Evening star., 1928-11-08
FALSE PRETENSES
LAID TO W|TTNER
Traffic Bureau Clerk indicted
on Charge Growing Out
of Realty Deal.

Loren H. Wittner. clerk in the Traffic
Bureau, whose removal from Office has
been recommended by Supt. of Police
Hesse for neglect of duty in writing
political speeches during working hours,
and who recently protested to the Civil
Service Commission against the order
curbing political activities of govern
ment employees, was indicted today by
the grand jury on a charge of false
pretenses.
The accusation goes back to october
10, 1926. when it is charged Wittner
obtained a check for 5000 from Irving
Owings, a resident of Hyattsville, who
conducts a real estate business in the
Evans Building, on alleged niSrepre-
sentationS. Assistant United States At
torney Charles B. Murray presented
the case to the grand jury. The charge
revolveS around realty transaction.
False Pretenses Charged.
False pretenses are also charged in
two indictments reported against Glen
w. Marler, a solicitor of magazine
subscriptions. In one of the cases he is
said to have obtained $46 from Miss
Winifred B. West, ,3406 r street north
west, October S, 1926, for several mag
azines as representing the Union Circu-
lating Co. of New York. The magazines
never came and the company denied
Marler was its representative. In the
other case he got SIG from Mrs. Anne
L. Clifford, 3033 N street, october %,
1925. She never received the mag
azineS, it is stated.
James H Walton and William j.
Carter, both white, were indicted on
charges of robbery and grand larceny.
They are charged with holding up
James A. Chambers, proprietor of a
store at l12O Connecticut avenue, Sep
tember IT. The victim was chloro-
formed and bound in the rear OF the
store. Later, it is charged, the men
went to the Stoneleigh Garage. 1880
street, and, after chloroforming a col
ored attendant, took him and an auto
mobile and drove to Danville, Va. De-
tective Sergt. Brodie arrested the men
at Danville. They confessed after their
arrest.
HOusebreaking Is Charged.
Three cases of houSebreaking and
larceny are charged against William
Starratt. He is said to have entered
the Office of Presiding Judge William j.
Graham of the United States Court OF
Customs Appeals, May 8, and to have
taken portfolio belonging to the Jus
tice and clock belonging to the United
States. On May IL he is alleged TO
have entered the Office of Attorney
Thomas j. Luckett, Second National
Bank Building, and to have removed a |
brief bag. The next day he stole a
brief bag, 1t is charged, from the Office |
of Attorney Louis L. Handy, Transpor-
tation Building.
total of "a indictments we're re- |
ported by the grand jury, which ignored |
10 cases. Those ignored include Nor
man F. Fowler and Wesley Postell, joy |
riding; Leroy Harris, assault with dam +!
gerous weapon; Bernard McHenry, Lena |
Moore and James Whitehead, grand |
larceny; Herman P. Nyder, Frank L. Ed |
wards. Alonzo Myers and Norman
Halves. violating anti-narcotic law, and
Leonard M. Winton, larceny after trust.
Other Indictments.
Others indicted and the charges
against them include:
Frank H. Clouse, Henry w. Ratney
(two cases., William Wright and John
Glenn, housebreakings and larceny; !
Robert Wells, grand larceny; Alphonso
Brown, grand larceny and joyriding;
Robert S. PAUL, Randolph Ward. alias
HanQOlQn WHQ6s WukAdAA NAOtCA OA1S 1
joseph Harris, joyriding; William w.
ellis. Charles l.. Harris, William |
Chambers, Ralph Richards and
Bernard Cant, robbery; Ralph j.
Richards, Bernard Cant, rape; |
RAYMOND Simms, assault and rape; |
James Pinkney, Caroline Rush, Arthur
Butler, James Jumper, Randolph Jones |
and James Henson, assault with danger
Gus weapon; Roy Summers, non-sup-
port of wife; Sarah Ingram, alias Sarah |
Williams, larceny after trust; Fred |
Sanderoff, James w. Taylor and Ollie |
Walter Smalley, non-support of minor
children.