Tag: crime
This Week in Chester History
In 1992, local man Howard Silverman was charged with two counts of writing a bad check and two counts of theft by deception. He had been caught multiple times in Mendham, Summit, Union Township, Mountainside, Springfield, and Short Hills. Detective Gary Janes said Silverman wrote a $148 check to the Shop-Rite store at the Chester Springs Shopping Center which led to his arrest in Chester. Source: Observer-Tribune
This Week in Chester History…
Continuing last week’s story, in 1937, Eugene Vliet, the seventh defendant to be arraigned before Judge William R. Lucas on the statutory offense in Chester Borough, pleaded not guilty. The 36-year-old clerk of Chester Township was identified by the 13-year old boy in the case, as were nine other men. The boy identified Vliet as the man who took him for a ride on December 18th, 1936 and as the man who committed the offense in Hacklebarney State Park on the same date. The youth further identified three boys from the C.C.C. camp in Hackettstown, and claimed that the recruits were also guilty of the statutory offense. All of the men indicated by the boy were brought before a Grand Jury the following May. Source: Mendham-Chester Tribune.
This Week in Chester History…
Eight residents of Chester Borough and Chester Township were arrested on a serious statutory charge in 1937. They were arraigned before Justice of the Peace William R. Lucas in Dover, and five of the eight made $2,500 bail. Those arrested were Albert Cramer, LeRoy Landon, Stephen Messier, Radford Barkman, Reginald Rinehart, Albert Winkler, Eugene Vliet, and a minor boy (the victim). Source: Mendham-Chester Tribune.
This Week in Chester History
In 1938, the two young killers of Chester storekeeper Gilbert Y. Hopler received life imprisonment at hard labor in the state penitentiary. The trial was described in vivid and dramatic fashion on the front and back covers of The Mendham-Chester Tribune.
