Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-03-29
Report OF The Grand jury.


Court for Montgomery County, Nd.
The Grand Jury respectfully presents the
following report:
We have examined 76 witnesses, includ
ing the deputy sheriffs and constables
These officers uniformly testified that they
knew of no violation of law, except in the
cases to be brought before us in regular
course.
We decided in number of cases after
hearing the testimony that there was not
sufficient evidence to convict and we found
thirteen presentments and indictments.
We take pleasure in reporting that very
few violations of the Local Option Law were
brought to our notice, and in this connection
we beg leave to recommend that hereafter
when such violations are reported to the
Grand Jury the complainant must appear
himself or furnish competent evidence to
sustain the charge, otherwise no notice
should be taken of the complaint and no
summons be issued.
We visited the jail, court house and the
county home and made careful examina-
ton.
The Jail contains seven prisoners one
male. white, and five males, colored, and
one female, colored. We found the build
ing nicely whitewashed and it appeared
clean and sanitary. We found the jail
yard gate in bad condition, needing new
sheet-iron covering.
At the court house we found the court
room in good condition, and the building
from the ground floor up in fairly clean
condition. The plasterine is nearly off the
furnace-room ceiling, and the ceiling in
another room in the basement is in
bad condition. The roof evidently leaks,
judging from the condition of the ceiling
in the Register of Wills room, which
needs looking after; also the ceiling in the
States Attorneys room. The grating I'M
der the closet in the basement is in a bad
condition and needs replacing. We strongly
recommend and urge that a ladies' toilet
be placed in the court house, where it would
be privately convenient for their use.
At the county home we found the general
conditions excellent, with the exception
that the plastering is bad all over the build
ing, and the main building needs minor re-
pairs. We found rs inmates eight male
whites. four female whites, five colored
females, five colored males and three col
ored children, all of whom appear contented
and well fed. The superintendent reported
the following stock and produce on the
farm. all of which we verified to the best
of our ability by personal inspection Four
horses, five cows, one heifer and one bull,
three sows, one with ten pigs, one with
eight pigs and one with nine pigs, one
boar hog and twelve shoats, and one hun
dred chickens. about thirty barrels of corn,
forty bushels of wheat, five tons of hay,
twenty-five hundred pounds of meat, no
potatoes, ten bushels of turnips, three hun
dred and fifty pounds of lard, and an
abundance of prOvender to carry the stock
through the season. including about eight
tons of straw and a stack of ragweed
sufficient farm machinery for the conduct
ing of the farm work. all under shelter and
in apparently. good condition. We found
acres of growing wheat. We
also found that a new entrance gate was
needed. and that the walls in the areaway
need repairing. There is plenty of wood
and coal for future needs, and also an ice
house full of ice. The farm generally shows
a good condition and reflects the intelli-
gence and good management of the super
intendent.
Having completed our duties and all Of
the business that has been brought to our
we respectfully ask to be dis
charged.
JOHN G. ENGLAND.
March %. 1912. Foreman.