Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-11
THE EASTERN SHORE.
A Fugitive Forger Gives Himself Up
Judge Pages Charge to the Grand Jury
About the Somerset Murder and Lynch
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Judge Pages Charge to the Grand Jury
About tile Somerset Murder and Lynch
Ing.
ELKToS, MD., Oct. S.-A stranger
entered the Office Of the Jail at Elkton
this afternoon, and after conversing for
short time with Sheriff G. j. White,
informed the sheriff that his name was
William w. Phillips, and his residence
was Greenport, l.. l., and that he came
there for the express purpose of giving
himself up t. the authorities. He told
the sheriff that he was wanted by the
New York authorities for forgery, COM
mittcd at Bay Shore, l.. l., and that the
reason why he gave himself up was be-
cause he was tired OF running, and be-
ing constantly in dread of the officers of
the law.
Sheriff White put him in cell, and
has telegraphed the authorities at Bay
Shore for advice. The man is well
dressed, but his clothing shows signs of
long tramp. He stated that he was
not u tramp, and all that would be nee
essary to do would be TO telegraph to
Police Justice Vail of Bay Shore, mott.
flying him that phillips" was in Gus
tody. 1t was thought that perhaps the
man is George p. Sage, who escaped
from Bel Air Jail and gave himself up in
order to get out of the reach of Mary
land justice.
UNFOLDING THE LAW.
PRINCESS ANNE, Nd, Oct. 8.-The
circuit court for Somerset county con-
vened at Princess Anne this morning,
with Judges Page and Lloyd on the
bench. Daniel W. Miles of Fairmont
was sworn as foreman of the grand
most substantial men in the county.
Chief Judge Page, in charging the grand
jury, referred to the recent murder of
Constable Carver and the subsequent
lynching of Isaac Kemp, one OF the
negroes charged with the murder.
The judge charged the jury to make
a thorough investigation of that matter
and bring to the bar of justice to be
tried all those who participated in the
murder of the constable. The judge
further said it was his duty to call the
attention of the grand jury to another
matter. An act had been committed
which is without parallel in the crimi-
nal history of Somerset county. 1t was
stated that person had been killed in
the county Jail without warrant of law.
If this was SO, it is murder of the most
deliberate character, and it is the duty
of the jury to find an indictment for
murder in the first degree against those
who participated in this crime. If such
an occurrence as this was allowed to go
unnoticed, it would be the seyerest blow
to law and good government that ever
happened in this county, and it would
result in destroying that reverence for
law which should exist iii every we'll
governed community. He called upon
the jury for the sake of the best inter-
csts of justice to give this matter a
thorough and rigid Investigation and by
so doing they would vindicate the
county where love of law has always
characterized its citizens and made it
pre-emincntly prominent among the
counties of the State.
AN oYsTERMAN DROWNED.
EAsToN, MD, Oct. S.-Two young
men named Robinson and Woolford,
while going home to Oxford on Satur-
day from their days work at oystering,
upset their boat, Il bugeye, in the Chop
tank river, near Tood's Point. Woolford
was drowned. Robinson managed to get
on the boat, where he remained from Z
o'clock in the evening until O'Clock
next morning, when he was rescued.
He became unconscious as soon as he
was taken off, the exposure and fatigue
having prostrated him, but is all right
again now. Woolford's body has not
been recovered.