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Contributed by J Baki
Description: Convicted of Manslaughter
Date: December 17 1938Newspaper published in: Prince Frederick, Maryland
Source: Maryland Archives
Page/Column: Front Page
Mrs. Margaret Abell was tried here in the Circuit Court before a jury on Friday of last week, charged with the murder of William Warren Gantt on July 12th last. The jury, of which Bernard G. Loveless was foreman, after deliberating twenty minutes, rendered a verdict of manslaughter. Immediately after the jury announced the verdict, Associate Judge William Meverell Loker sentenced the prisoner to ten year's imprisonment in the Maryland Penitentiary. She was taken to the Penitentiary to begin her sentence the same night. Mrs. Abell had as her attorneys David A. Harkness and J. Frank Parran. Benjamin Hance was her senior counsel at the time of the preliminary hearing, but he had to retire from the case due to illness. State's Attorney Arthur W. Dowell was the prosecuting attorney. As at the trial of Walter Stinnett on December 1st and 2nd, the Court Room where the trial was held, was packed with people, many standing, from the morning when the trial began, until after 10 o'clock at night, when it ended.
Stinnett, who was convicted here in the Circuit Court Friday night of last week by a jury of murder in the first degree without capital punishment, was sentenced by the Court to life imprisonment. Mrs. Evelyn Bajowski, the third member of the trio accused of the crime, will be tried probably next week at Frederick, Md., where her case was taken after her attorneys, Elliott and Elliott, of Baltimore, were granted a change of venue.