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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-22
CIRCUIT COURT.
Cases Tried Before the December
Term.

Cases Tried Before the December
| Term.
The Grand Jury which was dis
charged ON Wednesday of last week
with the thanks of the Court, ex-
amined 20 witnesses and found the
following indictments: - Aldridge
Wilson, colored, carrying weapons;
Harry Jackson, non-support; George
Ford, assault and battery; Harry
Hall, Harry Harvey, Robert vandi-
yer, Thomas G. Hopkins, of Bel Air;
Charles E. Biddle, each for violating
the ducking laws. Leo Mccarthy,
receiving money to be bet on horse
races, seven charges.
The jury in the case of State VS..
John Harris, a farmer OF near Ches-
apeake City, rendered a verdict of
guilty of common assault. Court
imposed fine of $10O and costs ON
Harris. He was indicted by the
September Grand Jury for Cecil
county for assault with intent to kill
David P. Fillingame, neighboring
farmer Harris alleged that Fillin-
game was responsible for trouble be-
tween himself and family; that his
familiarity had gone the limit and
had spread over a course of years.
Jack Coleman, colored, Of Will
mington, Del, indicted by the Sep
tember Grand Jury for the murder
of Ella Harris, was tried before a
jury and found guilty of murder in
the first degree without capital
punishment He was sentenced to
life imprisonment in Maryland Peni-
tentiary. Coleman attended a ne
gro dance in Cecilton, one night last
SKINNER, and was accused Of picking
pockets. AS a result of the accusa-,
ton he became very vicious and
pulling out a revolver began firing.
Ella Harris was struck and killed
almost instantly. Stump Farra was
also wounded. Coleman escaped
but was later arrested.
George Ford, of Elkton, indicted
for assault upon Herbert Lewis,
plead guilty. Court imposed SEN
tence of $50 and ten days in Jail.
Harry Jackson, of Perryville, was
found guilty on the charge of non
support and desertion. Sentence
was suspended on condition that he
lives up to the agreement he made
with his wife; that is to pay his
wife $40 per month.
Demurrers were filed to the in
dictments against Harry Hall, Harry
Harvey and Charles Biddle, of
North East; Thomas G. Hopkins and
Robert Vandiver, of Havre de
Grace, charged with violating the
ducking laws governing the Susque-
hanna flats. The Court upheld the
demurrers. 1t is understood the
cases will go to the Federal Court.
The suit for $4,000 damages
against Benjamin H. CoboArn of
Kent county by the heirs of Joseph
Walberts of Rock Hall, which was.
removed from the Kent county
court to Cecil county court, was
placed on trial before jury Mon
day.
One evening during the summer
of 1920 Mr.. Walberts, while walk
ing along the public road, near
Rock Hall, was struck by an auto
mobile of Cobourn's and killed. The
dryer of the car, it is alleged, failed
to stop and render any assistance.
Several days later he was arrested,
tried and sentenced to six months
in the county jail.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-22
MRS. SAMUEL VAIL.

Mrs. Samuel Vail, who was before
her marriage Miss Martha Biddle
Cantwell, daughter Of Joseph p.
Cantwell, of Elkton, died at her
home near Delaware City, on De-
cember z, aged Is years. Her hus-
band and three daughters, Mrs.
Caleb Price, of Carney's Point; Mrs.
Joseph N. Reeves and Miss Alice
Vail, of Delaware City, survive her.
She and her husband last year OBJ
served their golden wedding aniil-
versary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-22

The directors of the. Cecil Detec-
tive Association, Calvert. held a
meeting In the High School building
on Saturday afternoon. when the
time of the annual meeting and dim
aer was changed from the second
Wednesday to the second Saturday
In December.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-22
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ARRESTED FOR SCHOOL HOUSE
ROW.

OOWs
John Wolfe and Robert Webster
were arrested last week in connec-
tion with the row which occurred at
Oxford school house in (which Ribber
Jones stabbed Robert Weigle on the
basket ball floor. The warrant
upon which they were arrested
charged them with unbecoming con-
duct in a school house. This is not
mentioned in the criminal code and
hence it is possible that Squire John
Miller, who issued the warrant, does
not intend to send them to West
Chester Juvenile Court but more
likely they will be hailed before him
for a reprimand. Squire Miller
states that he has not determined
when the boys will be given a hear
ing.-oxford News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-22
MRS. JANE NOWLAND.

