Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-05-20
WOODBRIDGE COMMISSION VOTE IS SET FOR JUNE 9Th
ARREST Three FOR gold Theft At PLANT
Girls Tell Snappy Tales
About Teacher But He Is
ExoneratedAtMorganuille

she was not friendly to Mr.. White.
Miss Meisnest. a former teacher
testified THAI Mr.. White at one
time had informed the scholars that
women should not wear high heel
shoes or lace themselves as it would
shorten their lives and cause mater
nifty troubles.
Dorothy Preston, IA years of age,
high school girl said she never
heard Mr.. White say anything about
the book, but she had seen the boys
and girls fighting over it.
When Mr.. White was placed on
the stand he denied that he had
asked the girls to see their knees
or that he had been unduly friend
ly with the girls or touched them as
claimed. He said he had not seen
scholars loving about the school hall
and would not have allowed il. In
regards to the book, he said that
the boy gave it to MIN and he at
once returned it to the girl and in
structed her to take it home. He said
he never taught sex questions and
that the Bible was read in the school
house every morning.
According to Mr.. White the trou-
claimed that he had not answered
her daughter nicely when she asked
information concerning the obtaining
of working papers, and that the cli-
max came when Margaret Boile was
dismissed from school in April.
Miss Raymond Devitto testified
about the garter affair and said that
she did not remember Mr.. White
yin ahA
or anything else offensive. She sal
that she had forgotten the affair un-
til called to the home of Mrs. Becker
and asked to sign paper against
the principal after Margaret Boile
had been expelled from school. This
she refused to sign.
Blanche Van Pelr, one of those
who was also present at the garter
episode, said that Mr.. White said
that leg show was out OF place and
he didn't want to see any more of it.
Miss Van Felt testified that she alsD
refused to sign the paper against the
principal. Miss Van Pelt testified
the book to school having picked it
up with her school books when she
left home. She said Mr.. White re-
turned the book to her and she took
it home as he instructed and that it
was still home. She declared that
the book by the same name which
the petitioners had on exhibition
was not the one she had.
Among those VINO testified as to
Mr. Whites good character were;
Miss Blanche. Peters, a teacher; Miss
Mary Crime, a teacher; Mrs. Ger
trude LeMaire, Miss Haywood. Mrs.
Elwood Van Pelt, Miss Dolores Kill
somins, Miss Beatrice Bennett. Miss
Elizabeth Holtz. and Miss Madeline
Ellison.
The last witness called was Mrs
Mary Becker, the guardian of the
Boile girl. and one of the petitioners
who told OF the report her girl had
brought home. How she took an in
terest in school work, was mem
ber of the Parent-Teachers Associa-
ton, etc. She was excused from the
witness stand when she refused to
answer some of the questions put by
Mr.. Stokes.
Following the taking of testimony
the case was presented to the bod'i
for consideration without the law
yers for either side summing up.
The board adjourned TO another
room for about ten minutes ano
then announced that a verdict was
ready and upon coming into trial
room, the clerk announced in loud
clear tones that the board found A.
w. White not guilty. Then bedlam
broke loose.
Mr.. White resides at Belmar and
is married and a father.
From the way the case turned out
the crowd was loud in its declara-
tions that the charges against Mr..
White had been framed up.
The trial lasted from s O'Clock to
within a few minutes of midnight