The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-12

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Thirty-one vice indictments, charg-
ing illegal sales of intoxicating liquor
n the operation of disorderly estab-
lishments, were returned by the At
lantic county grand jury. Prosecutor
Louis A. Repetta Immediately detail
ed a corps of detectives to serve war
rants.
Daniel Martin, star high school ath-
lete, died at East Orange from sleep
ing sickness after a weeks illness
which had baffled five specialists.
Martin complained of drowsiness a
week ago, following which he went to
sleep, which ended In his death. Mar
tin had played on the high school
football team and was active in other
sports.
In a raid made by the Camden po-
lice on a stable at Second and Pine
streets four so gallon stills were found
in full operation. In addition there
were 80 hogsheads of mash. No n
was in the building when Detective
Captain S%chregler and Detectives
Painter and Colsey entered with a
John Doe" warrant. Government
Agents Whitehead and Israel said the
plant had a daily capacity of $50 gal
Ions of moonshine.
Any further action for the present
in the promotion of the convention
hall project at Atlantic City will have
to be taken by the city commissioners.
The civic convention hall committee,
headed by Judge John J. White, which
has been working on the enterprise
for over a year, held it's final meeting
and adjourned sine die. City Com
missioner Kuehnle expressed the
opinion that the project was not dead,
but that it would remain inactive I'M
til the commission election.
Mayor J.. M. MCGOWAN, first mayor
Of Pitman, who served three terms
under his first administration and two
under a second, has declined to stand
for reelection and will retire at the
end of this year. This has thrown the
mayoralty race open, with Council
man Edward H. Gurk, Republican, so
far the only candidate in the field.
Three councilmen, an assessor, tax
collector and justice of the peace are
also to be elected.
There were AZ women drawn for ju-
ries for the September term of the
Camden county courts. There were
four included in the grand jury
list-Mrs. Prudence Straw Of 1852
Haddon venue, Mrs. Louise Bentley
of Eighth and State streets, Mrs. Julia
j Gill of Haddonf1eld and Mrs. Edith
Bodine of Hotel Camden.
The South street terminal lease and
land of t defunct Gloucester Ferry
Company will be sold to the Reading
Railway Company for $4,000. This
will include the adjoining land owned
by the company. Stockholders and
creditors of the ferry company offered
70 objection to the sale by the re-
c%eiver, Leon G. Buckwalter.
Biajio Narbone, charged with the
murder of Antonio Natal on the
street in Lambertville, has, according
to the police, confessed the crime. He
sale he shot in self defense, although
no weapon was found on his victims
body. In addition to Narbone, four
n1n are being held at Pennington as
material witnesses.
lAODtlJ lldCSdlluAl, Edbl OIdHSCt
was held in Sic, 900 bail for the grand
jury by Acting Judge Markley at Jer-
sey City on charges of embezzling
$14, 800 from the Commercial Trust
Company, Jersey City. MacCallum
admitted in court that he had spent
the money on girls and good times.
Sportsmen who have been in the
,uaado zta+a fhat rohb;+a md onoi1 ara
numerous.
The Hereford Building and Loan
Association has been organized at
Wildwood with some of the most in
f1uential and successful business men.
Holding Stella Singleton, colored,
thirty-two years old, of Baxter street,
Camden, under bail on a charge of at
lacking Annie McNeill of Front and
Mount Vernon streets with a razor,
Judge Cleary told the woman that the
practice of carrying razors must stop.
A bullet from a 80 caliber rifle,
fred by chance by some n hunting
in a swamp along the road near Bound
Brook, is believed to have caused the
death Of Mrs. Martha Dehlen of East
Orange, who was riding in an auto
mobile with her husband and a party
of friends.
AS he stepped to the rear of his au-
tomobile on the White Horse pike,
near Camden, to adjust a light Walter
Hubbard, twenty-five years old, man
ager of a department store in Allen
town, Pa, was struck by another ma
chine, dying a few hours later in
Cooper Hospital, Camden. Hubbard's
bride of a few weeks Bw him hit.
The car that killed Hubbard was de-
serted by the driver.
Search for the supposed murderer
Of Emil Staeger of Newark, whose
body was found in the Shrewsbury
river at Red Bank, turned toward
north Jersey when County Detective
Rue let it be known an investigation
was being carried on in the direction
of Newark. A coroner's jury returned
a verdict Of death by strangulation,
marks of a rope being found encir-
cling Staeger's neck, which also was
broken.
The old Gloucester f%erryboat Fear
less was turned over to the Tacony-
Palmyra Ferry Company.
Attorney Henry M. Evans of Glou-
cester City is circulating petitions as
a candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for assembly.
James L. Young of Collingswood,