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VO I, LXVII-No. 132.
BUND IS DOING
13 SHARE IN WAR
U arr j rJ - r. 1 ells Governors How
tife Has Responded
41 OUiHERN CONGRESS
C f •. ,i Enthusiasm At Meeting
Oi b.e.utives in New York
Last Night.
Kmorson C. Harrington,
aroused enthusiasm
legates to the Southern
'•ingress, in the Hotel
York, last night, when
; , t htirring patriotic ad
• f•.,i <■ of Governors. He
, i by Governor Manning
, tuiina, who presided.
Harrington prefaced his
, announcement that he
in.-paration, and that
, by the program, which
, . i,i, ~n address by the Gov
. .~i ; Jana, who was absent.
~r ; aid Governor Harring
many otiier States, al
’ ,a 1 and ready to do her
,-: i i- Tlie people of the
to live up to the tradi
•av, had determined, as
v, a declared, to acquit
■,nh credit and honor.
it , , d how Maryland had
census of its people with
. -i ascertaining how all
lie praised the women
t!l tor their work for the
, , i , aad for the Liberty Loan.
at, . ac.mt spot of importance
. , of the State had been
11,, of th< nation has rung
a. Governor. “And the
. , ;1 . \vr\ State in the Union
; quarcly behind the Presi
, • : i'i:i'ol States in this holy
ion. tiovernor Harrington
; Liberty Lo&n and pre
, , |m arc with victory would
wry American put his
ill, the wheel and did his
very best
Ab:; •; iy treat—Julian Eltinge
m a splen.bd Paramount Picture
' ( nint- 'Tim ing”—Colonial, Wed
nesliy. nuiur. e and evening.
adv.2tol6
WANTED.
• ’ mi LADY as office assistant.
, 1 • not as essential as lleat
.iracy Address “A. A.,”
i ''i'. \itaapolis. 016-3 t.
Wt BliV SECOND HAND CWTHES
w- • 11, |,-t the people know we arc
- 11 :■ : Second Hand Clothing—La*
i Children's. Also second
> > a furniture of all kinds —
and rugs. Drop a post
::i tin* house. Phone 47-m.
v.! Molli St.
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ilaiu ■ . mis3n> Telephone 47 m
I SANITARY LAUNDRY
AND
EMIL FhilEß Cleaning and Dyeing
lor llitlier Service
Call E. F. SNADER,
I’IIONR 117. a34tf
BUY A LIBERTY BOND.
cannot be won if the industries upon which the Govern
or war materials are cramped or bankrupt, and if oui
; extravagantly consumed. A large part of the ' as j
] to bring the victory and the peace we all long for must
re; l self-denial on the part of each individual man .
SAVE FOR LIBERTY BONDS
eminent program must be carried out. The more
. n. the less delay will result in war preparaUons
W I t LIVES WILL BE LOST. THE MORE FIREEL* I VtE
i THE GOVERNMENT, THE LESS \\E W ILLi HAN E TC
tXEI). Every man, woman and child in Anne Arundel county
le to do so. should buy a bond for cash or b>
The Government must get the full cash P a >“
time for all the bonds it
with THE FARMERS NATIONAL BANK. THE ANNA
SAVINGS INSTITUTION, and THE ANNAPOLIS BANK .
0 ST COMPANY, by which you may buy full "cash
im- the size bond you want, the bank mak ng
nt for you. and allowing you to pay it back on ea-> terms.
1.00 A Week For 50 Weeks Buying A $ 50.00 Bond
- 00 A Week For 50 Weeks Buying A * 100.00 Bond
• •.0.00 A Week For 50 Weeks Buying a $ 000.00 Bond
- 00 A Week For 50 Weeks Buying A *IOOO.OO Bond
m buy all the bonds for which you can ca
■ ( xpenses or fees of any kind. All jour * .
mds that will be your exclusive P r °P J • e right up
work of buying the bond and incurs all \ U ,J
time of your last payment, and when your last
you will be Sanded your bond, bear ng 4 per cent tatereet
• ri roximato date of the last paymen • commit-
V desire, call on your bank or any members of the Commit
HARRY J. HOPKINS.
FRANK H. STOCKETT,
GEORGE T. MELVIN,
;. ? Liberty Loan Committee for Anne Arundel Co.
