Barbara Ann Roberts

Police Make 11 Arrests Over Weekend

Bensalem Township Police Department has issued recent crime information Monday, June 25, which included 11 arrests.

Sunday, July 24: Michael Francis Mason, 39, 3400 block of Joyce Street in Philadelphia was arrested on an outstanding warrant by the Falls Township. He was arrested on the 2900 block of Lincoln Highway in Trevose, and was handed over to Falls Township Police.

Sunday, July 24: Andrew Coles, Jr., 51, 2300 block of Avenue Linconia in Trevose was arrested on an outstanding warrant out of Bucks County.He was arrested on the 2900 block of Lincoln Highway in Trevose and was submitted to the Ministry of Bucks County Sherrif.

Saturday, July 24: Aldin Rotech Tapia, 19 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Philadelphia, was arrested at Macy in Neshaminy Mall and charged with retail theft. He will receive a summons.

Sunday, July 24: Barbara Ann Bildstein, 60, 3000 block of Pine Road in Bensalem, was arrested and charged with a DUI on 400 block of Mill Road. She will receive a summons.

Saturday, July 23: 46-year-old Roberts S. Ritsky was arrested on the 900 block of Bristol Pike in Bensalem and charged with a DUI. He will receive a summons.

Saturday, July 23: Evan James Pollock was arrested on the 2200 block of Lincoln Highway in Trevose and charged with receiving stolen property. The 22-year-old from the 11000 block of Dumont Street in Philadelphia was sent to Bucks County Prison and bail was set at $10,000.

Saturday, July 23: Thomas Smith, 55, of the 5600 block of Cricket Lane in Bensalem was arrested and charged with simple assault and harassment. He was sent to Bucks County Prison and bail was set at $15,000.

Friday, July 22: 30-year-old Sara Lynn Colvin was arrested at Neshaminy Mall and charged with three counts of theft by unlawful taking and three county of receiving stolen property. Colvin, a resident of the 1200 block of State Road in Bensalem, was sent to Bucks County Prison in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Friday, July 22: 50-year-old James Gross of the 2800 block of Lafayette Ave., in Bensalem was arrested at the same address and charged with harassment. He will receive a citation.

Jane and His Lordship's Legacy: Being a Jane Austen Mystery, by ...

It is 1809, a significant year in the life of our esteemed authoress Jane Austen. After close to five years of being shuffled about England between relatives, the three unattached Austen ladies: widower Mrs. Austen and her two unmarried daughters Jane and Cassandra are given permanent refuge by Jane’s elder brother Edward Austen Knight in the village of Chawton. They will live at Chawton cottage the former residence of the recently deceased steward of Edward’s vast estate there. Still privately grieving the tragic death of her dear friend Lord Harold Trowbridge (The Gentleman Rogue) nine months prior, Jane arrives in the village to find an uneasy welcome to the Squire’s family. It appears that the villagers are unhappy that the widow of Edward’s former steward was asked to vacate the cottage in favor of his family, and more seriously, Edward as an absentee Squire has been remiss in his duties since the death of his wife Elizabeth the previous year.

Within hours of Jane’s arrival at the cottage she receives an unexpected visit from contemptuous Mr. Bartholomew Chizzlewit, attorney to the family of His Grace the Duke of Wilborough. Performing his duty as family solicitor, he deposits on Jane’s dining-parlor floor a curiously carved chest announcing that she is listed as a legatee in Lord Harold’s Last Will and Testament. His bequest (should she accept it) is that she accept his personal papers and diaries, “a lifetime of incident, intrigue, and conspiracy; of adventure and scandal; of wagers lost and won,” and write his life story! After the Duke of Wilborough’s family contested the legacy in a London court and lost, they are bitter about the arrangement and hold it against Jane. Not only is this startling news, the thought of reliving the Gentleman Rogues life, far before she met him, and then through his entire life as a spy for the British government, is both curious and painful to her. When the huge chest is removed into the cottage’s cellar, another startling discover brings Jane’s first day at Chawton to a scandalous close. A body of a man lies rotting and rat eaten on the floor.

Jane’s brother Henry arrives the next day and the inquest into the mysterious death begins by the local authorities with Jane and Henry in assistance. After Lord Harold’s trunk is stolen, Jane is convinced that it contains information that someone did not want her to discover. Could the theft be linked to the Wilborough family trying to cover up their son’s notorious life? Or, could it be the newcomers to the neighborhood, Julian Thrace, a young London Buck who is rumored to be the illegitimate heir apparent to the Earl of Holbrook vast wealth, and his half-sister Lady Imogen, the Earl’s acknowledged heir? Or, is the dead body in the cellar a personal vendetta by the bitter Jack Hinton, eager to make trouble for the Austen family? He claims to be the rightful heir to the Knight family estate of Chawton that Jane’s brother Edward inherited. There are suspects and motives, suppositions and accusations galore for our observant and clever Jane to ponder and detect before she solves the crime.

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