Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-06-15
VIM. HOLLAND
ACCUSED OF
TWO CRIMES
Held Up J. Wesley Burton On
Saturday Night Last For
Robbery Purposes
CONFESSES TO ATTACK
ON SENATOR CROCKETT

William Holland alias Badweather,
is in the county Jail to which he was
carried after being arrested for an
assault on Mr.. J. Wesley Burton,
! aged IS, which occurred between 10
p. m. and IL p. m. last Saturday
night.
Mr.. Burton states that he was on
his way home, located on Market St.,
extended, just outside the city limits,
when he was met by Holland, who
said that someone was attempting to
steal chickens belonging to Mr.. Bur-
ton, back of his house.
The two went down Tenth Street
to investigate and when they were
out of sight of the main traffic, Hol-
land grabbed Mr.. Burton by the neck,
threatened to elbow his brains out"
and demanded all the money he had.
Mr.. Burton didn't seem to scare
very greatly, refused to throw up his
hands, and called for help. The negro
4AOu1 but Vic cIdII Ill Ildu ROIlG
forth, and hunt began. With the
aid of Mr.. Burton's son, Mr.. William
Craigmile, Officers Buck and Britting-
ham, Holland was located on Fourth
street near Linden Avenue, arrested
and landed in the lookup. He was
afterwards carried to Mr.. Burton who
recognized him Immediately. When
subjected to rigid questioning, Holland
confessed to the hold-up. The object
the negro had seemed to be robbery,
but Mr.. Burton's courage in standing
him off until help came, prevented
his losing what he had.
This attack coming so soon after
the assault upon Ex-senator James M.
Crockett, raised suspicion that Hol-
land was connected with that case.
When questioned, the negro owned up
to that attack but stated he did not
know just what he had done with the
instrument with which the blow was
struck. Search, however, was made
and it was found underneath the negro
school house. Without letting Hol-
land know that it was found, Mayor
Gladding and Lieut. O'Grady of Bal
timore Ca detective summoned in the
case) returned to questioning Holland,
charged him with knowing where he
had concealed the weapon and OBJ
tanned confession that he had thrown
it underneath the school house. The
weapon was Immediately produced
and Holland said it looked like the
one he used. 1t was a bolt about ii
inches long used to fasten cross-arms
to telephone and telegraph wires.
Possibly, it was due to an instinct
i've suspicion of Deputy Sheriff Alon-
"a Blades which first directed inquiry
concerning Hollands connection with
the Crockett case. He is reported as
having interviewed the negro in the
first instance, and before he could be
transferred to Snow Hill, suggested
an effort to link Holland with the
first hold-up. Mayor Gladding then
questioned the negro with the above
result.
Holland is a powerful young negro,
he seems to have lacked, fortunately,
the killing instinct or the necessary
bravado to carry on to the limit. He
was frightened off by calls for aid in
both cases, if he is the Crockett as
sailant, and apparently needs more
experience to develop him into fin
ished gangster. The opportunity is
now at hand to check his career, and
he should receive the extreme pen
atty of the law.