The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1905-04-14
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The Circuit Court.

The second week Of April term of the
Circuit Court convened here on Monday
with Judges Merrick and Crane on the
bench.
The following cases have been tried
since our last issue:
State vs. Winfield Lunes, indictment
for larceny. tried before the Court; YER
dict not guilty. Magruder for State
Merrck and Roberts for prisoner
Slatevs Joseph Timbers, Rhoder New
man and Melville Newman, indictment
for larceny. tried before the Court yer
dict guilty Magrudrr for State, Merrick
and Roberts for prisoner.
Safe vs. Ch;smnre, indictment for
larceny. tried Ivy jury. and verdict OF not
guilty Mag:u Ter f.r State. Wells for
prisoner.
State.vs. Daniel O'Connell, Indictment
for selling liquor on Sunday; Guilt con
fessel. Ma ri Ter for Stat 7. K. Rober
for prisoner.
The Olendorf case has been postponed
until the e5th instant.
The Grand Jury which comp eted its
work on Saturday and was discharged.
submitted the following report:
The Grand Jury for the April term of
the Circuit Court, respectfully re ''rt that
during its session of six days it has ex-
smined SO witnesses, made IL present
ments and found IL true bills.
In our report to this Honorable Court
relative to the present condition of the
county iail, which we have visit d and
found confined therein, IL male prisoners
of whom 10 are colored and white, We
have to report that its interior is i'll mt
condition, except that i number of win
dow ishts are broken in some Of the up
stairs rooms, thus letting in the cold air
which 10 not conduc We To the go "a health
of The present inmates. The yard ad,
iacent is deserving Of our special refer
snce, in that there Is loo 'ted III It's rear
Cess poo which is the depository Of al.
the offaI from the Jail The sanitary C IN
ditiop il from necessity bad, as this hole
in,the ground as the depository for gar
bSge, on account of its proximity To th',
iaiI must breed germs such as will pro
duce malaria aud typhoid fever. We can
sec that under present conditions 1t l.
hardly possible to remedy the very tie
pfurable condition Of affairs, uut We have
no hesitancy in recommending that some
system Of sewerage be inaugurated which
would carry off this refuse and thus
minimize the chances OF malaria the germ
of which must be Z. n -ratsd here.
We believe that the proper parties to
remedy this evil, is the Board OF County
Commissioners, and we certainly do
think that the people of Upper Marlboro
demand this assistance from that Board
The cost, We conceive, will be insight
fcant as compared with the good to &C
crue and we recommend this for the con
sideration of the County Commissioners
From information at hand, with ref
erence To the violators of law in various
sections of the county. we report tina. in
Bladensburg district particularly. mere
are saloons which seem to think that tn:
sale of liquor on Sunday and prize fight
ing during the week is a privilege which
goes with their tic .nse to sell lawfully
We are sorry to report, that despite our
strenuous tff ,lts to obtain convincing
evidence, which woll warrant an indict-
ment no one is sufficiently we'll posted.
except in instances where We have fOInd
true bills, to inform our b 'dy of actual
violations of Jaw. We are unable to &C
count for tins except, that, the cnnstabu
larry is der 1t in its du Y or p.werless
on account Of their being known t" the
offenders. ,-r because those who freqcen.
such place, are dis;ncllned to see the
proprietOrs presented.
We recommend in this connection that
the Clerk of the Court consider the good
of the community, when application for
the licenses are made in May and that hs
refuse to issue the same III these Instances
where the applicants arc frequent viola
l.~, t. = f,r Lao
the revenue to come from the granting Of
licenses to such places and thus save tn.
community the bad mural tff-ct produc
ed by their RI; stcnce, than to issue the
license arRisus the county considerable
trouble in bringing such persons to JUS
tice.
We are led to believe that there have
been instances, both before the Justices
of the Peace in Biaden burg and Hyalts
vile district; where persons have been
arrested without just cause, brought b.
fore them and tried for no specific ofense
and sent to the House Of Correction to
serve a sentence for supposed vagrancy
when in point IF fact the purpose seems
to be scheme to aid cOnstables in pr :
curing the compensation allowed by law
for carrying persons to that institution
We are told OF instances where c"nsta
bles are reported to have allowed actual
violations of the law to go at large upon
payment of a personal hush money fund
to them.
We are not disposed to give publicity
to these reports, but think simple refer
ence will tend to convince those whose
)nsc!ence smte them that u simple al
fusion will accomplish the purpose Of
putting y quietus to such practices if they
&C uallY exist.
We have appointed Committee to
visit the Aims House, whose report is ap
pended hereto, and which We have
approved.
We are indebted to the States Attor
ne Tor the valuable assistance to our
body III all matters submitted for our con
sideration. We thank, ais The Bailiff to
the Grand Jury for his uniform courtesy.
Having thus completed our work, We
submit this, our report, and respectfully
ask to be discharged
Respectfully submitted,
ELISHA K BEERY, Foreman.
THos. NJ. BALDWIN, Jr, Sec'y
AIMS HOUSE REPORT.
We the undersigned committee appoint
ed by the Grand Jury of Prince Georges
county to the Aims House report as fol-
lows:
We find twenty seven inmates, 19
white males, white female. 8 colored
males, 5 colored females. We tind the