Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-02
INDICTED
IN FORGERY CASE
Joseph w. FrenzeI Was En-
pIoyed in District Govern
ment-0therS Accused.

clerk OF the District government. and
his alleged accomplice, C. Ray Sever
ance. were indicted today by the grand
jury on charges of false pretenses, for
gerry and uttering. They are alleged to
have falsely represented that persons
in whose names were drawn rebate
checks for alleged erroneous payment
of taxes were really entitled to such
rebates and to have forged the names
Of the alleged payees to the checks and
to have uttered to Maj. James r. LuSby,
diSbursing officer, that the Endorsements
were genuine.
Only three charges are made in the
indictment, but Assistant United States
Attorney Connolly. who presented the
case to the grand jury, stated there
were other transactions. The three
mentioned in the indictment are
transaction of $98666. July 6, 1926: one
of $36550, August Ia, and the other
for $572.18, May &C. 1927. Maj Daniel
Donovan, in whose Office FrenZel was
employed, laid the matter before the
grand jury,
Charged With Murder.
Emma Ford, colored, was charged
with murder in the first degree in con-
nection with the death of her friend.
Daniel Freeman. The woman is said
to have poured acid on Freeman at
427 N street February %, which re-
suited in his death, March Is.
Murder in the second degree is al
legged against Robert E.. Dorset for
the death of Alex H. Steen. Dorsett is
said to have struck Steen with his fist
at IA MAYORS court and then to have
kicked him, causing his death May 81.
Herman o. Hagner and Julia G, Hag-
ner, trading as Fl, 0. Hagner Co. at
Scranton, Pa, and Camden, N. j.,
are charged in two indictments with
conspiracy and with using the mails
to defraud. They are said to have
agreed to miSrepreSent to the Mer-
chants Tranfer 81 Storage Co. which
was purchasing their accounts receiv-
able, that a number of false accounts
represented actual purchases of goods.
Paul T. Tobin, policeman of the
fourteenth recinct, and Frank l. Ed
wards, said to be a police informer,
were indicted on charge of accepting
a bride to influence their testimony in
connection with a prohibition case to
be heard in court Morris Cohn charg-
ed that after his arrest on a liquor
charge, he was approached by Edwards,
in the presence of Tobin, and told that
they might forget the testimony. He
placed $25 on a table. he said, which
E0NdAOS pNh6Q up dtld gave @10 Va
the amount to Tobin in his presence.
Transporting of a film of the Tun-
ney-Dempsey fight from Maryland into
the District Of Columbia is charged in
an indictment against Uric Hollings-
worth, GA Otis place, and manager OF
the Capitol Theater at Capitol Heights
Md. 1t is alleged that March 80, last.
he exhibited the pictures at his movie
house in Maryland and then brought
the film back to Washington with him.
John Walker, colored, is indicted on
two charges of perjury. He had been
employed as police inforner and
made two false affidavits, it is alleged
before United States Commissioner
which formed the bases of search war
rants.
Veteran Is Accused.
Seward Lackey. World War veteran.
is charged with false pretenses. He is
said to have borrowed money on his
adjusted service certificate and to have
represented to the Veterans Bureau
that he had lost the certificate and was
granted a duplicate. The indictment
charges that he falsely represented to
teller at the American Security IL Trust
Co. February 10 that the duplicate was
unincumbered and borrowed S125 on 1t.
Roderick A. Pace is charged with
larceny from the United States, it being
alleged that while supply officer at
Walter Reed Hospital he obtained pos
session of supplies on false acquisitions
and appropriated them to his own use.
Between November 10, 1927. and March
81, 1928. it is alleged he obtained IS
pairs of shoes, so shirts and so pairs
of stockings
Nelson Gordon Phelp OF New York.
recently indicted for false pretense in
securing a large sum of money from
the American Security e. Trust Co.
on alleged false stock certificates of the
Otis Elevator Co., was again indicted
on a charge of uttering the alleged
false certificates as genuine on which
the company made the loans.
The grand jury exonerated Herman
Esworthy. driver of an automobile
which ran down and killed Peter Snyder
May 81 near Thirty-fourth and Pros
pect streets The grand jurors also
refused to indict Eugene Arnold. Leon
J. Stewart and Ada Huot, charged with
grand larceny.
A total of As indictments is con-
tanned in the final report of the grand
Jury submitted today. Others indicted
and the charges against them are:
Lee King and Oliver Spence, violat-
ing opium law; Daniel T.. Wheeler, as
sault with dangerous weapon James
Robinson, assault with dangerous weap-
on: Henry McFadden, assault with dan
gerous weapon; James M. Carter, as
sault: James Dudley and Abraham
Wallace, Clarence A. Cook and Joe
Hardy and Horace milford, housebreak-
ing and larceny; Lacey Lee, housebreak-
ing: James Pinkney, housebreaking and
depreciation on property; Lewis Penn,
Percy Blaine and Christopher c. Evans,
grand larceny; Arvern Clifton Plumley,
joyriding and grand larceny.
Luvercy French and Ltnwood E. Day,
joy-riding; Philip Mickens, second
offense joy-riding and second offense
grand larceny: r. William Nell. remov-
ing mortgaged property; Emily A.
Rollins, alias Mrs, H. Randall, alias
Elizabeth Bradshaw, alias H. L. Brad
shaw, false pretenSes; Bertha M Jack
son and Clagett r. Rison, false pre-
lenses, Frank Hall false pretenses;
Seward Lackey, false pretenses; Nina
Steinberg and Samuel Steinberg, false
pretenses; Charles b. Murphy, false
pretenses. forgery and uttering Emily
Bloyer, forgery and uttering. Ralph
Frederick Hutchins forgery; Wilbur A.
Funk, forgery and uttering; Eliot Walter
Shreve, forgery and uttering, and Eliot
w Ghravs violatinn Harrison narcotic