The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-07-07
STATE
CAPITAL
Or. Wade Found Guilty.

ts svd0C EOQuu GUtItys
Governor Richie Monday found DR..
J. Hubert Wade, member of the State
Board of Prison Control, guilty of mis-
conduct in Office and removed him
therefrom.
The misconduct Of which DR.. Wade
was convicted was the acceptance OF
the gift of an automobile from Samuel
/, Leibowitz, head of a grocery firm
which supplied foodstuffs to the House
of Correction and the State Peniten,
tiary.
The Governors findings are as fol.
lows:
Under date of May 10, 1922, Eugene
O'Dunne, Esq, filed charges before me
against Ogle Marbury, DR.. j. Hubert
Wade and Robert H. Carr, Esq, mem
bers of the State Board of Prison Con-
troll, alleging inefficiency, neglect of
duty and misconduct in Office. These
charges were fled under the Act OF
1916, Oh. $50, Section 623.
The charges against Mr.. Marbury
and Mr.. Carr all grew out of the man
agement and conduct of affairs at the
Maryland House of Correction, and /
am now having an investigation made
of conditions at that institution. / do
not, Of course, know what that investi-
cation will disclose, but in the mean
while there is no justification at all
for putting Mr.. Marbury or Mr.. Carr
on trial; and indeed Mr. O'Dunne is
not pressing any charges against
them.
In DR.. Wade's case, however, some
of the charges allege personal miscon-
duct, and these relate to certain au-
tomobile transaction and to certain al
legged political activities. These par
ticular charges are numbered l, 8, 4,
5, 6 and in Mr.. O'Dunnes specifica-
tons.
On June 10, 1922, l formally notified
DR.. Wade and his counsel, Samuel K.
Dennis, Esq. and J. Cleveland Grice,
Esq, that would hold public hear.
ing on these charges on July 6, 1922,
this date being selected in order to
comply with the law which requires
not less than ten days notice of the
hearing.
DR.. Wade and his counsel, however,
elected to waive this notice, so the
hearing was held by agreement on
June % and "a, 1922.
AS the hearing developed it became
apparent that the important charge
against DR.. Wade was that in Septem
Der, 1919, Samuel Leibowitz made a
present to DR.. Wade of Cadillac car,
costing, with accessories, $4,815.2O.
The seriousness of this charge lay
in the fact that DR.. Wade at that time
was member and the treasurer of
the State Board of Prison Control and
Mr.. Leibowitz at the time was presi-
dent of the General Tea and Coffee
Company and of the General Whole
sale Grocery Company, which COM
panies sold groceries and provisions to
the Maryland House of Correction and
to the Maryland Penitentiary, both of
which institutions are under the man
agement Of the Prison Board.
The improperly of member of a
State Board accepting the gift of
valuable automobile from the presi-
dent Of company with which the in
situations under the Boards manage
ment were doing business is manifest,
and the same is expressly prohibited
by Section 638 of Chapter $50 of the
Acts of 1916.
There is no doubt, therefore, that
the acceptance of this alleged gift
would constitute misconduct in Office.
After the charges were made, it was
admitted both by DR.. Wade and Mr..
Leibowitz that there had been trans
action in which the ownership of
Cadillac car passed from Mr.. Leibo,
witt to DR.. Wade.
Also, it was stated by both DR.. Wade
and Mr.. Leibowitz that the transfer of
ownership was not in the nature of
gift, but was sale by Mr.. Leibowitz
to DR.. Wade, for $500 and Dodge
car, and that the money consideration
involved was paid in cash.
talked with DR.. Wade and ques-
toned him about the unusual payment
of $500 in cash. felt that there
should be some substantiation of the
transfer of so large an amount of
money, so that could inform the peo-
pie of the State that was satisfied
with the circumstances surrounding
the transaction.
If DR.. Wade had made satisfactory
explanation at that time, there need
have been and there would have been
no trial But he did not; and as
matter of fact l never have been given
any assistance in clearing the trans
action of the suspicion which sur.
rounded it in the minds of the people.
The evidence produced at the hear
ing shows that Mr.. Leibowitz bought
and paid for the car in September,
1919, and that it was delivered to Mr..
Leibowitz at his Office on September
Is of that year and there delivered by
Mr.. Leibowitz to Dr. Wade. The evil
dence also shows that the companies
controlled by Mr.. Leibowitz first be