LAND GAZETTE— ESTABLISHED 1727
REMAINS TAKEN AWAY
REMAINS TAKEN AWAY
Body Of Marshall Haines, Insurance
Agent Who Died Suddenly Removed
To Westminster For Burial
The remains of Marshall Haines,
j aged 54 years, the insurance man
whose sudden death occurred here
j yesterday, were taken to Westminster
j today for burial. The body was ac
( companied by officials of the Secur
j ity Mutual Life Insurance Company
of Baltimore, for which he was local
agent, and by Mrs. E. C. Lambert, of
Westminster, sister of the deceased.
Mr. Haines had been a resident of-
Annapolis for nearly two years, and
was a familiar figure on the streets
of this city, where he was engaged
in going from house to house as an
insurance collector.
He had made his home at the resi
dence of Mrs. Mary Sullivan, Conduit
street, where he boarded. He had not
complained of feeling ill, and his
death was entirely unexpected. He
arose yesterday morning, but shortly
after was seized with a stroke of
apoplexy and fell to the floor uncon
scious. A local physician was imme
diately summoned and administered
restoratives, but death ensued short
ly after. The Baltimore Insurance
Company was notified of the agent’s
death, and came to Annapolis on the
next car out of that‘city. They had
the body prepared for burial and re
moved to the undertaking establish
ment of James S. Taylor & Sons,
East street, where it rested last night.
Relatives in Westminster were com
municated with and directed that the
body be held awaiting their arrival.
Members of the family came here Ibis
morning and accompanied the body to
Westminster this afternoon at 5
o'clock, where the interment will take
place.
Revising The Registration Lists.
Registration officials of the city and
county are holding their final sitting
in the several precincts of the county
today in connection with adjusting the
\ iting lists for the coming November
f lection. The actual registration of
new voters was completed at two pre
vious sittings of the officials, and to
• ay’s meetings are solely for the pur
j ose of revising the lists. It is not
xpected there will be any substan
tial additions to the lists, owing to
ae fact that special registration was
old early in September preceding the
primary election.
Cafeteria Supper
By Ladles of Presbyterian Church,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16th.
IN CHURCH PARLOR
Duke of (ilouroster and Conduit Sts.
Fledderniann's Ire Cream for sale.
Abundant supply provided. All in
vited. 012-4 t
F O R SA LE.
DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS on
Southgate Avenue, overlooking Spa
Greek. 120 ft. front by 130 ft. deep.
Price $4,200. E. W. IGLEHART.
A. W. SHARPE
optician
Eye Glasses Fitted—Occullst
Prescriptions Filled
Lenses Duplicated.
136 MAIN STREET.
t til uq QlnpitfiL
THE! MARYLAND GAZETTE:.
ANNAPOLIS. MD., TUESDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1917.
THE AUTO’S TOLL
120 KILLEDTHIS YEAR
Fatal Automobile Accidents In Stats
Show An Alarming Increase
For October.
SEVEN DAYS' FINES $1,600
Commissioner Baughman Unable To
Patrol All Roads Properly With
Only Six Men.
With two persons killed Sunday in
automobile accidents and two on Sat
urday night, and one yesterday, the
toll of automobile deaths since the
first day of this year is now 120. From
reports 847 persons were injured in
automobile accidents up to August 30.
In order to show the number of per
sons who drive recklessly. Automo
bile Commissioner E. Austin Baugh
man pointed out that fines amounting
to $1,600 were imposed on motorists
last week.
Since the first of the year over 1,000
operators’ licenses have been sus
pended by Colonel Baughman, and
each suspension constituted a viola
tion of the automobile laws. At the
piesent time over 75,000 motor
\ehicles are in use in Maryland, an
increase of nearly 50 per cent for the
year. The streets and the roadways
are not any wider than they were last
year, and this makes it imperative
that motorists, as well as pedestrians,
use more care in crossing the streets
and roads.
Wants Fines Made lleuiy.
Coloned Baughman pointed out that
for the present month there already
have been 18 deaths, and that Octo-
Ler will have one of the biggest tolls
ol the year. He said he was doing all
in his power to keep down the number
of accidents and hoped that the police
magistrates and the courts through
out the State would impose the heavi
est penalties in cases where ft was
proved that reckless driving resulted
in serious accidents.
The deaths resulting from automo
bile accidents for the year are as fol
lows: January, 4; February, 6;
March. 7; April, 8; May, 7; June, 19;
July, 19; August, 18; September. 14;
for 16 days in October. 18.
