The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-09-22
CIRCUIT COURT.


Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to the narr
of Miss Emma s Danner in her suit for
$1,000 against the company for injuries
which she received while riding on their
trains. The plaintiffs counsel have asked
permission to amend the narr.
A settlement in the suit of Frank F..
Crum VS.. James w. Long and Mary c..
Pittinger, executors of the will of the
late Sarah E. Long was affected. The
suit was compromised for S775. Stoner
and Weinberg represented the plaintiff
and Rohrback and Waters represented
the defendants.
! The koogle note case, in which the
Brunswick Savings Bank is plaintiff. has
been held sub curia by the court
The Brunswick Furniture Company
case was concluded and held under adj
visement by the court Worthngton and
DeLauter represented the defendant, and
MIR. John S. Newman the plaintiff
| The civic docket is exhausted. The
petit jury has been excused from further
attendance until Monday, September IS,
when the criminal docket will be taken
| up.
The prisoners in Jail who have been in
dicted by the present grand Jury, were
arraigned on Saturday. Those arraigned
and their offenses follows:
Edgar Shaver plead guilty to charge
OF burglary, and was sentenced by the
court to term of 5 years in the peniten-
| tiarv.
William Phillips, colored indicted for
the killing of John Johnson, colored,
plead not guilty.
H. H. Beall, indicted for obtaining
money under false pretenses, plead not
guilty.
Sam Lee, colored, larceny, plead not
guilty.
Mantha Hoover, larceny, plead not
guilty.
George Keith, larceny, plead not
guilty.
Charles Malmokones, larceny plead
not guilty.
The grand jury for the September term
adjourned on Wednesday afternoon at a
O'Clock, after a session of fifteen days.
They came into court and presented their
report, after which they were dismissed
by His Honor, Judge Motter, with the
thanks of the court. If necessary, the
jury can be recalled at any time.
To the Honorable, the Judges of the Cir
cult Court for Frederick County. Nd
The grand jury for the September term,
leave to submit report as follows:
We convened on September a, and
have been in session for IS days, during
which time we examined $50 witnesses,
found 81 presentments and indictments
and dismissed 81 cases.
| We had several trifiing cases brought
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of by the magistrates. This took much
of our time and cost unnecessary money,
and we recommend that the magistrates
use full power given them by law, in
stead of holding an offender for the action
of the grand jury, simply because he de-
sires jury trial, when the offense he
committed does not entitle him to a jury
trial under the law.
| We also recommend that fire escapes
be erected in the rear of the Female
High School, East Church street, this
city. as there are now over $50 children
on the second floor who would have no
means of escape, should there be fire
in the hall below. The janitor should be
on duty during school hours when fire is
in the furnace, so as to be close at hand if
anything goes wrong. Fire drills should
be held at least mi-monthly SO as to
keep the children in practice in leaving
the building in order Improved push
fasteners should be placed on all exit
doors, as fasteners now in place are abso-
lete and difficult to open in case of panic.
We recommend the following safe
guards to life and health in the City Opera
| House.
| Fire escapes to be bolted tight to
building some are now coming loose), a
small iron fence four feet high, projecting
four feet out from building at west end of
west exit doors on north and south sides
of house, first floor, so as to prevent lin
case of panic) persons leaving said exits
from being crushed to death by the over
hanging fire escapes dropping on them
should they be loaded with people leav-
ing the house at the same time.
The toilet rooms should be ventilated
and made sanitary so as to fit them for
use
All exit doors, including front, should
have modern push openers put on to re-
place the ones now in use, which are
| difficult to operate and some of which are
broken at the present time and will not
| open at all without the use of a screw
| driver.
These are important things and should
have immediate attention.
| We find nuisance is committed nightly
BY improper conduct and vile language in
front of the Opera House. A policeman
| should be stationed in front of the build
ing and order and cleanliness preserved.
Such disorderly and noisy crowd con-
| gregates on the outside almost nightly,
that many persons are required TO pass
on the other side. This should be rene
died, hence we call attention.
For the benefit of public health, we
! recommend that the Board of Health re-
| quire the proper authorities to examine
all the cellars throughout the town. and
see that all are put in Clearly condition,
thereby preventing disease.
Although not required by law, we
visited Montevue Hospital and found
buildings and grounds in excellent con-
dition. Cleanliness seems to be the
motto. Superintendent S. u. Gregg takes
a personal interest in the comfort and
welfare of all the patients. The hospital
department on the fifth floor reflects
great credit on the head nurse, who
counts trouble nothing in caring for the
unfortunate sick. The building for col
ored people is as clean as is possible for
such place to be kept Most of the in.
mates are given outdoor exercise daily
when the weather permits.
All these things show the superinten-
tendent is discharging his duties faith.
fully.
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