Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

Cash in Bank" and Cash in Hand
Looked Upon as the Same.
ROBBED WHILE HE SLEEPS
Berryville Merchant Misses $3.50 in
Cash and Checks When
He Awakes
Special correspondence Of The Star.

oFFtIai '"TT'>ipndcHce or Ihe star.
WINCHESTER. Va. December II. 1917
number of lawyers in this section
have started a movement to bring out
Judge Thomas w. Harrison of Winches-
ter. who For the past eighteen years has
been judge of the seventeenth judicial
circuit OF the state. as candidate to
succeed Judge John a. Buchanan. who
has announced his intention of retiring
next year. Judge Harrison has not
stated whether he will be candidate
for the place on the supreme bench but
he has not raised any objection to the
matter being discussed by his lawyer
friends. Judge Harrison has been desig-
mated by various governors to sit in a
number of important cases in recent
years throughout the state. and those
who are behind the movement declare
that he is en1inently qualified to sit on
the supreme court bench.
Inquiries made today concerning the
grand jury Investigations with regard to
evasions of the law requiring incomes.
bank accounts bank stocks and other
sources of revenue of similar character
brought out the fact that there has been
much confusion in taxing persons having
cash in hand or cash in bank. An
opinion has been given TO the effect that
the law recognizes no differences. and
that all cash belonging to a taxpayer is
taxable, whether the cash or its equiva-
lent is kept in this state or any other
state. Bankers declare that no effort has
been made by the grand jurieS to eX-
anime the banks books. and that the
iuries have not sought information con-
corning the confidential relations of the
bank with it's patrons.
Judge Henry Brannon. who was born
in Winchester a little more than seventy
tive years ago. and who has been a resi-
dent Of Lewis county, w. Va, since 1851,
has decided to retire from the supreme
court bench of that state January I, 1913.
Soon after graduating from the tniver-
sity of Virginia he became prosecuting
attorney of Lewis county, and he also
served several terms in the state legis-
lature, going from there to the circuit
bench. and thence in 1889 to the supreme
bench. For a number of years he has
been president of that court. The Wood
County Bar Association gave a banquet
last evening in the Chancellor Hotel at
Parkersburg in honor of Judge Brannon.
who made the principal speech, which
was of reminiscent character.
Must Obey the Law.
Owners and managers of stores in the
Virginia valley towns have been eau
toned again by State Labor. Commits
sioner Doherty that rigid enforcement
of the ten-hour law for female employees
must be adhered to or the employers
will he made to suffer the penalty of
the act a woman inspector employed
by the labor commissioner has been in
this section of the state this week TAX
ing notes and making observations. and
stores in which women are employed
have arranged schedule by which no
female employee will be allowed to work
more than ten out of twenty-four hours.
r. Eddy Brown, a Berryv!lle merchant.
found, upon dressing a few mornings
since. that his clothing had been robbed
of about $3.50 in cash and checks while
he slept during the night 1t is thought
the robbers saw him place the money in
a pocket of his trousers just before he
left his store. The robbers procured d
ladder. removed a second-story window
sash. extinguished an oil lamp light in
the room in which Brown and his wife
were sound asleep. and then left with his
trousers. which We're found on street
corner the next morning. \ repeating
rife was found near the tracks of the
Norfolk and Western railway, and it is
thought the robbers left town on one of
the fast express trains which stop at
Berryville about = O'Clock in the morning.
message this evening from Martins
burg, w. Va, states that there has been
no further spread OF the smallpox. which
was discovered the early part of the week
among foreigners in several quarry camps
OF Berkeley county. and that the coun-
~ authorities have the situation well
in hand. All the men who contracted
the disease are quarantined in pest
camp, and they have offered no resist
ance. \ thorough investigation shows
that the disease did not reach Martins
burg. and that there is not a single case
in that city.
The captains of all the companies of the
I'd Virg MIA Regiment i'm the northern
and northwestern section of the state
have been notified that their commands
will be inspected between January u and
February I. by orders from the War De-
Uartment. and that the inspections will
ne made by Capt. j. n. Particle. in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with the National
Guard IN this state