The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-03-12
CECIL CIRCUIT COURT.
Work OF March Term-Truc Bills
Found BY Grand Jury.

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its labors on the second day Of the
term and was discharged. The fol-
lowing indictments were found:
Clarence Hammer, carrying conceal
ed deadly weapon; Levin A. Embley,
bigamy; Marion Elville, bastardy;
George. Jackson, burglary; David
Isaacs, burglary; Russell Landis,
larceny; Carl Crowell, larceny;
George Bowser, colored, larceny;
James McBrearty, bigamy; Charles
Clark, colored, bastardy.
In the appeal case of Evans Bros.
VS.. Biles ct al. the jury found a YER
dict for the appellants (Evans Bros.)
The suit was the outgrowth Of dis
pute of straw George w. Biles
had sold Evans Bros, but failed to
deliver when it was wanted. Biles
brought suit before Justice Scotten
and obtained judgment for $57.02.
Evans Bros. appealed and the jury
found in their favor.
George e. Dean VS.. Edgar p.
Young was tried before the Court.
Mr.. Dean and Mr.. Young own adjoin-
ing farms, on the Bhee Ball road,
near Elkton. The fsmer had sued
the latter to recove9 damages done
to the yield from about 21a acres of
his Z acre cornfield by Mr.. Young's
cows, which entered his field through
a broken down fence, and was given
judgment for $50 by Justice Scotten.
He did not regard this as sufficient
fBnd took an appeal. Court found
Cor Mr.. Dean for 500, his Honor
gstating that the weight of testimony
so warranted.
Macario Ramirez VS.. the State,
from the Appeal docket, was put ON
trial before jury. Ramirez,
Mexican railroad laborer, had figured
in difficulty near Bacon Hill on last
Christmas eve, had been charged be-
fore Justice Scotten, of Elkton, with
carrying concealed deadly weapon,
and had been given a sentence of six
months in the House of Correction.
He took an appeal and was released
on bail. The jury found Ramirez
guilty and he was given four months
in the House of Correction.
On Tuesday Rev. John Francis
Eich, a native of Bavaria, Germany,
and Rev. Pierre Francois Launy,
native of France, priests at the
Seminary at Childs, and Harry Kap-
Ian, of Elkton, a native of Russian
Poland, who served in the 313th In
fantry in France, and was wounded
at Montfaucon, were naturalized.
Clarence Hammer, whose father
Henry Hammer resides at Calvert,
plead guilty of carrying a concealed
weapon. Young Hammer had. made
purchases of clothing, etc., at the
store Of E. R. Burlington & Son, Ris-
ing Sun, rendering in payment a
check purporting to be signed by his
father. The check was for $50, and
the purchases amounted to $35, the
young man being paid the difference
in change. 1t was ascertained in a
short time that the check was forged,
and young Hammer was lodged in
Jail, when Sheriff Seth found a new
rrevolver upon him. Hammer es-
capped from Jail ON the night of Feb.
2, but was rearrested at his home the
following morning. It is alleged
that Hammer is deserter from the
U. s. Navy. The Court sentenced
him to Jail for 80 days, which leaves
him open to arrest upon the deser-
tion charge.
Russell Lands, charged with lar
ceny of suit of clothes, plead guilty
and was paroled in the custody of his
father, Jacob Lands.
Case of VIM. B. Steele, VS.. p, B.
& w. r. R. Co., was called. Mr..
Steele, a farmer and Gamer of near
Port Deposit, sued for the value OF
tomatoes missing from a shipment
made from Port Deposit to the Bond
Street Terminal Warehouse Com
pany, of Baltimore, for a firm in
Danbury, Conn. The plaintiffs. coun-
sci finally entered non-suit.
The next case was that of Milton
Stein, trading as Auto Trading Co.,
VS.. Walter w. Baker, alias George
w. Jscobs, making claim of plaintiff
for ito sold to defendant on terms
whicq it was alleged had not been
fulfilled by purchaser.
When the case of the E. A. Strout
Farm Agency VS.. Cora Goehring was
called, w. T. Warburton, of counsel
for plaintiff asked the Court to post
pone the case to next September on
the ground that the contract on
which the case was founded had been
mislaid. Request granted.
Leon A. Embley, head of the EN-
bley Detective Bureau, of Trenton.
N. j., who was indicted by the grand
jury for bigamy, was placed on trial
before the court Saturday. The
testimony showed that he married
his stenographer, Isabel M. Cray, at
Elkton, on January 13, the ceremony
being performed by the Rev. Geolge
T. Jones, pastor of the Elkton