Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-01-12

was crowded on Wednesday morning of
this week when Judge H. H. Eldredge
raped his gavel for the trial of crimi-
nal cases for the winter term. This
crowd included not only jurors and
local people but also men and women
from Philadelphia, many of whom are
we'll known to the police of that city,
who were called as witnesses to tes-
tify in the hearing of the indicted
ones connected with the robbery last
August of the Rosetta Shop, a store on
the wildwood boardwalk, which made
a speciality of sweaters and yarns.
AT the opening of the session Acting
Prosecutor John Solan, of the State
Attorney Generals Office, read off the
list of indictments in connection with
this case. This list includes
Simon Jaffe-Plea of not guilty.
Sam Surman-Plea of not guilty.
William Jacobs-Plea of not guilty.
Amen Jacobs-Plea of not guilty.
Joe Morris Miller-Plea of guilty.
Jack Conley-Plea of non vult.
Nancy Heineman-Plea of not
guilty.
Dominic Leone-Plea of not guilty.
Mary Bracken-Plea of not guilty.
Freeland Arnold-Who plead not
guilty.
Bush Macy (alias Mosey)-Plea of
not guilty.
Dick Darby-Still a fugitive.
OF these cases only Jaffe, Surman,
w. Jacobs, A. Jacobs and Freeland
Arnold were entered on the first case
to be tried. Severance vas granted
against the other indicted ones and
their trial will come up later. OF
those to be brought up in the first
case before the court, Lawyer E. w.
Lloyd, of Cape May, represented the
Jacobs; Lawyer Mark Sooy, of Wild
wood, represented Jaffe and Surman,
and Lawyer M. j. McHenry, of Phila-
delphia, represented Arnold.
The jury was drawn and after some
changes was accepted by both the
state and the defense lawyers, after
which Prosecutor Solan outlined the
case. He told that the prisoners had
been indicted for the robbing of the
Rosetta Shop on August Sd, and that
the state planned to present the case
in such a clear manner as to justify
a decision of guilty from the jury. The
first witness was then called to the
stand. This was William Cohn, one
of the partners who conducted the
Rosetta Shop. Mr.. Cohn testified that
he had closed up the shop on the even
ing of Wednesday, August I'd, and had
seer everything securely locked. Mer-
chandise was here exhibited by
Prosecutor Solan and identified by the
witness as being goods from his shop
and which were in the shop on the
night of August I'd. When asked as to
how he did this Identifying he stated
that his opinion was made through the
labels and price and stock tags on the
garments. When croSS-eXamined by
the defense, Attorney Lloyd, as to the
Identification of one red sweater bear
ing none of these identifying marks,
he stated that he remembered seeing
it in the store hat night and could
take oath that it was a part of his
stock.
Anna Coin, one of the clerks in the
store on the date of the robbery was
next called to the stand. Miss Cohn
told of coming down to open the store
on the morning of August Sd and Of
finding the store robbed. She stated
that she then called Mrs. Cohn, who
came with her to open the store and
that the two ladies had found the
store cleaned out" of stock, the rear
window broken, sash off and glass in
two real doors broken. She men,
toned money as having been stolen,
but this was objected to by Defense
Lawyer Sooy. The objection was
overruled and she told of money being
left in the cash register drawer. When
cross-examined by Lawyer Lloyd she
stated that Mr.. Cohn had been the last
one out of the store on the night of
the robbery and she could not say as
to whether he took the money or not.
Mrs. Helen Coin, wife of the first
witness, was then called. She, too,
was employed in the store at the time
of the robbery and was the one who
with Miss Cohn had opened the store
the morning of the Sd and discov-
the loss and damage. She told
of phoning her husband, who had gone
Philadelphia that morning and how
came down and made an inventory
of the loss. Mentioning the money,
she said that $16.79 had been left in
the cash drawer and that all but a
few pennies was gone on the morning
of the discovery. When cross-ex-
amined by Lloyd about the red
sweater she stated that she could not
say as to whether that particular
garment had been amongst those
from the shop.