Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-02-02
JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT.

From the Charles Town Advocate We
take the following proceedings Of the
Jefferson Circuit Oourt:
Interest in trials in the Circuit
Court was given zest by the cold wealth
or of Tuesday and Wednesday. Farm
ers and others being prevented from
engaging in outdoor work became spec
tators OF court scenes, being RECALLED
in a way not often INDUCED by some
Of them.
Henry McGolrick, indicted for keep
ing a disorderly house in Charles
Town, and whose trial was set for Tues
day, forestalled the curious crowd who
had assembled to hear the spicy evil
dence in the case, by having his at
torney withdraw the plea of mot gull
ty'' entered when he was arraigned last
week, and had substituted therefor a
plea OF guilty. Sentence will be i'm
posed upon him later.
The only jury trial of the irst day
was the case OF Doubleday-I1ill Llec-
trio Company against the Jefferson
Hotel Company, Charles Town, on a
contract leasing some laundry ma
chinery to the latter company. A ver-
dict for 500 was returned in favor OF
the plaintiff.
Three divorces DEGREES were entered
In two of the cases, the DEGREES were
awarded the wives, and in the third to
the husband. Louise M. Thompson was
awarded a divorce from Edwin ].
Thompson, and the custody of her son
James j. Thompson. The couple were
married at Harper's Ferry April y,
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vorce was Marie StrOtaer from George
Strothcr, the cost OF tie suit being
placed on the husband. The husband
whose violated marital rights were
compensated for by the divorce decree,
was Edgar Davis. His wife's name is
or was Mamie Davis.
Special commissioners reported the
distribution of fund arising from the
sale OF real estate at Berkeley Springs,
owned by the defendant, in the case OF
the Bank of Charles Town VS.. John
Strother. After the payment of fees
costs, and commissions, the report
showed the fund was distributed as fol-
lows: Farmers and Merchants Deposit
Company, S6Sl40; Bank of Charles
Town, S3,l7l22; jamie p. Strother
S1,S3428.
After the State had submitted its
evidence against Marie Strother, who
was indicted for stealing an automobile
tire, Wednesday morning, the court
on motion of her attorney directed ar
aCquittal.
The big trial of the week, and the
one in which much popular interes
centered, was that of Joseph Nalley, a
HarPcrs Ferrian, charged with owning
a moonshine still. Three officers testi-
fled that Nalley acknowledged to them
after his arrest that he had been max
ing moonShine liquor for his own per-
sonal use; that he had read in a pa
per that such conduct was perfectly
lawful. The outfit with what apparent
ly were all the attachments for extract
ing moonshine from corn meal mash
found in Valleys house was an exhibit
before the jury. Nalley himself when
put on the witness stand denied em-
phatically what the officers stated about
his alleged confession. He declared
that the only wrong doing he had been
guilty OF in connection with the liquor
industry was making wine At the
time of his arrest he said he had q
quantity Of wine, or what some folks
call odd hen" in his house. The
Jury took only half hour to agree on
verdict of not guilty.
Sale of the Watson farm near Sum
NIT Point was confirmed, and authority
gwen the special commissioners con-
Quoting the sale to accept cash for
all the deferred payments if the pur-
chaser, M. Lohr Capper, prefers to
close the transaction.
An order was entered on the petition
OF Mrs. Florence Lockhart VS. II. A
Lockart, allowing her an attorneys
fee of $50, and weekly allowance OF
ten dollars a week.