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COURT HOUSE AT TQWSOX IS A BUSY PLACE -4|oME TAKE A TRIP THROUGH AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
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Court and Register of Wills' Office with the three clerks busily engaged in the details required in that office. Leaving here we enter the Supervisors of Elections' Office. At the present time there is much activity there.
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Next door is the office of the Tax Assessor, who has in his employ-three clerks who can be seen busily engaged over tax books and other data that makes the rich and the poor alike come up with their taxes in proportion to their holdings.
On entering the next office we are introduced to the Sheriff and his deputies.
Mounting the stairs we are shown into the School Board room, the office of the Court Stenographer, the Equity Clerk and the Grand Jury room. Pushing our way through
a pair of great swinging doors we enter the Circuit Court room, just when it is in session. On the bench are two judges; before them is the prosecuting attorney and the defendant's attorney in a heated argument. To the right is the jury box with twelve men attentively listening to all that is said; in their hands remain the fate of the prisoner, who can be seen in the prisoner's dock, to the left. As we glance around we
MICHAEL CROWLEY
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Almost every section of the United States is confronted by a traffic problem.
Month by month this problem is becoming more and more serious.
Hundreds of cars pass a given point every hour on many of our state and county roads. Down-town city streets are jammed with traffic.
Think, too, how narrow many of our roads are, and how comparatively few paved highways there are in proportion to the steadily increasing number ®f cars.
If the motor vehicle is to continue i giving the economic service of which it is capable, we must have more Concrete highways and widen those near large centers of population.
Every citizen should discuss highway needs of his community with his local authorities.
Your highway officials will do their part if given your support.
Why postpone meeting this pressing need?
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A suit to recover $10,000 from the estate of the late Frank R. Jone9, wealthy brewer of Portsmouth, N. H., was filed by Michael Crowley, employed by the Boston & Maine railroad. Crowley alleges that Jones promised to give him $10,000 if he would remain sober for ten years, and that he carried out his part of the bargain.
[ On the south side of the Court I House the Metropolitan Sanitary . Distric tis quartered temporarily in i "the little white house." Here we see Chief Engineer Wadlen busy at his desk, as is also Assistant Engineer Diggs and his drafting force.
Now that we have taken an imaginary trip through the various offices of the county government building, we are impressed with the efficiency that reigns in each and every Se-partment. Every known t!ime-sav-ing device has been installed; made necessary by the ever-increasing business transacted from day to day behind its walls. People who frequent this building are waited on quickly and skillfully, and we may well say that the wheels of government in Baltimore county are running at their best.
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see people in all walks of life, characters that we have never before seen; the court room is taxed to its capacity. To the extreme left is the lock-up, where the prisoners are detained while waiting for their trial.
The court room at Towson has been the scene of many important trials and political conventions in the past. One of the most note^ worthy trials ever held there was that of Cropps and Corrie, who were convicted of the murder of Policeman R;gdon, and hanged. The case was removed here from the Criminal Court of Baltimore city. Political feeling ran high at that period in the city's history and the case was removed to the county to insure a fair trial. The State's case at that time was handled by Mr. Richard Gittings and the accused were repre-j sented by Mr. William C. Preston, a famus criminal lawyer of his day. Those who recall that famous trial say that Mr. Preston spoke for two days and one night in defense of his clients. Mr. Gittings in reply was very brief and achieved lasting fame by the effective manner in which he disposed of the able counsellor for the accused. He used words to this effect: "We have listened with admiration to the impassioned appeal of the distinguished counsel for the defense, who has taken us through the Coliseum at Rome, and shown us the Pyramids of Egypt; but during the whole of his magnificent speech he has not carried us within two squares of the home of Officer Rig-don, who was shot and killed by these two men." The jury promptly returned a verdict of guilty and the men were afterwards sentenced and hanged for the crime.
Another famous trial was that of Samuel McDonald, accused of the murder of Berry Amos. , In that trial the late J. Fred C. Talbott appeared as the State's Attorney for Baltimore county, assisted by the late Major John I. Yellott, and the defense was represented by Mr. Gittings and the late ex-Governor Whyte. McDonald was a very rich man, in addition to being a very handsome man, and it is said that several thousand dollars were expended in his defense. Toward the conclusion of the case a strange man was produced by the defense to prove an alibi, whom Mr. Talbott referred to as the "Milwaukee Dutchman." The remark created a great deal of amusement at the time and the older residents remember it to this day. The accused was acquitted.
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