The Washington times., 1923-06-26
ROLANDC.BOOTH
ISSUEDFOR
DIVORCE
Washington Real Estate Man
Charged With Cruelty in
Rockville Suit.
Special to The washington Times.

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Attorney John A. Garrett of Rock.
Vile the defendant.
Mrs. Booth charges her husband
with cruelty and also alleges in her
bill that in March last he deserted
her. The couple have a grown son.
The bill states that the defendant 10
now making his home In Washing.
ton.
Receiving information yesterday
afternoon that an automobile well
stocked with liquor was on its way
out into this county from Washing
ton, Deputy Sheriff Stanley Gingell
and Motorcycle Policeman Leroy
Rodgers started out to make an in
vestigation. Banked alongside the
road near Halpine, on the Rockville
pike. was a machine they thought
might be the one they were looking
for. They found in the car thirty.
one half pints and sig half gallons
Of corn whiskey and a large number
of empty bottles. They arrested the
man in chArge-Terry Perkins, col.
ored. of Washington-and brought
him to Rockville and committed him
to jail to await trial on q charge Of
violating the local option law Of the
county.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk Of the circuit court here for
the marriage of Miss Margaret M.
Haigley and George L. Kunkel, 3rd,
both Of Baltimore; Miss Audrey w.
Browning of New York city and AID.
Olson G. Hudson of Pine Grove, Va,
and Miss Elaine r. Hedgcock Of
Takoma Park and Horace L. Steven
son Of Washington.
Walter Chun, q young negro resi-
dent of the lower section OF the
county, is in Jail here charged with
the larceny of a horse from Enos c..
Keys OF Linden, this county. He
was arrested at the horse bazaar in
Washington, where, it is charged,
he left the horse to be sold. The
horse was taken last night from a
field in which he was grazing. The
investigation was conducted by Dep
uty Sheriff Stanley Gingell.
Charles Wright. fifty years old,
said to be structural iron worker
Of Richmond, Va, but who has been
working in and around Washington
for the last year or more, was
drowned in the Potomac river about
a mile above Great Falls Sunday
morning. He and several friends
spent Saturday right in a shack on
an island in the river, intending to
spend. Sunday fishing. Early Sun
day morning he disappeared from
the island, and when his compan-
ions discovered his hat, coat and
other articles Of clothing in the
shack they became alarmed. He had
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the Congressional Country Club and
boarded in that neighborhood. The
Rockville authorities were notified
yesterday morning, and Deputy Sher.
iff Stanley Gingell was detailed to
make an investigation. Going to the
island where the man was last seen
ahVe, G1ngeIl and several Of Wright's
companions on the fishing expedi-
ton discovered the mans body in
the water near the island. The body
was taken in charge by Undertaken
William r. Humphrey of Rockville,
who prepared it for burial. An in
quest will probably be held. Wright
was unmarried.
When a canoe in which he and
several companions were crossing
the canal near Glen Echo capsized
sunday afternoon, Ernest Hilliard,
tWenty'eight years old, Of Shenan-
doah junction, w. Va, lost his life
by drowning. He was good SWIM
mer. ana his companions, thinking
ne would have no difficulty in reach
ing the shore, paid no attention to
MIN. missing him later, they con-
cluded he was still in the water and
began dragging the canal. His dead
body was not brought to the surface
until the following morning. He was
unmarried. The young man had
oeen working in the Bethesda neigh.
borhood.
Pror. Edwin w. Broome, county
superintendent of schools, will be a
member or the faculty of the sum
mer schooi at the University of
Maryland. He will teach school or.
ganiZation.
A three-cornered fight is on in this
county for the Democratic nomina-
ION Tor register of wills to be made
at the primary election early in Sep
TENDER. The candidates are the in
cumbent, Parrie E. Waters: Thomas
d. Griffith, Of Laytonsville, formerly
q clerk in the office of the county
commissioners here, and Milton w.
Brewer, Of Gaithersburg, who is en-.
gagged In the insurance business.
Waters is being supported by the or.
ganization forces and should win, al.
though many believe he has a real
fight on his hands. Waters was an.
pointed several months ago to fill
out the unexpired term of II. Clin-
ton Allnutt, deceased.
The state roads commission has
announced that the following roads
in this county will at once be oiled,
in the order named: Four Corners
to Seeks Corner, Silver Spring to
Avenel, Sligo to Colesville, Takonla
to the District OF Columbia line,
Seventh street pike to Forest Glen,
Remington to Wheaton, Kensington
to Chevy Chase Lake, and Wood.
mont to Glen Echo.
E. Lee LeCompte, State game
warden, has issued an appeal to the
people OF Maryland, urging them to
help protect the game of the State
by not permitting their dogs to run
at large, at least from March / to
August /. He declares that within
the period indicated, dogs running
at large kill more game, especially
rabbits, than hunters do throughout