The Washington times., 1925-01-27
WOMEN HELD IN
MONTGOMERY
Staying
Youth Returns Marriage
License to Court Clerk-She
Changed Her Mind

ROCKVILLE, Md, Jan. ~
Teresa Freeman and Annie Timber
lake, young Washington negresses,
were held without bail for the
action of the March grand jury, at
preliminary hearing before Judge
Samuel Riggs in the police court
here, on charges of numbering theAr
father. John Green, a well-known
and Iwell-to-do resident of near
Chevy Chase, this county, on
November %, last.
Green owned and lived on a lit
tie farm adjoining the Cummings
property at Chevy Chase, and it
was there that his daughter, Teresa,
sent two bullets into his body, one
piercing his heart. Both women,
it Is charged. went there armed
with revolvers and prepared for
trouble, should any ensue when
they attempted to remove furniture,
which they claimed was theirs, to
Washington. Trouble did follow,
as the testimony showed, as a re-
suit of their visit and eliminated
in the shooting.
Both women, who were arrested
in Washington the following day,
signed statements in which they
agreed that Teresa shot at her
father three times, two Of the
bullets taking. effect, but declared
that she used the revolver only
after she had been attacked.
When George Mitchell, twenty
seven years old, whose present ad-
dress is understood to be 465 Mis-
souri, avenue southwest, Washing
ton, obtained license from the clerk
Of ho eir
uary 81, to marry Miss Elizabeth
Dyson, twenty, of Culpepper, Va,
he was under the impression that
everything was 'all set for the
ceremony to take place at Rock
vile the following day, but that
he was a little too hasty in reach.
ing that conclusion was made plain
by letter received from him by
the clerk of the court here yes
terday.
Accompanying the letter was the
unused license, which the clerk
was asked to cancel. The young
man wrote that it was more in
sorrow than In anger" that he
returned the paper and then ex-
planned that my, girl changed her
mind for some reason or other
which / cannot find out" He sug-
gested that the clerk return to
him the 81 fee.
William E. Thompson, is charged
with infidelity and desertion by
Mrs. Hester E. Thompson, of this
vicinity, in a bill for ain absolute
divorce filed in the office of the
clerk of the circuit court here
today.
Mrs. Thompson not only sets
forth in her bill that she was de-
Fserted three months after her mar
riage to the defendant on July "a
| of last year. but gives the name of
woman with whom she charges
he has been guilty of improper
conduct. The marriage, so the
bill states, took place in Rockville.
A contract has been placed on
| record in the office of the clerk of
the circuit. court here for the sale
! by Louis c. Kengla and Eugene
Kengla to the North Washington
| Realty Company, of Washington,
of five acres of land at Sligo, this
county, for $4,000.
The property is located at the
intersection of the Brookeville and
Colesville road, fronting 27S feet
on the Brookeville road and 681
feet on the ColesviIle road. Situated
on the property are the Kengla
dwelling and a store building which
| must. according to the terms of
the contract, be vacated by not
later than April /.
Funeral services for John Russell
and his wife, Mrs. Cora Russell,
who were burned to death early
Saturday morning, when their
| home, a short distance from
Wheaton, this county, was de-
siroyed by fire, took place at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon from
Mt. Carmel Methodist Church, near
Brookeville, a very large number
os persons from different parts of
the county and the District of
Columbia attending.
The Reverend George r. Hays,
OF Laytonsville, officiated and burial
was in the cemetery near the
church.
The fund that is being raised
for the five destitute children, made
orphans by the tragedy, whose
ages range from four to seventeen
years, continues to grow. Some
thing like $500 has been collected