The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-30
CECIL CIRCUIT COURT
September Term In Session At
Elkton

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The September term Of Circuit
Court for Cecil County has been in
session at Elkton since the 18th inst,
long list of cases being marked for
trial.
Grand Jury-John H. Terrell,
Foreman; Howard w. Knock, Her.
bert R. Price, Wayne Stradley, Uric
Conner, Clarence Thornton, S. How
ard Buckworth, j. Wesley McAllister,
Oliver G. Giles, John McCray, John
R. Couden, Harry Beers. Clayton Nc
lowell, Harry Murphy, Elmer e.
Murphy, Holiday H. Kirk, Robert H.
Aiken, Robert A. Mccullough, James
w. Kilby, Howard R. England, John
S. Reisler.
| Petit Jury-William H. Brown,
Walter Tins, William ]. Manlove,
John McKeown, Arthur F. Morgan,
Jacob Allen, Lyman A. Spence, w. d.
Bratton, John S. Lee, j. Franklin
Diggs, Washington Pennington,
Charles Payne, Charles c. Ulary,
John S. Norman, William S. Wood,
Harvey T. Davis, Cecil B. Cummings,
Alpheus A. Pierce, VIM. d. Cursey,
Henry c. Burroughs, John A. Hart
enstine, Howard N. Linton, VIM. G.
Baker, Henry M. Riley Charles
Fitzgerald.
The first case called was that of S.
j. Crouch, G. w. Purner and August
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White claimed that Constable Crouch
sold her out without allowing her
the legal $100 exemption, and OBJ
tanned verdict against his bonds
men before Justice Scotten, from
which the bondsmen appealed.
Tried before the Court and verdict
for Mrs. White for $1OO.
The appeal case of State VS.. David
Herman was dismissed. Herman
had been acquitted before a Justice
on charge of driving car while
intoxicated, and the Court ruled the
State could not appeal.
In the suit of H. Arlington Blood,
Esq, of Baltimore, VS.. Stefan Szni-
lyk for $3.50 for legal services reEd-
cred, a jury gave Mr.. Blood verdict
for the amount sued for.
The two appeal cases of K. R.
Kirchbaum VS.. State were tried be-
fore jury. Mr.. Kirchbaum had
been fined for reckless driving and
failing to stop after an accident, and
appealed both cases, which were
tried together. The verdict in both
cases was not guilty.
Antonio Lepore and Alberto Cim-
orosi, natives of Italy; Dmitro Bilan,
a native of Austria; Elizabeth Siti, a
native of Hungary, and Geo. Given,
native of Scotland, were naturaliz-
ed.
The case of Geo. Quantrell VS..
Burton M. Boyd, on claim for
wages, was put on trial before the
Court. Quantrell claimed that he
Was hired at dollar day for full
year; Mr.. Boyd that he hired for only
month, and then kept on the bal
ance of the year for his board and
clothes. The Court rendered a ver-
dict for $26 in favor of Quantrell.
The suit of Brooks A. Reynolds. OF
Portsmouth, N. H., against Ruther
H. Tennis, of Port Deposit, for in
iuries sustained in an accident along
the North East-Elkton road Oh Aug.
26, 1926, was tried before a jury
and verdict rendered for $250O In
favor of the plaintiff. Reynolds was
riding motorcycle and it was alleg-
ed he was run off the road by an
auto-truck owned by Tennis.
James Collins, colored, of Elkton,
indicted for the murder of Charles
B. Holland, also colored, son of John
Holland, of Elkton, was placed ON
trial before the Court. Holland died
as result of injuries sustained dur
ing drinking party held in a negro
house on Paradice Alley. 1t is alleg-
ed Collins struck him over the head
with a heavy piece of board.
Bayard Jackson VS.. the State, fin
ed for reckless driving, was called.
The State, it's witnesses being absent,
confessed plea of not guilty.
Among the indictments returned
by the Grand Jury was one against
Rev. r. T. Western, charging him
with Illegally performing a marriage
ceremony.
The indictment charges that Rev.
Richard c. Western, not being au-
thorized to celebrate the rite of mar
riage, did on the eighteenth day of
March 1927, unlawfully perform the
rite of marriage for Morton R. Read
don and Dorothy Logan, both of
Cecil county contrary to the laws of
the assembly made and provided, and
against the peace and dignity of the
State.
The charge against Western was
brought about by the efforts of Rev.
James w. Colona, district superin-
tendent of the Wilmington District
of the Wilmington M. E. Conference
after Western had come to be known
as the "Marrying ParSon" of EIxton