The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-01-29
Monmouth County Courts.

arguing on RUE 70 snow cause
why new trial should not be granted
/ Albert Brown, recently convicted of
attempted criminal assault upon
three small girls vile In the stables
OF the Steiner coal and lumber COM
pany In Belmar on September 1, last,
Counsellor Harold McDermott
presented to Judge Lawrence several
aff1davits of relatives Of Mr., Brown.
The main point made in the various
afidayits was to the effect that Mr..
Brown with his wife, drove at the
home of relatives at Morganville the
Of the alleged crime and was not about
the Sterper plant the hour the girls,
alleged the crime was committed OPP
posing the granting Of new trial
Assistant Prosecutor Quinn told the
court that he was thoroly convinced Of
Mr. Browns guilt or else he would be
one Of the first to ask that a new trial
be granted him. Judge Lawrence re-
served decision on the rule
Peter Franchise pleaded guilty Of
illegal possession OF liquor at Oak
Shades and was fined $175 and costs.
4 Frank PERI waived indictment and
pleaded guilty of stealing 10 coats to
the value of $72 from Samuel Roth
stein at Long Branch. He was held for
sentence later as was Francis Thomas,
colored. pleading guilty of keeping a
disorderly house ct Asbury Park, and
/ Fred Howard of desertion of his fam
j lily.
/ Michael Champieco, a barber, who
4 last week pleaded guilty of illegal pos
session of liquor, and who had a
record in other sections of the state,
was fined $500 and costs by Judge
Lawrence Thursday. ChaInpieco was
paroled for three years in custody of
| Probation Officer Houghton, to whom
/ he is to pay the fine IN installments OF
$25~ monthly and the probation officer
is to have the right to search Cham
pieco's premises at any time during
that period.
| Paul Larkin on a plea of guilty of
illegal sale of liquor at his farm near
Tennent was fined 800 and costs Lar
kins counsel, said that he had but a
small quantity of liquor for his own
use and that when detective app
pealed to him for some of the liquor he
consented and sold him a small bottle
at the same price he paid for it.
John Purnell, colored, pleaded guilty
of illegal sale of liquor at his store at
Pine Brook, was fined 5000 and costs.
Isadore Reznick, retracting plea
OF not guilty and pleading guilty of
| Illegal aisle of liquor at his home in
East End, Freehold, was fined $40
and costs and paroled for three years,
to pay his fine in installments of $25
per month.
Charles v. Holmes, colored, re-
tracted plea of not guilty and plead
ed guilty of illegal sale of liquor at
Matawan and he was held in bail
bonds for sentence Jan. 20.
Peter Nimick proprietor of grocery
and meat shop at 113 Throckmor-
ton street, Freehold, was tried before
jury and acquitted, after three
hours deliberation, of charge of
illegal sale of liquor. Two operatives
testified, one that he bought bottle
of liquor from Nimick on Nov. 81
and the other that he received the liq-
uor from the first when he emerged
from the store.
Judge Lawrence ordered all liquor
seized in raids on the premises Of
those pleading guilty destroyed at once
/ and in this connection he remarked
that he had received an interesting re-
port from the chemists of the state
health department that three 20-gallon
kegs of whisky submitted for analysis
was of such poor quality that it
should be destIo at once, and
J that q quantity of alcohol was diluted
] with water. of a quality that made
| it fit for rubbing only and poor for
/ that. The liquor and alcohol was of
lot seized in Long Branch nearly
a year ago and bought by the Long
| hospital for the use in that institution.
/ This was referred to the state board
of health.
Confronted by the evidence In the
shape of several bottles of liquor
seized in a recent raid on his pool
room and gasoline station at Oak
1 Shades, Fred Garnone Monday re-
traeted plea Of not guilty and enter
ed plea of non vult to charge of
illegal possession of liquor When ar
raigned before Judge Lawrence for
trial yesterday. Garnone was held in
$500 bail for sentence Feb. 2.
Sonny" Brown, q Freehold negro,
was tried before Judge Lawrende and
jury and convicted of atrocious as
sault on Sidney Friend, who conducts
roadside stand on the Adelphia-AS-
bury Park road, Sept. Is last. Friend
and nearby residents testified that
Brown, after purchasing some cigars
at the stand refused to pay for them
and seized q revolver which Friend
had picked up and threatened to shoot
Friend, firing off the revolver and car
rylng it away with him. Brown still had
the revolver when arrested by Trooper
Paxton half hour after the incident,
Brown said that Friend threatened to
shoot him and he merely protected
himself by wrestling the weapon from
Friend. Brown was held IN bail for
sentence later.