that on the
evening of July 9Th there were seven
DR. eight sailors outside the door, all
who insulted her as she passed.
She. said she had seen.,nne9 going in
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