Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-11-24
WATHCHMAN HAMILTON'S AS.
SAILANT. GETS SIX MONTHS
IN JAIL

Several cases of local interest came
before Judge Eldredge at Court
House on Wednesday afternoon. The
first of these was the ease of Tony
FroiO, who was arrested here some
few weeks ago following a gun strug-
gle on the premises of Frank Mat
terra in North Wildwood, when Watch
man Edwin Hamilton was assaulted.
Attorney Palmer Way represented
Froio in the case while Acting Prosec-
utor Cole represented the state. After
hearing testimony from witnesses Mr..
Way pleaded for leniency and asked
that the prisoner be sent to the county
Jail instead of the state prison.
Prosecutor Cole felt in accord with
this suggestion on account of the
wounds suffered by Froio in the case
and which might prove dangerous be-
fore they are completely healed, and
Judge Eldredge acquiesced in this
suggestion and sentenced Froio to
serve six months in the county Jail to
begin on November 22d.
The next case was that of Walter
Bliel, Jr., sixteen years old, Of Sea
Isle City. Young Bliel had been con-
victed of breaking and entering, but
sentence was withheld at that time.
Judge Eldredge called the youth be-
fore him and explained matter to him.
In this talk the Judge told him that he
was letting him out on a suspended
sentence and that Mrs. H. w. Wright,
of Sea Isle City, whose home young
Bliel entered, had agreed to take him
to Philadelphia with her to give him a
chance to make good in the world.
The Judge impressed on Bliel that if
he did not prove alright to Mrs.
Wright that she could at any time
send him back to the court and that
he would then be placed in ONE other
place. With this suspended sentence
the lad was dismissed. His father
and mother are in Jail for offenses
and he had nc home to go to.
Alfred Sullivan, colored, was
brought before the Judge on a charge
of stealing a diamond ring, valued at
$1,000. This ring was the property
of Mrs. E.. D. Robson, of Wildwood
Crest, and was stolen from her last
May. Various witnesses were called
to the stand and from their testimony
Judge Eldredge gathered the story
thatAtbe ring had been stolen by a
servant, Bertha Lee, and worn by her
to a dance at Cape May. On the re-
turn from the dance she gave the ring
to Elizabeth Walters and kept by her
that night. The Walters girl spent
the night with the prisoner, Alfred
Sullivan and upon arising next morn
ing Sullivan is said to have taken the
ring with him. The testimony of a
prisoner in the Jail, while Sullivan
was confined there, showed that Sui
Ivan told this prisoner, Ernest Brown,
that he had pulled a deal with a ring
in Philadelphia and returning across
the ferry had thrown the pawn ticket
into the river. With this story Judge
Eldredge declared the prisoner
guilty, but did not move for sentence
at Wednesdays session. Sullivan has
DStI d ISSLOu plCflOuo AhiNS IL
Philadelphia on charges of larceny.
Letitia Livingstone, of Dennisville,
was now called before the Judge to
explain why her daughter, Florence,
fourteen years of age, had been absent
oyer SO days of the present school
year. Mrs. Livingstone gave an ex-
PLANTATION that her daughter had been
with relatives in Wildwood and that
the school officials here had not per-
mitted her to enter high school, nor
had they forced her to attend the
grammar grades. Judge Eldredge
ordered the case postponed until next
week when the teacher from Dennis
vile and the Wildwood school officials
will be ordered to be present. Mrs.
Livingstone is the mother of a family
of nine children and has been before
the court on one other occasion on a
truancy charge.