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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Oct 24, 1919

Page

12

Girl Identifies Negro in Peters Murder Trial

At the Bowie area trial of Clores Cummings charged with the August murder of George Peters, Katharine Peters testified she was assaulted by a Black assailant and identified Cummings by voice and appearance. The witness described finding a liberty bond sewn in Cummings’ trousers lining, later confirmed as Peters property. She recounted the shooting aftermath in the home and orchard, and noted the bond’s cashing and purchase details. Court adjourned as the prosecution rested and jurors jurors were seated for consideration.

Wadlington Upper Muirsboro Clores Cummings Orced George Peters Bowie Claral Hawkins Katherine Peters Cummings Evelyn A Thompson Washington Loan and Trust Company Miss Peters Hew Cummings Mr. Peters Baltimore S. Marvin Peach H Hampton Magruder J. Frank Lillard George B. Merrick George W. Rawlings John P. Cissell Albert Ireland Joseph H. Young John R. Lee Manning Thomas G Barry Joseph H. Carr Joseph H. Blandford Robert E. Nelson Claude Tayman Packard Duvall Plummer Smith

Maryland and the Virginias Petersburg and beyond

A Mississippi tale of weddings and deaths across Virginia Maryland and West Virginia. The Petersburg report covers Max Martha Arnold Seabury and Ve llisnsm Henry Kevan Booth in a table Street Presbyterian ceremony, with bridesmaids from Norfolk Petersburg and Washington. Other notes include double weddings in Norfolk and Ashlin girls in Petersburg, a university forestry plan at Virginia, and various local obituaries and incidents in Winchester Charlottesville Keyser Hagerstown Frostburg Morgantown Annapolis and Morgantown.

Mary Irgam Mann Tans Green Jennie Bronks Sae Parka Norfolk Relle F Prague Alice Short Petersburg Phoebe Read Drewry Arnold Fleetwood Alfred Wilkins Robert Butcher Henry Watkins Seabury B.D. Booth Marie Elizabeth Ashlin Grace Palmer Ashlin H. S. Ashlin William Burg Smith W. O. Smith Washington D. C Travis W. Fauntleroy S. T. Senter Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church Helen Smith Marie Misa Grace Bernie Swayne Virginia Beach Mary Frances Pender Charles Pollard Olivier University of Virginia

Clears of burglaries and confessions tied to Cumberland crimes

Cumberland Md Oct 23 The confession of John Wilson a black man from Fairmont W Va after accomplice George Blocher was killed during a burglary clears up several local robberies at The Union Israel Morgan and Chaney and Caldwell stores and identifies the man killed October 11 near Narrows Walk Restaurant as a half breed Indian former carnival worker from Oklahoma City Wilson says he was with the man when the killing occurred and escaped with him

Washington Post Cumberland John Wilson Fairmont W. Va George Blocher Union Israel Morgan and Chaney and Caldwell Narrows Walk Blocher Wilson Crease Carnival Washington Oklahoma

Boys Knocked Off Bridge In Monocacy Tragedy

Frederick Md Oct 23 two young brothers ages one and six were struck by a speeding passenger train on the Monocacy River bridge. Charles elder was knocked into the river and drowned while Dalman survived in hospital with uncertain prospects. They are sons of Stanley Rice of Creagerstown Frederick County.

Charlottesville Mildred A. Beattie W. W. Bryan Thomas Dolin Robert F. Beattie Glade Spring Nora M. Beattie Lizzie W. Garth Washington Post Frederick Monocacy River Stanley Rice Creagerstown Frederick County Charles Dalman

Tug Rams NC4 At Anchorage in Atlantic Crossing

Norfolk, Ca Get 23 rammed by an unknown tug at the Naval base Anchorage. NC4 commanded by Read could not proceed with the voyage. towed to air station for repairs and expected to resume southward tomorrow. We-2 piloted by Bellinger diverted near Hampton Roads due to engine trouble with no injuries reported. Rockville Maryland and Raleigh Carroll Chinn wed Elma Estana Motley in Washington.

Norfolk NC-4 Read Iti Communter Po I Bellinger Mobjack Bay Naval Operating Base Hampton Roads Washington Naval Base Bellinger Atlante Naval Bose Washington Post Rockville Raleigh Carroll Chinn Elma Estana Motley Pp. Rowland Wagner The Baptist Church

Baltimore Grain and Livestock Prices Report

Grain and live stock prices from Baltimore and Chicago markets with detailed poultry and egg values, oats and wheat quotes, corn pricing, and beef, cattle, and sheep ranges. Notable items include live chickens and turkeys, egg variations by region, butter, oats, various wheat futures, corn pricing, hog and cattle brackets, and sheep quotes.

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Cotton and grain market notes from Chicago trading floor

The report lists middling cotton futures with New York and Norfolk and Wilmington quotes. It records corn No 2 mixed and No 2 yellow futures with prices around 1.327 to 1.39, oats No 3 white and standard quotes, YE No 2 around 1.3644, and barley near 1.25 to 1.38.

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