Evening star., 1896-10-06
CASES To BE TRIED.
Court COnvenes for October Term At
Upper Marlboro.


Upper Marlboro.
Correspondence of The Evening Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Oct 8. 1896.
The regular October jury term of the
circuit court for Prince Georges county
met here today.
This will be an unusually long session
of court, owing to the large number Of
criminal cases to be investigated by the
grand jury and tried by the courts and
petit jury; also the cases on the civil dock
cts are more numerous than Is customary.
Chief Judge John Briscoe and Associate
Judge John B. Brooke were on the bench.
After the grand jury were sworn and Mr
Joseph NJ. Kendrick was appointed fore
man, Judge Brscoe delivered the charge
to the grand jury. The judge in his charge
referred to the number and atroc1ousness
of the crimes recently committed in this
county, and In speaking of the raping and
murder of Miss Marguerite Drown at Seat
Pleasant, near Benning, d. c., In this
county, said that the court had no aD-
prehension that the trial Of the culprit would
not be as speedy as possible, and also
that there would not be any mob violence,
as there was no necessity for II. Ine
judge then called the attention of the jury
to the crimes that would be brought be-
fore them, consisting of murder, infant1-
eide, burglary, larceny, resisting an off1cer,
robbery, retit larceny, and so on.
After the grand jury retired the court
began the call of the dockets and assigning
dates in cases during the session. The,
dockets show: Criminal appeals. Z; criminal
trials, II; recognlzances, p; petitions, 2
appeals, 30; trials TO- and appearances, 73
There are three murder cases to De tried
at this term of the court. The most afro
cious of these offenses to be tried will be
the case of James T. Smith, colored, for
the raping and murder of Miss Marguerite
Drown, at Seat Pleasant, near Benning.
d. c.. Tuesday. July y, 1896. smith is
! now in the Baltimore city Jail, where he
was taken from Washington after his cap
ture to save him from a lynching-which
would have occurred If he had been
brought here after he was captured in
Washington.
Mr.. Mordecai Plummer's case will be
tried here at this term of the court. He IS
charged with cutting the throat Of DR..
VIM. W. Waring here on the evening CT
| August g. 1896. in row in Plummer's sa-
| loon. DR.. Waring only lived TWO hours
after and died unconscious at his home
| here. Mr.. Plummer was arrested, but af-
terward released on bail of S6Ooo. He
| claims that he committed the act In self
defense. There are eighteen prisoners N
! Jail, and four out on bail. Among the
| lawyers in attendance at today's session
| Of the court We're Messrs. George Z. Mer-
| rick. Chas H. Stanley, Richard e. Brandt,
| Jos. X. Roberts, Marion Duckett, Z. Z.
Magruder. Joseph S. Wilson, Elbert Dent.
| Fillmore Beall, F.. D. Graves. Judge r. 3.
| b. Chew, r. B. B. Chew. jr., Roger E.
| BELLS and F. Snowden Hill.
The grand jury drawn to Investigate the
crimes are: Jesse Smallwood, Joseph NJ.
| kendrick. Joseph Walker, Milton j. Payne,
| Lemuel F. Lusby. Scott Armstrong, Samuel
| p Hook Benjamin H. Brown, George NJ.
| Thomas, John P. Hurd, Edward d. Boteler,
| jr William E. Seager, W. ST. Clair
HeiskeI Eleab NJ. Bunnell. Egbert u.
Rude, George l.. Gibbons. Columbus
| Pumphrey Richard H. Sansbury, Richard
Hardesty. ST.. Richard E. NARROW, William
| II. Yoe, Anthony L. Ray, Theodore F.
King.
| With the assistance of the court the fol-
| lowing petit jurors will dispose of the
| cases, criminal and civil: First weeks jury
Henry l.. Taylor, Joseph H. Young of
John. Adam Wischter, George w. Hopkins,
William E. Swami, John P. Hopkins. James
Dyer. Alfred Griffith. colored; Edward f.
| Duvall. John l.. Barnes, John w. F. Hat
| ton, William H. Grimes. Arthur Snowden.
| colored: Albert F. Jenkins. Trueman c.
| Slirgluff, Logan Green. colored; William P.
| Bryan Charles W. Randall. Thomas E.
Rawlings Joshua T. Clarke, Richard B.
| Perrie Second weeks jury-John Hyde,
| John W. Bowie, MaZZini Duckett, William
| D. Pyles. Thomas NJ. Keech, James Brown,
| Robert H Robinson, William Berry, Thonl-
| as 3. Gwynn, William Barron. Isaac Ball
| Sprigg o. Beall, William Stewart. John NJ
| Bowie, William II. Shuler, Monroe S. Ship
ley, Thomas H. Houston, Edward L. Beall
John A. Dixon, Ernest A. Brooke, Albert
H. s. Connick. Allen P. Bowie. Joseph L.
| Martin, Michael Smith, William H. Hamil
ton