Jay Miller

The owner of Charlotte's, a private club in the White Marsh area that features nude dancing, has been charged with violating a new law that bans alcoholic beverages at nude dancing clubs.Charlotte E. Walter, 70, who operates the club in the 10000 block of Pulaski Highway, was issued a summons yesterday charging her with having beer and whiskey on the premises early Sunday morning. She must appear for trial July 9 in Essex District Court, said Baltimore County police spokesman E. Jay Miller.

A Reisterstown woman whose mother died at St. Joseph Medical Center in 1996 sued the hospital yesterday, alleging that the treatment she received there caused her death. Debra Ann McCann alleges that her mother, Freda Mae Bradshaw, died the day after she was admitted to St. Joseph because hospital staff failed to follow treatment prescribed by her physician Dr. Robert Baxt. The suit was filed in Baltimore County Circuit Court. Bradshaw, 77, of Reisterstown was suffering from a bowel obstruction, was vomiting and had abdominal pains and nausea when she was admitted at 2 p.m. July 12, 1996, according to Jay Miller, McCann's lawyer.

A 77-year-old Wiltondale woman, surprised by an intrude yesterday when she returned home from shopping, was assaulted, robbed of $40 and left bound with her own clothing, Baltimore County police said.The assailant, who had forced entry through a rear door, was hiding behind a closet door when the woman returned home about 10 a.m., police spokesman E. Jay Miller said.The man demanded money and after she passed him her wallet, he ordered her upstairs, where he assaulted her and tied her up. Details about the assault were not available, but police said she was not physically harmed.

A 15-year-old Woodlawn youth died yesterday in a shooting that police said appeared to be accidental.Patrick Anthony Thomas was shot once in the lower right part of his back with a .357-caliber Magnum handgun in his family's apartment in the first block of Edith Court, said E. Jay Miller, a Baltimore County police spokesman.Mr. Miller said that Patrick's two teen-age brothers and a 17-year-old friend were in the apartment when the gun went off about 3:30 p.m. Police said the victim's 19-year-old brother, whose name was not divulged, was loading the gun when it discharged accidentally.

In early 1998, Baltimore-area lawyer Joseph Murtha walked into a room in Washington's St. James Suites hotel and met a wary woman disguised in a wig. It was Linda R. Tripp, who had taped a friend's confidences about her sexual trysts with President Bill Clinton and was facing the possibility of criminal charges in Maryland because of the tapes. Two years later, Murtha concluded a successful, low-key defense of Tripp and became one of the few winners to emerge from the highly publicized legal battles surrounding the Clinton scandal.

A former automobile mechanic who was a prime suspect in the 1987 slaying of Essex tow-truck operator William E. Eiler was charged with murder in the case yesterday, Baltimore County police said.Although it took four years to come up with evidence to charge 37-year-old James Edward Prince, the police had no trouble finding him. Prince was in the Maryland Penitentiary, serving a sentence of life without parole for another 1987 murder.Mr. Eiler, 58, was the tough and controversial owner of the Eastern Garage whose ties to politicians and police officials were the subject of an investigation of corruption allegations in 1975.

Baltimore County police today were seeking 43 suspects allegedly involved in street-level crack cocaine dealing in Essex communities.Police spokesman E. Jay Miller said 40 of those being sought are named in grand jury indictments that followed a five-month undercover investigation in the Village of Tall Trees, Cove Village, Tidewater Village and East Roc.As of this afternoon, 16 people had been arrested. Another eightwere found already in jail, Miller said.The investigation began after residents and management officials of the apartment or townhouse communities complained about curb-side drug dealing in the targeted communities.

A 27-year-old Baltimore man appeared in Towson District Court yesterday and was ordered held on $75,000 bond in connection with the May 28 robbery of two elderly people, according to Baltimore County police.Anthony Richardson, who was arrested Tuesday at his home in the 5000 block of Chalgrove Ave., was remanded to the county Detention Center to await trial on two counts of armed robbery, burglary and a parole violation, said E. Jay Miller, a police spokesman.Mr. Miller said the incident occurred just before 10 p.m. as Harold A. Burns, 83, was returning to his home on Hampton Lane in Towsonwith an acquaintance, Ruth Kammer, 76, also of Towson, and surprised a burglar.

Baltimore County police continue to seek a motive and suspect in yesterday's fatal shooting of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found in her Randallstown apartment.Found unharmed inside the Scotts Level Apartments home in the 4600 block of Debilen Circle was the victim's 9-month-old son, said police spokesman E. Jay Miller.The names of the victim and baby were withheld, pending notification of relatives. Mr. Miller said the infant was turned over to friends of the victim.Mr. Miller said a male acquaintance of the woman found her lying on a bed at 6 p.m., shot at least once in the head.

The authorities yesterday were searching for three men who were seen leaving the Baltimore County apartment complex in which two Nigerians were stabbed to death with what the police described as a samurai-style sword."