Milford chronicle., 1911-07-07
GEORGETOWN.


sance in the local market
Three stitches had to be taken in the
Eeft leg Of William wilkins By DR.. J. B.
NAPLES, Jr., as the result of glancing
AK hitting it while chopping wood. He
has been unable to work since the acci-
dent
The Fourth passed off in Georgetown
quietly, many of the residents making
trips to Milford Lewes, Rehoboth and
Salisbury. The public buildings were
s,losed all day.
Elmer Gordy, residing near this town,
mad the little finger Of his right hand cut
of in a peculiar manner while returning
no his home with horse. The young
man was riding in carriage and was
leading the animal BY a rope which he
was holding from the rear Of the vehicle.
The rope was wrapped about the hand
and little finger. and he was driving
aalong unconcerned when suddenly the
horse being led refused to follow. With
the team which was being driven still
going and the one being led stopping,
before he could free himself from the
rope the little finger was cut off.
Friday the bribery cases are expected
20 come up in court. Three cases are
sdocketed for trial-Samuel Scott, Benja-
min Conaway and Frank Richards. Quite
a little interest will likely be manifested
m these cases as they are all that resulted
from the strenuous effort of the Attorney
General to apprehend bribers and bribe-
gEakers in his campaign last year
w. Frank Sharp narrowly escaped
death last Tuesday when he went into
AN outbuilding to get hatchet to crack
;some ice and an adze on the shelf fell
and hit him on the head. A cash about
an inch in length was inflicted, but for
etunately not deep. Had the adze hit him
'squarely.on the top Of the head, it is be-
dieved from the distance it fell, it would |
fhave entered his brain.
After occupying the attention of the
court from 10 O'Clock Thursday morning |
of last week until about O'Clock that
afternoon, jury was finally drawn to
riry the case of Edgar Walls, white, of
Laurel, indicted for murder in the first
degree of George B. Hudson, also white,
e9f Bethel, which was the outcome of the
mot had at Laurel on Saturday night,
April 1st, of this year. Seventy-five
vrvere called, and out of the number
irwenty seven had scruples, eight were
excused by the court for having opinions
rthat could not be changed by the law
and evidence in the case and because of
sickness, ten were challenged by the
State and eighteen by the defense. Thirty
two of the men called were drawn from
the body of Sussex county, and out of
zhat number only four were selected.
Probably for the first time in the history /
Of The Sussex County Courts has it been
to go on the outside of the
court room to obtain men to sit on acase. \
But in this case it became necessary for
Depaty Sheriff to make three trips about ,
the town in order to get men, and then Z
he did not succeed. The court before I
the recess instructed him to summon I
the afternoon session, and if it were i'm 9
possible to get enough in the town to v
serve on the jury to go on the outside f
from the list OF talismen, c
enough we're secured to complete the ii
iury. The FIRST witness called BY the h
State was Dr. James NJ. Dick, who for r,
sixteen years has been head surgeon at il
the Peninsula General Hospital at SAL a
isbury, Md, where Hudson was taken D
early Sunday morning after the shoot Il
ing. He described the nature of the il
wound inflicted, and stated that Hudson ii
was shot in several places on the right OF
side of the body and in the calf of the A
right leg. The wounds, he testified, were at
not considered by him when Hudson was cl
taken to the hospital, as being of SER al
.Ous nature, but shortly after he had ca
reached the hospital that gangreue de- a
geloped and it became necessary for him bl
to amputate the member After the op- al
Grafton be began to get weaker, and on OF
.he following Tuesday died. He stated ia
hat his death was caused indirectly from sa
the gunshOt wound. From the examin- ia
ation he said the shot with which the h'
shell was charged were No. SIS James a
Williams, an employe in John Thomp- h,
aon's barber shop, testified that he was sh
ia the shop about 11.3O O'Clock on the til
night of the riot, and he heard shots fired W
3own the street from him Finally he a
heard a man cry out, and in few sec he
,nds heard another outcry. Upon going tn
,ut to ascertain what had happened, he wi
ound Hudson trying to get up, but was he
Unable to do so. He picked Hudson up he
md took him into the barber shop. or
thompson, owner of the barber shop, to
tated that he was standing about two As
eet from the door when the second dis to
harge of the gun was made, and that rel
he load passed through the panel of the he
oor and four of the shot took effect in FIR
=, fs,r williams couId nor say that - we