Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-19

SeAs~ nAAuSt Snaf8S 70 the Grand Jury.
The October term Of the Circuit
Court began to-day with Judges Mil
Ter and Jones on the bench The
Court selected Mr. Benjamio Wat
kins as foreman Of the grand Jury and
drew the balance of the grand Jury
10 the following order:
X. McKendree Davis. SamI. r
Waters. Michael Cusack. Amos n.
Clarke, James Brayshaw, James w.
Gray, j. Spence Howard, S. Raw
Inns Goodwin, Thos. II. Arnold. John
y. Tate, VIM. +. Ovens, Horace r.
Winchester, s. Baldwin, Richard II.
Green, Nelson Owens, John n.
DAYS., VIM. +. Thomas, Grafton
Munroe, Edward Hall. of b.. John
Shepherd, Horatio Tydings, j. G.
Hall. AgN
All the grand Jurors answered ex-
cept Mr.. Shepherd.
The. petit Jurors are the following:
Joseph Ford, JOHN w. Shipley,
Dennis Claude, Edward G Beard,
Julius A. Marriott. George b. " bite,
Julian Brewer, Lewis DuvalI. John
FL. Wells, P. Dorsey Carr, Richard
Welsh, John r. Mead Dao'l Duvall.
Jr, Lloyd Il, Dorsey, James S. Ben
son, Charles @ Feldmeyer, Henry
Tydings, Joseph Y Dove, George T..
Warfeld, Samuel s Tracey, Richard
A. Shipley, John G. Downs, VIM.
Jones, Cyrus N Joyce, Alexander II.
Judge Miller, 10 charging the jury
called attention TO the acts of 1868,
concerning unlawful abortion and en-
bezzlement by public officials. such a.
clerks of courts, sheriffs, register of
wills, and tax-collectors, and others
who handle public moneys. On exami-
ination or the docket, be said he had
found tbata number OF suits had been
instituated against q former tax col
lector who had failed to make good his
Indebtedness to the Board. He hoped
the jury would look diligently into the
case to see If it is one in which the
criminal law should interfere, add
ing that tax-collectors who failed to
make good their accounts deserve to
be rigidly punished for their neglect.
Judge Miller then read the new law
ia relation to tax.collectors in Anne
Arundel county by which the county
treasurer's Office was established in
place of separate collectors, and add
ed: 1.-THE law requires each grand
jury to appoint committee to ex-
anime the books in the treasurer's
Office and to report the result to the
county. The court has only to point
out your duty under the law, not
that there is the least suspicion of
anything wrong in the Office.
1t was very desirable, Judge Mil
Ter said, to select competent men on
the committee who could report, at
once if ANYTHING were needed to meet
the demands of the Office Attention
was also called to the local option law
which the Court of Appeals decided.
superseded all other liquor laws for
thescounty, and the jury was asked to
carefully enforce its provisions.
Among the lawyers in attendance
were States Attorney Munroe,
Messrs. James Revell, Nj Bannon, S.
Z. Mccullough, j. II. II ,dges, e. C.
CAN'T, John Ireland, f FL. Stuckett.
+ Engebe Wathen, +. Fl. Stockett,
jr !, j L. Briscoe. jr., f. Mullan, j.
@. A. Jones and Charles Stanley.
Seventeen prisoners are in jail
awaiting Investigation by the grand
jury. Included in these are six cases
Of larceny, two local-option cases,
three cases of keeping disreputable
houses and one each of infanticie. as
sault with intent to kill, wiie-beating,
placing distinctions on the Annapo-.
lie and EIkridge Railroad track and
hog poisoning. The Herman murder
case, from Baltimore, heads the list Of
the removed cases, aud will probably
be reached during the second week OF
court.