Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-02-07
County Court Proceedings.

In reporting the proceedings of the
Jefferson County Court, the Advocate
of Saturday last gives the following
account of the matter in which the
residents of Harper's Ferry have been
SO deeply interested:
The most interesting part Of Wednes-
days proceedings was that in reference
to the proposed closing of the county
road from the Old Furnace TO Harper's
Ferry. In September, 1908, the court
had entered an order permitting the
Cherry Run and Potomac Valley
Railroad TO close that section Of the
road TO enable the railroad company
to lay its tracks on the then newly sur
veyed route from Shepherdstown o
Harper's Ferry. a storm of protest
was raised against the order at the time,
but owing to the exigency in which the
railroad company then found itself, the
order was granted. Time proved, how
ever, that the Cherry Run and Poto-
mac Valley Company was a company
on paper only, and the proposed route
from Shepherdstown to Harper's Ferry
1.-The baseIess fabric of d Wis on" More
recently, though, it was rumOred that
the Baltimore & Ohio had succeeded
to the rights OF the mythical Cherry
Run concern and that the former com
pauy intended TO exercise the right
either to close the county road, or so
encrOach upon it as 10 compel the coun-
" to abandon it, or build Il roadbed out
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Harper's Ferry citizens bent on circum-
venting the Ba timOre Il Ohio Company
came into court and asked that the or
der of September, 1903, be resclnded
The request was not only granted, out
the court went further, and States At
torney Mason was Instructed TO take
any legal steps that might be found
necessary to prevent the railroad COM
pany from closing the road. 1t is said
TO be part of the railroad company's
plaLs to build an additional track
through Harper's Ferry, and to do this
the county road in question would have
TO be used as roaubed for the addi-
tional track, unless great expense be
incurred by the construction of the
new track on the side of the main
tracks.
The offer OF Capt. q. @. Getzen-
danner to turn over t. tn ) county the
equipment OF the ferry at Shannon
dale Springs, provided the county
would operate 1t as free ferry, was
declined.
Sheriff J. W. Gardner returned
miscellaneous and road orders, amount.
ing in all to $l6,52l.30.
The sum of fifty dollars was order
ed to be paid over to the Prosecuting
Attorney for the purpose Of procur.
ing witnesses. against Archie Tolman,
colored, now In jail for the killing of
James Venle, cOlored, at the power
plant of the Winchester and Wash
Ington Electric Company at the Brick
Mil last September. At the Novem-
Der term OF the Circuit Court the
Grand Jury failed to indict Tol'mtn
TOR the reason that all the principal
witnesses to the homicide had left the
county, and there was no one to APP
pear against him, although 1t was pat
ent that murder had been com
mitted. Judge Faulkner ordered
that Tolman be kept in custody until
the necessary witnesses could be pro-
cured. The leading witness for the
State lives at Louisa, KY, and two
others make their heme at Basic City,
Va. All the witnesses were employ
Ell on the construction work at the
Brick Mill, but lett for their respect.
i've homes when the work there was
finished.