The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-10
HOLLAND IS Held
TO RECORD COURT
Judge Bellinger Sets Bail in Sum of
$1,000, Returnable Monday.

the case of the State of Florida VS.
John Holland, charged with assault
and battery and several other counts
Judge Bellinger bound Holland over
to the court of record in the sum OF
| 81 900, returnable at 10 o'clock Mon
day morning.
Because of the great number which
had gathered to attend the hearing
| Judge Bellinger transferred ii to the
circuit court room, which was crowd
ed much beyond it's capacity. Fully
800 people stood during the entird
hearing, which lasted from 10 o'clock
until nearly noon.
The state introduced but one wit
ness. Mrs. Roland Malone. She recited
to Judge Bellinger the story of tins
alleged assault. She said that she
had been shopping and was on her
way to her home on North DeNilliers
street, when she was accosted by
Holland, who was standing at the
fruit stand at the San Carlos. Hci-
land asked her. where she was going,
and she told him, home" He offered
to take her there in an automobile,
and after some talk she got into a
limousine with him. AS they started
off, Ed Smith came out of the fruit
stand and stopped them, telling Hol-
land that he could not have the car.
They then got into another automo-
bile belonging to John Di Lustro.
At DeVillier street, she said, Hol-
land did not turn north toward her
home and she demonstrated with him.
saying that she must go home and get
her husbands dinner and that she
could not go riding with him be-
cause she was a respectable woman.
He continued toward Barrancas av
enue, she said and when they crossed
the railroad tracks she jumped out of
the car.
In the meantime she said, Holland
had cursed her and had made an in
decent proposal, and when she re-
fused had struck her. When she
jumped out she became unconscious
and remembered no more until she
saw the Halfway house, conducted
by Tom Harris, an uncle of Mr.. Hol-
land. When the car turned to go out
The Gulf Beach highway, she said,
she jumped out again. and became
unconscious. The next she knew was
when the car stuck in the mud after
turning off from the highway through
the woods near a negro house.
When she came TO her senses, she
said Holland was out in front of the
car trying to get it out of the mud.
She jumped out and he came round
to her and struck her in the face
again with his fist and put her in the
car. lie then went to get help to
get out of the mud and she went back
TO the negro house and found Holland
there. The negro woman at the house
told her to lie down on the bed and
rest.
Sometime later she left the negro
house and not knowing where she
was, returned TO the car and begged
Holland to tell her where she was.
She then left and went up on the
hard road, where she met Mr.. APP
plegate, who brought her to town. AS
they neared her husbands store she
suggested that Mr.. Apologize take her
to her sister, in laws house, which ne
did. That night at about 10 o'clock
a doctor was called. and he found her
suffering from a cut on her lip, sew
eral bruises on her face and bruises
on her hips.
on cross examination. Mrs. Malone
said that she had never ridden with
Holland before. except in company
she never had been out with him at
night. She denied having asked what
co tell her husband, and said that she
first urged the negro woman to take
her home and then asked Mr.. Apple
gate to take her TO her husband, and
that it was only TO avoid a scene with
all the people at the store that she
later suggested that she be taken to
II. To- L. i
that she had been drinking and said |
that she never drank.
Tom w. Harris, proprietor of the |
Half Way house said that a negro |
girl gave him the first information |
that anything was wrong, when she |
said that a white woman had fallen |
he said. and was about to pick up the |
when he saw Holland turn
ing back with the automobile. With |
Hollands aid. he picked the woman
up and placed her in the back seat. |
He said there were no cushions in |
the back seat of the automobile. He
could smell liquor very plainly on the
girls breath, he declared.
Ed Smith, taxi driver, said that he
was working for George Petrellis.
commonly known as Peanut George"
when Mrs. Malone got into the
limousine with Holland. AS they
started off, he said, the door of the
,ar struck peanut wagon and broke
he door off. He then ran out and
stopped the engine and told Holland
ne could not use the car. Mrs. Malone
md Holland then. got into the other
ar and drove off.
On examination. he said Mrs.
Malone declared after the limousine
accident, We'll walk"
DIR. w. c. Dewberry said that he
Examined Mrs. Malone at about 10
''clock that night. The left side of
Ter face was swollen, her under lip
vas cut inside and both hips were
'ruised, the right one on both sides.
On cross examination. he said she
lid not show any signs of having beenl
At this point court recessed and
when it reconvened J. p. Stokes, at
orney for the defendant, said that
nasmuch as it appeared from the
estimony that the defendant would
'e bound over, he was willing to
valve further preliminary hearing.