The Washington herald., 1921-08-08
new US. DISTRICT
ATTORNEY FACES,
DIFFICULT TASK
Many Important Cases
Await Action of New
Prosecutor.

Peyton Gordon, the new United
States attorney for the District. will
find his Job no bed OF roses when
he takes the oath of ONCE this week
Besides the usual work of reor-
ganizing his Office. Mr.. Gordon will
fnd facing him some Of the most
complicated cases that have come
up for prosecution and settlement
in the past twenty years.
He must be prepared to handle
nearly 25 per cent OF all the Fed
srsl prosecutions instituted in all
America besides numerous cases in
which the various departments and
branches Of the government are in
volved.
Many Pressing Tasks.
He will have to wrestIe with in
come tax problems, Shipping Board
suits, Alien Property Custodian
wrangles, the Western Union Tele-
graph case, and undertake to up
hold the government in its efforts
to extradite John A. ID. Morrow. vice
president Of the National. Coal As
socistion, alleged TO be the biggest
|
oils, Ind. to stand trial for an al
legged conspiracy to violate the Sher-
\ man antitrust law. together with
226 other coal operators and dealers.
Among the important criminal
| cases is the appeal of Jules Mickey"
brnstein. Norman S. Bowles, David
w. Sullivan, wilen w Easterday
and Isadore Cohn from their convic-
ton of bringing stolen securities
into the District of Columbia. Be
| sides there is the famous United
States Supreme Court leak case,
In which Ashton F. Embry, +. Mil
lard Mayer. Barnett Z. Moses and
James Harwood Graves are charged
with conspiracy to defraud the
United States.
Alleged Coal Trust.
There is also an alleged coal trust
in the District according to indict-
ments returned against dozen
local coal dealers for alleged con-
spiracy to violate the Sherman anti
trust law.
The new district attorney will
also be called upon to prosecute
Tucker II. Sands for an alleged Vio-
lation of the Federal reserve act.
and Karl Hanake and Franklin NJ.
Isaacs for alleged entertainments
from local banks.
Another case OF local interest Is
that of Ayoob Rizik and Raphael
Sawaya, local merchants, who were
indicted for alleged frauds in their
income tax returns.
| The recent cases Of Hugh B. Sor-
reIs, George w. Sutton. Harry {.
Weston. George +. Dombhart and
Charles Bondeson, which originated
in the income tax bureau OF the
/ Treasury Department, involving
I conspiracy TO defraud the govern
| ment. bribery, etc. will also fall
on Mr. Gordon's shoulders. besides
the cases of Edward l. Travis,
Selim B. Joseph, prominent
Southern attorney. and Leon NJ
4 Green, a former lieutenant colonel
on the staff of Gov. Blease, of South
Carolina, charged with conspiracy
to defrapd the government in con-
nection with the selective service
draft
War Risk Frauds.
Mr.. Gordon will have to struggle
with the balance Of the old War
kisk fraud cases and also with the
new ones which have come TO light
during the past month. Resides all
these cases there is the case against
Mrs. Mary T. Parkins and Antonio
Pappano, charged with conspiracy
to bribe Revenue Agent Harold H.
Stephenson to secure permits 70
withdraw whisky from bonded
warehouses. and the recent case in
which Horace n. Hitchcock and
others are charged with using the
J mails to defraud.
OTHER criminal cases include those
of Paul Minor. George King. Henry
Abramovitz. Herbert i. Coates, Ed
gar Allen ct al, Charles P. Jaynes.
and Joseph w. Gonzales. charged
with manslaughter. Most of these
cases result from traffic accident.
Second degree murder cases await
ing trial are those of Everett Ir-
win. who is accused of shooting
Harry Parker. colored, last Febru-
ary, and Mrs. Lydia G. Molavi,
charged with killing her husband
Abdul Hooserin Molavi.
First Degree Murder.
First degree murder cases await
, ing prosecution are those of Herbert
r Weston, charged with killing Po-
, liceman Oscar A. McKimmie: Will
liam Joseph Carroll, charged with
the murder of his wife. Mrs. Gather
inc Carroll; Edward Golden, charged
with killing Andrew Carlson; Roy
Gordon and Aloysius Chase. colored
charged with killing Simon Miller;
John W. Niffin, Leslie w. Shelby and
Milton Solomon, charged with kill
ing Frederick Schnurr: Flora f.
Jackson, charged with killing Marie
Gaddis. both colored: Edward C.
Evans, charged with killing his