The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-01
Mt. RAINIER BOY
WILL BE TRIED
FOR PERJURY
cordeII B. Thrift Alleged to
Have Misrepresented His
Age on Marriage License

ROCKVILLE, Nd, April LAS
Il result of his marriage here on
March III to Miss Ethel =. Muir
dock. of Mt. Rainier, Nd, Gordon
m. Thrift. also OF Mt. Rainier, Is
under indictment here for perjury
and his case has been sdocketed Tor
trial at the term OF court now IN
session here,
The indictment charges lnaI IN
making application for the license.
which was issued by the clerk OF
the circuit court here. Thrift repre-
scented his age as twenty-one anu
That OF Miss Murdoch as eighteen,
vhen in reality he was but seven
teen and the girl but fourteen.
Following his arrest in Washing
ton, Thrift was released on $1,000
bond.
For the second time within four
months. Prank and Raymond Green
field. aged seventeen and twenty
two. respectively, sons or Daniel
p. Greenfield, well-known farmer
Of this vicinity, viii be placed on
trial In the circuit court here today
on an indictment charging them
with arson.
AT the November term Of court.
two indictments were returned
again the youths, one charging
them with setting fire to barn
on the farm OF William c. Watkins,
q, neighbor, March i, 1924. and the
other with firing another barn on
the Watkins farm in May, 1924.
They were tried at the Noven1-
Der, term on the indictment charg-
ing them with causing the May
fire and were acquitted, the court,
after the prosecution had presented
its evidences, directing verdict OF
not guilty on the ground that the
State had failed to prove that the
fire was Of incendiary origin. On
the other Indictment they win go
20 trial today.
The trial of Annie Undertake
and Teresa Freeman. young Wash
ington negresses. on an Indictment
charging them with the murder OF
their father. John Green. Well-to-I
do-resident OF the Chevy Chase
neighborhood, who was shot to
death at his home November %
last, win be called for trial in the
circuit court here on Thursday.
They win be defended by Attorneys
Dawson and Welsh and the prOsecu-
ton win be conducted by States
Attorney Garrett. The defense VIII
Be that Green was shot during q
household effects and that the
shooting was done in seif-defense.
The funeral OF William Bowen
Magruder. weTl-known Olney district
farmer, who was killed instantly
near Brookville Saturday night when
an automobile ne was driving col
lided with q railing Of q bridge
over small stream, upsetting the
machine and pinning Magruder
under the steering gear, breaking
his neck, took place yesterday from
st. Johns Episcopal Church at
Olney, many persons from that sec
ton Of the county and elsewhere
attending. The services were GoTl-
Quoted by the rector, the Reverend
Guy e. Kagey, and burial was in
the cemetery near the church.
Mr.. Magruder, who was a son of
Robert p. Magruder, was thirty
seven years old and unmarried.
He Is curvived by his father, two
brothers and four sisters.
George Doy, coIored, was found
guilty by a jury in the circuit
court here Of stealing cash and a
revolver from his landlady and was
sentenced by Judge Peter to two
years in the Maryland penitentiary.
Filbert Frazier, colored, convicted OF
stealing a pocketbook and a small
amount of money from a nurse at
the Montgomery County General
Hospital, Sandy Springs, mas not
been sentenced.
Funeral services for Mrs. Louise
Virginia Perry, lifelong resident
Of Bethesda district, this county,
who died at her home at Wood
mont, aged seventy-nine years.
took place yesterday afternosri
from the home, tho services being
conducted by the Reverend p. Row
land Wagner, pastor of the Rock
vile Baptist Church. Burial was
In Rockville Union Cemetery. Mrs.
Perry was q daughter Of the late
John Counselman.
William ]. Hegel and Wilfre5
Tarr, divinity students at the
Washington Missionary College,
Takoma Park, Nd. who pleaded
guilty in the circuit court here
70 an indictment charging them
with the larceny of $626.70 from a
safe in the office of the college,
and who were on Monday sentenced
by Judge Peter to two and one
half years and eighteen months,
respectively, in the Maryland House
OF Correction. are being held in
Jail here pending their removal
to the institution at Jessups.
Sheriff Plummer stated today
that the prisoners would not be
taken to the House of Correction
before Friday or Saturday.