The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-03-06
Monmouth County Courts.

NlwUiIlUuW VUuiIly VuuI los
Trial of Andrew Santore of Red Bank
on q charge Of involuntary man
slaughter, growing out OF the deaths of
Mrs. Hanna Bly,, So years, wife Of
James Bly,, and Mrs. Sarah Gallery. AZ.
lof Patrick Gallery, both of Shrewsbury.
learly the night Of Oct, "a last, when
hit by an automobile owned and driven
lby Santore, was concluded before
Judge J awrence and a jury here Mon
day and Tuesday and found not guilty,
The trial occupied the court good
part Of the day Monday. 1t is charged
that SaDtore had been drinking and that
Thriving 80 to Sc miles per hour, he struck
| the two women down and caused
ms antaneous death Of both. The
defense interposed is that Santore had
not drank any intOxicants that night;
that he was driving at q moderate speed
and that he WIS blinded by the strong
lights of another car so that he did not
see the two women who were walking
at the extreme right side of the road,
one being on the pavement and one on
the dirt shoulders Of the road,
Herman Costing OF JERSEY City. a
chauffeur employed by Fred G. Palmer
of that city, was the star witness for the
state. He said that he was driving
Packard truck, enroute to Asbury Park,
when he met Santore at shrewsbury,
then travelling at a speed Of 30 to IS
miles per hour. Just before he met
Santore's car he noticed two women
walking on the opposite side of the road
from hima and going in the same direc-
4 ton Of Santore' S car. As the two cars
Tla Io I1~
back, saw the forms OF the iWo women
at the roadside. He halted and ran back
and Santore's car continued on about
200 feet. Santore backed his car to
the scene of the accident and threw a
whiskey flask from his car, and Costing
said, he smelled liquor upon his breath.
/ County Physician Harvey w. Hart
man said that both women died from
fractures Of the skull and that the
top of one Of the victims head was
practically mashed off, as tho ran
over by the auto wheel. sSantore, it was
testified, was driving a Cadillac
car
Justice of the Peace Elmer H.
Wainwright of Red Bank, who took
Trooper Joseph Hoch to the scene
of the accident. said he smelled liqour
upon Santore's breath. He said
he directed Santore to drive his car
to the Red Bank police station, send
ing man along with him and foil wing
in his own car. Trooper Hoch said
that when he reached the scene Of the
accident he asked for the person who
drove the death car and Santore stepp-
ed forward.
l.. Haynes Wolcott and Thomas
Ford of Bradley Beach, captured by
County Detective Charles o. Daven-
port and other officers as they landed
boat load of A cases of LIQUOR at
Spring Lake Beach the night of Dee.
16, Monday pleaded guilty before
Judge..Lawrence Of illegal possession
of liquor and they were each fined $500
the maximum penalty provided by
law. Thomas J. Connolly pleaded
guilty of stealing an automobile be-
longing to George Bloom of Keans-
burg and he was remanded for sentence
later.
Isaac Blunt, fcolored. pleaded nou-
vuit to an Indictment charging him
with stealing REQ automobile truck
belonging to the Automatic Valve
Sealing company on Dec. %. Blunt
said that he was employed by the
above company and that he took the
truck one evening to drive to Matawan.
He was remanded for sentence
later.
Richard Conway, arraigned on an
Indictment charging him with stealing
bed spread, towels, dress, ETC., from
an automobilei belonging to Lille
Bortner on the street at Asbury Park
onDec. IA, said he didn't know how
to plead as he had already pleaded
guilty to the same charge before Pc
lice Judge Bord en- at Asbury Parkand
was sentenced by the latter to 100
days in the county Jail. Ordering a
plea of guilty entered, Judge Lawrence
declared that a police magistrate can
not legally sentence persons on an
indictable offence and, remanding
/ Conway to await sentence later,
promised that the court would take
into consideration the time
already served when imposing
sentence.
Doc Edwards, colored, Che insisted
DOC" is his given name) pleaded not
guilty of attempted rape upon Luigi
Saunders in Milestone township and
he was remanded for trial March
10.
1 Robert Scott, jr,, who had pleaded
lguilty of assault and battery upon his
wife at Red Bank, was fined the costs
lof prosecution and paroled for two
months, Judge Lawrence saying that
There was domestic relation prob
lem to be solved in this case. Judge
Lawrence also expressed surprise that
lScott should have violated the law by
slapping his wife when told that Scott
was Klansman.
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