Ocean County , NJ History

New Jersey Courier 29 Aug 1901

Ocean Emblem 2 Oct 1854

Ocean Emblem 21 Jan 1857

Ocean Emblem 14 Jan 1857

New Jersey Courier 15 Oct 1903

from New Egypt Press 25 Jun 1915

NEW JERSEY OCEAN COUNTY --COURT FOR THE TRIAL OF SMALL CAUSES, HOLDEN BEFORE WARREN G. ABBE, JUSTICE JOHN M. CONWAY JOHN LUNION (SP?) AND LEONARD PAULSON JR. PARTNERS TRADING AS JOHN M. CONWAY AND CO. PLAINTIFFS ON DEBT ON ACCOUNT DEMAND $22.57 VS. JOHN HANCE AND CHARLES V. HANCE PARTNER TRADING AS JOHN HANCE AND SON, DEFENDANT 1874 NOV 14 A SUMMONS IN THE ABOVE CASE TETURNABLE BEFORE ME ON THE 23D INSTANT AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON. NOV 23 SMITH COWDRICK CONSTABLE RETURNED THE SUMMONS AS FOLLOWS. SERVED THE -- ON CHARLES V. HANCE, NOV 16 BY READING IT TO HIM AND GIVING HIM A COPY. JOHN HANCE NOT BEING FOUND I SERVED IT ON HIM NOV 16TH, 1874 BY LEAVING A COPY THEREOF AT HIS OUSE IN PRESENCE OF CHARLES V. HANCE, HIS SON, ONE OF HIS FAMILY, A FREE PERSON OF THE AGE OF FOURTEEN YEARS WHO WAS INFORMED BY ME OF THE CONTENTS THEREOF. NOV 23 THE PLAINTIFFS APPEARED AND FILED THEIR STATE OF DEMAND AND A COPY OF THEIR ACCOUNT WITH AN AFFIDAVIT O...

Grand Jury Indictments, Sep 30 1936 All of these indictments were handed down by the grand jury in late September 1936: Kenneth Martingale(sic), of New York, for involuntary homicide, by automobile, of William Chase in Bass River township on June 27th. Martindale's car struck Chase and the latter died from his injuries. Arthur Rachor is charged with embezzlement of $1,500 from the State of New Jersey while he was employed at Four Mile Colony. Stacy Wilkins, Evesham, seduction under promise to marry Doris Day, under 21 years of age. Otto Dush, Florence, uttering(sic) worthless ceck(sic) for $200 to Alexander Dasakl. William Gross, Moorestown, assault and battery on Lulu Gross; also desertion and neglect. Harry W. Gifford, Pemberton township, assault and battery on Thomas F. Duff. William Wheeler, Florence, assault and battery on May Wheeler. Earl Schwed, Burlington, malicious mischief, consisting of throwing eggs at gas pump and building of Clarence Curlis. ...

New Jersey Mirror 23 Feb 1921 Harry Paul, of Mount Holly, son of David S. Paul, the murdered bank runner, of Camden, had been in attendance at the trial of Raymond Shuck, one of the murderers of the elder Paul, in Camden, when he was interviewed by a newspaper reporter on Monday. Here is what he said after stating that his mother hs been in failing physical condition ever since the tragedy, and that he feared she would die as the result of "No matter what happens to these(as written) her grief and the shock of the crime: men(as written) Schuck and James -it will not bring my father back to me. "I feel terribly sorry for the families of James and Shuck. No one has any idea of my sympathy for them. "But as for the men themselves, their conscience must be racked by the knowledge that their days seem to be numbered, and their end will be the electric chair. I cannot say I want to see them die as murderers. I cannot move myself to voice such an expression. "I cling to ...

New Jersey Courier 20 Feb 1879: The members of the New Egypt M.E. Church gave an Oyster supper last Thursday and Friday evenings for the benefit of their fund. The affair was conducted on the European plan, which proves more beneficial. Receipts, over $75. An interesting trial came off last Saturday afternoon, by his honor, Justice Hartshorn, between Samuel Stout, colored, vs. David C. Wall. Stout brought his suit against Wall to recover arrearages of wages due him for work. Both men were represented by able counsel. Samuel irons for plaintiff, W. Cranmer for defendant. Decision reserved.

New Jersey Mirror 6 Feb 1921 Faces Jury With a Smile: Mystery Woman Appears; Kept From Reporters-State's Surprises. Twice postponed, the trial of Raymond W. Shuck, of Camden, for the murder of David S. Paul, the bank messenger whose body was found in a shallow grave in the pines of this county last fall, was commenced in the Camden county court on Monday. Supreme Court Justice Katzenbach and County Judge Kates wer on the bench. There was the same large crowd present at the sessions on the opening day as attended the trial of Frank J. James, who earlier was convicted of murder in the first degree for his part in the dastardly murder and is now awaiting sentence.Shuck, dapper and apparently confident of escaping the electric chair, sat beside his counsel, J. Russell Carrow, while the jury was being selected and appeared to take a keen interest in the selection of the talesmen. Frequently he leaned over to confer with his lawyer as though to offer suggestions as to the acceptabil...

from New Jersey Mirror 29 Jan 1908 On Saturday of this week Theodore Wills term of imprisonment for his alleged connection with the manslaughter of David Beebe, at Chairville, a few months ago, will come to an end and the young man will again have his freedom. Judging from some of the remarks that Wills has made to friends who have been permitted to see him it is evidently his intention to retire from the turf and lead the simple life.