Mrs. Jane Nowland, widow Of the
late James S. Nowland, died at the
home of her son-in-law, Walter
Wood, near Elkton, Dec. IA. after a
short illness of pneumonia, aged s3
years. Mrs. Nowland was formerly
Miss Jane Mccoy, and was the last
surviving member of her family.
She is survived by two sons and two
daughters: James A. Nowland, Ed
win s. Nowland, Miss Mary Nowland
and Mrs. Annie Wood, wife of Wal
ter Wood, all of this county. The
funeral was held on Monday. In
terment in st. Paul's Cemetery, near
Earleville.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-22
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to the Port Deposit Fire Co.,
the Rising Sun Fire Co. and the
Perry Point Fire Co.. all our friends
and neighbors, for their prompt and
generous help at the fire which de-
stroyed our home on December 18th.
Mrs. John r. Bond
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald M. Bond
Port Deposit, Maryland
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-22
THE sYLMAR CHRISTMAS TREE.

THE SYLMAN CHRISTMAS TREE.
Last year the old time Christmas
tree at the Sylmar Methodist Church
drew a immense crowd. This old
time tree win be repeated again
Friday evening, Dec. %. A cordial
invitation is extended to all to be
present and hang gifts on the tree
for their friends.
In addition to the great Christ
mas tree, program of unusual
merit will be rendered. A special
feature of the evenings entertain
ment will be "The Old Fashioned
Mother" given by twelve well train
ed characters. The entertainment
will begin at 1880 sharp.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-22
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YE who have scorned each other,
Or injured friend or brother,
In this fast-fading year;
Ye who by word or deed,
Have made kind heart bleed
Come gather here.
Let sinned against and SHINING
Forget their strife's beginning.
And join in friendship now;
Be links no longer broken,
Be sweet forgiveness spoken,
Under the holly bough.
!. - - ~
Ye who have loved each other,
Sister and friend and brother,
In this fast-fading year;
Mother and sire and child,
Young man. and maiden mild,
Come, gather here,
And let your hearts grow fonder,
AS memory shall ponder
Each past unbroken vow:
Old loves and younger wooing
Are sweet in the renewing,
Under the holly bough.N
- - y y
Ye who have nourished sadness,
Estranged from hope and gladness.
In this fast-fading year;
Ye with o'er-burdened mind
Made aliens from your kind
Come, gather here.
Let not the useless sorrow
Pursue your night and morrow,
II e'er you hoped, hope now
Take heart, uncloud your faces,
And join in our embraces,
Under the holly bough.
Charles Mackay.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-22

Ralph Skillman while playing
basketball at the Elkton Armory
fell and fractured his left arm.
The Washington times., 1922-07-09

must remain silent. She Is not guilty.
assume all responsibility"
The daughter bowed her head In filial
obedience. The Judge tried hard to
wiring the secret of the mans identity
from the daughter, but in vain.
Then Madame Bessarabo interrupted
the examination again.
81 never killed my husband" she
shrieked Historically.
The Judge pointed out that this virtu-
ally amounted to accusing the daughter
of the crime.
"She didn't kill him either" retorted
the mother. "1 lied before, but lied to
save my daughter. never killed my
husband, and never put his body in the
trunk"
Madame Bessarabo was alluding to
confession she had once made to the po-
lice that she had killed her husband to
protect her daughter. This confession
she had retracted and it could no longer
be used against her.
The daughter stretched her arms out
imploringly toward the Judge.
II beseech you to save my mother"
she sobbed.
For three days after his murder Bess-
arabo's death was unknown to the out
side world. Then his chauffeur, named
The Washington times., 1922-07-09

murder. The daughter declared with
equal solemnity that her mother was inno-
cent, up to a certain dramatic moment in
the trial, when she seemed to lose her self
possession.
For two whole years Madame Bessarabo
was not brought to trial, because it SEEM
ed impossible to present even a plausible
case against her. In the meantime, her
novels enjoyed a circulation ten times
greater than they had ever had before.
Distinguished men Of romantic tempera-
ment avowed their undying love for her
and begged her to marry them.
And then came the trial. Immediately
after the opening the daughter, Paulette
jacques, was subjected to q severe cross
examination.
There's q secret in this case which
would revolutionize it If I could reveal
it," she said. "But II is not my secret"
Most people believed she was referring
to . well-known Partisan man who was
said to have been Madame Bessarabo's
lover and who committed suicide two days
after Bessarabo's death. But there is now
a suspicion that she was referring to an
. equally distinguished Frenchman, who is
still alive and very much in the public
eye.
mo, no." her mother cried. "She
The Washington times., 1922-07-09

