Ocean County , NJ History

From the New Jersey Mirror Jan 14 1920 Found lying unconscious along the road-side near Georgetown,on Saturday night, John Wormwood, a jitney driver, of Trenton, 54 years old, was taken in an army car to the hospital at Camp Dix where he revived sufficiently to tell how he had been attacked by three men dressed in soldiers' uniforms, whom he had taken in as passengers. He described the men and said that when a lonely spot had been reached one of them, a short stocky soldier, wearing an overseas cap, had beaten him over the head with a heavy army revolver. When attacked Wormwood said that he had $300 in money in his clothes. A search by the hospital authorities failed to find the money, which the highwaymen are supposed to have taken after beating the jitney driver into insensibility. He was able to give a partial description of his assailants and tell how they had beaten and shot him and thrown him out along the roadside while they drove off in the jitney man's car. The ca...

From the New Jersey Mirror Jan 14 1920 Found lying unconscious along the road-side near Georgetown,on Saturday night, John Wormwood, a jitney driver, of Trenton, 54 years old, was taken in an army car to the hospital at Camp Dix where he revived sufficiently to tell how he had been attacked by three men dressed in soldiers' uniforms, whom he had taken in as passengers. He described the men and said that when a lonely spot hed been reached one of them, a shory stocky soldier, wearing an overseas cap, had beaten him over the head with a heavy army revolver. When attacked Wormwood said that he had $300 in money in his clothes. A search by the hospital authorities failed to find the money, which the highwaymen are supposed to have taken after beating the jitney driver into insensibility. He was able to give a partial description of his assailants and tell how they had beaten and shot him and thrown him out along the roadside while they drove off in the jitney man's car. The ca...