Evening star., 1912-11-17
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Young EIopers> Placed in Jail
Upon Complaint of
Girls Father.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Nd, November 16, 1912.
Returning to Clarksburg, this county.
after having eloped two weeks ago.
Thomas e. Wilson of Mount Ephraim.
Frederick county. and his bride, who be-
fore her marriage was Miss Goldie May
Burdette, daughter of William Burdette
or Clarksburg, were arrested upon COM
plant of the brides father and commit
| ted to Jail here
Their Incarceration was short. however.
for today Thomas Dawson of Rockville,
representing the young couple. instituted
naDeas corpus proceedings with the re-
suit that Judge Edward C. Peter ordered
them released
The father of the young bride objected
to her getting married principally because
OF her youth, she being but sixteen years
old. The day of the elopement young
wilson sent a colOred man in buggy to
the Burdette home, and under some pre-
text ne succeeded in getting the girl to
accompany him without arousing the suS-
picfons of her parents. Wilson was wait
ing alongside the road about a mile away
and taking the cOlored mans place in the
buggy drove to Frederick, where the cere-
mony was performed.
uIon learning of the elopement the
girls father went before Justice of the
Peace Charles 7. Day of Cla,rksburg, and
had warrant issued for the arrest of
the runaWayS.
Barnesly Gets Judgment.
The suit Of James w. Barnesly of Olney,
this county, against the county commits
sioners for $276, which Barnesly claimed
the commissioners owed him for road
work, was tried in the circuit court here
yesterday, the jury giving the plaintiff
judgment for $71.14.
NJ. Donaldson Knight, Hilleary L. Of
futt and John w. Bogley, appointed by
the county commissioners to determine
whether the public convenience requires
the acceptance by -the county as public
roads certain streets in OtterbOurne, this
county, have reported against the prop
osition. and the commissioners have set
December 3 to hear objections if any,
against the adoption of the report.
The residents of Otterbourne petition
ed the commissioners to take over the
streets so as to remove certain obstacles
in the way of establishing sewer sys-
tenn, but the examiners decided that the
general public should not be charged
with maintenance of streets in subdivi-
ions as public roads.
Real Estate Transfers.
The following are among the transfers
of real estate recorded in the Office of
the clerk Of the circuit court here dur
ing the week: Eliza L. Nixon to Alice
F. No.llner, lot in Otterbourne; Charles
w. Madert to A. b. Landis, lot in Chevy
Chase: Laura w. Easton to Samuel D.
Devilbiss, LIZ acres; Thomas j. Fannon
to J. Edward Giles. 142 acres; Mary j.
Cranston to William d. Clark, . lots in
Rockville; c. H. Hoskinson to w. S.
Walters, house at Derwood; Walter A.
Williams to Lloyd A.. Brewer, lot in
Rockville; Carl L. Davis to Mary Ellen
Shade, lot in Takoma Park; John E.
Warfield to William +. Reed, 311 acres;
Annie E. Proctor to Helen H. Pratt, lot
at Capitol View: Grace l. Tongue to S.
Y. Ford, lot in Takoma Park; George l..
Cramer to William l. Cramer. 1O7le
acres; Nina B. Writ to Enos c. Keys,
property at Linden; Abraham Van Horn
to Henry E. Long, lot in Takoma Park;
Walter NJ. Magruder to Charles A. Mans
field lot; Erasmus Perry to Mob r.
Perry, 2h acres: Robert P. Magruder to
Charles T. Nicholson. 100 acres: Mary +.
Hubbard to Annie B. Dobney. lot near
Kensington; Walter A. Williams to
Abraham Van Horn, lot in Takoma Park.