"Last Saturday." the concierge said,
"Mme Bessarabo called to me in rather
excited manner to come up to her fiat and
asked me to help her bring down trunk
which she wanted to take with her to her
country cottage in Montmorency. We had
difficulty in carrying the trunk down.
stairs; It was so heavy, and ! wondered
what might make It So"
Then the commissaire cleverly followed
up the clew and learned that Madame
Bessarsbo and her daughter had taken
the fatal trunk in taxi to the station and
despatched Il to Nancy. The official went
on to Nancy and found the trunk there:
'To be left until called for"
The prosecution showed that Madame
Bessarabo had forged her husbands name
to q power Of attorney authorizing her to
collect SOC, 900 francs due him in Mexico.
But he was such a reptile! A spyw
was her answer to this charge.
During more than two weeks of the
trial they sought In vain to produce con-
vincing legal evidence against Madame
Bessarabo. She fenced continually with
Judge and prosecutor.
When pressed very hard by questions
Nine. Bessarabo showed impatience and
then launched forth with:
'1 have plenty Of courage and sang
The Washington times., 1922-07-09

froid. Eight times have crossed the
ocean in the midst Of torpedoes and dam
gers; have seen the cannon in the revo-
luton in Mexico; I know how to run an
automobile. If had killed my husband
would have been able to have placed the
body in an auto and thrown it into the
ocean at low tide"
This depression seemed to annoy the
Judge, who sighed and, folding his arms,
said:
"Well, then, explain to me how your
husband was found in the trunk
'In the trunk" retorted Nine. Bess-
arabo, "but II is only you who say put it
therev
For two weeks they repeatedly called
the daughter to the stand and wrestled to
shake the truth from her, whose evidence
could alone convict Madame Bessarabo.
She appeared to speak and answer under
the hypnotic control of her dominating
mother.
Twice she collapsed physically, and this
caused an adjournment. Mother and
daughter rushed into each others arms
and had to be dragged apart by guards.
At the very last, Just before the jury
went out, came a fatal moment when the
mothers will and hypnotic power seemed
to fail. The daughter broke down and
began to tell what she knew. = She said
she heard a shot on the night of July 81,
1920, and went to the door of her step
fathers room,. where she heard peculiar
gasping noises.
"My mother told me there was some
secret about her husbands death and that
it was not she who killed him. I believed
her.
after was arrested was Ill in the
prison hospital. I said: 4 want my
mother She came to me and said: 4
swear to you ! am innocent, Paulette.
swear it, It Is q secret. do not know
what happened. You thought you saw
something in the mirror. You are mis-
taken
Nothing could have given me greater
joy than my mothers innocence, I
nursed this illusion. Then I remembered
things, and I realized there was no secret.
I understood 1t ALL"
Madame Bessarabo groaned and sobbed
with unspeakable agony as she heard her
own daughters testimony being used
against her with deadly effect Many
spectators wept in sympathy with her.
Then the girl made an admission which
shocked even some of Madame Bessara-
bo's warmest admirers.
"1 believed in my mothers innocence" I"
sobbed the girl, until that moment in the
trial when she called to me in Spanish to
be silent when she thought that was
about to tell the truth as am telling It
now"
The girl avoided admitting that she had
helped to double the big mans body up
in the trunk-an admission that would
have seemed so repulsive in young girl
and would have told seriously against her.
And yet how could Madame Besssrabo, a
slender woman, have packed the body up
in this manner?
The Washington times., 1922-07-09