The reports at at police headquar
ters in Baltimore, which cover only
the accidents in Baltimore City, show
tho following from January 1 to
August 30: Five hundred and
seventy-six persons injured by pas
senger-carrying motor vehicles, 61
injured by autotrucks, 57 injured by
motor-cycles, 61 injured in collisions
between automobiles and 193 injured
in accidents between automobiles and
other vehicles.
Cycle Squad Keeps Busy.
The fines, aggregating $1,600 last
week, with few exceptions, were in
eases of arrest made by Commissioner
Baughman’s six motorcycle men, who
concentrated their work to certain
sections, it is pointed out that with
20 motorcycle officers much better
work could be accomplished and reck
lessness'broken up to a considerable
extent.
Commissioner Baughman has de
tailed his chief investigator, Thomas
A. Eisenhauer, to make a complete re
port of each death, and, owing to the
large number of deaths, he will as
sign him only to fatal accident cafes.
tomorroTafternoon’s meet-
ING AT OLD SENATE CHAMBER
Distinguished Women From State Coun
cil Of Defense To Speak.
All women in Annapolis and Anne
Arundel County are invited to attend
the public meeting tomorrow after
noon at 3 o’clock in the old Senate
Chamber at the State House.
The meeting will be conducted un
der the auspices of the Women s
Branch of the National Council of De
fense. State Chairman. Mrs. Shoe
maker. will make an address, and
other out-of-town speakers will be
Mrs. Clotworthv and Mrs. Julius
Freemen.
The visitors will he entertained at
luncheon before the meeting by Mrs.
Theodore Johnson, a member of the
local Council of Defense for Anne
Arundel County, at her home on
Franklin street. She will also have
as her guests other women members
of-the local Council.
SECOND OF SERIES OF RECEP
TIONS AT SUPERINTENDENT’S
Capt. and Mr*. Eberle Will Receive
Tomorrow Afternoon From
4 to 6 O'clock
The second of the series of Wednes
day afternoon official receptions at
the Superintendent's Quarters, Naval
Academy, will be held tomorrow
afternoon, from 4 to 6 o’clock, by
Captain and Mrs. Edward W. Eberle.
Last Wednesday the first of the re
ceptions at the Superintendent’s was
held, and was attended by hundreds
: of people throughout the city as well
as in Naval Academy circles. These
receptions of Mrs. Eberle and the Su
perintendent inaugurate the social
l season in Annapolis.
\t tomorrow afternoon's reception
Mrs. Eberle will have assisting her in
the dining-room two ladies, wives of
heads of departments, and a bevy of
; young girls, as on the occasion of last
I week’s reception
COLORED DRAFTEES
TO LEAVE UCIOBER 27
" -■ ■■
Over 96 Colored Men From Annapolis
For Camp Mead Cantonment
It was given out officially this
morning from the office of the Adju
tant General that the colored men of
the select draft will leave here on
Saturday. October 27. or on Monday,
October 29.
One of these two dates lias been
settled upon as the time for the col
ored select draftees from Annapolis
to go to Camp Meade cantonment. Ad
miral. this county.
Some 2.000 colored drafted men will
be sent to Camp Meade the last of
next week from all parts of the State,
and of this number there will be 96
colored men from Annapolis and
Anne Arundel County.
The local colored contingent will
leave here on the 11.20 car over the
W., B. & A. Electric Line, and will be
in charge of a deputy sheriff, who
will deliver them to the Camp Meade
military authorities, as the two divi
sion of the select draft of white men
have been.
The order of arrangement for the
colored draftees will be practically
the same as that for the white. The
colored men will be in charge of the
Draft Board, to whom they will re
port about 10 A. M. the morning they
leave. They will each he tagged, and
as they enter the car the roll will be
called.
Tt is proposed to have them march
to the train with a band of music, the
colored Boy Scouts, and to give them
a fitting send off.
Colored women of the several local
churches have provided comfort kits
for each man. and it is expected that
sandwiches and fruit will he distrib
uted to the men at the station before
they entrain for Camp Meade.
G 0. P. COMPLETES ITS
SLATE OF CANDIDATES
Understood Names Will Be Placed On
Ballot By Certification As
Allowed By Law.
That the Republicans will place a
set of candidates in the field for all
offices with the exception *of County
Commissioners and County Surveyor,
was stated today by men prominent in
the ranks of the G. O. P. Under the
provisions of the election law they
have until midnight to have the names
of the candidates placed on the offi
cial ballot by certification. The slate
of candidates which, it is said, have
been agreed upon, follows:
For Register of Wills—William L.
