Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
SHAPIRO INDICTED
ON 4 NEW FALSE
PRETENSE CHARGES
"Hidden Trust" Realty Deals
on 18th Street, Marietta
Place and Otis st. Alleged.

Jacob Shapiro president Of the
Joseph Shapiro Realty Co., was indicted
today by the grand jury on four addi-
tional charges of false pretenses in con-
nection with the sale of real estate said
to be encountered by hidden trusts"
He is already under bond of $4,000 each
in two cases, to which he has entered
pleas of not guilty.
Shapiro is charged with selling prem
ises 36l5 Eighteenth street northeast to
William j. and Mildred E. Haste in
May, 1928, without disclosing the ex-
istence of hidden trust" of $4,000 on
the property.
Another indictment deals with the
sale of premises 1925 Eighteenth street
northeast, sold to Clarence M. Hughes
in March, 1923, on which there is said
to have been a hidden trust" of $500.
The third indictment alleges the sale
of premises 421 Marietta place to Helen
c. ESpey in May, 1929, said to have
been incumbered with a hidden trust"
of $1.271 go.
In the fourth indictment false pre-
lenses are also alleged in the sale OF
premises 1923 Otis street northeast to
william j. Slattery in October, 1927, on
which there was said to be hidden
trust" of $500.
Two Murder Indictments.
First degree murder is charged in two
indictments reported against Charles
Morris and Eugene Brooks, both colored
his sweetheart, Maggie Landon, July
rs, on Key Bridge following her refusal
of a reconciliation. Brooks is charged
with shooting his Son-in-law, Ernest
Green, July 10.
Ada Mitchell, a gypsy, is charged
with grand larceny. 1t Is alleged that
she persuaded Mary E. Curtin to place
$38 in a handkerchief July Is last,
which was to be trebled If not opened
before midnight. The woman waited
for the mystic hour, it is said, but on
opening the handkerchief found it to
contain only pieces of paper.
Three charges of HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny are made against Willard Lee
Winston for visits to homes of promi-
nent persons in Chevy Chase July 4.
The houses visited were those of Rad
ford Moses OF Moses & Sons, James A.
Toomey and James B. Jordan.
The grand jurors refused to indict
James Wilson, James Morrison, Ernest
Gray and Willie Hudson, joy-riding;
Charles Morris and Rhoda Duncan, as
sault with a dangerous weapon, and
Charles Daugherty and William Nichol-
son, carnal knowledge.
Others Are Indicted.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are:
Douglas Cameron and Frank William
Dodson, non-support; William Henry
Sawyer, arson; George Matthews, rob-
berry; William George Baker assault
with dangerous weapon and assault
with intent to kill; John Albert Mar
snail, James L. Anderson, Henry w.
Daniels, Ralph Anderson, Fred Douglas
! (three cases, zean Kirkley, alias Zean
Kirk, Johnnie Vaughn, alias John
Simms, joy-riding; Albert Jamerson,
Helen Speaks, alias Helen Ford, rob-
berry; Louis Henley and Jack Mitchell
Foster, violation national prohibition
act; Earl Jackson Thomas Newman,
Sylvester Thomas, Eugene Washington,
Bernard Ross 1.-TWO cases., houseoreak-
ing and larceny; John W. Lloyd house.
breaking; Ada Mitchell, Robert O'Neal,
Edward A. Posselt, alias Edward A..
Mason, David Ivan, Sylvester Thomas,
Mack Fierse and James A. Mcdonnell,
grand larceny; Arthur Lee Wilson, lar
ceny after trust and embezzlement