Obituary of Edward T. Tolbert, Ocean County's 1st Black Mayor 1994
Asbury Park Press 18 Nov 1994
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Sentencing of Frank James, 1921
New Jersey Mirror 16 Feb 1921 Frank J. James who some time ago was convicted of Paul's murder, was brought before the court in Camden and informed that he would be sentenced on February 25, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. He was to have been sentenced Monday, but owing to the Shuck trial being delayed the date was advanced.
Sentencing of Frank James, 1921
New Jersey Courier 12 Jan 1921 Supreme Court Justice Katzenbach has set February 14 as the day for sentence of Frank James, convicted of the murder of David S. Paul, bank messenger, and refused an application of counsel for Raymond W. Schuck for a special panel of talesmen for his trial, set for February 7. The justice granted the application of Lawyers John and William Harris for a writ of error in the James case. The writ will be argued before the Court of Errors on March 1 and will act as a stay in carrying out the sentence of electrocution of James, whose counsel will not press the application for a new trial made on the day of his conviction.
Frank James guilty of murdering David Paul, 1920
New Jersey Mirror 22 Dec 1920 It took the jury only twenty minutes to find Frank J. James guilty of the murder of David S. Paul, at he conclusion of the sensational trial in Camden on Monday night. The verdict carried with it the infliction of the death penalty upon the self- confessed slayer of the bank messenger, the jury refusing the appeal of the prisoner's counsel to exercise clemency and recommend life imprisonment instead of capital punishment. The verdict came at the end of the five-day trial, during which the defendant's oral and written confessions were admitted in evidence in the face of counsel's strenuous objection. Dapper and apparently self-possessed, James entered upon his ordeal last Wednesday but as the trial wore on and damning evidence piled up against him his confidence petered out and several times he collapsed, once having to be taken from the court room in order to allow him to regain his composure. The Camden court house was besieged by a grea...