Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-12
GRAND JURYF|NDS
&c INDICTMENTS
List Reported Includes Three
Against Youth Held for Rob-
berry and Larceny.

Elmo Williams. alias Muse Grisson,
alias Elmore Williams, the youth who
Is said to have admitted robbing the
Earle Theater, was indicted today by the
grand jury on two charges of robbery
and one O. grand larceny. Williams is
said to have secured Salts from the
safe of the theater October 90 and to
have robbed the Peoples Drug Store of
more than 81 ABS in the preceding Au-
gust. The accused was arrested i'll Chi
cago.
The youth is said to have entered
the theater office before the theater
opened for the day and when Harry
Lohmeyer, manager of the theater. was
ordered Lohmcyer to open the safe but
the manager in his nervousness was
unsuccessful and another employe en-
tering the office was Immediately COW
cred by Williams pistol and ordered to
open the safe, which he did. The men
were told not to stir for five minutes
while the bandit quietly sauntered from
the building.
Second Charge of Robbery.
The second indictment for robbery
alleges that August IA Williams obtained
81 435 from David Bell jr., an employee
OF the Peoples Drug Store. Bell was on
his way to the bank with the money, it
is said, when Williams accosted him
and forced him to enter taxicab,
where the money was taken from him.
The charge of larceny grows out of
the meeting of Williams with Charles
Kemper colored porter of the drug
company who had been sent to the
bank for change for $40. Williams told
the porter that he had been sent from
the store to perform the errand on
which he had been sent. The porter
surrendered the money to Williams and
1t was only when he had returned to the
store that he learned he had been VIC
timized
A total of Sc indictments was re-
ported, and the grand jurors refused
indictments in 10 cases.
The grand jurors ignored the fol-
lowing cases: Edward Thomas, Scott
Smith, David II. Dickey Alton c. Nc
Lohon, grand larceny: Oscar Dorsey
and Perman Charity, HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny; Donald E. Yonkers, joy-riding;
Robert F. Hoffman, larceny after
trust; Louis E. Bradley. receiving stolen
property; George w. Phillips, embez-
knowledge; William l.. Whiteside. as
sault with dangerous weapon; Nettie
Robinson, Nettie Williams and Roy
Boyle, lottery.
List of Indictments.
Others indicted and the charges
against them include: Gertrude V. Rob-
lnson and Frank Spears, grand larceny;
Frank Spears, housebreaking and lar
ceny; Edwin F. Biggs, James A. Lemon,
Peter M. Nelson (three cases., Martin
McGrough, Jim Brown, Francis Domico,
James j. Shanahan, Ruben Williams,
Alberta Taylor, Annie Campbell and
Mary E. Thomas, grand larceny;
William C. Thomas, Estelle German,
Aileen Gray, George Hawkins, Gene
We've Sewell, alias Genevieve Vincent,
Della G. Price, Daniel Childs. Addison
Brown, James Rhone and Richard II.
Epps. robbery; Arthur Wallace, William
Robert Boone, HOUSEKEEPING and lar
ceny; David Becker, alias David
Booker, Sherman w. Wilson, house
breaking and larceny; Adolph Taylor
and Charles Harris, receiving stolen
property; Samuel Wasserman. lar
ceny after trust and grand larceny:
James M. Dotson, Raymond Barnes,
Robert l.. Dodson, joyriding: Elmer +.
Tippett. grand larceny and joyriding;
John Henry Smith. carnal knowledge:
David Meadows. assault with intent to
kill; Trueman N. Thomas. assault with
dangerous weapon; Charles Edward
Emory. Arthur Stanley Hill, Cyril A.
HendrickSon, George Frederick Ham
and Prince Hargrove, non-support:
William Bernard Foster Frank Ogden,
lottery.