Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
BRADY CASE READY
FOR TRIAL TUESDAY
Nearly 100 Witnesses and rs
Jurors Served With Sum-
monSes in Bombing.

pecial Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Nd, May 31.-With
ummonses already served on nearly 100
witnesses and so talismen, all pre-
iminary work of the Circuit Court in
preparation for the trial of Lawrence
Seroy and Herman Brady, indicted for
he Seat Pleasant bombing murders, was
completed today. The trial starts Tues
lay. The brothers were indicted in
Prince Georges County where the bomb
t1g occurred, but defense attorneys Sc
ured q change of venue after filing a
petition telling the court they did not
believe they could receive a fair trial
b the Jurisdiction where the offenSe
vas committed.
Three Victims.
Mrs. Naomi Hall Brady, 18 years old,
wife of Herman, was killed when the
bomb. disguised as a Christmas present,
vent off as she was opening it in the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hall, on New Years day. Her sister
Dorothy. 8, and her baby brother,
Samuel, died a few days later from the
ffects of the explosion.
The list of witnesses summoned in
kludes Washington and Baltimore ply
icianS, police officials and newspaper
men, as well as many officials and resi-
dents of Prince Georges and other
Maryland counties.
Sheriff Joseph B. Pyles of this county
taed today that he had, by direction OF
Judge Robert B. Peter, summoned so
alismen to be on hand at the opening
# court Tuesday morning in the hope
u expediting the selection Of a jury.
with the Is members of the regular
ury, they make rs men from which
10 select the IL men who will pass upon
he guilt or innocence of the two
brothers. although 1t may be found
Necessary to summon additional tails
men before the jury is finally sworn.
Full Bench Expected.
-@Chief Judge Hammond Urner and
gohn s. Newman are expected to be
pn the bench. The prosecution will be
conducted by J. Frank Parran, States
B tterney for Prince Georges County;
FORMER States Attorney j. Wilson
Ryon of Prince Georges County and
States Attorney Robert Peter, jr., OF
This county, and the defendants will
be represented by Attorneys M. Hamp- |
lon Magruder, Lansdale @. SaSScer and |
Frank Hall Of Prince Georges County, |
and former States Attorney Albert M. |
The witnesses so far summoned by |
The two sides follow:
State witnesses-Everett windsor, |
Russell Violet. Mrs. Anna Buckley, |
Steuart Carneal, Mrs. Nora Hall, |
Thomas Hall. John Hall, Leslie Hall, |
Charlotte Wilson, Pearl Beall, Norris |
Hall, Herman Schmidt, Henry Ellis and !
Max Wease, all of Seat Pleasant, Md; |
Leslie Beall, Carmody Road, Prince |
a~fv, Ill 70
Ralph White and Annette /
Fisher, Chapel road, Prince Georges |
County; Olivia Jourdant, Ivan H.
Johnston, Harvey Hayes, Gus Chinn,
Rex Collier, Joseph A. Fox, Detective |
John Fowler, Policeman Frank Prince,
Detective Morgan, Detective w. T. !
Sweeney. DR.. Henry S. Rawdon, Mr.. |
Groesbeck, Henry e. Miller, Gustave E. |
p. Lundell, John A. Sherrer, Clifton
Smith, James A. Dillon, Floyd Knod-
die, Everett Trawsbach, Robert Sand
burg, Minor Gentry, A. H. Bowls, Fa-.
oian Augustine, Laurel, Nd; James
Fritz, william Miles, Charles Hoyle,
Ernest Haylor, DR.. William Boyd. Es-
lie Phelps, william Phelps, Leslie
Phelps, Sergt Charles Schalter, Clar-
snce Brady, Lieut.. Joseph ItZel, Ray
nond Kennedy, DR.. r. Robert Wood,
Baltimore, Md; Joseph Toshback, st.
haryS ~COunIy, RAY Cllu, 6rentWoou,
Nd. Joseph NJ Troshback. st. Marys
County; Russell Jones, Brandywine,
Nd; William Clark, Silver Spring, Md;
Esther Jones and Emmitt Brady, Prince
Georges County; Earl Wyvill, Upper
Marlboro Md; DR.. Louis Jimal, Wash
ngton, D. c.; Ed Gasch, Washington,
D. C..
Defense witnesses-Stephen E. Brady,
Clarence Brady, Emmitt Brady, Will
lam T. Phelps, Mrs. William T. Phelps,
David Shattenstein, j. Frank Thomp-
ion, Mrs. j. Frank Thompson, Wood
more, Md; Russell Jones, Esther Jones,
Md: Richard Cox, Charles
Rabbit, John Hall, Seat Pleasant, Nd;
Howard Wilburn, John Kaldenbach,
Prince Georges County; Francis Gasch,
Md; Garland Arnold,
Mrs. Garland Arnold, Hall Station, Md;
irving Lee Carrick, Capitol Heights,
Nd; Clay N. Biting, Mitchelville, Md;
soyse Simmons, Hyattsville, Md; Joseph
". Trossback, Hamilton Trossback and
!. Norman Mckay, Cameron, Md;
William Clark, Silver Spring, Md; j.
Brown, Baltimore, Nd; Ofacer Herbert
Fry, ITO Taylor street northwest, WASH
ngton, D. G.