The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-04
CIRCULAR SAW
KILLS D. c.
Man
Nicholas Young Meets Death
While Operating Mill in
Montgomery County

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Nov. A.
Nicholas Young. forty-five, formerly
OF Montgoniery county, but for the
last few years a resident Of Wash
Lngton, was instantly killed while
operating q saw mill on the farm
Of Eugene Reddon, near Potomac.
yesterday afternoon, While the big
circular saw WAS revolving at ter.
rifle speed, It broke In two and one
portion struck Young, who was only
. few feat away, cutting him ter.
ribiy on the body and head. Sheriff
Clay Plumner was notified and Dep.
uty Sheriff Gingall was detailed TO
make an Investigation. The officer
decided that Young's death was acct.
dental ana that no inquest was
necessary. Young 10 survived by
his wife, formerly q Miss Fisher, Of
Great Falls, and q large number Of
children.
John Hoes. colored. Of German.
town, was given a preliminary hear.
Ing In the police court yesterday
afternoon on charge of causing
the death Of his ten.year-old daugh.
ter, Margaret Hoes, and was held
BY Judge Riggs for the action of
the November grand jury. Being
unable to furnish $4,000 bail, he
was committed to Jail,
According to the testimony,
Hoes and his wife, Nettie Hoes,
were struggling for the possession
Of a gun in their home near
Germantown several days ago, when
the gun was discharged. the load
entering the abdomen of the child,
causing her death several hours
later in a Washington hospital.
Hoes claimed the shooting was an
accident.
Deputy Sheriff Stanley GinselI
and Policeman Dean wilkinson
visited the home Of Harry Poole,
near Kings Valley. yesterday after
noon, and found there, 20 they
state, a whislxey still and q barrel
Of mash. Poole was arrested on q
charge Of violating the local option
law Of the county and was re-
leased on $500 bail for appearance
in the police court here for trial.
Charged with operating an auto
mobile while under the influence
OF liquor, William Burrows, Of the
Ednor, neighborhood, was sentenced
by Judge Samuel Riggs, in the
police court here today, to the
county jail for thirty days, and for
violating another Of the motor
vehicle regulations was fined S25
and costs.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth
Rebecca Umstead, seventy-five.
widow Of Villain Umstead, who died
on Saturday at her home at Ken
sington, took place at 10 o'clock this
morning. from st. Johns Catholic
Church, Forest Glen. The Reverend
Charles o. Rosensteel. pastor'o the
church, conducted the services and
burial was in st. Mary'e Cemetery,
| near Rockville. Mrs. Umstead was
a lifelong resident Of the county
and before her marriage was a Miss
Austin.
Licenses have been issued here
for the marriage Of Arthur 3. Will
son, %, and Miss Nettie ]. May, 81,
both of Washington; r. Z. Singleton,
81, and Miss Lula May ,Lumpkin.
81, both Of Washington; Robert B.
Wickes, Fl, and Miss Helen Shepard,
10, both Of Washington; Jesse Dus.
tin, %. Of Burtonsville, Md, and
Miss May Bertha Musgrove, 10, Of
Fatrland, Nd; Alfred Hottleswhite,
22; and Miss Georgia Parsley, IS,
both of Richmond, Va, and Leonard
L, McCrossin, 81, and Miss May v.
Johnson, IS, both of Bethesda, and
Walter L. Stone, 81, and Virginia
Sullivan %, both Of Iceland, Va.