Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-05-15
INDICTMENTS GALORE
In LIQUOR VIOLATIONS
Grand Jury Finds Many True Bills
May Term VIII Be In Session
Two Weeks

Fourteen indictments for violat
ing the prohibition laws We're found
by Shenandoah County grand jury
at the beginning of the May term
of Circuit Court on Monday. The
eluttering of the criminal docket
with cases of this character neces-
sarily retards the consideration OF
other classes of litigation, and just
when the dockets will be rsduced OF
cleared is an enigma, which even
court officers cannot solve.
Those against whom true bills
were found were Newton Shaffer,
Walter Spence. Ashby Miller, John
Mumaw, Charles Mumaw, Harry w.
Smith, Johnnie Romick, Milton
Heishman, Noah Polk. Columbus
Mumaw. Rosa B. Orndorff, G. A.
Fadeley and George Helsley. The
alleged violators of the law come
from every section of the county,
and every phase of the statutes is
represented in the violations.
In addition to the dry law indict-
ments, Roy Turner, Harrisonburg
youth, and George Otto, from Grand
Rapids, Mich, were indicted for the
recent theft of bicycles in Wood
stock.
James Arehart and David Replo-
gle, charged with having broken into
and robbed the Home Cooperative
Store at Strasburg, on the night of
March rs, were also indicted.
Pleads Guilty
Following his indictment, Newton
Shaffer plead guilty to having in his
necessary ingredients for
making mash, preparatory to a
hooch run. While the mixture had
not reached the intoxicating stage,
there was no denial on the part of
Shaffer of his illegal intentions, and
the court fined him $50. attaching
thereto 60-day jail sentence.
John and Charles Mumaw, against
whom true bills were found, are
sons of the late Sylvanus d. Mumaw,
whose conviction for violating the
laws was followed by his
.ragic death, by hanging, at his
home near Columbia Furnace.
II is alleged that subterranean
'oom.- of considerable proportions,
,leverly concealed by underbrush,
was discovered in the woods on the
Mumaw farm. In the room was such
as was necessary to oper-
ate an illicit liquor plant, and the
Mumaws are charged with owner
Of the plant
Indictment Follows Accident
Milton Heishman, an aged West
living in Trout Run Val
ley, became entangled in the meshes
Of the law. following a collision on
Sunday afternoon, near Mt. jackson,
with Ford driven by Nathan Run
ion of Hawkinstown and occupied by
his wife and child. 1t is
alleged that Heishman. who was in
toxicated, got on the wrong side of
the roadsand in the impact between
the machines the Runion car was
badly damaged and all of the occu-
pants suffered minor injuries. A
quart of West Virginia fire water
was broken in the collision and an
additional quart was found under
the front seat. Walter Sager, a
passenger with Heishman, was ex-
onerated by the grand jury. Heish-
man is charged with possession,
transportation and driving while UNI
der the influence of liquor.
Docket CalIed-Cases Set
Following the arrival of Judge F.
B. Whiting, the May docket was
called and such cases as may be
reached were set for hearings. The
Joseph Mumaw seduction case.
which resulted in a mistrial at the
last term of court, because of the
illness of Judge Whiting, was con-
tinued to the second day of the Sep
TENDER term because of the absence
of a material witness for the de-
Tense. VIM. L. Click, who was shot
by Deputy Sheriff Mckinley Ryman
while fleeing from arrest, following
the operation of still, will also be
tried at the September term.
Soft drink permits were issued to
w. j. Bott, Toms Brook; Clayton A.
Rudolph, Star Tannery; and G. B.
Reedy. at Valley View Springs. Pat
ent medicine and fiavoring extract
permits were granted w. P. Dove,
j. +. Byerly and L. r. McAllister.
Pension applications of Martha E.
Rosenberger, Noah Cave, Lydia Ell
len Feley, and Catherine Ann Spiker
were approved and ordered certified
to the Auditor of Public Accounts
John Romick. a Woodstock citi-
zen. was found not guilty of selling
intoxicants to fellow townsman
there being but one witness testify
ing to the sale.
The case of the Commonwealth
against John A. and Charles Mu-
l.
nav were continued to May 20.
Kenneth Saum was appointed
trustee Of Christ Church, Edin
burg, to succeed T. A. Hoffman.
Many Pleas of Guilty
The criminal docket has been con
siderably shortened by pleas o.
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