Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-12
IGRAND Jury FREES
ICH|NESEACCUSED|N
/ TONG WAR Staying
Lack of Evidence Given as
Reason for Refusing to
Indict Lee Loi.
q BELIEVED MEMBERS
OF HIP SINGS KILLED
Man Released by Jurors Said to
Belong to On Leong Faction.
Taken Night of Shooting.

The grand jury today ignored thu
murder charges against Lee Loi, Chi
inese, who was held by a coroners jury
last October in connection with the
fatal shooting of Joe Yen Lee, also
known as Lee Sue, during the tons
fareup here. Lack of positive evidence
and inability of prosecuting witnesses
to give accurate accounts of the par
ticular shooting in which the man was
killed caused the grand jury to refuse
to indict Loi.
The Chinese. said to be a member
of the Hip Sing Tong. was shot to death
lat the tong headquarters. 325 Penn
svlvania avenue, October Is, during an
iaffray at which another Hip Sing men,
Der also was killed.
I,oi. said by police to be member OF
the opposing faction. the On Leong
Tong. was arrested the same night by
Headquarters Detective Edward Kelly OF
the homicide squad and later charged
with the murder.
Andrew j. Hawkins. colored, was IN
6;cted for murder in the first degree
IN connection with the death of Ruth
watkins. also colored December %
Il.
1900 block of Twenty-sixth street fol-
lowing an argument.
Manslaughter is charged in an in
dictment against John Henry Day.
colored. He is alleged to have shot
end killed Harry Smith, also colored.
December Is, in the 600 block OF New
ton street.
Edna Gray, colored, 430 Rhode Island
avenue, was indicted on a charge OF
performing an illegal operation on
Hazel Hardy, of Clarendon, Va,
November 16.
Colored Man Ex0nerated.
The grand jurors exonerated John
Fl. Long, colored, who had been held
for the shooting to death of Williams
Cunningham, also colored, in the 1900
block of Eleventh street February 2.
Cunningham is said to have been drunk
and to have broken into the house
after having been elected. Other cases
ignored include: Dupree Lockhart,
violating Harrison act; Mary Scott,
bigamy; Earl Kettner. larceny after
trust; Clifford Mead. Charles E. Wash
ington, James Sunnmeryille, Thomas
Marshall. James w. Chase. Charles Rob-
snson, SiIas r. Young, Shirley Ridgeway.
Walter Smith and Joe Frazier, joy
ceny; Ralph C. Pack, HOUSEKEEPING
and James Gross, robbery.
A total of SO indictments were re-
ported to Chief Justice Mccoy, in which
were included the following:
Kay w. FrederickSon, robbery; James
s. Fowler, forgery and uttering; James
J. Turner, James Redmond, alias James
Redman; Tom Boyd, John w. Mason,
James W. Chase, James Summerville,
Thomas L. Kaiser, Preston White,
Phillip Sharpe, Solomon Holmes, Charles
Brown, Joseph w. Craven (three cases. !,
James j. Turner flour cases., house.
breaking and larceny; Sylvester Holmes.
Levi Dublin, Dewitt Jones and Pine
Little, receiving stolen property; Merhle
E. Becroft, Earl Marshall Wysong, Albert
c. Parlin, Luther B. Garner, jr.;
Maurice l.. David, Charles Monaco, alias
Charles Bennett; Benny Hamilton.
Joseph Philip Munitz. John Lee Pres
ton, Owen M. Bancroft and James e.
kemph, non-support; Emmett E. Harler
John H. Lillis. Charles M. Rush, alias
Charles M. Fletcher; Edward Harris
Edward c. Larson, alias Edward Lamont
two cases.: Minnie Henson, Russell
pTintz. Stephen r. Mulligan Arthur
Waller, Ruby Hill, alias Ruby Sewell;
Nicholas Humphrey, alias Clarence Reed;
Samuel Brown, alias Jesse Willis, grand
larceny: Joseph Gaskins, grand larceny
and iovriding: Joseph c.. Thomas,
Eugene Dorsey, William Anderson (two
cases.: Harry M. Moore, Joseph w.
Geddes two cases., joyriding; Maynard
j. willard, larceny after trust; Murray
Wilson, embezzlement: Douglas Stead
man. Kent Keys, Albert F. Simcoe and
William Elder, assault with dangerous
Weapon