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raiJUfl! dUffllLItComlnuwJ from Pa*e One)-I—IlavlatyeiCltmuanCOIeri01iSathCcasBUleiyoa1-:enhave a man pign a false affidavit or to send, him money to ke^p away from court.The complaint against the*Htrsch Brothers was the result of the delivery of a load of coal to the home of A. B. Nelson, 237 East Hanover Street, February 26 last. The case was- brought before Judge Naar and adjourned twice- Because, .of the fight to keep the case from being decided against the defendants, O'Don-ovan spent two. weeks in Camden and hereabouts getting statements from persong_jgaid to be involved.- O'Honova-n - ' produced-. Herman Hatcher tn court, after Lawyer Kafea declared that he had not been able to get 4n touch with the witness, wl^o had’been missing and on whose account the case had been postponeduntil toda¥■Hatcher slated that Tuesday mbm-ing, March 2, Charles Hirsch gave : do him a note addressed to William-tit Hirsch, a brother of Charles, to he ; pr delivered at the office of William, 'a WilllAm, he satd, then accused him j as of stealing the coal* which he delt;- 1 hi nied. The following day- Hatcher i Ki said Charles sent for him and took i h* him to the office of William, where | the two brothers asked him to sign | P an 'affidavit' to the effect that he had j . taken’some coal from the load that ! * was delivered to Nelson‘B, pleading that they would have to get out of the scrape that they were in. Hatcher said he consented to help them out. That same afternoon Hatcher said Charles asked' him to call at WH- • ot Ham’s office again, at which time : they asked him if he had any place h' where he could go for a week or so. j % as everything, would be all right after ’ j1 the iria1“ Hatcher-said he agreed to , go away but requested that Charles | .go see his mother before he went. He i said that William called instead on . u Mrs. Edltfi Stroud, his mother, the j *same evening, at. which time, he agreed to pay for • clothes that lt;* Hatcher had secured on installments. ; Hatcher declared that William prom- fc Isril to make him stable boas at a ;.salary of $l» a wpfk, which was an ;increase-*ijfx$4.50 “over wlia.t^hlt;* was receiving. He also promised.^ heM)?ttvdasr-.*dloie\s*1-*dinsaid, to *ak* good care of him,fwlDile he was away from the city, j/vHatcher went on to say hrxjartef called on. William by appointment, and Willfam gave him $10 toj^ave the city. While away, he said he received *5 at one time and $10 at another. He (Kid three talks, he said, with the Hlrsch office over the long j -distance telephone in reference to the ; v case, talking with both Charles and \ William, who told him that things ; were going along nicely, ;He said that on Thursday of this week he called up Charles on the-telephone and told, him that a strangetsr-'“S,a*man was following him oVi the streets c^cjf Camden and that he feired that ; * Something was wrong He said.that Charles fold titm to go over to rhita- : y delphia for awhile, as itJvould only |1,A hofht-e '* PVprVlhitlC 1
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Trenton Evening Times
Trenton, New Jersey, US
Sat, Mar 20, 1915
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