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Washington Ketline is convicted again of policy dealing, Charles Gilbert is acquitted under the Storrs Law after the judges disagree, and ex-Judge Wescott claims the slips against Mrs. Harriett Smith and others are forgeries.
Washington Ketline, Mrs. Harriet Smith and her daughter Susie Smith Kinsey are each held in bail on charges of policy-writing, Camden Post, September 11, 1895.
Judge Vroom sentenced policy writers Walter Garwood, Harriett Smith, William Parker and Washington Ketline despite Harry S. Scovel's plea for leniency, and refused Joseph Swing of 509 Taylor Avenue and John Cochran as Ketline's bondsmen.
Judge Vroom of the Quarter Sessions Court gave policy sellers the full penalty of the law on May 24, 1895, sentencing Mrs. Harriet Smith of 750 Federal Street to one year in the penitentiary despite Lawyer Harry Scovel's appeal for clemency.