Marcy.
For Sheriff —William H. Meade.
For County Treasurer —James O.
Drury.
For the House of Delegates—R.
Tilghman Brice, Frank B. Brady,
J. Fletcher Bullon and Thomas S.
Barrow.
Up to a late hour this afternoon the
certificates of the candidates had not
been filed with the Board of Super
visors of Elections as required by the
law, but it is understood that such ac
tion would be taken before tonight.
DANCE FOR COLORED DRAFTEES
BLADEN ST ARMORY TONIGHT
Colored Men Who Are to Answer Call
to Colors to be Honored by
Their Friends
There will he a dance tonight in the
State Armory. Bladen street, opposite
the Short Line depot, in honor of the
colored men of the select draft, who
are shortly to leave here for Camp
Meade, Admiral, this county.
Permission to use the armory has
been granted the colored citizens by
the Adjutant General and others in
authority, for this occasion. There
will be music and dancing and a
pleasurable time for all the colored
folks in attendance. The dance is in
charge of a committee, and an admis
sion fee of fifty cents is to be charged.
The receipts will be appropriated for
the benefit of comfort kits, and to de
fray necessary expenses of the send
off to be given the colored men of
the select draft.
SOUTHERN SOLDIERS
May Come Home Oo Furlough For
Thanksgiving.
One of the Annapolis soldier boys
down at Camp McCellan. Anniston.
Ala., has written home to his father
that there is a possibility of some of
the men obtaining leave, probably for
four days, during Thanksgiving week,
which will enable them to come home
to see their families and friends.
However, the men down South have
this as rumor, and not officially.
LADIES OF LOTHIAN
To Have Exhibit On Oct. 23 —Display
Of Canned Goods And Program.
The ladies of Lothian, this county,
are planning for a display on Tues
day. October 23. at which time there
will be an exhibit of canned goods
prepared during the past summer un
der the co-operative extension work
in agriculture and home economics
Miss Mildred Brady demonstrator.
In connection with the exhibit there
will be an interesting program pre
sented.
TITTLE BOV KILLED
■! BY AUTOMOBILE NTS
| Stevens Mitchell Steps Into Side Of
West Shore Transit Co’s Auto.
! STATEMENT OF EYE WII NESS
i J Boy's Father Missing, Child’s Death
Shrouded With Pathos of Direful
Circumstances.
Shortly before five o’clock yester-
I | day afternoon an accident occurred
, on West street, which resulted before
midnight in the death of the victim,
’ Urban Stevens Mitchell, Jr., age 5
years, son of Urban S. and Pearl
Stevens Mitchell, of this city.
The child, a mere baby, lives with
his mother at the home of his grand- -
parents, Alderman and Mrs. John F.
Stevens, 52 Madison street. With,
other children, the little one had been
playing in the street, when the acci
dent occurred. The victims and two
other boys had been riding out West
street on an ice wagon of the Parlett
and Parlett Company. The other two
little boys jumped off hut Stevens Mit
chell remained on the ice wagon un
til it reached the street on which he
lived with his grandparents. Just as
the little fellow alighted to the
ground the big automobile bus of the
West Shore Transit Company came
along and not seeing the bus, the boy
ran into the side of the huge car and
was ground beneath the wheels, the
hind wheels passing over his body.
The chauffeur did not even see the
child and is wholly exonerated from
blame by eye-witnesses to the acci
dent, one of whom, Mr. J. W. Putnam,
of 1623 Munsey Building. Baltimore,
makes the following statement:
“In justice to the driver and all
concerned, I feel it my duty to make
this statement of the accident that
occurred in Annapolis yesterday
afternoon just after leaving the W.,
B. & A. station, when the bus in
which I was riding ran over a small
hoy.
"I was on the rear, left-hand seat,
just over the left rear wheel, with my
arm resting partly out the window.
This window was up as high as it
would go. I judge I was seven feet
behind the driver.
“I was looking out the raised win
dow at the smaller bus ahead. I
judge it was 25 to 40 feet ahead of
us and probably 4 or 5 feet to the left
of us.
“My vision was suddenly directed to
the ground as I saw some swiftly
moving object approach the car. My
first view of the hoy was not more
than four feet away from tKe car. He
was running rapidly with his head
down and he struck the car just in
front of the rear wheel. The jar of
the car as the rear wheel passed over
him was almost simultaneous. A
woman screamed, and the driver im
mediately stopped the car. He ran
back to where the boy was lying just
as some man picked him up.
