The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-03-12
CECIL CIRCUIT COURT


port on Wednesday last and was
discharged.
To the Honorable Judges of the
Circuit Court OF Cecil county:
We, the Grand Jurors OF the
March term, 1925, for the Circuit
Court of Cecil county, having finish
ed all of its work, beg leave to sub
NIT the following report:
We have examined 81 witnesses,
found eight presentments and eight
true bills; passed one, ignored two.
,Constables from Fifth and Sixth
districts examined and reported no
violations.
Committee consisting of Calvin M.
Blake, Stanley Beers, David S.
Kline, Slater B. Pyle and George s.
Sutton visited the Aims House;
found everything in splendid condi-
ton, reporting as follows:
Seventeen inmates, six white fe-
males, one colored female, six
white males, four colored males.
Three horses, four cows, milking;
two cows, springers; one heifer, two
years old; five heifer calves, three
months old; one registered Holstein
bull, two years old; four brood
sows, farrow last March; one stock
hog, so chickens, eight ducks, six
guineas, six turkeys, eight tons
baled hay, nine tons loose hay, 500
bundles fodder, ESQ bushels oats
500 bushels corn, four barrels meat
200 heads cabbage, 20 bushels
potatoes, 35 bushels turnips, 200 lbs
lard, 10 cords wood, SO acres in
wheat, 16 acres covered with
manure; all fodder in barn; all
machinery under cover; all inmates
we'll cared for.
We feel that Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Warrington deserve credit for the
condition in which they have kept
the Aims House, and the care they
are taking of the inmates.
The Grand Jury as body visited
the Jail and found IA persons con
fined there, seven white males, sly
colored males, one colored female.
The Jury finds the physical con-
ditions of the prisoners good, but
their living conditions would be i'm
proved by the installation OF e
separate bath for the females.
We also find the jail walls are
in need of white wash and paint
and recommend the Improvements
be made.
We wish to compliment the
County Commissioners on the SAM
, tary improvements they have made
at the Court House.
/ Having ended our labors, we
respectfully ask to be discharged.
STANDBY EVANS,
ROBERT B. FOARD, Foreman
] Secretary
An agreement was reached in the
lease of Walter B. Robertson VS..
Blanche B. Krauss, executrfx, where
by the plaintiff was allowed $3.50.
The amount sued for was $500.
The case of Leslie Goodyear VS..
the P, B. & w. R. r. Company
was removed to Talbot county.
In the case of State VS.. Alvin
Downham, indicted for the murder
of Frank Edwin Yeamans, the
Court ordered the Sheriff to bring
the traverser into Court Tuesday
morning.
William H. Pedler, of Baltimore,
indicted for bigamy, pleaded not
guilty and elected trial by the Court.
Teresa E. Pedler testified that she
was married to traverser in 1919,
and had never been divorced and
Catherine E. Dorsey, Of Baltimore,
testified that she was married on
January 7, 1925, at Elkton, to
Pedler, who represented himself to
her as a widower. Pedler's only
defense was that he had heard his
first wife was dead. The verdict
was guilty and sentence to three
years in Maryland Penitentiary.
Charles H. Wilson, colored, plead
ed guilty to bastardy in one case,
and the second case against him
was quashed. Wilson was ordered
to pay Ena M. Berry, coloTed, SIS
costs of confinement and $3.50 2
month for support of child.
State vs. Clarence Burke, colored,
for selling liquor at Perry Point
tried before a jury. The verdict
was guilty and Court sentenced
Burke to six months in the House
of Correction, after overruling a
motion for a new trial.
Rayner Matthews, indicted for
bastardy, pleaded not guilty and
elected trial by the Court. The
verdict was guilty, but sentence was
suspended as the child is out of
the State.
Alvin Downham, indicted for the
murder of Frank Edwin Yeamahs