Evening star., 1929-12-20
FOUR JONES LAW
INDICTMENTS COVER
NINE DEFENDANTS
Grand Jury Reports Results
of Newspaper Exposure
of Speakeasies.
FOUR OF ALLEGED
OFFENDERS COLORED
Varied Charges Against 1S Persons
Presented by Police Are
Dropped.

Four indictments, charging nine per-
sons, four of them colored, with viola
tions of the JoneS-Stalker law, were
reported today by the grand jury to
Justice Peyton Gordon in Criminal Di-
vision l, as the result OF the expose 10y
the Washington Times, in which it was
stated that Speakeasies were being
maintained in 40 places in Washington.
The list was submitted to the grand
jury by Daniel E. O'Connell, city editor
of the Times, after he had been direct
ed by the court to give the names of
the three reporters who had gathered
the information.
German M Hendricks, Jack E. Nevin,
jr., and Linton Burkitt, the reporters,
admitted they had made purchases of
liquor, but declined to give the names
and addresses of the persons from
whom they had made purchases, and
were adjudged in contempt of court by
Justice Gordon and sentenced to serve
As days in jail, from which imprison-
ment they were discharged last week.
The grand jury recently filed report
of it's effort to obtain evidence of law
violations at the other places named
In the expose, but has not been sue
cessful although undercover men of the
police and prohibition departments
made strenuous e1fortS.
Bowers and Parker Named.
One indictment charges Harry George
Bowers and Robert Lee Parker of vio-
lating the national prohibition act.
Bowers is accused of transporting
November l and Parker of possession
November 2.
Another indictment alleges that Allen
Brown colored, made two sales Of in
toXicantS November l and also had
liquor in his possession on the same day.
Daniel j. Noonan, Paul Lee Burrows,
James B. Duffy and Warner Burns, the
last named being colored are charged
jointly with sale and possession OF
liquor october 80.
The fourth indictment charges
Everett Smith and Daniel Byrd, both
colored, with sale and possession OF
intoxicants November 29.
A fifth indictment not connected with
the expose was reported by the grand
jury for violations of the national pro-
hibition law against Mary Slater, Lucy
Plummer and Aszlee Graham, all
colored.
The grand jurors declined to indict
18 persons against whom the police
had preferred charges of different Of
fenseS. Included among the cases
dropped are: julius c.. Brooks, joy-rid-
ing; Julian S. Martin, Francis H.
Young and Henry Lynch, robbery; Rob-
ert E. West. alias Milton A. Sparrer,
and James Davis, larceny after trust;
Okey RiSner, Jean Dunning, alias Jean
Harris, and Fred Dunnin, alias Fred
Harris, grand larceny; Joseph M. Cos
grove (two cases) and Forrest w. Har-
rington, false pretenses; Samuel L,
Walker, housebreaking; Joseph Smith,
Edward Hines and william Battle, as
sault with dangerous weapon; Charles
Lenoir, assault with intent to kill;
Elithia Snyder, alias Elithia Kennedy,
mayhem.
Thirty Indictments in An.
A total of 80 indictments were re-
ported to Justice Gordon, including the
indictments charging liquor law viola
tions. Others indicted, and the charges
against them, include:
John ~Cavanaugh and Edmund Stew
art. non-Support of wife; Edgar Jesse
Tate, robbery; Richard Allen Crymes
(alias Richard Crimes), Louie G. Moore,
Horace N. Ready, Joe Pollard, Albert
King, Albert Zaleskas, Charles Ma
honey, Emory Scott (tWo caseS), Daniel
Mackell (two cases., John Perry (two
cases., joy-riding; Neil A. Yeager, en-
bezzlement; William Dixon, receiving
stolen property: Prudence Barnes,
Charles Taylor, Thomas
Crosby and Edward Green, grand lar
ceny; Val Johnson, Jesse Hayes and
David Carter, carnal knowledge; Louis
with dangerous weapon.