Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-01-16
JANUARY COURT BEGINS

+ urge crowd shivered on the streets 0
O sought the warmth of public office
: and the Woodstock stores. Probabl.
4 a psychologist could give a reason
: why-men leave their happy, or un
happy homes and travel through mile!
OF snow and sleet to sit or stant
J around court room all day to lister
J to the cut and dried program of firs
days session OF court, which is about
as exciting as funeral and as thrill
ing as an almanac. Save for the
calling of the grand jury the initial day
of court is absolutely devoid of interest
to any except attorneys, witnesses sum-
moned to testify before the inquisi-
torial body and few actual or pros
pective litigants.
However the crowd was here and
the term began with Judge Frank B.
Whiting ON the bench.
GRAND JURY AT WORK.
| The grand jury of which R. L.
Campbell was foreman investigated a
number of presentments, and return
ed the following indictments:
Commonwealth against G. L. Racey,
charged with unlawfully and felonious-
ly entering the mill of H. H. Snarr,
near Strasburg, in the night time and
stealing therefrom $4,000 and s150.00
on the night of December Is, 1924
Commonwealth against Joseph Mu-
nav, seduction,
| Commonwealth against Will Miller,
charged with breaking into the garage
OF D. L. Gruber, near Strasburg, on the
night of September 80, 1924, and steal
ing Ford sedan.
Commonwealth against j. E. Lucas,
Indicted for forging the name of j. H.
CARRIER to check for $500. The check
was made payable to the father of j
E. Lucas and by forging the endorse
ment the check was cashed. The
father was witness against the son
in securing an indictment. The al
legged crime was committed on Deem.
Der 20, and the parties of interest live
near New Market.
Commonwealth against Jesse Rainey,
James Midnight and Randolph Smith,
charged with burglarizing Wenders
Department Store, Woodstock, on the
night of December /, and stealing
merchandise valued at $500. The three
negroes are in Page county Jail
on similar charge, having broken
into stores in that county and in Harri-
sonburg. They were captured in Har-
risonburg and much of the loot was
recovered, though a great part of it
had been sold to customers who were
| innocent of its origin.
Commonwealth against William Mu-
nav, charged with breaking and
entering mill of H. H. Snarr.
Same against same on charge of
breaking into warehouse of H. l..
Borden, at Strasburg and stealing lead
pencils to the value of 81. 90 and a pipe
In the case of the Commonwealth
against S. S. Zirkle, charged with a
felony, a continuance was granted
until March term and bond was grant
ed for 81, ZOO,
Guardians were appointed, gave
bond and qualified as follows c. E.
Kerlin for Ernest E. Kerlin NADIA C.
Bowers for Urah A. Dellinger.
Pensions for widows of Confederate
Soldiers were approved and ordered to
be certified to the auditor of Public
Accounts, for Mrs. Elizabeth Weather
holtz, Mrs. Louis Wagner and Mrs.
Antoinette Clover.
ONLY ONE LIQUOR CASE
Though a widower, Clarence w
Parks of Ashby district was the owner
of wash boiler which in happier days
had been put to better uses. Used for
legitimate purposes this boiler had
often dubbed with the suds which
whitened the family wash, and played
its part in creating that cleanliness
which is next to goodness. But
Parks, so the evidence divulged, used
his ingenuity in transforming the
innocent boiler into q contraption
which would produce that hooch which
is akin 10 hellishness and his transgres-
sions tangled him up with the law.
When prohibition officers visited the
Parks home they found two gallons of
ophidian ambrosia, three barrels of
mash and the fatal boiler, upon the
roof of which was attached a goodly
coil of copper pipe. Indeed it looked
so suspicious to the officers that it was
deducted that Parks and prohibition
had parted company. The arrest
followed, an indictment was found
and on Tuesday Parks confronted the
Court. A jury found him guilty Of
storing ardent spirits and possessing
a still, and the combined sentence fol
the two often ses was so days in jail
and 500 fine.
During the trial of the case the de
fendant plead lack of time to pursue
the distillation of the lethal liquic
which he was alleged TO have manu-
fractured, this lack of time being prim;
lfacia evidence of innocence.
F! II work during the week." said the
accused, and when it was suggested by
the Commonwealth Attorney that h,
might have operated the still on Sun
day, he stated that "On Sunday | 90 /,
Sunday School and Church." TIL,
Jury weighed well his religious in
clinations and decided that the poison
plant did not work automatically, ant
for three months one Sunday Schoo
Scholar will be checked off as absent
lone member of a rural congregation
Twill be conspicuous by his failure to b
Ipresent and when the sweet tunes O
''Ninety and Nine" add solemnity t,
Z the Sabbath hour, sorrow ladene,