The Washington times., 1921-10-09
CROMEL|N QUITS.
FEDERAL JOB To
PRACTICE LAW
Associates Himself With 3. J.
Laws, Also Former Assistant
District Attorney.

Paul b. Cromelin, assistant dis
trict attorney for more than two
years. during. which period he has
handled most Of the important crimi-
nal cases tried in the District gu
preme Court, resigned Friday. Mr..
Cromeiin, who will become associated
with Bolitha j. Laws. also a former
assistant district attorney, rendered
his resignation to District Attorney
Peyton Gordon. 1t was accepted.
Mr.. Cromelin is a graduate OF the
Business High School and the
ident of the Alumni Association of
Business High School. In September
1917, he enlisted as private in the
United States army, was commits
= on d second lieutenant at Kelly
Field, San Antonio, January, 1918.
and was finally promoted to the
rank of captain, Air Service. Fol
lowing his discharge in February,
1919, he was appointed an assistant
United States district attorney.
Prosecuted Many Cases.
As assistant United States attor-
ney, Mr.. Cromelin has been In
charge of a large number of the
most important cases in this dis
trict, representing the government
both in civil and criminal matters.
He has the uniue distinction OF
having been successful in every gov
eminent case with which he has
been identified in the last nineteen
months. Among the more import
ant trials he has conducted were the
two trials of Louis Randall. negro.
who was twice convicted of criminal
assaults upon white women: the con-
yiction of John McHenry. who,
after robbing and numbering Wal
lace Mulcare, an automobile acces-
sorry dealer. on Fourteenth street
northwest, shot and killed Detective
Sergeant James Armstrong in the
Union Station, in December. 1920;
the conviction of Edgar Randolph
Perrigo, the 17-year boy, now
awaiting execution for the murder Of
Mrs. Mary Emily Faithful at Con-
gress Heights; the celebrated ARA.
stein case. In which Arnstein and
his associates, David w. Sullivan
and wilen w. Easterday, stock
brokers, and Norman 8. Bowles, a
lawyer. were convicted Of conspiracy
to dispose OF five million dollars
worth of bonds stolen from Wall
street: the trial Of William Henry
Campbell. who was convicted and
later executed for the murder of
Mrs. Gertrude H. Mann. the music
teacher, on Rodman street, Cleve-
land Park, in February, 1920; the
trial of William J. Reid. the cele-
brated swindler and forger who de-
frauded Boss & Phelps of $4,000 and
Is now serving a sentence OF thirty
years; the Pierce street shooting
cases, and a number OF other i'm
portant murder and hold-up cases.
Appeared In Civil Suits.
Mr.. Cromelin also successfully con.
Quoted a number Of handbook prose-
cutions and represented various gov
eminent officials and Cabinet Off
GERS in civil suits flied against the
government.
He is a member of George Wash
ington Post No. /, American Legion,
and Sigma M Phi Fraternity, Is
secretary and past master of Ben
jamin B. French Lodge No. 10, F. A.
A. NJ, member Of the board of
trustees Of Trinity M. e. Church;
president Of the Association of Wor.
shipful Masters Of 1920; member OF
Mt. Vernon Chapter No. 3, X. A. M,
Lebanon Chapter. o. e. s.. Gavel
Club, Almas Temple of the Mystic
Shrine, the Level Club Of Washing
ton Grove. and is a thirty-second.
degree Mason.
Mr.. Cromelin and Mr.. Laws will
have offices in the Albee Building,
ad Joining those Of John E. Laskey,
who recently resigned as United
States attorney.