Gillmore Bishop charged with rape, 1922
New Jersey Courier 22 Dec 1922
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News from Tuckerton, 1921
NEW JERSEY COURIER 16 DEC 1921 The first arrest made by the newly organized state police force was in Tuckerton last week when Thomas Sandbo, a Texan, threatened to shoot up his father-in-law, Thomas Cale, and other members of his wife's family, and carried their baby from its home and left it with a neighbor across the street. State police brought Sandbo to the county jail. Cale's daughter, a girl in her teens, was visiting her sister in Colorado when she met and married Sandbo. They separated and she came home. The man came to Tuckerton last week and the events enumerated above followed in quick succession. Joseph Gilbert, of Tuckerton, a ma well along in his sixties, was tried Wednesday on the charge of rape upon Lavinia Penn, aged 13 year, daughter of Jacob Penn, of Tuckerton. Four little girls, Lavinia and her 11 year old sister Lydia,with Isabel and Sarah Miller of West Creek, also of like tender age, told their story in court and were unshaken by the cross examinatio