The Republican., 1926-12-16
CRIMINAL COURT SESSION
CALLED MONDAY MORNING
AbductOrs of Mountain Lake
Park Girls Given Five Years
Each n State Penitentiary

OAlo"lLS ILAC uASNAitA 81 VI eAAN
grand jury last Thursday morning,
the December Term of the Circuit
Court recessed until Monday morning
when it again convened with Judge
Albert A. Doub on the bench who was
joined yesterday by Judge Frank G.
Wagaman.
With the convening of the term on
Monday the criminal docket was call
ed and cases disposed of as follows
up to the time this paper goes to
press:
Sam Polino, fined S25 by Justice
Poole of Kitzmiller after being found
guilty of being drunk and acting in a
disoderly manner at Kitzmiller, ap-
pealed the case. When it was called
Monday Polino failed to answer and
the judgement of the lower court was
affirmed
In No. 8 criminal trials, Jake Me
Robie, on the charge Of assault and
battery, entered plea Of guilty and
was fined S25 and costs.
Another appeal case from the ver-
dict of guilty rendered by Justice
Pool at Kitzmiller, was tina tof Benja-
min Davis, who had been convicted of
operating a motor vehicle whilst in
toxicated. The matter was handled
by the attorneys before jury which
brought in verdict of guilty after
an hours deliberation. Sentence has
not yet been imposed by the Court.
Rosso Onofaro, whose case was SIM
liar to that of Davis, elected to be
tried before the Court, whose verdict
was not guilty. w
Following the disposition of cases
on the criminal appeal docket, the
criminal trials docket was called.
William Harmon and Zula Hine-
baugh, who were arrested early in the
summer as they were sampling run
of new liquor in tent where they op-
! Grated a still, was the first case tried.
Hs0 non entered plea of guilty as
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Zula limbaugh was dismissed by the
State. Sentence withheld
The cases of R. J. Martin and Geo.
E. Arthur. indicted for abducting
Esther Zepp and Elva Kitzmiller, two
young girls of Mountain Lake Park
early in October of the present year,
ho obo o,+a
pleas of guilty and were sentenc :
to serve five years each in the Mary
land Penitentiary. The two girls will
be taken to the Maryland School for
Girls where they are to remain until
they reach the age of p years. Mar
tin and Arthur came to Oakland last
fall with carnival company and af-
ter the engagement was closed they
remained in Oakland for about two
weeks. In the meantime Martin mar
ried woman who was attached to a
show with the carnival, but deserted
his wife the day following, leaving
Oakland in company with Arthur and
the two girls. They were captured at
a point on the National Highway near
Hancock by Sheriff Yutzy and dep
uty and brought back to Oakland
where they have been in Jail pending
their trial.
Charles Martin and Ray Martin,
father and son, were tried before the
Court upon an indictment charging
them with the larceny of automobile
accessories. Verdict held sub curia.
Hugh Maxwell Stewart confessed
plea of guilty upon being arraigned
for bigamy. His sentence has not yet
been imposed.
Toby Tyler, colored man hailing
from Washington, D. c., was SEN
fenced to serve four years in the
Maryland Penitentiary after he had
entered plea Of guilty, the charge
against him being robbery of an au-
tomibilist at point near Keyser's
Ridge on the National Highway. The
negro's victim was a driver for the
koluuSDdhtl SOl pOl
which concern had a number of men
engaged during the summer testing
feet of cars between Uniontown and
Grantsville. On the night of the rob-
berry one of the cars went bad and the
driver, while waiting for another of
the cars to come to his relief, fell
y eep. When the occupant of the car
oke he was confronted with a re-
yer in the hands of Tyler who de-
,anded his money and then left. The
,lored man was captured in Union
town a few hours later and brought
to Oakland.
Oren Friend, Of near Friendsville,,
entered plea of guilty on the in
dictment charging him with burglary.
He has not yet been sentenced.
Cecil Payne was tried before the
Court on a charge of burglary He