The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-03-14

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years, both colored, of Wilmington,
who, on Sunday evening, December %,
stole, on North street, Elkton. horse
and buggy owned by John w. Grin
mage, colored of the Glasgow section,
pleaded not guilty, and were tried sep
arately before the Court. They drove
the team to Wilmington, where they
sold it for $25. They returned to Elk
ton on December 30, and were arrest
ed by Deputy Sheriff Reynolds, who
suspected them, and they confessed to
him and States Attorney Constable.
The team was recovered by one of
the owners sons. The Court found
the pair guilty and sentenced each to
serve two years in the Penitentiary.
John Aimscombe, a cclored youth,
charged with stealing eight muskrat
hides from William Manioye, Jr., near
Cecilton on December 81, pleaded not
guilty and was tried before the Court.
He claimed that he and young Man
love had hunted together during the
previous season and that he took ~
of the hides as his share of the profits.
Young Manlove denied that there was
any such agreement. William Man
love, Sr, and William 3. Davis, who
had employed Aimscombe, testified
that they had found his honest The
Court found him guilty, but suspend
ed sentence and discharged him with
warning for the future.
The cases of State VS.. Virginia Rut-
ter and State VS.. Mollie Simms, charg-
ed with arson, were continued against
the protests of the States Attorney.
Attorneys for the defendants filed an
affidavit under oath, alleging that
Mollie Simms was an important and
material witness for Virginia Rutter,
who could not go to trial without her
They filed a doctors certificate that
Mollie Simms is i'll with complications
and is confined to her bed and has
been so confined for twenty weeks.
Tuesday.
Haines, Trustee, VS.. the Commits
sioners of Charlestown, trial of which
at the September term was suspended
with the view to a settlement. was
again put on trial before a jury. The
suit arose out of an attempt to fence
No. 3, one of the "Charlestown Lots" :"
after its transfer by the late John B,
Graham to the heirs of William T..
Richardson, and was fully reported in
the WHlG at its first trial.
Judges Adkins and Hopper heard
the case, Judge Constable, as States
Attorney, having been consulted by
the defendants.
Wednesday--Thursday.
Testimony closed in Haines, Trustee,
vs. the Commissioners. of Charles
town, on Wednesday afternoon, and
argument on the prayers was heard
at a night session. Argument closed
on Thursday afternoon before the jury
who found for the plaintiff, fixing his
damages for the fence posts cut down
at $3.50, the costs of the suit falling
on the defendants.
The damage suit of Mrs. Leonard
Pryor VS.. the Commissioners of Chesa-
peake City and the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal Co., marked for trial,
was removed to Queen Anne's county.
. Shriver VS.. Lockerman, the only re-
naming civil suit marked for trial,
was continued.
Oscar Coates, coored, charged with
receiving two watches, chain, a ring
and pair of gold-rimmed eye glasses
stolen from Miss Clara B. Manlove. of
Cecilton, on March Is, 1913, was put
on trial before jury, and testimony
closed before adjournment.
Friday.
The jury found Coates not guilty
and Court was adjourned till the third
Monday in June.