Smyrna times., 1926-07-14
KENT COUNTY COURT CASES
BEFORE JULY TERM Of COURT
GRAND JURY OPENED COURT AT
DOVER LAST WEEK; % BILLS
Murder Charge Found Against Edna
Edwards, Lee Harris For Throw
ing Infant Child in River

MurueT OndTge round Against EQna
Edwards, Lee Harris For Throw
ing Infant Child in River
The regular July term of the Kent
County Court of General Sessions and
Superior Court, which opened last
week at. Dover, it was thought there
would be but few bills for the grand
jury to consider, but on concluding its
work late Wednesday afternoon,
twenty-three true bills had been re-
turned which, together with three in
formations, presented by the attorney
| general without presentment to the
grand jury made total of twenty-six
indictments for the term. Judges
Rice and Rodney are sitting at the
present session of the court. Practi-
cally all of Wednesday mornings ses-
sion of the Superior Court was taken
up in the hearing of divorce cases, de-
crees nisi being granted in the follow
ing cases: Catherine NJ. Gooden from
Aubrey J. Gooden, adultery and ex-
treme cruelty; Jean French Wiltshire
from George Wesley Wiltshire, deser-
ton; Adelia Turner from Roscoe Tur-
ner, desertion; Andrew Jackson from
Sadie Jackson, desertion; Paul S.
Shorts from Myrtle @. Shorts, deser-
ton. There was but one other divorce
case scheduled for hearing, it being
deferred until later in the term.
True Bills Returned BY Grand Jury
True bills returned by the grand
jury included the following: John J..
Cardy, alias Jack L. Cardy, desertion
and non-support; Henry Q. Belts, de-
sertion and non-support; Harry Por-
ter, non-support of minor children;
Jacob Snow, breaking and entering;
Clarence Postles, illegal possession of
spirituous liquors; Howard Lewis,
larceny; Ward L. Russ, larceny; Dan
iel f. Roland, two indictments, viola
tion of motor vehicle laws of state by
making mis-statements in applications
for motor vehicle operators license;
Lafayette G. Mulaney, larceny; Alice
w. Coverdale, of Frederica, three in
dictments, two for illegal possession
of spirituous liquors and one for il
legal possession of malt liquor, (home-
made beer); Arthur Brewington, alias
Haeckel, two indictments, one for as
sault and battery and one for break
ing and entering; Fred Pierce, larceny;
Clinton White, four indictments, max
ing and uttering worthless checks, the
complainants being Herman 7. Roe,
Magnolia; T. K Jones Bro. Hardware
Co, Dover; Wesley George, near Mag
nolia; Wesley X. Harrigan, Little
Creek. (White is a young white man
of Seaford who is said to have passed
about 18 worthless checks on different
merchants in central Delaware); Lee
Harris, Negro, murder, that of throw
ing the infant child of Edna Edwards,
alias Edna Reed, in the Choptank riv-
er on May 27, last; Edna Edwards,
alias Edna Reed, murder, throwing in
fant child in Choptank river on May
27; Lee Harris and Edna Edwards,
alias Edna Reed, murder by throwing
live infant child in Choptank river on
May 27.
No Jury Trials For the Present Term
The informations filed were on ap-
peals from justice of the peace for
reckless driving, the defendants in
cluding Omar d. Crothers, Jr.; John
NJ. Philhower; E. Roy Diebert, the al
legged reckless driving said to have oc-
Cured on the state highway in Kent
county on July 8, last. While the
grand jury Of Kent county at its ses-
sion Wednesday returned % true in
dictments, three of which were muir
der indictments, and could not have
been tried at the present term, it was
thought that the term would be some
what extended, but from a settlement
of practically all of the cases, wheth-
er by continuance or pleas of guilty,
it developed that there will be no
jury trials for the present term, the
sheriff being instructed to notify the
jurors not to come Thursday for which
time they were summoned. Arthur
Brewington, negro, indicted for as
sault and battery, who pleaded guilty
to the charge, was given four months
Imprisonment in New Castle County
Workhouse. Mrs. Alice w. Coverdale
who keeps a store at Frederica and
who was indicted for having in her
possession illegally intoxicating malt
liquor, pleaded guilty to the indict-
ment and was given fine of 500 and
probated to ID. d. Wharton for one
year.