Paulette told the jurors, referring to
the body: 81 could not touch it. l said to
my mother, 4 cannot. l cannot"
After a fit of weeping the girl added:
"My mother told me nothing would hap
pen; there would be no scandal"
Paulette said she wanted to call the
police at the time of the discovery, but
instead obeyed her mother, who told her
"there must be 10 scandal in this house."
She admitted that she had helped to
drag big trunk from the attic and that
she had helped her mother in her plans to
despatch the trunk to Nancy.
As the girls confession came out the
mother looked on with an air of tragic
sorrow, as Of a woman who was wrongly
accused, but capable of bearing every
thing bravely.
The girl admitted that after the trunk
had been packed up she and her mother
sat down to a dainty lunch.
The next day after the trunk had been
sent away they gave a garden party at
their house in the suburbs and later went
rowing on the miniature lake at Enghien.
Madame Bessarabo's conduct, however,
seemed somewhat excusable to the jurors
on account of the brutality and character
of her deceased husband.
1t was the daughters confession that
caused the jury to bring in a verdict of
guilty against Madame Bessarabo in which
they stressed their belief that there had
been premeditation, but admitted circam-
stances which made the death sentence
improper.
At the same time they acquitted the
daughter.
Madame Bessarabo thanked the Jury In
cold voice for having acquitted her
daughter. She maintained that her hus.
band was still alive and in New York; and
that she had received a letter from an
American General telling her so, and that
the body in the trunk was not that of
Bessarabo. ."
81 suffer-" said Madame Bessarabo,
because my daughter has shown fear
and bowed >her head. ! carry my head
high because l am innocent.
"Yet from the bottom of my heart
thank you for having at least acquitted
my Paulette. This woman whom you have
proclaimed a murderess has still the heart
of a mother" ~.
Looking around the court sarcastically
Madame Bessarabo continued:
81 see only men here. There are 15,-
600 women in your prisons, but none
among my judges" =
Madame Bessarabo was sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment, but there a
widespread sympathy with her in France.
It is thought that she is likely to be re-
prieved soon and that her dramatic trial
may end in q romantic marriage.
In the meantime Mile. Paulette has re-
ceived many offers of marriage. She has
declined them because, she says, she win
not marry until she has discovered the
person who was involved in the murder
Of her step-father. She may give her
hand to the man who helps her in this
task. -
The Washington times., 1922-07-09

Decroix, visited Mon
sieur Thierry, the
commissaire of po-
lice Of the Mont
martre quarter, and
told, excitedly, that
his e m p er, M.
Bessarabo, had been
missing for two days.
"He has been on
very bad terms with
his wife," he said,
land they fight all
the time. His alb
sence, so unusual, has
worried me, for l
think 20 m e t h i n G
wrong may have be-
fallen him."
Monsieur Thierry,
aside from being the
commissaire of po-
lice, is a poet of no
mean reputation in
Montmartre, and has
the reputation of a
Sherlock Holmes at
the Prefecture of Po-
lice. He became in
tensely interested in
the case and found
that the wife of the
missing man had a
suspicious history.
The most import
ant information that
Monsieur Thierry OBJ
tanned, however, was
from the concierge
Of the house in which
the Bessarabos lived.
The Washington times., 1922-07-09
Madame Bessarabo, the Gifted
Partisan Authoress and Society
Woman, Who Has just Been '
Sentenced to Twenty Years
imprisonment After 4 Most
Dramatic Trial.
Paris, July 1.

