Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-26
NEWS OF ROCKVILLE
AND THE COUNTY
Negro Given Eighteen Months
in Maryland Penitentiary
for Larceny.
special Correspondence of The star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, November %, 1911.
Following a conviction in the circuit
court here today on an indictment charg-
ing him with the larceny of a large num-
Der of chickens and ducks from Mrs. rs
Their Stewart, who lives in Cabin john
this county, Mick Reeves, also of the
Cabin John neighborhood. was sentenced
by Judge Peter to eighteen months in the
Maryland penitentiary. Willard Reed
who was charged with completely in the
robbery. acquitted
William Russell. coIored. who lives at
I.ittonsville, this county, was tried be-
fore Judge Peter on a charge Of selling
Intoxicating liquor to Frank Brown, also
colored. Russell was tried in the police
court here several months ago, and SEN
fenced TO six months in the house of cor
reCtion, and the case before Judge Peter
today was an appeal from the decision OF
the police justice. The prosecuting wit
ness swore positively that Russell had
sold him whisky. but Russell was Just as
certain that Brown was mistaken. The
Judgment of tne police justice was re-
versed and Russell scharged.
Joseph Ross, Colored, whose home Is
near Kensington, was acquitted before
Judge Peter on an indictment charging
him with an assault with intent to kill
benjamin Vessels. also colored. The pre-
ponderance of testimony was that Vessels
approached Ross with q knife and that
Ross used a shotgun in Self-defenSe. YES
sells was shot in the left arm near the
elbow and so badly wounded that the arm
had to be amputated at the elbow.
Miss Gusse Lamar daughter of Will
liam II. Lamar of Rockville. has been
appointed assistant teacher at the Ken
sington Grammar School to temporarily
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Miss Mary c. Kelley.
To Unveil Confederate Tablet.
The handsome tablet recently erected
in Monocacy cemetery, at Beallsville, thiS
county, in honor of the Confederate dead
of Montgomery county and elsewhere,
will be unveiled Tuesday afternoon. The
program includes addresses by Col. Spen-
Ger c. Jones. State Senator Blair Lee and
Rev. b. V. SwitZer; recitationS by young
women and songs.
The following are among the transfers
of real estate recorded in the office of
the clerk of the circuit court here during
the week: Copeland p. Jones to Joseph
T. SoraccO, lot in Capitol View Park;
Nora NJ. F. Cane to Charles E. Some
man, lot in Somerset Heights; John W.
Latham to George S. Cooper, lot In
Chevy Chase; Richard E. Seeker to War
ner Goldman. lot at Woodmont; Brain
ard Fl. Warner to George W. Hyatt, lot
jr., to Walter G. Peter, interest in part
of Huntington and C1agett's Purchase;
r. Holt Easley to Gesine Boats, lot in
Silver Spring Park; Ros dale Park Com
pany to Henry H. Gilfry, three lots in
Rosedale Park; l.. L. Nicholson to D.
e. Bullock, lot in Chevy Chase; d. II.
Roland Drury to James S. Fraser, lot in
The Hills; Fanny l.. Flu ks to Rise, 5.
Severance, lot in Gaithersburg; James e.
Broadhurst to Harry A. Steinmeier, two
lots at Woodmont; Mary r. Baker to
Samuel NJ. Speck, nine and one-half acres;
Aids B. Browne to Harry c. Gould, two
lots in Northwest Park; Harry l.. Clay
TO FL a l.. Clay, forty-four acres.
James NJ. Mount of Damascus, this
county, is an asp,rant for appointment as
a member of the good roads commission
to succeed Comm. ssioner Frank G.. Hut
ton, also of this county. Mr.. Mount con-
structed the first mile of Shoemaker pike
built in this county. P. L. GoldSborough,
the recently elected republican governor,
viii make the appontm Mt.