“The accident occurred so quickly
it would have been humanly impos
sible to have prevented it. I was un
der the impression that the driver
could not have seen the boy. I ask
ed him afterwards if he saw him, and
he told me that he did not. I did not
have time from the second I saw the
I boy until he was lying mashed on the
road to open my mouth.
“I view it as one of those regret
abie accidents that was impossible to
, prevent.
> “My theory is that the boy saw the
first bus hut did not see the second
> one, and ran across the street with
) his head down. The boy darted out
from behind the front car probably
, not more than two feet in front of
our car, and our car had gone only
i half its length when he struck it. I
am sure I had a better view of the ac
t cident than anyone in our car.”
j The little fellow’s tragic death is
i shrouded in pathos, because of exist
. ing circumstances. The whereabouts
of his father is unkown, he having
r disappeared several weeks ago. Mr
. Mitchell was employed as a pay
. master's clerk in the Naval Academy
f when he disappeared, and his ac
counts are alleged to be several thou
sand dollars short. A call has been
issued by the Federal authorities to
apprehend the fugitive.
Another child of Mr. and Mrs. Mit
r 'chell died about a year ago, and there
are other circumstances connected
with the misfortune of the little fel
s low’s tragic death that make it pecu-
liarly sad.
r The injured boy was taken iinme
f diately to the Emergency Hospital,
r where his death occurred about 11
o’clock last night.
e The funeral will take place tomor
>• row, Wednesday, afternoon at 3
e o’clock, from the residence of his
grandfather. John F. Stevens, 52 Madi
son street. Interment will be In
Cedar Bluff Cemetery.
Not Mr. Bailliere of Annapolis.
The Mr. Lawrence Bailliere, whose
car on the Pikesville road ran over
r, and killed an aged man who came out
i- of a lane directly in front of the car,
e is not Mr. Bailliere, of Annapolis, but
s is a son of Mr. F. C. Bailliere, of Elli
- cctt City, and is named for his uncle,
k the late Lawrence Bailliere. of this
i. city.
Mr. Bailliere was wholly exonerated
e by the jury, as it was conclusively
•- proved to have been the fault of the
aged victim.
THE EVENING CAPITAL—-ESTABLISHED 1884
PROMPT DESPATCH * -
IN COURI PROCEEDINGS
i
| Judge Moss Establishes Rule For Puuc
tuaiitv In All Court Rusiness.
[ Conditions will bo even more fa
vorable in connection with prompt
dispatch in the proceedings of the
Anne Arundel County Circuit Court
than they have ever been before, if
Judge Robert Moss, who has only re
-1 cently been inducted into office, has
his way.
In other words, lawyers, witnesses
and all other persons having business
with the Court will be expected to ob
serve the regulation of punctuality,
and not interfere with the even tenor
of a well regulated tribunal.
Judge Moss, in addressing the Court
upon its convening 'for the October
term yesterday, advised all hands
that the regulations would be enforc
ed to the letter. He said that only
reasonable excuses would be aecept
• ed for the tardy attendance of jurors,
witnesses, or anyone else. He said
that as long as he presided over the
Court he expected to be on hand at
the appointed hour for the convening
of Court, in other words, he said that
if 10 o’clock was the hour fixed for
the convening of Court, which is the
regular hour at present, then he
would be on the Bench at that time,
and that he expected everyone having
business with the Court to comply
with the same rule.
Furthermore, the new Judge does
not intend to play any ’‘favorites."
In this connection, he served notice
on the members of the bar that when
a case is docketed for trial, it would
have to come up on the date set apart
for it. Unnecessary delays will not
be tolerated by the new Judge. If
there should be some intervening
cause by which a case cannot be
up on the date fixed for it,
then it will have to go along through
the mill of other delayed cases.
The warning of Judge Moss, which
was issued in the most courteous
manner, was favorably received by
the lawyers present at the time, as
well as others attending Court. It is
felt that a strict adherence to the
rule will greatly facilitate court
business in every way.
PROBABLE EXCURSION
TO ANNISTON, ALA.
Annapolis Friends Of Soldier Boys At
Camp McClellan Contemplate Trip
Thanksgiving Week.
There will probably be an excur
sion from Annapolis during Thanks
giving week to Anniston, Ala., where
Camp McCellan is located with some
200 Annapolis and Eastport boys of
the National Army.
Arrangements are under way look
ing toward the end in view.
