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Long Court Session Held in Frederick Night Court
A lengthy session before Magistrate Wilbur F. Sheffield heard multiple cases including Rufus H. Dent of Gaithersburg appealing a $100 fine or 30 days for disturbing the peace and others in loitering and drunkenness charges. Not guilty verdicts and suspended sentences were handed to several defendants, with jail terms imposed for some. A separate incident described billboard fire near U.S. 40. Also a U.S. note demanded the release of seven American soldiers abducted near the West German border. The article notes the Great Smoky Mountains drainage.
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People’s Night Court
Wilbur F. Sheffield
Rufus Howard Dent
Gaithersburg
Martin Kanade
West All Saints Street
Dent
Kanode
William Mutchner
Mutchner
Clinton Hale
East South Street
Carl P
Turtle) Edwards
Frederick
Earl P. Edwards
Sammy Thompson Colored
Garland Adrian Maker
Henry Harris
Klineharts Alley
William Proctor
Edwin F. Nikirk
Walter Myers
Ijamsville
Daniel O. Dew Jr
Hanford Thomas
Bartonsville
E. Austin James
William S.davis
Thomas
Davis
Nikirk
Daniel O. Dew ,Jr
Tamsville
Ernest Clontz
Frederick Junction
William H. Goodsell
Leo Metz
RFC
Nathan Dorsey
Sherman P. Bowers
Mette
Kenneth R. Albaugh
Walkersville
North Market Street
Stanley Reed
Baltimore
Atlee W. Reeder
West Seventh Street
Harold Lloyd‘ Jones
Boonsboro
Shirley Colman Collins
RFD
Mt. Airy
Jeane C. Monroe
West Fifth Street
C. 5. Tregoning
W. C. Staley
Kanade
Carl I. Bender
Charles V. Main
Czechoslovakia
Boernau
U.S
Prague