Evening star., 1927-10-26
|YEAGER INDICTED
FOR EMBEzzL|NG
Electric Company Emp|oye
Alleged to Admit DefaIca-
tiOnS.

| Neil Anderson Yeager. 30 years old
! was indicted today by the grand jury
/ on charge Of embeZZtement from the
! Washington Electric Co, 92S I street
J where he had been employed more
| than three years. The indictment
charges only the taking of about
! 81 ,000. but the police say Yeager ad
mitted declarations totaling 50 900
which he claimed to have lost in play.
ing the races in handbooks. Yeaecr
il said to have given the police in.
formation which led TO n spectacular
raid at the Richmond Club, on the
second floor of 1902 Fourteenth street
last August. Sixty persons were found
in the room and required to post tond
of 500 each to appear as Cover nmnnt
witnesses. and the alleged proprietor
gave bond of $4,000.
Accused Of Perjury.
Edwin NJ. oliver. 3l5, Fourteenth
street. IA former special officer at Cen.
ter Market and member of the Depart
ment of Agriculture police, was intiict
ed for perjury. He is alleged to have
made an affidavit before United states
Commissioner Needham G.. Turnage
August - last that he had made Il
buy" of whisky August l3 at the
home of Carrie Hampton. 1ilS G. street
northeast for which he paid rs cents.
he stated. Investigation is said to
have shown that he had not visited
the house on that date nor at other
times except when he ATTEMPTED To
sell n motorhott To The Moman's hus-
band. The affidavit alleged to have
been made by the special officer was
used as the basis of Il search warrant.
James i. Starkey and William w.
Carroll, both Colored, are charged with
larceny from the United States. They
are said To have taken from Rolling
Field quantity of aluminium fittings
for airplanes belonging to the Govern
ment. October IL last. The fittings
Wei2htd 60 pounds and are said to
have been worth 80 cents each
total Of Al indictments were re.
ported TO Chief Justice Mccoy, and
flVe cases were ignored by the gran nd
Jurors The cases ignored included
Harold G. Gray, who found Govern.
ment check and caShed it: Harry Arts
and Nathsnial Galloway, ioy-riding
Edward Thomas. larceny after trust
and Walter Baker, violating the prohi
bition law.
List of Indictments.
Those indicted and the charges
against them include:
David +. Morton. violating postal
laws; William p. Michaels. violating
Mann act: John Murphy and Ben Cole
man. grand larceny: Willie Lewis,
Jesse J.. Fleming. Amos Hepbron and
Willie Hinton, aSsa ult with dangerous
weapon. Henry Smith. Leroy IIous-
ton and Alexander West. robbery,
GuStayus Banks. housebreaking and
larceny: Eddie Green. housebreaking:
Rufus Lom1X, violating national pro-
hibition act: Robert f. Humphries,
larceny after trust: Thomas Campbell
and William Eaglin, jos-riding and
grand larceny.
Samuel Washington. alias Lick Perry,
and Richard Mitchell, larceny; John
II. Howell and Ford Muse, assault
With a dangerous weapon: Herbert ;.
Ross. false pretenses; John Wood,
Yelverton r. Fauiconer and James
Ralph Davis, non-shpport; Nathaniel
Alexander. alias Richard A. Green;
Charles William Brown. alias Walter
Chavis: James c. Webster, Charles Nor
gan. Herbert Carter. Vernon Carter,
Lemuel Carton. Dick F'rizzell. alias
Richmond F'rizzell; William F'riZzell,
Chauncey Nc ID. Ashton. Elmer l.. Pierce.
Gibson and James A. Wash
ington, joy riding; John y. Brooks,
Marie Lewis, alias Lena Lewis: Clar-
ence Armstrong and Howard Thomp-
son, grand larceny; Nathan Cohen,
Gustavus Banks, William Carson.
Wilson Banks. Lawrence Mason and
Richard Edmonston, alias Richard Ed
monston three cases). housebreaking
and larceny; Frank Glenn, Beatrice
Perry. Thomas Willis, james Daniels
Willis, Archie l.. Page. robbery; David
l.. Russell and Eloise Russell, violat-
ing Harrison anti.narcotic act.