The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-02-17
THE NEWS
OF
MARYLAND

l.. F. Elosser. She is divorced.
Mrs. Crummitt recounted in detail
incidents noted by her on the day
of the death of Grace Elosser and
Charles E. Twigg. She said her
rooms joined that occupied by May
and she could hear much that oc'
Cured in the adjoining room.
At the time of the death she heard
no noise and no confusion, and she
was in position to see May going
and coming from her bath, but she
heard nothing and only learned OF
the tragedy when she heard cries OF
This is awful! My God, it must
be kept quiet"
She was not asked to tell what she
knew or to keep quiet by anyone
and had not been summoned to the
inquest before the coroner
Only a thin partition divides tn,
house. In the middle room. which
is Mrs. Crummitt's dining room
there is door which connects with
the middle room Of that portion OF
the house wherein the Elosser family
lives, and this room was occupied BY
Miss Grace Elosser as a sleeping
apartment
Mrs. Crummitt told the defective
and DR.. Koon that she heard distinct
ly what had transpired in the Elosse
home after the finding of the bodies
Because she was not summoned and
never interrogated by the authori.
ties she had remained silent unit.
now.
Mrs. Crummitt has been living il
the Elosser home for several months
and was recently employed at the
Inn, on North Mechanic street, as 6
domestic About two years ago she
obtained divorce.
Prince Frederick The ASSESSOR
of the real and personal property in
Calvert county under the reassess
ment act of 1910 have made their re
| turns to the county commissioners
| sitting as a board of control and re.
| view, of all the property assessed by
them in the county. The new enum.
Grafton shows a decided increase ir
all three districts of the county and
a total increase of $544,923 The
largest increase is in the first district.
$285, ADJ, and the smallest in the
third district, $4,000. The increase
in the second district is $147,4O2
The new lists show the taxable basis
for the first district to be $1,O64,797;
the second district. $S19.744, and the
third district. $1,100, 900; total, $2,.
9S4,541. The old basis of assessment,
was $2,494,357.
napolis.-Annapoli and Anns
Arundel county physicians have called
halt on contract" work. No mem
Der of the County Medical Society, t.
which organization nearly all of the
physicians belong, is allowed to be
come the physician for fraternal OIL
other societies having insurance OF
other sick benefit features, and those
who held such positions have re.
signed them, in accordance with the
action taken by the medical society
The reason for this action is ethical
the advertising and other features OF
1t being regarded as undignified and
unprofessional. So the fraternal or.
ders are in dilemma, as the physi
| clan is practically an officer of such
societies, though the only one who re.
ceiveS compensation for his services.
Hagerstown. - Thirty merchants
met in Grand Army Hall and organ.
lied the Hagerstown Business Mems
Association, with the following Off
GERS:
President-W. S. Smith.
Vice-President-J. Frank Beck.
Executive Board-A. NJ. Horst,
William H. Wilson, Henry K. Hoch,
Robert G. Keller, H. c. Main, H. F.
Miller and Clayton Howard. The OBJ
ject is mutual protection, abatement
of trade abuses, and dissemination of
useful information to protect the
merchants against fraudulent custo-
mers.
Lonaconing-The annual meeting
IF the stockholders of the Maryland
Coal Company was held here. 1t was
decided to develop on large scale
all the holdings. The company is
one of the largest holders of coal oil
in the Georges creek field, as well as
in Taylor county. West Virginia
They operate the Kingsland, Detmold,
Tyson and Wendell mines.
Annapolis. Navy Department
accepted the resignation of Morton
L. Ring as member of the fourth
class of midshipmen at the Naval
Academy. Ring was appointed from
New York and entered the academy
July 10, 1910. Deficient in studies
was the reason.
| Cumberland.-Mrs Eliza Helm is
dead at Masontown, from the effects
of a spider bite. She was bitten on
the wrist three months ago and, de-
spite the work of medical experts,
the infection spread. She leaves four
| children She was a half-sister of |