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.

New Jersey Mirror 29 Dec 1920 The trial of Raymond W. Schuck for the murder of David S. Paul, has been postponed from January 4 to February 7. Application for the postponement was made before Supreme Court Justice Katzenbach at Camden on Monday, by J. Russell Carrow, counsel for Schuch. Prosecutor Wolverton did not interpose any objection. The ground on which the postponement was asked was that time might be given for the drawing of a special jury panel. The postponement of Schuck's trial may result in putting off the sentencing of his confederate in crime, Frank James, already convicted of murder in the first degree. The State may want to use James as a witness against Schuck. The latter claims that he entered into no plot with James to murder Paul and that he had nothing to do with the actual killing, James said that Schuck was as deep in the revolting crime as the former and that as a matter of fact Schuck struck some of the blows that caused death. There is no attempt made to ...

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...

From the New Jersey Mirror 20 Nov 1907 Judge Horner held a session of court this morning and sentenced Caleb Rogers, convicted of manslaughter, to the Rahway Reformatory, and Theodore Wells, convicted of atrocious assault, to three months in the county jail and to pay a fine of $200. After a series of postponements, the trial of Caleb Rogers, Theodore Wells and Walter Simons, of Tabernacle, under an indictment charging them with manslaughter in connection with the death of David Beebe, at Chairville, on April 27, was begun on Thursday and ended on Friday afternoon, with the result that after about twenty hours of deliberation, terminating at one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a verdict was rendered convicting Rogers of manslaughter, Wells of atrocious assault and battery, and acquitting Simons. The jury was confronted with a difficult task, as the case was more or less complicated in view of some of the testimony that was surprisingly contradictory. The crime that resulted in ...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 20 SEP 1918: One of the results of the Toms River fight against booze in the local option election last May showed itself on Monday of this week when George W. Hallock, owner and editor of the New Jersey Tribune of Toms River, appeared in court before Judge Frank Davis of Gloucester county to answer to an indictment for criminal libel against Judge Wm. Howard Jefrey of the Ocean County Courts. In the fight that attempted to drive legalized booze from both Dover and Berkeley townships, the Tribune was the organ of the liquor interests, and printed their arguments. Anyone who had the rashness to oppose the liquor men, could look to receive a flaying in its columns. While Judge Jeffrey made no secret of the fact that personally he was opposed to the liquor trade, as a judge of the court who had to sit in license cases, he held aloof from the combat. That, however was not enough to satisfy the liquor element, whose motto was 'All that are not with us are against us...

New Jersey Courier 17 Sep 1903 The trial of CHARLES BENNETT, of Tuckerton, for the murder of MRS. MARY A . DARBY on the morning of Christmas Day, was begun before Justice BENNETT VAN SYCKEL at ten o'clock Monday morning. For the state, Prosecutor BROWN was aided by I.W. CARMICHAEL of Toms River, EDMUND WILSON of Red Bank, and SAMUEL A. PATTERSON of Asbury Park defending Bennett. It took but an hour and fifteen minutes to secure a jury, the defence exhausting its twenty peremptory challenges for cause being allowed the defence by the court, and the State using seven challenges. The jury consists of : J. WESLEY BREWER, electrician, Lakewood WALTER C. HYDE, carpenter, Lakewood WILLIAM T. GIBERSON, lumber dealer, Toms River PETER Y. VEEDER, farmer, Bayville CHARLES WILLIAMS, farmer, Forked River SAMUEL BROCKWAY, farmer, Bayville GEORGE W. ANDERSON, laborer, Point Pleasant CLARENCE HARDY, undertaker, Point Pleasant CHARLES STOUT, farmer, Cedar Creek JOHN W. WHITE, mason, Whit...

From New Jersey Mirror 11 Sep 1907 At the session of court held by Judge Horner on Thursday morning application was made by Eckard P. Budd, counsel for Caleb Rogers, for a new date for the trial of his client, Walter Simons and Theodore Wells, charged with the manslaughter of Howard Beebe, at Chairville, in April. This trial was set down to begin today, but Mr. Budd was informed last week that a case in which he is interested in the Ocean county branch of the Supreme Court would be called to-day, and he could not attend both courts. Beyond stating that he was ready and anxious to try the cases Prosecutor Atkinson did not oppose the motion made by Mr. Budd, and after a conference in the matter it was decided to call the case on October 1.

From New Jersey Mirror 22 Jul 1936 Overgrown Jacob Ciemiengo celebrated his seventeenth birthday in the death house of State Prison, Trenton, on Thursday, happy because his life had been spared by the Court of Pardons. Scheduled to die the week of July 26 for the $4 holdup-murder of Herman Eilers, Florence township farmer, Ciemiengo and his companion, George Hildebrand, 27, had had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment on Tuesday two days before. The six-foot farmer boys awaited removal to another prison cell after official notice of the court's action was received by Principal Keeper Lagay. One of his attorneys, Stanley K. Heilbron, quoted the youth as saying, "I will show them I can make good." He reiterated this promise to his parish priest, Rev. M. A. Konopka of All Saints' Church, Burlington. He told the priest he intends to learn a trade in the prison shops and prepare himself for a useful life. Father Konopka, a prime mover in the drive to obtain a c...