Milford chronicle., 1920-10-29
KENT COUNTY COURT

In Kent county Court of General
Sessions, Tuesday, Louis Belts, a
white man of Frederick, indicted for
assault and battery, pleaded guilty
and after a severe reprimand from
the Court was given fine of SIS, with
cost, amounting to $2S.2S, which was
paid and he was released.
Harry Ellingsworth, who had been
indicted with Edward Gilbert, on a
charge of assault and battery, plead
ed guilty and was given fine of $50
with costs.
In the cast of John P. Collins, in
dicted on two charges of unlawfully
having in his possession spirituous
liquor and unlawfully transporting
liquor while passing through Dover
was arraigned and pleaded guilty. He
was given a fine of 5000 in each case,
with costs, amounting in all more
than $3.50. The fine and costs were
paid and Collins was released.
Charles H. Johnson, indicted on the
same charges entered pleas of not
guilty and the cases were nolle pros
sed, as were also other indictments
against Collins. In the above cases,
Judge Conrad and Heisel addressing,
the defendants, said that prison sen
tence would follow if fines and costs
were not paid. Collins, was probated
to former State Treasurer, William ).
Swain for one year.
The last chapter in the much talk
ed-of and sensational case Of Ross La
Croix, alias Joan Valentine, charged
with abducting the five-year son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Schreiner, alias LaBelle,
was ended Tuesday when the attor-
ney-general ordered a nolle prosequi.
La CrOix was out on $1,5OO bail, but
did not appear.
The case of Raffelle Tavaglione, in
dicted for illegal possession of Is
quarts of liquor, was continued till
the February Term, 1921, because OF
the absence of a material witness.
Last Thursday Clarence Wilmer
and Joseph Loper, indicted for lar
ceny of chickens, pleaded guilty. Be
cause of Winners previous good char
acter, he was probated for two years
to J. Willis Jones, farmer. Loper,
against whom other charges were al
legged, was sentenced to six months
Imprisonment in Kent county Jail.
George E. Davidson, indicted for
non-support of wife and minor child
was directed to pay his wife So week
ly, beginning November l.
Il was with wistfui giances and
some degree of thirstiness that many
persons witnessed the pouring out OF
% quarts of liquor, labeled Cedar
Brook" by order of the court Thurs
day, Judge Heisel having an over
sight of the dumping into the sewer
of the condemned "wet goods" The
liquor was that secured in the auto
mobile of two men who were lndlcted
on Monday for illegal transportation:
For Mrs. Amber Clough, charged
with assault and battery on James No-
shell, Jr., boy of West Dover, nolle |
pros was asked by the State, after the |
testimony had been heard on both /
Sides The offense shown was the |
throwing of a butcher knife and pan /
at young Voshell while he was pass
ing the home of Mrs. Clough, it be- |
ing alleged that the butcher knlte I
struck his horse. witnesses testified |
that the wound on the horse resembl-
ed a sore caused by the rubbing OF
girth, and not a knife wound.
The state also entered nolle pros, /
in the case of Wills S. Groce, charg-
ed with larceny.
A non-support case which has been
pending in two courts, that of Fred
erick A. Sharp. Testimony showed
that Sharp and his wife to have been
married since 1888, and had sepa-
rated only in 1919. Domestic troubles
seem to have been the cause OF the
separation. They have several chill
dren, two or three of whom are mar
ried