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Saturday, July 21, 2012

In 1926, newspaper wanted clear lines between state's attorney and sheriff

In 1926, newspaper wanted clear lines between state's attorney and sheriff


In July 1926, dissatisfaction between the Carroll County state's attorney and the Carroll County sheriff leaped from whispers in the local lunchrooms to the pages of a local newspaper.
The front page of the July 16, 1926, edition of the American Sentinel newspaper included a story — "Why the Listlessness of the Sheriffs of Carroll County?" — about whether the role of the sheriff had been diminished by the then-state's attorney, according to research on the topic for the Historical Society of Carroll County by historian Jay Graybeal.
"Editor Joseph D. Brooks felt that the State's Attorney had assumed too many of the Sheriff's duties to the detriment of local law and order," Graybeal wrote... http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0722-20120718,0,1131096.story
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