Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
CARSON INDICTED
ON ASSAULT CHARGE
BY GRAND JURY
ALLEGED to Have Threatened
Woman and Held Police
at Bay With Pistol.
ENLIGHTENMENT COUNT
AGAINST BOOKKEEPER
Eleven Indictments Are Reported
Against Four Said to Be I'm
plicated in Dope Ring.

while he threatened Miss Annie B. Jen-
nings with pistol September 9 last at
so S street while striving to persuade
her to marry him. Policeman Ear l..
Baker crawled across an ironing board
into the second-story window of the
house and disarmed Carson, taking him
into custody.
Miss Jennings was a boarder at the
Carson home and young Carson had
learned of an engagement with another
man for the evening, and in a fit of
jealousy is said to have forced the other
man to fec the house and to have COM
PEELED the young woman to 60 to
room on the second floor, where behind
closed doors he is declared to have
threatened her life.
Carson'S father asked for a lunacy
hearing when the prisoner was ar
raigned in Police Court, and Judge Gus
A. Schuldt. at the request of Assistant
United States Attorney Michael F.
Keogh. sent the man to Gallinger Hos
pital for observation.
Indicted on Five Counts.
Five indictments for HOUSEKEEPING,
four Of them also having larceny
counts. were returned against William
Sullivan, known to the police as the
book thief" because of the number of
valuable books taken as loot from sew
eral houses in West Washington. The
homes alleged to have been visited by
Sullivan include those of William S.
Conant. 1902 Thirty-frst street; Ross
A. Collins, representative from Missis-
sippi, 2643 Wisconsin avenue; Edwin N.
Lewis, 3109 Wisconsin avenue; Parker
Croning, 1929 Twenty-ninth street and
John M. Sternhagen. 1929 o street.
sixth indictment against Sullivan
was prevented by the refusal of Herr
Rudolph I,eitner, first secretary of the
German embassy to appear before the
grand jury, from whose home many
valuable books are said to have been
removed. This claim of diplomatic i'm
munity. also resulted in the grand jury
ignoring charge OF receiving stolen
property against John l.. Sullivan,
nephew of william Sullivan, who was
apprehended while trying to dispose
of some of the German books. The
uncle also exonerated his nephew to
the police it is reported.
EmbezzIement Charged.
Embezzlement from four women is
charged in four indictments against
Joseph T. Barry, a stock salesman. who
is said to have claimed to be connected
with the Merchants Bank & Trust Co.
One indictment alleges that December
IA, 1928, he obtained $778.75 from Hazel
H. Feagans to be invested. but which
he is said to have appropriated to his
own use.
Another indictment alleges that May
/. 1929, he got 81 $50 from Margaret
Creedon and July IL, 1929, received
1903 to be invested in the Bankstock
Corporation OF Maryland. which, it is
claimed, was all used by him for his
own benefit.
A third charge Is that he secured
$500 from Miss L. I. McCandless De-
cember !, 1928, for investment. but used
for himself, 1t is alleged. The fourth
indictment deals with alleged embeZzlc-
ment of stock certificates and checks
totaling several thousand dollars. from
Sophia P. Given, November Is, 1923.
False pretenSes is charged in an in
dictment against John r. Walsh, stock
salesman, who is said to have repre-
! sented to Sarah A. Guthrie that the
Bankers Insured System, Inc, was
| backed by the Riggs National Bank and
by Francis Biggs of the Mount Vernon
Savings Bank. Replying on these al
legged misrepresentation, Mrs. Guthrie
is said to have parted with $3.50 and
! notes for $3.50 December Is, 1929, and
! with $742 70 February "a, 1880.
BOokkeeper Indicted.
Albert M Woolworth, former book
keeper for Barber g. Ross, was indicted
for embezzlement. While the indict-
ment charges only taking of $4,000 it
is reported that total of nearly S40-
; 900 was missed by the company. WOOL
worth had been in the employ of the
firm for 10 years and is said to have
begun the alleged defalcations May s,
1925.
Five additional charges of false pre-
ocyaip Ncf nvNar
president of the Joseph Shapiro Realty
Co., for sales of real estate on which
were hidden trusts" The new in
, dictmentS charge that he sold premises
1718 Hobart place to Florance G.. Hur-
ley with a hidden trust of $2500;
premises 4l9 Madison street to Horace
Hullinger with hidden trust of 81 ,209:
premises 422 Marietta place to Joseph
@. FugerS with an undisclosed trust of
| $1,27l.9l; house No. 42O Marietta
place to Howard M. Carter with hid
den trust of 81 300 and premises 1903
| Hobart street TO Daisy Kelly with
! trust OF $4,000.
Ernest Richardson, colored was in
| dicted for manSlau2hter, and Eddie Toll
son, Sylvester Lincoln, Thomas Wash
! 1ngtOn and Freddie Doe also colored
were exonerated after they had testified
| against Richardson. The quintet had
been held by the coroner's jury for the
death of William Smith, the stepfather
OF Richardson, August "a.
First degree murder Is charged in an
| indictment against Frank Cozzens, col
ored, in connection with the death of
his wife, Fannie. The woman was rid
ing in a taxicab with boy friend"
1t Is stated, when Cozzens saw her
and ordered her from the conveyance.
He then dragged her from the vehicle,
1t was reported, and shot her to death.
! The tragedy occurred August IL at Sec
ond and B streets northeast.
Manslaughter Is Charged.
Mans!aughter is charged in three
other indictments, two of them against
john V. Buettner. and the third against
| John B. Bluford colored Buettncr
| was driving an automobile which is
said to have struck and killed Nellie G.
Roller and Charles J. Fisher May IL
near Lincoln Park, causing their death
Bluford, an employe of the Roosevelt
Hotel, is said to have stabbed to death
Fred Howard, another employe, Sep
TENDER in the rear of the hosiery.
Sadie S. Brooks, colored, is accused
of second-degree murder in connection
with the death of william Edmonston
July % at house on Warren street
northeast.
Eleven indictments charging viola
ton of the Harrison narcotic law were
reported, four involving four persons