Eagle Archive: In 1923, sheriff busted the Hampstead fireman's carnival for gambling

By Kevin Dayhoff August 4, 2012 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0805-20120801,0,2048595.story

On Wednesday, Aug. 1, 1923, the Hampstead Volunteer Fire Company carnival was accused of running a gambling operation and was shut down by Carroll County Sheriff William Phillips.

Phillips appeared on the carnival grounds with Carroll County State's Attorney Theodore F. Brown, and arrested the person in charge of the carnival's amusements, Thomas Zepp, and hauled him off to jail.

Pandemonium broke loose in Hampstead as a result. This was especially true because of the significance the Hampstead fireman's carnival has played in the history of the town…

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Hampstead Volunteer Fire Company annual carnival August 15 - 20, 2011

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Monday, August 15 - Saturday, August 20 FAMILY FUN FOR EVERYONE! Food, Music, Rides, Raffles, Games, and Much More! Delicious Platters Served Nightly Monday through Friday starting at 6 PM Saturday starting at 4 PM Great Music Monday - Big Cam & the Lifters Tuesday - Iron Ridge Wednesday - Bird Daddy Thursday - Aspen Run Friday - Bootleg Saturday - Dean Crawford & The Dunn's River Band Spectacular Rides Every Night is Ride Night - $20 Ride All Night Family fun-filled rides including a kiddie-land  for the youngsters Rides Start at 7 PM Parade Saturday, August 20 Starts at 5 PM Route is along Main Street,  between Lower Beckleysville Road & Fairmount Road  ATM (money machine) on site for your convenience. PARKING & ADMISSION are FREE Park at North Carroll High School Continuously Running Free Shuttle Busses Monday through Friday - Busses Start at 6 PM Saturday - Busses Start at 3 PM BRING THE WHOLE FAMILY!

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Baltimore Co. police have identified man found in burning car

Baltimore Co. police have identified man found in burning car just outside Hampstead last week
March 18, 2010 By Kevin Dayhoff

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/03/baltimore-co-police-have-identified-man.html Labels: Carroll Co Dist Hampstead, Carroll Co Dist Taneytown, Current Events, MD co Baltimore Co, MD co Baltimore Co issues, MD co Baltimore Co police

Baltimore County police have identified that a Taneytown man was the victim of a vehicle fire last week. Officials say the man is John David Metcalf, 48, of the 4600-block of Buffington Lane.

The autopsy revealed no evidence that John David Metcalf had been the victim of a crime, say Baltimore County police.

The incident occurred last Friday about 1:42 a.m., as firefighters and police responded to a vehicle on fire in the 4600 block of Black Rock Road of Upperco in the northern Baltimore County, just across the county line from Hampstead, Carroll County.

At the time, a man found inside the burning car was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to police, the victim was identified from dental records. The police investigation revealed that “Metcalf had been ill just prior to leaving work. It appears that while driving home, he stopped on the parking lot of Grace United Methodist Church. While parked at the location, a fire started in the engine of the vehicle. The victim’s death was caused by the car fire.”

The car fire last Friday is one of a rash of similar incidents in recent memory.

The Eagle reported yesterday that it was “Arson (that) caused $26,000 in total damage to two cars and a school bus in Mount Airy on Twin Arch Road.

Various media reports indicate similar car fire incidents in the southern York County, Pa., the Parkton area in northern Baltimore County and just last spring there was another death as the result of a car fire in a church parking in Hampstead

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Maryland State Police: Two dead in Hampstead murder-suicide

Two dead in Hampstead murder-suicide

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

A tragedy as the result of domestic violence has once again struck Carroll County.

In an incident yesterday, an ex-husband is alleged to have shot his way into the home of his ex-wife, killed her fiancé, and then turned gun on himself.

By Kevin Dayhoff http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/03/maryland-state-police-two-dead-in.html Labels: Carroll Co Dist Hampstead, Carroll County crime, Crime, Dayhoff writing essays crime, MD State Police, Public Safety Domestic Violence http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/309053.html

(Hampstead, MD) – The Maryland State Police were called to the scene of an apparent murder-suicide, in the late-morning hours of Tuesday, March 16, 2010, just outside of the town of Hampstead in northern Carroll County, Maryland, which has left two men dead.

According to the Maryland State Police, a 911 call came in to Carroll County Emergency Operations Center shortly after 11:00 a.m. “from a woman in the 1200-block of Allview Drive. She told the dispatcher that her ex-husband had just come into her home and shot her fiancé before shooting himself.”

When police arrived they found two deceased males in a first floor family room at the rear of the house, according to Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley.

A subsequent investigation indicates that one of the males, identified as Michael L. Swift, III, 45 of the 3600-block of Benson Ave., Halethorpe, Baltimore County Md, is alleged to have used a shotgun to shoot his way through a sliding glass door in the back of the house.

At that point, police believe that Swift shot Zaidan S. “Steve” Asid, 51 and then turned the gun on himself. A .12-gauge shotgun was still in the possession of Swift when police arrived.

The police investigation revealed that the woman, (whom Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack will not identify because she is the victim of domestic violence,) who had made the 911 call, is apparently the former wife of Swift - and currently the fiancé of Asid, and lived at the home.

Police indicate that she was in the residence at the time of the shooting. She was taken for a medical examination, but found to be apparently unharmed physically. No one else was in the home at the time of the shooting.

The deceased were transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for autopsies as the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit spent the rest of the afternoon investigating the scene.

The Maryland State Police said that the investigation is ongoing. Check back with Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack - http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/ for more details as they develop.

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