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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1924
Page
18
A Baltimore trial reveals Harry C Jones found guilty of first degree murder in the June shooting of Patrolman Charles L Frank. The report also covers a fatal gas stove fire aggrieving Mrs Elen Tighe and multiple local crime and civic notes including hunger strikes and court actions.
Ma C H Witherell of Camp Holabird orders a board of inquiry into the death of Crist Sylvester a 43 year old staff sergeant found with a head wound in the rear room of his home at 1603 Riverview avenue St Helena a pistol in hand He was taken to Bay View hospital where he died Coroner Sutton of Essex will also hold an inquest
Salisbury Aug 15 seven men and three women are in custody after a shooting at the Tasley Virginia fair grounds near midnight. One man Ralph Roache 25 Tasley was killed and several hundred spectators were held at bay as shots rang out. A chase through three states followed. Jack OBrien and Rose Taylor O'Brien were arrested in Wilmington Delaware. Elmer and Joby Taylor and their wives were captured in Delmar Delaware. Frank West owner manager of Wests Greater Shows and two other show members were captured leaving the fair. Arrests await in Accomac county as authorities hold the suspects and await transfer.
Cumberland Maryland August 15 officers searched the countryside east of Cumberland for a man believed to know the fate of Mrs Mary Benson 43 widow of John Benson of Ridgely West Virginia whose body was found on the Millin highway near the suburbs. Mrs Benson on her way home after a dance was intercepted by two men and a woman in a car she refused to ride and was pursued. The car reportedly turned off toward another direction and she may have been forced or invited to ride and either jumped or was thrown from the vehicle. A coroner called a jury of inquiry. A cap found near the body was identified as belonging to Cecil Clark who was detained as a material witness. Clark says the cap blew off his head during a ride and that the other occupant denied stopping. Mrs Benson left behind a daughter Miss May Kline four stepsons and three children from a second marriage.
In Winchester Virginia on August 16 1919 Mrs Mary Were was granted an absolute divorce from John Ware in city court The bill alleged Mrs Ware was the defendant’s stepmother and that the couple wed in September 1919 after the death of Ware’s father They claimed neither knew it was unlawful in Virginia for a man to marry his stepmother The decree rested on this ground and the case noted a later transfer of a house and lot in the city
Police seek an unidentified man after he shot a woman and a child then loaded their bodies into a car and drove away. A farmer's wife witness said the killer shot the woman and then turned on one child while a second child escaped.
In Woodstock Virginia on Aug 15 Mrs. Nell Wunder and her husband fished the Shenandoah river near Woodstock. They landed a three pound two ounce small mouth black basa. A two foot water snake crawled from the fish’s mouth onto Mrs Wunder’s hand before it slipped back hissed and was killed. She continued fishing and returned home with a string.
Police Sergi Rowlett and Patrolman Padgett inspection at the Alexandria Washington lodge in the city hall building found no burglary after tracing opening doors. A watchman heard movements but officers exited as doors were left ajar by accident. The incident prompted reassessment and comments from city safety officials.
Contracts for local schools in Arlington County were awarded to H W Cauffman Construction Company for Leaway Elementary at 19 541 with 8 day completion, and to Noble N Thomas for Hall's Hill School at 28 502 42. Heating and sanitation went to American Heating and Ventilating Company with 2 135 for Leeway and 430 for sanitation, plus 2 286 and 465 for Hall's Hill. Bids opened by Clyde Lamond. A writ of error in Maggio case denied.
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