Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-08-05
COURT NOTES

William Connolly. 20. were cbarn.'
with the larceny Of an sutonossi
tire. rim and tube from William ~
alet. Of Cape May Court House. tn
pleaded guilty. COnnolIy's father -,
been down to see the prosecutor -
told him that Connolly was ina.
rigibIe, and that until his arras, !
hadn't known where he was. He bsd
beaten his way from his home
Philadelphia to Cape May Court Hons.
looking for work. At first he said !.
had never been in trouble before d..
later he said that he had served fr0r
two to three months in Moyamensirs
Prison for running away. Bates ssiS
that he had come down from phil,
delphia with Connolly to get a in
He had been employed by the Amer.
can Engraving Company OF Philadal.
phfa, but had beep out of work for i, /
months prior to his trip to court
House where his uncle, Jerry Sum
mers, lives. His parents do not know
that he is in trouble. He also served
a term of four months in Moyamens.
ing for stealing a blacksmith force
from the Pennsylvania Railroad.
DIR. Julius Way. county physician
was called to the stand. He said that
he had thought Bates should be shown
leniency before, because they had told
him a different story from that which
they told the Court. He said that he
had examined both boys physically
and found nothing wrong with them
except that Connolly had a discharge
Of the ear. which might have some.
thing to do with his condition, but he
thought that that would get attention
at the prison. Both were committed
to the State Reformatory at RAILWAY
Charles S~chaeher, who was arrested
for stealing 1920 from the home Of
Frederick Biddle in Wildwood some
time ago, and who was brought back
from Pennsylvania by %extradition pro-
ceedings, was again brought before
the Court. His brother-in-law had
made restitution and paid the costs
of the prosecution. Schaefer testified
that he had been under the influence
of liquor, which he said that he had
gotten from an Italian woman who
keeps a restaurant on Burk avenue
close to the bay. He promised to ap-
pear as a witness against her at any
time, and to come at his own expense
from wherever he happened to be. He
said that he had been eight days in
the Middletown. Pa, lookup and %
days in the county Jail at Cape May
Court House. Judge Eldredge SEN
fenced him to 80 days in the county
Jail dating from the day of commit
ment, which leaves him seven days to
serve, and fined him 81 and costs.
Mrs. Peter Tyne, of Anglesea, whose
husband was sentenced TO so days in
the county Jail two weeks ago for sell
ing liquor, asked the Judge to release
her husband, as she had no one to sup
port her. The request was refused.
Mary Forte, who is being held under
$1,000 bail for running a disorderly
house, was released by the Judge on
the statement from County Physician
Way that she was suffering from a
recent operation. Mrs. Wilmont, OF
lis West Young avenue, appeared and
testified that sBootsy" Wilson, a fish
erman, had told her husband that
Mary Forte was running a disorderly
house, and that she herself sat in her
mothers house, which is just across
the street, and saw auto loads Of
United States sailors, and some Of
fcers, come to the house at all hours
of the night All this happened after
the Forte woman had been released.
She also had seen one of the men Oh
the house carrying heavy suitcases
out of the house in the morning ana
hiding them under some fishing nets
on Ottens Harbor, and bringing them
back at night. and she thought thai
the suitcases contained whiskey, ana
that was why the police were never
able to find any liquor in the house
when they raided it in the daylight
OHCc Snc lOuuu HcI HlOluct hiSA
80 badly that she couldn't even taih
and she summoned DR.. Tomlin. Wnen
her mother recovered she said tna'
some men had come out of the house
across the street and had sworn at nel
and frightened her.
Miranda r. Thompson, Mrs. VII
mont's mother, was called next. Sn'
said that a half hour after Mary Fort:
had returned from Court House sn'
saw three fishermen enter. From nel
porch she could see right into the res
%taurant, and she had seen sailors ge'
ting drinks there. Last SATURDAY
three men were thrown out, drum
between twelve and one O'Clock q
night. She saw five girls go into In'
back room and five men follow; a ~
tie later two more men followed, thei
a man and a woman went in togetnei
Mary Forte saw her on the porch am
pulled down the blinds. One eyenih'
three men came out of the Forte nous
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