The Washington herald., 1911-09-11

| The District grand jury, with Edward
| P. Schwartz as foreman, will reassemble
| to-day after a vacation since July, and
will at once enter upon the consideration
OF large number Of cases, including
twelve murder cases, which have accu-
mulated since they began their summer
holiday.
The office of the district attorney also
Will be kept busy with a large number
| Of bookmaking cases. The case against
| Arthur NJ. Travers, former chief clerk in
| the Office Of the Third Assistant POST
master General, and for some time Act
! ing Third Assistant Postmaster General,
/ who is indicted for the alleged embezzle-
ment of certain postage stamps which
| the department claims to be Of a rare
| issue, will come up early this fall.
Charged with EmbezEIement
Trayers is jointly indicted with Joseph
A. Steinmetz, of Philadelphia, said to
be a stamp collector and charged with
| conspiring TO sell at a high rate stamps
belonging to the United States, and in
the custody of Travers as an officer of
the Post-Office Department. The indict-.
ment against Travers specifically charges
him with misapproprlation OF several
stamps of denominations ranging from
cents to 10 cents worth not more than
$40 upon their face value, but sold by
him for 500. The total amount of
Travers' peculatons is said TO be about
$1,000 in stamps and stamped envelopes,
according TO their face value, but worth
$4,000 as rare specimens.
Edward ]. Macdonald. formerly OF AL
bany, y. Y. who shot and killed his
wife in the Colorado Building on May
81 last will be tried for murder in the
first degree. 1t was said al the time
Macdonald committed the crime that
he had lured his wife to the Colorado
Building on the plea that attorneys had
papers for her to sign by means of
which he was to obtain a sum OF money
from certain securities held in trust in
New York State. The identity of Mac
Donald has never been fully established.
He refuses to say whether he has any
relatives, and it is claimed by those
who know him that he has a number
of aliases.
On June % last. Belle Mills, negro. |
stabbed her husband in the heart and
killed MIN. They had family quarrel. !
growing out of Mills paying attention |
to another woman. II occurred in !
MAYORS alley. between Fourth and !
Fifth streets northwest and the Mills !
woman, when arrested, said she acted !
in self-defense. This case will also |
come up for trial this term.
Held For Wife Murder.
Wade Baker a negro, ChOked his |
wife, Fannie Baker. to death on July |
12 last, and then calmly went TO his !
room and took a nap. Three hours later |
he asked a roomer to call a policeman !
to whom Baker told that his wife had |
committed suicide by cutting her throat. |
Another case which will attract atten-
ton is that of Arthur Cornwall. |
printer, twenty-one years old, who on |
June Il last shot his sisters husband,
James ElmOre Courtney. three times in
the back, Courtney dying in Freedmen's .
Hospital. 1t was alleged at the time that |
Cornwall was angry at his brother-in-
law because he upbraided him for SIAM
ming a door when he came into the
house. at 2O26 Eighth street. northwest.
Courtney, II was said, did not object to
the noise made by the slamming of the
door. but there happened to be a por-
trait Of Courtney's father suspended on
the room wall, and the door Jared It.
Courtney feared that the picture would
come tumbling down one night.
Caused by Jealousy.
Jealous because he found his wife with
another man, Andrew Gonzales a negro
cut her throat on July 21 last They
lived in Anacostia. The woman. Made
line Gonzales. was taken to Casualty
Hospital, where she died the same day |
The last murder which will receive the
attention of the grand jury is that OF
Ada Haynes. of 1922 D street. who was
shot and killed on August l2 last, by
William H. Sabens. twenty-seven years
old, a former sweetheart. The woman
was to have been married to a New York
man shortly, and jealousy is believed to
have been the motive for the crime.
These among the most OrOmiOent |
cases which will be heard by the grand
jury, and will be called for trial this
term.