Evening star., 1913-11-21
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Negro indicted for Wife-Mur.
der-Test of Law for Road
Preservation.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

ROCKVILLE. Md, November q, 1913.
Among the indictments returned by the
grand jury which adjourned here We'd
nesday afternoon was one against Bev-
erly Smith. a young negro resident Of
this vicinity, charging him with the
murder of his wife, Laura Smith, at Der
wood. this county, early last month.
The case will be tried next Monday.
It is alleged that Smith struck his wife
on the head with a large stone, fractur-
ing her skull, and that this injury caused
her death in a Washington hospital two
days later. Smith admits throwing the
stone, but claims that his wife was after
him with a large knife. and that he used
the stone in self-defense. He will be de-
Of Rockville.
To Test State Law.
To test the law prohibiting traction
engines with cleated wheels from using
the state roads, the grand jury returned
an indictment against Gerry A. Fisher.
a well digger Of this vicinity. IT will be
contended that the law is unconstitu
tional. and no matter what the decision
OF the circuit court here may be, it is
SStlU, Tie case Will De taken 10 Ine court
OF appeals. The state roads commission
has employed former State Senator Per-
kins Of Baltimore to assist States Attor-
ney W. 0. Spates of this county.
The farm of the late Clarke Teirs. near
Bean, this county. has been sold to
former Representative Albert Douglass of
ohio for $4,000. 1t contains 163 acres.
Robert l.. Saunders of Potomac district,
this county, was awarded judgment for
$141 by Judges Peter and Worthington in
- o{r o11y
willie Ice Company. Saunders dug we'll
for the company, which was not paid for
because the company claimed it had not
been dug according to the agreement.
Mrs. Charlotte II. Farquhar Dead.
Mrs. Charlotte H. Farquhar. wife of
Allan Farquhar, secretary of the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company of Montgomery
county, died of heart failure shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock yesterday morning at her
home near Sandy Spring, eyed sixty-five
years. She had been in i'll health for a
long while. but her condition had not been
regarded as serious. and the news of her
death was a shock to her friends. She is
survived by her husband, two daughters
Mrs. Ronald Mills of Washington. and
Mrs. r. Bentley Thomas of Sandy Spring
and a son, Arthur Douglass Farquhar OF
Sandy Spring. Mrs. Farquhar was a
Richmond. Va.
A license to marry has been issued here
to Miss Mary Elizabeth Gartner and
Henry Marcellus Musser, both of Ger
mantown, this county.
Criminal Court Docket.
Forty-seven cases are docketed for trial
at the term of criminal court which be-
gan here yesterday. Twenty of the cases
were continued from the March term and
the others resulted from the work of the
grand jury, just adjourned. Almost every
crime, from simple assault to murder. is
represented. the number of each being as
follows: Murder, four; assault with intent
to murder, four: assault with intent to
rape, three; assault and battery, six;
malicious destruction of property, two:
larceny, eleven; violation of local option
law, five: obtaining money under false
pretenses, one; forgery, one: disorderly
conduct, two; running traction engine on
state roads. two: statutory taking. one;
carrying concealed weapons, one; bas-
tardy. one; burglary, one; statutory
breaking, one; keeping disordery house,
one.