The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-23
CECIL CIRCUIT COURT
December Term Likely To Be A
Lengthy One


Lengthy One
The December term of Cecil Cir
2 cult Court, in session at Elkton fol
7 the past two weeks, has a calendar
: crowded full of cases, and the pros.
: poets are the session will be a leng.
thy one.
In the appeal of Robert H. Brown
who had been fined because the pur-
chaser of car carried the dealers
license tags longer than the five days
allowed, the Court returned a YER
dict of not guilty.
James Wharton, fined on charge
Of driving car while intoxicated,
took an appeal. The jury was un-
able to agree on verdict, and was
discharged.
The appeal case of James Jones,
fined S25 and costs by Police Justice
Scotten for assault on Parker Nolan
was tried before jury. Verdict
guilty. Sentence, fine of SIS and
costs.
Thomas Holland, colored chauf-
fer of Elkton, indicted for the murd-
er of Price Graves, another colored
chauffer of that town, was placed on
trial Wednesday morning of last
week and occupied the Court for
several days.
A crowd of negroes had been
playing Blackjack at Abe Ander-
sons in Elkton, when some trouble
started between Holland and Graves
that terminated some time afterward
in the shooting of Graves by Hol-
land.
The jury, after a short delibera-
ton, returned a verdict of murder
in the second degree, and the Court
on Saturday sentenced Holland to
six years in the Maryland Peniten-
tiary.
Lewis Thomas, colored, aged rs
years, of Kent Island, was tried be-
fore the Court on the charge OF as
saulting Mrs. Elizabeth Kadcliffe,
white, 35, and the mother of four
children. He was found guilty and
Judge Adkins imposed a sentence
Of fifteen years in the Maryland
penitentiary.
The testimony of both the Negro
and Mrs. Radcliffe was taken pri-
>ately in the grand jury room.
Joseph Evans, colored, aged nine
teen, charged with breaking and en-
tering the home of Howard Brown,
near Sylmar, and stealing $35, plead
ed guilty on the second count, and
was sentenced to Is months in the
House of Correction.
Francis Vanduck, colored, aged
thirty, who was with Evans and was
similarly indicted, also pleaded gull
ty on the second count and was CIV
en- eighteen months in the House OF
Correction.
Norman Price, colored, indicted |
for murder of George Clatterbuck,
colored, by striking him with an axe,
pleaded not guilty and chose trial by |
jury, A verdict of not guilty was
rendered.
Elwood Wheedleton, of Caroline !
county, was tried before the Court |
on a charge of bastardy. The evil
denee showed that the offense had
been committed in Delaware, and the |
Court returned verdict OF not |
guilty.
The civil suit of P. E. Cooper, of |
Philadelphia, against Ralph e. Nor
gan, of Elkten, for $164 damages to
a ear in a collision on the Elkton-
Chesapeake City road two years ago |
was tried before jury. A verdict I
was returned for the defendant
George M. Short, indicted for lar
ceny of goods from Manly Drennen,
pleaded not guilty and elected trial |
before the court,
second count, receiving stolen goods, |
and sentenced him to three years |
and six months in the Maryland Pen
itentiary.
The grand jury was relieved until
January 5.
Frank Pennock, indicted for |
breaking and entering car and |
stealing cigarettes, pleaded guilty
on the second count, and was SEN
tenoed to two years in the Maryland
Penitentiary.
John Masterson, indicted for arson
in having set fire to saw mill of F.
S. Keppel at Rising Sun, pleaded
not guilty and chose trial before the
court. A verdict of not guilty was
rendered.
Court ordered that the fine of $500
imposed on Richard T. Western for
performing the marriage ceremony
after his papers had been ordered
sent in, be reduced from $500 to
$500. This action was taken after