The Washington times., 1924-07-08
TRUCK DRIVER IS.
| HELD IN LALLY
| Boys DEATH
Alphonso Manning Committed
to Jail Pending Action
Of Grand Jury

preliminary hearing before Judge
Samuel Riggs in the police court
here yesterday, Alphonso Manning,
colored, Of Bethesda, this county,
was held for the action Of the No:
vember grand Jury on a charge Of
causing the death Of william J.
Lally, jr., seven.-year-old son Of
DR.. William ]: Lally. 1853 Spring
road, D. c., who died In Wash
suit of injuries received in an auto
mobile collision on the Conduit
road, near the River View Club, this
county, June 20. He was unable
20 furnish bond In the amount Of
$4,000 and was committed to jail.
Manning was driving q heavy
truck and the little boy was In the
automobile of Daniel I. Leane, Of
1852 Spring Road, D. c., who was
driving his wife and daughter and
the Lally child. Noticing that the
truck, so the evidence showed, was
stalking all the road" Leane drove
the car to one side Of the road and
stopped. The truck, according to
the evidence, came along and
plunged into the car. Young Lally
was thrown out. An injury to the
spleen caused death.
Miss Nellie Dillehay, sixteen-year.
old daughter Of J. H Dillehay, Of
/ the vicinity Of Boyds, this county,
suffered q fracture Of the hip and
other serious injuries Sunday night
when an automobile in which size
was riding and which was being
driven by william Boxall, Of Der.
{ wood, this county, left the road and
plunged into q bank near Buck
Lodge, this county. When the ma.
chine struck the bank It upset and
fell on the girl. She was 1mMe'
diately taken to the Montgomery
County General Hospital.
AS result Of the accident, Box
Ill was arrested on charges of oper'
ating car while under the influence
OF LIQUOR. with having no operators
iTerTnit and with reckless driving.
& II IL said that at the time the ma
. chine left the road It was travelling
ct q high rate Of speed.
The Reverend s. J. Goode, pastor
6f the Christian Church officiatco
a the marriage here Of William Il.
Patterson, sixty-four years old. o.
washington, and Mrs. Mary E.
Brain, aged fifty-five, of Hunts
Vile, Ala.
Licenses have been issued by
the clerk Of the circuit court here
Tor the marriage Of William NJ
Jenkins, twenty-five, Of Gathers
burg, Nd, and Miss Edna Earman
nineteen, Of Leesburg. Va, and
Robert 8. Umpleby, twenty-five
and Miss Mary s. Sheetz, eighteen
both of Washington, also Alphonst
r. Adams, thirty-two, and Miss
pinkney Wylie. twenty-five, botf
pe Washington.
a Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hogan
celebrated the tenth anniversary
Of their marriage by entertaining
about fifty Of their friends at Their
home in Gaithersburgs Sunday
Eight.
For selling corn whislcey to two
Rockville youths, Dennis Cooper
colored, VIII have to spend the next
tWenty-one months In the Maryland
house Of correction and pay q fine
Of $500, according to sentences i'm
posed by Judge Riggs in. the police
court here today. In one case
he was sentenced to prison fol
twelve months and In the Other
was given q nine-month sentences
and fined.
Cooper's arrest followed an in
vestigation by Sheriff Clay Plum
mer of the circumstances surround
ing the death Of Harry Blunt
twenty-one-year.old son Of Samue
Blunt, Laytonsville district farm
or, who was run over and killed by
q Baltimore and Ohio train al
Gaithersburg, this county, last Fri
day night. He found that Blunt
and two companions had been drink
ing and that the liquor was oh
tanned from Cooper.
Jesse Martin. cclored, Of Rock
vile, also has house Of correction
sentence facing him for violating
the local option law Of the county
He was tried before Judge Riggs
on a charge Of assisting in q salt
OF intoxicating liquor. Judge Riggs
sentenced him to serve six month:
IN the house Of correction. but hC
noted an appeal to the circuit court
and the case will be tried again II
November in the upper court.
James Edward Gartn0r, q well
known resident Of the vicinity O
Buck Lodge, this county, died yes
terday in a Washington hospital
aged forty-one years. He had no
been in robust health for SOM
! months, but his condition did no
become alarming until a few day,
before his death. He IL survived b!
his wife, formerly Miss Larman
Of this county, and q daughter
Miss Mildred Gartner. He ais,
leaves his mother, Mrs. Emma Jan,
Gartner, of Germantown, thi
county, and seven brothers and tw,
sisters. The funeral will take plac,
from st. Martins Catholic Church
Gaithersburg, at 8 o'clock Wednes
day morning, burial to be in 81
Roses Cemetery, at Choppers, thi
county. Mr.. Gartner was a mem
Der of the Gaithersburg Council o
the knights Of Columbus.