The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-10-02
Criminal Calendar



saw Yeamans and Ferguson at Johns
house about Ais p. m. Yeamans was
hiccoughing and she held water for
| him to drink. Ferguson was drunk,
but John did not seem to be so then.
| She did not see John again till after
| he woke her husband. He was stupid
| ly drunk ard staggered about till her
husband returned home. He was
drunk when the officers took him
away. She found a quart bottle. with
some whisky left in it, behind the bed
! post at Jonn's mouse on the following
thursday. Jonn was peaceable, drunk
or SOBER.
Dr.. Cantwell, Neal, Andrew Ander-
son ard Deputy Sheriff Reynolds were
positive in their judgment that two
| rne bullet holes, one in the window
| casing back of the foot of the bed in
which the men slept. and the other in
moor, under the bed, could not nave
been made by the bullet which went
through terguson's arms and body.
Neal had made measurements which
confirmed this view as to the holes in
the window casing, and DR.. Cantwell
had made a test with a man lying on
the bed with his head at its mead or
foot. The bullet must have been fired
from the opposite side of the room,
and from height above the bed. Mr..
Anderson was sure the bullet that
entered the window casing could not
have hit ferguson lying. sitting or
standing on the bed DR.. Cantwell
found no powder marks on Ferguson's
body, and Mr.. Reynolds no bullet
marks on the bedding. Mr.. Neal
stated that the bed stood now just as
it stood on the night of the shooting.
NJ Reyl DDS found the rifle in the
room down stairs leaning against the
wall with shell in it recently fired.
He arrested Friday between 5 and
the next morning. He said it was a
bad piece of business and he did not
know how it had happened.
Friday was sworn. Ferguson and
leamans arrived about 3 p. M, with
two quarts of whisky and two bottles
of beer. They all drank and ate a
meal he got ready. He got very full
| and did not remember Meals coming
| to the house, going to bed or anything
else till the States Attorney and De-
putty Sheriff came. Mr.. Hanna had
eft him ony the shells with the rife
| and he had fired one of them some
time previous. He kept the rifle in
closet il the room where he and Fer
guson had gone to sleep. Andrew An
| derson, Isaiah Biddle, Thomas Nc
Cracker, John f. Roach, Emory E.
Lowe, DR.. k. G. Underwood, J. Ed
ward Davis and William J. Cameron
| had long known Friday and testified
that he was quiet and peaceable. the
case was submitted without argument
and the Courts verdict was not guilty
| Arthur Larue. rolored. was next
| tried before the Court, charged, under
Il section of the Code, with felonious
assault on female under ii years of
age, Lizzie McMullen. colored, near
| Canal Station, above Port Deposit, on
JuEe %, 1915. He was located in New
Jersey, several weeks ago and was
brought to Elkton for trial. Lizzie
| testified that the assault was COM
mitted but, as her age was not def
nitely proved and DR.. w. G. Jack, who
| examined her. found no evidence of
the assault the Court gave a verdict
of not guilty. Constable for State;
Brown for defendant.
Thursday.
Joseph Curtis, colored was tried
before the Court at the morning SEES
sion for attempted felorious assault
| upon Mary, the thirteen year old
| daughter of Vernon Corkran, tenant
on the Beaston or Dorsev farm, near
Cayot's Corner, on June q last. The
girl woke about 2 o'clock in the morn
ing to tiEd a negro crouching beside
| her bed, where she and her two youn-
| ger sisters were sleeping. She and
her sisted Katie. called their father
and her brother Raymond, through a
window in whose room the negro es-
caned, recognized him in the moonlight
as Curtis, who had worked and lived
| in the house last winter. A cap Ray
mond had given him was found in
| Mary's room. She was not harmed
by the negro, but her testimony salts
| fled the Court as to his intent, and he
was found guilty. Constable for State;
| Mackey for defendant.
At the afternoon session James
Watson, charged with assault with
intent to kill upon William A. Wood
ward at Frenchtown, near Perryville,
April "a last was tried before the
Court. The trouble occurred in front
VI IhlllOll Su.ly SlOTe Ill Lne evening,
and arose from William Berry's try
ing to induce the men to patch up
difference growing out of former
quarrel. Watson preferred to let the
situation remain as it was and Wood
ward said he had nothing to apologize
for. Words passed between the pair,
and Watson, who had been drinking
freely, struck the first blow. He was
soon down and as Woodward was
dealing him blows he drew pocket
knife and slashed Woodward or the
temple, cutting vein, which bed
freely, and across the stomach and
gave him several slight punctures. DR..
Ma"raw attended him and he was
aid IN for about ten days Watson's
face was lacerated and bruised, his
nose was nearly broken. and one of
his ribs was injured, and DR.. lamar
treated him at the Jail He claimed
that Woodward kicked him off the
store porch. and said he used his knife
to defend himself when Woodward had
him on the ground The Court found
him guilty of common assault and SEN