Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-15
PRO-GERMANISM
SAYS THE JUDGE.
Charge To Grand Jury This
Morning Refers To Serious
Condition In Schools.
URGES REAL SECRECY.
Eberts' Murder Called To Atten-
ton Of Inquest With The
Request That Case Be
Expedited.

There are sections of Anne Arundel
County where pro-Germanism is so
strong that the school teachers find
their pupils objecting stTenuously to
being made to sing the National An
them, Judge Robert Moss this morning
told the county grand jury in his
charge to that body upon it's conven-
ing for the regular April term.
Judge Moss urged the jurors to take
this matter UP and to go behind the
question and get the names of the
people responsible for such condi-
ton. The matter will be gone into
very thoroughly. 1t so happens that
Frank A. Munroe, foreman of the
grand jury, is member of the Board
of Education for the county, and al
ready in touch with the situation.
Judge Moss dweIt at some length
upon wartime conditions, and was
particularly emphatic as to lawless-
ness and drunkenness among soldiers
and sailors visiting the Brooklyn and
Curtis Bay sections of the county.
After saying that this section of the
said to the jurors, don't salve your
consciences by saying this section is
very likely to be made dry soon. If
you can find the men or women who
debauch the soldiers and sailors of
America bring them to Justice; it will
be time well spent no matter how long
it takes you"
Particular reference was made by
Judge Moss to the recent horrible
murder of Miss Dora Eberts, whose
murder has been confessed by Archie
Isaacs. He urged that as soon as
States Attorney Green presents the
evidence to them they act as speedily
as possible, and promised that the
case would be taken care of quickly
in it's trial before the Court.
Draft slackers, and loafers who are
doing nothing but could do their part
in needed work were two other mat
ters Judge Moss called to the atten-
tion of the jurors.
After expressing the feeling that the
Jury would be efficient and as prompt
as possible in conformity with effici-
ency, Judge Moss urged the jury TO
set each day from 10 to o'clock,
pointing out that the extra hour in
the afternoon would under the new
daylight saving plan give the farmers
and others the same amount of day
light after getting home.
He particularly urged the jurors not
To fol bo bo onnnnc in fbp iuTU rnnn1
when some man on the outside is
trying to pump you just ask yourself
if he would violate his oath and tell
you were your positions reversed" !"
said he.
After touching upon the Eberts'
murder, Judge Moss told the jurors
that there are now seventeen Jail cases
awaiting their consideration. These
are divided as follows: Three muir
ders, rape cases, 2 of assault with
to kill, 8 larceny and 1 burglary.
The purors drawn for service on the
grand inquest, in addition to foreman
Munroe, are: r. Harry Arnold, Dun
can McKensey, Owen Shepherd, Ed
ward o. Wigley, Chester Shipley, G..
d. Watts, William L. Marcy, Isaac S.
Nutwell, w. Newton Shipley, Nor
man Tucker, Carroll c. Brice, James
L. Dougherty, Arthur P. Heymond,
Earle White, Benjamin B. Williams,
]. Harry Waters, Joseph Marshall,
Jr., Nevett Steele, William H. Hal
lock, Frank Gather, Edward Burtis
and Francis T. Stockett.