The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-15
STABS HIMSELF
IN FEAR Of
KHAN
World War Veteran Held n
Rockville jail Thought TO
Have illusions.

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me-" Thomas Ross, young resi-.
dent Of Burtn Hills. late Sunday
might plunged penkntfe twice into
his throat in his cell at the jail
here, where he was being held to
await trial on a charge Of operating
ian automobile while under the in.
1luence Of liquor. He later threat
ened a cellmate, Edward T. Ben
ton, jr., who called for help. The
injured man was Immediately re-
moved to the Montgomery County
General Hospital, Sandy Spring,
where physicians said he would re.
cover, although one Of the stabs
narrowly missed the juglar vein.
Ross, who Is twenty.eight years
old and unmarried, served in the
world war and IL understood to be
suffering from shell shock. The
authorities will have his mental
condition examined.
Charging infidelity and naming
Q correspondent, Roy L. Harmon,
living near here, has filed suit in
the circuit court here for an abb
9olute divorce from Mrs. Carrie w.
Harmon, who is said to be making
her home In Baltimore. He Is rep.
resented by Attorney Robert Peter,
IT,. Of Rockville
!, Because the young man was but
eighteen years old and did not have
the written consent Of his parents,
Norman O. Armstrong, Of Midland.
Va, was unable to obtain a license
: % marry Miss Cora v. Trumbo.
also OF Midland, here, yesterday.
he Lett TO obtain the parental con.
{ sent, and, II successful, will re.
turn to Rockville to have the knot
! tied.
the funeral Of Mrs. Sarah Thomas
Miller. wife Of BENJAMIN II. Miller
and one Of Montgomery countv's
most prominent women, who died
Ct her home at Ashton on Satur-
nay. aged eighty-two years, was
neld yesterday afternoon from the
meeting house Of the Society of
Friends at Sandy Spring, a very
large concourse attending. Burial
was In the Friends Cemetery.
MRS. Miller was q daughter Of
&nS later William John and Mrs.
4xenecca M. Thomas and was
lifelong resident OF the San ~
Spring neighborhood. For a num-
Der OF years she was president az
the montgomery County Women's
CnrlStian temperance Union and
WaS long prominently connected
i with the State union. Her husband.
whom she married sixty.tWo wears
! ago, and a daughter, Miss Rebecca
! I. Miller, survive her.
Licenses have been issued bv the
Caerk OF the circuit court here for
tne marriage Of Bernard E. Hin
S9nan ana Miss Ruby Stafford, both
o. washington; William H. Temple
! man and Miss Marian G.. BerIxlev
both of Yorktown, Va. and Carlos
y. Mccullough, of Fayette, No. and
! tngton. '--
The annual delinquent tax sale
Z was held here today by DR.. :Tohn
Garoner, county treasurer. About
one hundred pieces of real estate.
! upon which taxes for the year 1924
We're unpaid, were disposed of at
+ Pupnc auction, the amount Of taxes
1ue thereon aggregating around
Se,OOO. The law allows two years in
which property thus sold may be
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Funeral services for Edward r
I Burroughs, prominent lifelong resi-.
0ent OF this vicinity, who died At
his home at Halpine, aged sixtv.
one years, were held yesterday
afternoon at the Rockville Fra.
Methodist Church and were largely
attended. The pastor, the Rev.
Henry q! Albaugh, officiated. and
burial was in Rockville Union
Cemetery.
| Edward T. Benton, ir.. of Burnt
Mills, formerly Of Washington. who
- being held here at the request
: OF authorities Of Paterson, N. =.
where he Is wanted to answer n
charge Of embezzling $4,000 from
MRS. Anna Lee, Of that city, was
= before Judge Robert B. Peter. in
the circuit court here, on a writ
! or habeas corpus, the proceedings
having been instituted by his ar.
| eorney, Thomas L. Dawson. Of
Rockville. for his release on bail
pending the determination of a
, request for extradition, which the
prisoner is resisting. Judge Peter,
however, declined to hear the case
, at this time, holding that the New
Jersey authorities should be allow.
ed more time in which to get their
case in shape. Benton was re-
manded to jail.
Mrs. Rose A. Watkins, wife of
Robert Watkins, died at her home
near Cedar Heights, this county.
aged sixty-seven years. Double
pneumonia, Of which she had been
Ill but two days, was the cause of
death. She is survived by her hus.
band, but leaves no children. She
was a sister Of William Apulebv
and Mrs. Cue, both OF the Cedar
Grove neighborhood. The funeral
took place Sunday morning from
the Methodist Church at DAMASCUS.
the pastor. the Rev. N. A, Line.
weaver, conducting the services
Burial was In the cemetery near.
the church. Mrs. Watkins was
before her marriage a Miss Appleby
and was lifelong resident OF
this county.