Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-01

the money due them.
Two other matters of widespread inter-
est now awaiting decision in the courts
are involved in mandamnS proceedings.
both under consideration by the justices
before whom they were argued. One
seeks to require the board of education to
reScind its rule requiring vaccination as
a condition precedent to enrolment in the
| public schools. The other raises the
question whether or not the District ST.
preme Court has jurisdiction to review
tn actions of the interstate commerce
commission. The latter is known as the
Alaskan rate case.
Probation System Works Well.
The probation system, by means of
which an opportunity to reform may be
extended firnt offenders and others who
have not developed into hardened GRIM
inals has been in operation only three
months. Isaac d. Porter. the probation
officer. reports that the system is work
Ing satisfactorily and that out of forty
nine persons committed to his charge.
two of whom are women, only two have
proved delinquent. One of them, a young
man. was caught in another Offense. and
Is now serving his suspended sentence
The other. young woman. escaped from
The House Of the Good Shepherd, where
she had been placed She is still at large
With the opening of the handsome new
home OF the Court of Appeals October +
the justices of that court assumed the
silk gowns for the first time in the Dis
trict. About six weeks later. at the
urgent request of the local bar associa-
ton, the justices of the lower court also
dOnned the robes.
Daniel w. Baker having resigned the
Office of United States attorney last April
President Taft named Clarence r. Will
son as Mr.. Bakers successor. The only
change in the Office force of the United
States attorney was the appointment of
10, he
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Frank Sprigg Perry.
Owing to the death of Col James c.
Payne. for thirty years auditor of the
upon to name a new auditor. The choice
of the court fell on Louis Addison Dept
who had at one time been register OF
wills.
In criminal matters, probably the most
important event of the year was the
wholesale raid on bucket shops in various
cities by agents of the Department of
Justice, acting under bench warrants is
sued by the local court indictments
against twenty persons, among them
several millionaires, We're returned by the
local grand jury April =. charging con-
spiracy to operate bucket shop in the
District AS result Of this inquiry an
indictment was also returned against the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
Miller Is Convicted.
The trial and conviction of John Barton
Miller. former secretary treasurer OF the
defunct First Cooperative Building AS
ISOLATION of Georgetown. attracted con-
siderable attention. Miller was charged
with embezZling funds of the association.
Justice Stafford sentenced him to serve
twenty years in the penitentiary. Miller
noted an appeal. which is pending.
John c. Davis. member of the local
hap ind cd fnr n AZ
have amounted to S3OO.OOO from specu-
lators on promises of high interest rates.
was also adjudged guilty. He set up d
defense of insanity. Justice Stafford i'm
penitentiary. An appeal in this case is
also awaiting decision in the Appellate
Court.
The third high-finance scheme on which
a Jury set its seal of diSd pprOVal in
volved an alleged conspiracy to use the
mails to defraud. The jury returned a
verdict Of guilty against James n. Hus-
ton. former treasurer of the United
States; Harvey NJ. Lewis and Everett
Dufour on an indictment which charged
that false representations We're made as
| to the financial standing and responsible
ity of trust company IN which the de-
PENDANTS were interested. Justice Wright
set aside the verdict as to Mr.. Huston.
holding the evidence insufficient to show
actual knowledge on the part of the ex-
treasurer of any such representations.
The court sentenced Lewis anu IulouT
each to serve two years in the peniten-
tiary. The latter two have noted an APP
peal.
The past year saw the end of the De
partment of Agriculture cotton Leak
scandal which startled the community in
1905 After fighting five years in the
courts, Theodore II. Price, Moses Haas
,, and Frederick A. Feckham of New York
came into Criminal Court No. I and
| pleaded guilty TO a charge of conspiring
| to defraud the United States Haas was
| fined $4,000 and each of the others S:,op.
Edwin 5. Holmes. former associate stat
| istician, who furnished advance cotton
reports and at whose trial in 1907 jury
disagreed. also pleaded guilty and paid a
fine of 5000.
Officer Convicted of Manslaughter.
| Early in the year John w. Collier, con-
victed of manslaughter in connection with
| the death OF Police Capt. Mathews was
sentenced TO serve fifteen years in the
penitentiary. Jules NJ. Waterbury was
given eighteen months in the penitentiary,
| following his conviction OF obtaining
money frorn members of Congress by rep
| rescnting that he was connected with the
Associated Press J. Ward stursis;
\ twenty-one wears old, clerk in local
financial institution, pleaded guilty TO
| cashing forged checks on dormant ac-
| counts in the bank. He is now serving
| a term of three years and six months at
| Leavenworth. Henry +. Gilbert, eighty
two years old. former business man and
| vice president of the First Cooperative
| Building Association. on a plea of guilty
/ TO misappropriating trust funds. was
sentenced to one year and one day in tile
! Atlanta penitentiary.
| Albert ii. Willard was acquitted early
IN January of charge of murder. Will
/ lard shot to death his son-in-law. Irving
Beck. and thereby made his fourteen
year-old daughter. Dorothy, a widow. His
| plea of temporary insanity was accepted
/ by the jury, and after a few days i'm the
| Government Hospital for the Insane he
was released on habeas corpus proceed
ings.