The Pleasantville press., 1924-02-27

clothing caught fire while she was
preparing luncheon for her two grand
| children.
No traces Of poison were found In
the viscera Of Miriam Atkinson, six,
whose body was found In well under
the kitchen OF her home at Woods
town. The parents are held on formal
charges of murder. Authorities now
believe the child died of starvation or
exposure.
Marriage OF persons below average
mentality was attacked by DIR. Thorn
as B. Lee of Camden, president of the
State Board of Health, in an address
before the fourteenth annual meeting
of state and local health officers In
Trenton. He also advocated steriliza--
| tion of criminals and imbeciles and
birth control.
State police are campaigning against.
violators of the New Jersey motor ve-'
hicle laws, with operators of Pennsyl-
yania motor trucks as their particu-
lar target. 1t Is alleged that Pennsyl-
vania truck owners avoid operation of
New Jersey laws by not obtaining
| drivers licenses for their chauffeurs,
confident that their possession of New
Jersey registration tags covers the
subject"
The assembly Judiciary Committee
rejected the Carly bill giving munich
palities authority to choose Sunday
! ing sole authority for the selection of
state highways with the state high
way department was also rejected.
United States postal inspectors ar
rested Christian Wallman, an Asbury
Park carrier, on charge of embez-
| element, according to an announce
ment by authorities. 1t is said that
the mysterious disappearance of sew
eral valuable letters from the office
recently attracted the attention of the
! officials and led them to call in the
| government inspectors from Philadel-
| phia. A trap was laid, according to
| the authorities, which led to Wall
mans arrest.
| Mildred Devine, who lived with her
F., twin sister end an aunt at GOA Broad
! way, Bayonne, sitting In the parlor of
her home drank half pint of germi-
eide. A surgeon after an attempt to
revive her pronounced her dead. Fear
| that she would suffer the fate of her
mother, who, police were told, Is an
! inmate of an insane asylum, and re-
cent loss of her position as typist
were given as the motive for her act.
Fifteen persons were arrested and
| liquor valued at $4,000 was seized at
New Village by state troopers working
with Warren county police officials.
| The raid was made after the Edison
Portland Cement Company had COM
| planned that excessive drinking by
employees was interfering with oper.
alton Of the plant.
Police are investigating the robbery
of United Distillefs, Inc, warehouse
at Newark of 1,400 cases of liquor,
valued at $4,000. According to re.
ports to the police, Watchman Harry
Davis left the warehouse at 10 a. m,
forgetting to set the burglar alarm,
and the robbery was discovered at 8
o'clock in the afternoon. Davis is be.
ing questioned.
John Matthews, ninety years old,
recluse, was found dead by son, who.
had aHe sSl 1 2 s ,yisst biz. 4ih Il ~ lif home q
Chesilhurst, a small town on White
Horse Pike. The body lay near o /
stove in the kitchen. Matthews was
known to nearly every resident, man,
woman and child, in the lower end OF
Camden county as Uncle Matt" He
had lived alone for many years. Coro
ner Schroeder gave a certificate of
death from heart disease.
The annual appropriation budget,
with total of s250,621.16 was passed
by Gloucester City Council without
any protest being offered.
Missed for three days, Henry D.
Cornell, retired real estate man.
was found in his apartment at No
205 Market street, Camden, when Po.
licemen Bott and Kelly forced an en-.
trance into the place. Coroner Pratt
said he evidently had died of apoplexy
and had been dead approximately
three days, as he was lying in bed
with a pile of papers. the dates of
which ran in sequence up to February
5. Cornell was 73 years old and had
been separated from his wife.
The Essex County. Committee OF the
American Legions prepared to submit
to the New Jersey Legislature bill
for the erection OF monument to the
memory of Woodrow Wilson, who for
twenty-four years had a residence In
this State. Letters divulging the plan
have been forwarded to legion posts
throughout the State, 1t was learned.
At a meeting of the Essex County
Committee 1t was reported that the
plan was meeting with favorable re-
sponse.
Camden may have public aquari.
um If the plans of Park Commission
er Staley are carried into effect. Ten
tative drawings have been made by
firm that specializes In this character
of work. Prominent persons In Cam
den have not only suggested an ex-
hibit OF fish, but also a small zoologi-
cal garden. The State Fisheries has
agreed to cooperate by sending spec
linens of piscatorial denizens of New
Jersey for exhibition purposes. Such .
an institution will be located In For.
est Hill Park.
A municipal sewer system Is plan
ned by borough officials of Clayton.
Mayor Hetrick, of Asbury Park, was
elected president of the New Jersey