The excursion, however, will not
be a local, but a State affair, and the
train of Pullman dining-car and
sleepers will be made up in Baltimore
for those who want to go on the ex
cursion from all parts of the State.
As there are no accommodations at
Anniston in the way of hotels, it is
proposed to run the sleepers and din
ing-car on a siding for the use of the
excursionists during their stay.
Thanksgiving week would offer a
splendid opportunity for parents,
wives and friends of the members of
the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regi
ment and the One Hundred and
Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion to see
the boys from home.
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Meeting Maryland Council of Defense
Women’s Section, Anne Arundel County
WEDNESDAY, October 17, 1917
IN THE OLD SENATE CHAMBER
| j AT THREE O’CLOCK.
: L * * o, . i MRS. EDWARD SHOEMAKER
| Speakers From Mate MRS JUL|US FREEMAN
| unlotUeten * e ( MRS. C. BAKER CLOTWORTHY j
i ~
$6,000 FIRE SALE OF CLOTHING!
Men’s, Boy’s and Children’s Clothing, slightly damaged
by water, will be offered at a Big Money-Saving
Sale, beginning October 16th, for 15 days.
200 doz. Knee Pants, at 10c and 15c
Come early and get your pick Look fer Big Sign in Front of Store.
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New York Jobbers, :: 38 West St.
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Republic Theatre TODAY!
r MATINEE DAILY
1 “BY RIGHT OF POSSESSION”
With MARY ANDERSON and ANTONIO MORENO
I Wilfred Lucas and Elda Millar in New Triangle Play,
, ‘THE FOOD GAMBLERS"
AT THE REPUBLIC THEATRE TOMORROW
THE WEATHER.
For Maryland
Fair and somewhat cooler to
night and Wednesday.
PRICE ONE CENT
, BEGIN INVESTIGATION
OF BRANDON MURDER
Grand Jury Of County To Probe
Mysterious Case.
i
WIINFSSEn ARE ON Hand
i I #
Baltimore City Dttac'iv s And Others
Here To Appear Kf *re ihe
Inquisitors.
j Investigation of the Brandon mur
• der mystery of August 8 last, where
in Mrs Lottie May Brandon, the
yoyug and pretty wife of Valentine N.
• Brandon, a government clerk, for
t inerly employed at the Naval Experi
ment Station here, who was found
- slain in her home on Second street,
was started today by the grand jury
of Anne Arundel County.
Detective Dogherty. Krazt and Poh-
Jor. the three Baltimore City detec
tives. who worked for three weeks on
the case, were here to place their evi
dence before the grand inquest, and
owing to the large number of other
witnesses to be examined, it is not
unlikely that the investigation will
last several days. Furthermore. It is
believed that the inquiry will lm
thorough in every respect. Judge
Moss, in charging the grand jury
when Court convened for the October
term yesterday morning, made special
reference to the case, and he urged
the jurors to spare neither “time, la
bor or expense in their efforts to
bring the guilty party to justice.
In the meuntime. John Snowden, a
young colored man of Annapolis,
stands accused of the crime, and is a
prisoner in the county jail here. The
county officials and detectives feel
confident that the chain of circum
stantial evidence that has been woven
about the negro is sufficient to es
tablish his guilt. The negro has been
sweated on several occasions at the
hands of the detectives hut he has
never made any semblance of a con
fession, although he did make several
conflicting statements concerning his
movements on the day of the crime.
It is believed by many persons.in An
napolis that the horrible crime was
not the act of a negro.
Judge Moss, who presided at the
opening of Court here yesterday, was
called to Westminster to sit In the
Carroll County Circuit Court ioday,
and in his stead. Judge William II
Forsythe, Jr., occupied the Bench in
the local Court this morning The big
docket of cases have been called, and
many of them have been assigned
dates for trial, but as the Court had
nothing on the docket for tomorrow,
the members of the petit jury panel
were excused until Thursday. The
grand jury, however, continued with
its investigation of the Brandon mur
der case.
I Valentine Brandon, husband of the
s dead woman, who, of course, will be
one of the principal witnesses in the
investigation through the fact that it
t was he who discovered the condi
i tion of his wife upon his return from
- work on the afternoon of August 8,
1 and subsequently made a report of the
fact to the authorities, did not reach
i Annapolis until 1.30 this afternoon.
, It was said there was some confusion
f in the issuance of the warrants that
- caused Brandon, as well as several of
1 the witnesses from appearing at An -
i napolis this morning when the grand
jury began its investigations.