Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-05-20
ACCUSED FREEHOLDERS AND OFFICERS.
HELD UNDER BAIL BY COURT
All Plead mot Guilty Except Walter M Holman, Who
Pleads Guilty on Two Charges and He is Held
as Material Witness
FOUR MORE INDICTMENTS RETURNED, W IMPoUNOEO

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work be considered unless absolutely
necessary until the county is in better
financial shape.
Fifth-County supplies; to be kept in a
central place and given out only upon
order.
Sixth-Ordinances and public hearings
that an effort be made to have a law
passed making it necessary to have all
matters done by ordinance with a public
hearing on same, as is done by munich
palities.
Seventh-Civil action; that the solicit
tor be instructed to proceed to bring suit
to recover interest on funds deposited
in trust accounts now in banks and lot
on interest and on deposits heretofore
made in same manner.
The presentment also stated that there
was no Interior motive in the selection
of the jury and recommended that the
law of drawing juries, both petit and
grand, be strictly enforced and that no
new jurors be added nor none be excused
from either jury drawn for this term.
The presentment was ordered by the
court to be filed and a copy be sent to
all county newspapers, printed in pamph-
let form for distribution and copies sent
to the ~Freeholders, State Senator and
Assemblyman. The presentment will be
published in full next week.
When the defendants we're called to
plead, Lawyer Charles. Bonnell stated
that he was authorized to enter plea for
all members of the Board of Freeholders,
both present and past, and all county Of
ficers. The plea for all was not guilty"
The various contractors involved also
plead mot guilty. to all charges, ex-
cept Walter M. Holman.
The charges were read by Deputy At
torney General William Newcorn, as
sisted by Prosecutor Eugene c. Cole, and
as the various names were read, they came
forward and offered bail, the amount of
bail and bondsmen being as follows:
Hope ". Candy, $4,000, bondsmen,
Walter Taylor, A. M. Godfrey, Edward
Burnley.
John W. Young, $4,000, National Surety
Co.
James McLinden, $500, William Gard
ner.
Otto C. KOeneke, $4,000, National Sur.
ETY. Co.
Walter Craythorn and Charles L.. Nick
erson, $4,000 each, Surety Bonding Co.
John P. Fox, $4,000, Fidelity Surety Co.
John r. Groves, $4,000, Edward Sutton.
Floyd Hewitt, $4,000, Robert Moore.
Augustus Hilton, $500, David Kono-
witch.
Joseph MacKissic, $4,000, National
Surety Co.
William Shaw, $1,000, Henry Bohm.
Henry R. Townsend, in Detroit, to ap-
pear Wednesday.
Edward M. Sutton, $500, John r.
Groves.
Joseph Camp, not notified, to appear
next Wednesday.
James F. Eustace, $4,000, Aloysius
Pozzi.
Henry Rutherford, $1,000, Walter Ruth
erford.
Theodore DeBow. $500, Lewis Ed
wards.
Z. Riley Mixner, $4,000, National Sur
ETY. Co. ~
Charles Foster, $1,000, Arlington Cor
son.
Charles York, $1,000, Sites York.
L. M. Rice, $4,000, Edward L. Rice.
William M. Cassidy, not notified, to
appear Wednesday.
Walter M. Holman, $1,000. As a mate
rial witness, given "a hours to produce
bail.
Arthur Wilson, not notified, to appear
next Wednesday.
Lawyer Bonnell entered the general
plea of mot guilty" and the reading of
the indictments was waived. Mr.. Bonnell
asked for two weeks to go over the va
vious indictments with the privilege of
changing the verdict to guilty" in any
case they may see fit. This was granted.
The Grand Jury was made up as fol
lows:
Foreman, Everett ]. Terrell, cashier,
Cape May.
Horace Corson, officer, Cape May
Point-excused.
E. W. Fansler, salesman, Rio Crande-
excused.
Roland Corson, merchant, Wildwood.
Ebert B. High, painter, Avalon.
Leslie Bate, farmer, Fishing Creek.
Warren R. Wells, electrician, South
Seaville.
Israel T. Woolson, contractor, Wild
wood.
Ambrose Corson, farmer, Palermo.
William H. Westcott, farmer, Peters
burg.
Edwin Townsend, farmer, Goshen.
Frank Becker, merchant, North Wild
wood.
Allen Friedman, clerk, Court House.
Jacob Garrison, foreman, Court House.
Jennie Thompson, housewife, North
Wildwood.
William Fl. Powell, farmer, Court
House.
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