Evening star., 1930-06-17
WOODSON PLEADS
GUILTY; RECEIVES
8yEAR SENTENCE
Arrested in Liquor Shooting,
Indicted by Special
Jury.
TAKEN
AT MARKET STAND
Admits Having Wounded Police
man Raymond Crack on Night
Of February IL.

Leroy Woodson, rs years old, who
was arrested this morning and charged
with the shooting on February IL of
Policeman Raymond Crack of the Ar
lington, Va, County force, entered a
plea of guilty, when arraigned before
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy in Arling-
ton County Circuit Court and was sem
fenced to eight years in the peniten-
tiary An additional sentence of one
year was assessed on a charge of trans
porting liquor with a pistol in his pos
session. This sentence is to run con-
currently.
Woodson's sentence set record in
administering justice in Arlington
County. Arrested early this morning in
Washington, he was indicted by a spe-
cial grand jury and sentenced at 1890
o'clock. His companion, Harry Sweets,
who was driving the car at the time
Crack was shot, also pleaded guilty to
transporting liquor and was given q
sentence of six months plus fine of
SIS and costs. Sweets has been in jail
since shortly after the shooting and
will be credited with this time on his
sentence. He is still suffering from a
bullet wound in the neck which he re-
ceived on the night of the chase.
When arraigned before Judge Nc
Carthy, Woodson entered a plea OF
guilty and said he did not desire coun-
sci. When he started shooting, he said
he was merely attempting to frighter
off his purSuerS, but when he saw that
he had hit Crack, he threw his gun
away.
AS a result Of this statement, Crack
was placed en- the stand and declared
that Woodson had fired directly at him
twice and that the first bullet missed
its mark.
The officers who arrested Woodson at
Center Market today say he told them
he got his fill' of rum running on the
night Of February IL, when Officer
Crack, shot through the face, refused
grtnly to give up the chase and kept
firing into the rum car until he pitched
from his motor cycle.
Car Abandoned.
The wounded officer succeeded In
putting one of his bullets through the
gasoline tank of the rum car and sew
eral others took effect in the body.
Sweets, the officers charge. was hit in
the neck during the exchange.
When loss of blood rendered Crack
unconscious after he had ridden two
miles while wounded he tumbled from
his motor cycle Just as several fellow
officers joined the chase. After being
laid up for several weeks, Crack re-
turned to duty.
The gasoline leaked out Of the rum
car at Shady Side Camp, 20 miles be-
low Alexandria, and the two bootleg
gers abandoned it and a cargo of 100
gallons of corn whisky, supposedly max
ing their way into Washington.
WoodSon was returned to Arlington
County this morning and a special
grand jury impaneled to investigate
the case. When arrested by Detectives
H. K. Wilson of Washington headquar-
ters and James D. East of the Arlington
County police WoodSon was selling
vegetables at Center Market.
WoodSon was otherwise known as
George c. Moore, 800 block of C street
southwest.
The officers say he informed them he
went into the huckster business imme-
diately after the rum chase.
"I've been buying vegetables in
Southern Maryland for my truck, -
Woodson said, land bringing them to
Washington to sell. 1t was a good busi-
ness and I only wanted O chance to
make good at it."
Officers Disabled.
Crack recovered from his wound after
several weeks in the hospital. He was
riding with his comDanion ArlinpfOn