THE trial of Madame Marie Louise
Bessarabo and her daughter, Paul
cite Jacques, for the murder of the
fovmer's husband was just like the murder
trials that are staged in successful melo-
dramas.
Indeed the Bessarabo trial was even
more dramatic than anything the average
playwright or actor ever succeeds in
putting on the stage. In heroic declama-
ings, in tender expressions Of devotion be-
tween mother and daughter, in sugges-
tions of hidden secrets, crimes and be-
havior on the part of the dead man, the
trial surpassed in many respects the COM
positions of such masters of melodrama
as Victorien Sardou or Alexandra Brisson.
An American or English Judge would
probably have suppressed much of the
drama, but the French law is so desirous
to bring out every possible fact that the
French Judge would not prohibit any out
burst of feeiinr as irrelevant. Some
times he held up his hands in shock or
amazement and then the passionate tears
and accusations went on again.
There was the terrible ordeal Of "con-
frontation," as required by French law.
The two women prisoners, the Judge and
jury were brought face to face with the
dead body as it was found at Nancy,
tightly bound with cords and wrapped up
in raincoat to keep the blood from es-
Gaping and marked with a card:
''To be left until called for" ~
Madame Bessarabo viewed the re-
mains with horror and repulsion, but
without really losing her self-possession.
The bare facts of the crime show what
basis there was for q dramatic trial.
The dead man was a wealthy speculator
suspected Of being a spy in wartime. His
wife was a fascinating, beautiful, talented
woman of high birth, known as q writer of
strange, erotic novels and q champion of
woman's rights. There were stories of
brutal ill-treatment by her husband and
wild designations on his part.
He was said to have shown more than q
fatherly interest in his beautiful young
step-daughter, Paulette Jacques, Madame
Bessarabo's daughter by former hus-
band.
Strange to say, the first husband, a
wealthy man, had also died violently and
mysteriously, his head pierced by bullet.
When Bessarabo died nobody among
his neighbors knew of the tragedy. His
death was not known until his body was
found miles away carefully packed In an
unclaimed trunk with bullet through his
head.
Only his wife and daughter were in the
house when he died. Only his wife, II
seemed, could have been in the room when
he was killed. Many circumstances
pointed to her guilt.
But how could a delicate, slender wom-
an have packed big, strong man up 90
neatly In box? Was she assisted by her
equally delicate and refined young dsugh-
ter?
The mother passionately declared that
her daughter had nothing to do with the
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through the park and the lover of hiking will find his wishes gratified by the landscape which unfolds when he climbs some of the mountains that serve as a background for the tall spreading trees.
 There are plenty of places to camp and those who come in automobiles and wagons will find spaces marked off where they may enjoy camp life under the rules and regulations of the park director. These places are all ways near springs or at least where pure water is close at hand. Of course, firearms are tabooed as all our national parks are sanctuaries for wild life. Fishing is permitted, cer- tain number being allowed to be taken each day.
 The bears frequently become as tame as those of Yellowstone, and it is a common sight to find bear cubs resting on the fallen giants of the forest.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-05

honor of statesmen, especially the trees of the Giant forest, for here one finds that king of trees, the General Sherman, which is said to be the old est and largest tree in the world-in fact. the largest living thing. It is computed to be about four thousand years old. When the celebrated lover of trees-John Muir-was in the park he counted four thousand rings in the trunk of fallen giant, and as the General Sherman tree is much larger it is safe to say that it might have been a contemporary.
 This wonderful specimen of tree life rises to the height of 275 feet and is nearly thirty-seven feet in diameter. The General Sherman tree was dis covered long before the creation of the land as a National Park by James Wolverton, a hunter. and trapper,swho named it General Sherman and the name was never changed.
 In the same grove stands the Abra- ham Lincoln tree. two hundred and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-05

Revue. Then she was known as "Cuddles." a name she retained until she made her screen debut. Recently she has been seen as leading woman for Houdini in Terror Island" and Thomas Meighan in "The Prince Chap"
 Earle Williams
 Earle Williams holds the record among motion picture stars for the length of time he has remained with a single company. almost thirteen years.
 During his picture career, MT. Will Hams has had for his leading women such prominent stars of today as Anita Stewart, Clara Kimban Young and Corinne Griffith. The pictures in which he has appeared that loom large in the background are 'The Christian s'The Love of John Ruskin,'' My Official Wife" and "Arsene Lupin-" Among his most re- cent successes are '"The Fortune Hunter" from the famous play by
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-05

These trees grow only on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevadas, where the soil is warmed in summe- by the mild Pacific winds heated in their passage across the lowlands, and blanketed in winter by many feet of snow. Countless springs and streams sheltered by foliage keep the earth moist. As if to please man and make his visit to them easy and safe they grow in groves of which there are about dozen, each one containing many big trees. They produce little resin and do not burn easily.
 Both parks are of easy access. There is small log hotel in the Giant Forest where the larger trees are To- cated ands several tent camps are maintained for those who are willing to enjoy the life in open and for those who wish to enjoy the real beauty of these great gifts of nature camping in the open is much more attractive.
 Named In Honor Of Statesmen
 The trees and groves are named in