The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-03-25
Monmouth County Courts

! Andrew Tracchia who last week
i pleaded guilty Of illegal possession of
liquor IN his pool room and barber
Ishop on Sprihgwood avenue, Asbnry
Park, was fined 5000 and costs By
Judge Lawrence Wednesday. Frocchia
was directed To pay 500 at once and
the balance at rate Of $40 per month
! to Probation Officer Houghton, in
whose custody he was paroIed for Is
months. aa3soa - 7fieas9f9
David Hall, colored, Of Manasquarl,
was acquitted of a chargeof rflanslaugh-
ter by a jury befmelJudge Lawrence
in court Thursday. Hall was charged
with being responsible for the death
of 21-year-old Leon Eberle, son Of
Otto Eberls of Middletown, early the
morning of Oct 8 last A. Cadillac
touring car driven by Hall and d Nash
touring car driven by the youths
| father, Otto Eberle of Middletown, st
1890 the morning of Oct. andd Leon
was taken to the Long Branch hosi7l
tai, where he died from fracture of
the skull 81
Thomas Compton, Bmmor w. Clay
inn and Joseph E. Whiting testified
that driving up the hill with EberIe,
thev saw the car driven by Eberle
appear over the crest of the hill ahead
and at the same instant, by the lights
of Hall car in the rear, saw that he
was attempting to pass them. A frac-
ton of a second after Eberle car
had passed them on the right they
heard crash, the Eberle and Hall
cars having come together. Eberle
testified only that at the time of the
crash he was driving on the right side
of the road.
Hall, in his own defense, insisted
that he was driving well to the right
of the center of the road and that the
Eberle car turned to pass another car
going IN the same direction as he and.
in attempting to turn back to mis-
right side of the road swung his cal
around 80 that the rear of the Eberle
car hit the front part of his car. In
this he was corroborated by Frank
Lindsey, colored, who was riding with
Hall.
) Compton, in his testimony, said
that he returned to the scene of ths
accident talked with and smellec
, liquor on, Halls breath and said that
Hall talked incoherently State
Trooper Divers, who visited the scene
more than an hour after the acct
dent, said he smelIed liquor in Halls
car but failed to find any honor. Ht
: did not fined any traces of liquor on
Hall and did not arrest him. Hal
and Lindsey told that they were re-
turning from Red Bank, while they
had visited friends, but mastered that
neither had anything to drink that
night. Hall was defended by Ackerson
and VanBuskirk of Keyport.
Gustav Dicker, Freehold baker. and
his driver, Louis Cohen, also of Free:
, hold, successfully defended a suit for
$4,000 damages Wednesday afternoon,
when a jury in the supreme court
Jersey City before Judge Willard : w
Cutler found verdict in their favor.
and against Meyer Friedman. ~. OF
4S1 Avenue G, Bayonne.
Friedman was one of the trio that
figured in the fatal automobile crash
monthe early morning of June 25
1924, when a Ford roadster in which
he was riding with Lester Vultees Of
Pinewood boulevard, Lakewood, was
S truck by Dicker's delivery truck
driven by Cohen, on the state road,
between Marlboro and Freehold. $3.50
In the mishap, Irving Fischer, q
young Bayonne man was killed and
Vutee, himself was seriously In
jured. Vutee and friedman werf
taken to the Long Branch hospital
: where they remained several weeks.
The three young men had left Bay
onne shortly after midnight to visit
: Vultee's father, Louis HI. Vutee, who
lives on Plnewood boulevard. Lake
/ wood. The elder Ynltee had been ill,
and the son asked the two, friends to
accompany him on the trip.
Friedman's injuries consisted Of
bruises are commissions on the left
arm and leg, head, shoulders and
body, he claimed The defense CON
,, tended that he had accepted $500
shortly after the accident in full set
, Element of his claim. als 9.gea1
! h A jury that sat before Judge Law
renee Tuesday in the trial of Officer
|, - William Galley of the Ocean Grove
! police charged IN an indictment with
: ass ault and ba ttery upon Benjamin, d.
Z Thompson of Ocean Grove on June {
last, were discharged after they had
failed TO agree upon d verdict after
four hours deliberations. The jury il
Lunderstoodto have voted IL to for an
dCQ uAbhfsl.4 Nils A44VAAkJSOn Shfu lLudb nt
returned from walk over in Bradley
Beach and stopped in front of a build
ing in course of construction opposite
This home at Embury avenue and Pill
iIgrfm athway, as he had been won't
land ally to talk to Winfield Archer.
the builder. or his workmen Officer
ICatley, he said was standing on a lad
der and as he looked up at him officer
Galley called down It's all right
Thompson; it, all right; we don't need
you MIR. Thomps that he answered
You'd think this was Russia; have
right here as well as YOU, Wher
DAicer Eat le ya d descend ed from the lad
de hsssaM be grasped hold Sofehifn anc
threw him down twice, then graspeC
him by the cellar and started with him
flor the pohee station. : ~
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