Evening star., 1923-04-05
BODY FOUND HANGING
FROM BARN RAFTER
Farmer Thought to Have Gone on
Visit Takes Life-Despondency
Believed Cause.
snac.al Dispatcb 70 The star.

ROCKVILLE, Md. April 5.-Joseph
Franklin Edwards. a CIarksburg
district farmer. left the home OF
his brother. Thomas Edwards. near
clark sburG. Monday morning, osten-
sibly to visit his sister on a nearby
farm. When it was learned the fol-
lowing evening that he had not
reached his sisters home, a search
for him was instituted, with the re-
suit that his dead body was found
suspended by rope from a rafter in
the barn on the farm of his brother.
He had been in poor health for sew
eral months and there is believed to
be no doubt that his act was due to
resulting despondency. Mr.. Edwards
was forty-SeVen years old. He Is
survived by a daughter. Mrs Grover
Thompson of the Clark Sburg neigh
borhood.
MOtorist Fined 500.
Henry Magruder, IA young resident
of this county. was fined 500 and
costs by Judge Samuel Riggs in the
police court here following his con-
viction on a charge of operating an
automobile while under the influence
this county, was fined $50 and costs
for reckless driving.
Others who have paid fines or for
feited collateral in the police court
here for violations of the motor We
hicle laws are Victor O'Briant. $3.50:
Milton King. $50; Nellie II. Corey.
sI225; T.. &. Poole, H. Stewart. r. {.
Martin and Earl Freeman, $7.25 each;
r. Leo Selby. $3.50.
\ license has been issued by the
clerk of the circuit court here for the
marriage of Miss Evelyn D. McNa-
mara and Taylor NJ. Lewis, both of
Washington.
Boys Steal Automobile.
Suspecting that two boys in a
large automobile, which passed
through Rockville Tuesday afternoon.
were not properly in charge of the
car. Chief of Police Charles T. Cooley
instructed Motorcycle Policeman Guy
Jones to overhaul them and ask a
| few questions. The boys saw the
officer coming. turned on the gas
Derwood, the boys abandoned their
car and started through a woods
running. Jones gave chase and sue
ceeded in overtaking one, who gave
his name as James Lawrence Conahan.
his age as fifteen and Washington as
his home. He knew his companion,
he said. only by the Eame of Reggie.
Conahan admitted he and his friend
had stolen the car in Washington and
We're going he knew not where. He
was without funds. Both the boy
and car were turned over to the
Washington authorities.
Mrs. CIagett Dies
Mrs. Mary Virginia Clagett, widow
of Joseph Benjamin Clagett and n
lifelong resident of this county, died
at the home of her Son-in-law and
daughter. Mr. and Mrs William Haw-
kins. near Lisbon. Howard county.
where she had been visiting several
weeks. aged eighty-nine years Her
death was due to n general break
down incident to her age Surviving
her are the following children:
Alfonso ClaEett of Washington. Mrs.
Hawkins and Miss Marian Clagett of
Howard county and James and
Joseph Clagett of this county. Tho
funeral viii take place at il o'clock
rldaE morning from Grace Methodist
Church. Gaithersburg. Mrs. Claeett
was. before her marriage, Miss
Higgins.
Anti-TubercuIosis Meeting.
Under the auspices of the Mont
gomery County Farm Bureau a cam
palSn is IN process in this county TO
educate the farmers and others as to
the Importance of eradicating tuber-
culoSis among the dairy herds and
famlly cows of the county 1t is be-
ing conducted by DR.. Thomas A Lad
son. state inspector. and DR. Lock-
wood of the United States Bureau of
Animal Industry. who are being as
sisted by w. c. Sharr. county agri-
cultural agent. and officers and other
members of the farm bureau The
hrst meeting was held at Rockville
Tuesday evening and last evening a
melting was held at Laytonsville
Other meetings scheduled are as fol-
lows: Gaithersburg, April 5; Damas-
Gus. April 6; Barnesville. April 4;
Colesville. April 16: Poolesville, April
2S. a large number of other meet
ings will be arranged for various
parts of the county
The ducational campaign is pre-
liminary to beginning the practical
work of eradicating the disease,
which is scheduled to start June %.
The cost will be borne jointly by the
federal government, state and coun-
ty. the county's share to be about
$4,000 year for the next two years.
1t is believed the work can be com
pleted and the county made absolute
ly free of bovine tuberculosis within
two years.