The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-08-09
Monmouth County Courts

Thursday, when Judge Lawrence an
nounced the summer adjournment
No more criminal cases will be heard
he said, until Sett7, tho he will sit Mon
day, Aug. Is, to hear petitions for nat
uralization, of which some so are sted
to be heard at that time, and another
day will be given in the interim to the
hearing OF petitioners for widows
pensions. The criminal cases in court
were
William H. DoweD Of Eatontown
entered pleas Of not guilty to in
dictments charging him with statutory
offense with Florence Murphy and with
attempted criminal assault upon
Mar aret Daily, aged 10. He was remand
ed to Jail to await trial Sept. 7.
Norman Megill, Edward Hynnes and
Joseph Hymes, pleaded not guilty to
charges Of having in their possession a
Ford autom9 bile in which the motor
number had been obliterated or altered.
Prosecutor Sexton said that two cars
were involved. the men having switch
edv the bodies on the cars and otherwise
changed their appearance They were
held in $500 bail each for trial Sept. 10.
Alex Donbrosky, at whose farm home
between Hillsiale and Colt Neck were
recentlyfound two stills on a hot stove
when visited by Chef County
Detective Smith and Court constable
George Curley, pleaded guilty Of Illegal
possession Of stills and intoxicating
liquor and he was fined 1915 and costs
and ordered remanded to jail until the
fine and costs are paid. Dombrosky told
the court that he had distilled whiskey
only for his own use.
Elmer Cottrell of West Belmar,
pleaded not guilty of criminalIy
assaulting Ruby P. Barton in Shrews-
bury township July /, was held in ST.
500 bail for trial Sept. 10.
Kurtz Spitzner pleaded gnilty of
DESERVING his wife and six children in
Ere hold last February. Spitzner said
that. out Of employment, he had gone
to Hartford Conn. and was there taken
i'll. His family was left in charge of his
father-in law, he said. He was fined
the costs Of prosecution, paroled for
three years in custody of Probation
Officer Houghton and directed to pay
so. 90 per week toward the support of
his family.
Philin Schnitzer of Avon pleaded
not guilty of obtaining $3.50 under false
pretenses and he was held in $500 bail
for trial Sept II. Schnitzer told the
court that the charge grew out Of an
deal in which he
purchased car and then sold it and
another party claimed ownership. He
viii easily establish bis innocense of the
charge, he said Marcellus Reichling
of Starlight, pleaded not guilty OF
assault and battery upon Peter
Reichling on Nav 81, and be was held
in $500 bail for trial Sept. II.
Joseph McGinnis pleaded not guilty
Of assault and battery upon Harold
Cawlev at Keansburg June Is and he
was held in $500 bail for trial Sept. IL.
Walter Hawkins, colored. waived
lonious assault and battery upon Ralph
he was fined $50 and costs and paroled
for is months in custody Of Probation
Officer Houghton. A plea for leniency
was made by Harold McDermott,
Hawkins. who said that the
negro had not been in trouble before
and that the assault. which consisted OF
hitting Spino in the head with q brick,
was provoked by SpinO and that
Hawkins was to some extent justified in
his assault.
Theodore Gregg, colored. Of 40
avenue. waived Indictment
and pleaded guilty of stealing two
watches from co-employes at the Sa-
voy hotel at Asbury Park on July 8.
Gregg said that he was intoxicated at the
time and that he went to Philadelphia
and pawned the watches, securing $27.50
on them. Judge Lawrence sentenced
Hawkins to spend 90 more days ID the
county Jail, fined him $50 and costs
and paroled him at the expiration OF his
jail term for IS months in custody OF
the probation officer.
Derby T. Cullen, taken in the raid on
the Maple Shade hotel at Highlands
last Sunday night, waived indictment
and pleaded not guilty of carrying
concealed weap MS and, represented
by A. j. G. Stokes, was given an
trial before Judge Lawrence
without jury. Mr.. Stokes said that
Cullen. whose home is in Washington,
d. G. was employed as piano player
at the Maple Shade hotel and lived
there. He carried the weapon only
when on duty in the hotel, be said,
and commended that Cullen was therefore
not guilty of the charge, inasmuch as
he had the weapon on his person only
in his own home and in his place. Of
business. Prosecutor Sexton said that
the county detectives were tipped of"
before the raid to the fact that Cullen
carried a revolver and that a State
Trooper seized him and took the
weapon fir m him upon entering the
hotel Judge Lawrence agreed with
Counsellor Stokes contention and
Cullen from custody. |
him that hereafter he should
seek better PLACES OF employment.
Samuel Marrow colored, pleaded not
guilty Of embezzling 800 from Arnetta |
Mead at Asbury Park on May 5 and he
was held in $500 bail for trial Sept. II
Tucker White pleaded not guilty OF
assault and battery upon his sister,
Ella Smith, at Wanamassa and he was
held in $500 bail for trial Sept. II.
John App egate, "a, and an old Of
fender, having served time in the re-
rmatory and state prison, having been
liberated ON the latter institution