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Maryland Jail. Between the bank of the Choptank River and the village green in leisurely, New Englandish Denton, Md., stands the Caroline County Jail. It is a charming place, accommodating some 25 prisoners, 18 of whom are convicted bootleggers. Last week, Sheriff William F. Jackson made comment: "The fellows the Government sends down here are all right and do not cause me a bit of trouble. ... I believe in treating the boys fairly. . . . They are locked in their cells at night and then I let them out in the jailyard to get air. The boys can fish in the river...
...from Maryland; to Mlle. Tatiana Vladimirovna Dechterva; in Paris. In 1903 he married Mrs. Evelyn Smith Tome, first woman president of a National Bank,* who died last April (TIME, May 2), widow of Jacob Tome, with whom she founded the Tome Institute (commonly called Tome School), at Port Deposit, Md...
...president of the Cecil National Bank, Port Deposit, Md. (1898-1905) and of the National Bank of Elton. Md...
...Salisbury, Md., six weeks ago one Mrs. Mary Hearn, for 18 years Farmer Samuel Russell's housekeeper, burned down his house after a quarrel. Since then she has been in jail, waiting trial for arson. Last week Farmer Russell, feeling remorse for having made her angry enough to want to burn him to death, went to jail, where he married her. Other prisoners threw beans at the hugging couple...
...Annapolis, Md., Judge Robert Moss of the circuit court suspended sentence on one Elizabeth Mumford, 51, convicted of pilfering $20,956 in ten years from the county school board by raising checks, because, he said, he came of stock which believed no woman should be punished "unless she had reached such a state of depravity that she was no longer a fit person to be at freedom...