Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-28
THREE INDICTED
! ON ROBBERY COUNT
IN HOSPITAL CASE
Walter o. Jones, Earl Roberts
and Unidentified Man, All
Uncaptued, Named. !.
"a
FORMER CENSUS CLERK
ACCUSED OF FORGERY
IS Accused by Grand Jury for
Alleged Liquor Law
Violations.

OF the woman cashier of the Children's
Hospital at the door of the hospital July
81 last, the grand jury today returned
an indictment for robbery against Wal
ter o. Jones, Earl Roberts and third
unidentified man, known as John Doe.
The trio is accused of stealing $3,235.5l
which Eleanor E. PaCc, the cashier
was bringing to the hospital from a
bank. The brief case when found later
in another section of the city had $3.50
in private compartment, which the
thieves had overlooked.
The cashier said she had left her
car and, was walking on w street
toward the hospital when she heard
some one running behind her, who
pushed her so that she fell on her face.
While she was on the ground the rob-
Der grabbed the brief bag and jumped
into an auto, which had been kept run
ming by his accomplices.. None Of the
accused has been apprehended.
Preston S. Hoyt, SO, former clerk in
the Census Bureau, was indicted for
forgery and utterfng. He is accused OF
signing the names OF three other clerks
to the monthly pay roll OF the ONCE
employees September 2. The Indictment
is in six counts, two each relating to
the pay of three clerks, whose names
are said to have been forged. One
count refers to the alleged forgery and
another to the representation to g. B..
Goodloe. the disbursing clerk IN charge
of the pay roll, that ii was the genuine
signature in each case.
The three clerks, whose names are
said to have been forged are Warner s..
hammond, Raymond A. Winnie and
William r. Littleton. The pay roll was
for the month of AugusN
35 Indicted on Rum Charge.
Thirty-five persons were indicted for
alleged violations of the national pro-
hibition act Most of the offenses are
said to have been committed WITHIN
the past three months. Those accused
are Daniel Abbott (alias Daniel Riley,
who is also charged in a separate in-
dictment with having an automobile
equipped with a smoke screen; Stefano
Prandini, Frank Norman, George Pat
rick Harley, William L; Shaw, Aspury
Joseph Thomas, Gerald w. Bayles,
Marsane, G. Bealle, Theodore Robinson,
William Allen. Harry Levin (alias Hy-
man LEVIN, John TitnuS, John 2.
Russon, Frank Gross, Samuel Francis
BranzelI. Ray Pierce (alias Roy john
son). Charles Owens, Saumel w. Set
tiers, George Franklin. Charles E. Nell
son, Ada Rosie Proctor, Samuel Joseph
Bond, John Henry Joseph, Michael Y.
4inoOs NICK OdISnlO, AdSotSS SoA.y ~
Gray, William Alexander Butler, Ed
ward Sprouse (alias Ellwood A.
Sprouse), James Edward Mckenzie.
Thomas Restifo, Louis Rinaldi, MasSo
yeyio, Anna Sinirel talias Anna Hoo
ver). David Weathers and Charles
Smith.
Twenty lone Cases Ignored.
One person, Diaz Paris. escaped the
ta1s coH 70,
indict him on a liquor charge.
The grand jury also ignored 20 other
cases, of them being against Alfred
Scott Aldridge, colored, who was con-
victed Of first-degres murder and is
new on appeal from the death sentence
in connection with the killing CT Police
man Mcdonald at Seventeenth and @
streets. Three of the Aldridge Charges
were for HOUSEKEEPING and the other
for an assault with intent to kill. Other
cases dropped by the grand jury in
clude. Richard Downey, receiving stolen
property; Otis w. Hamlet, grand lar
ceny; Maurice Clarke, Meyer Shapiro.
Ralph Milton Holford, Elmer Shepherd
johnson, George Fowler and Francis
Holford, setting up gaming table;
James w. Hart and Marshall j. Tahler,
alias John Marshall Tabler, abortion;
Mary A. Briggs. grand larceny; Rita
Miller etwo cases), false pretenses; Har-
old Reed, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
Sol Feinman. LARCENY after trust: Axel
w. Boye, grand larceny; Fulton /
Hutchinson and Albert L. Wilson, joy
riding; Logan Dorsey, assault to rape:
Frederick Yates, violating narcotic act;
Samuel Satterfield, joy-riding, and John
w. Courtney, robbery.
Indicted on Murder Charge.
Harry Brown. colored, is accused OF
murder in the first degree in connection
with the death of James Taylor, also
colored. Taylor was stabbed to death
in front Of house in the 1900 block
of B street. A charge of homicide in
connection with the death of Reginald
jackson, colored. of which Clay r
Bundy was accused, was ignored by the
grand jurors.
Richard E. Welton was indicted on 6
charge of robbery. 1t is claimed thai
he took 1897 from Percy Nicholson q
colored messenger who was delivering
groceries which he had ordered to bt
sent with change for $40 bill. Nichol.
sen refused to surrender the change
without the $40 bill but Welton is saic
to have assaulted him and to have
taken the money from him. Grocerie:
to the extent of $l.03 had been ordered
by telephone from the store OF Solomon
Kaitlin, 1000 Twenty-fifth street.
Four young white men are accused G.
breaking into a Peoples Drug Store
$3.50 Connecticut avenue, October anc
taking quantity of cigars and Gig.
afettes They are Richard E. Cozzelis
Horace w. Trice. Robert e. Colman ant
Robert r Rattew. It is Claimed the.
forced locks on a rear door to ente
Others indicted by the grand jury in
ciude RoSena Newman, false pretensss
John Curry. Chester johnson, Richar'
z. Weiton, Leroy C. Ashton and join
II, Smith, alias James H. Smith ALA
@Kitty," robbery: Wilmer Donafue, Ed
ward T. Hawkins Walter G. Panel ALA
walter G. Henderson,; Richard M Luzie
and Delor.s de Veney, ahas Rose Hen
derson, alias Dolly Delacey. alias Dais
Aspray, grand larceny; Harry Brown
first-degree murder; Carl j. Morder!
Joseph II. Davidson. Richard f. Coz
yens. Horace W. Trice. Robert E. Cole
man. Robert r. Rattew, George l
.IorIes and Leo O. Fauntroy, house
hreaking and larceny; Milton C Bay
ior 1.-TWO cases, Robert p. Layton
Charles Plurnmer and Victor Dloni
h@sirv. joy-riding; Stanley Anderson, vic
lsfion white slave trafac act; Irwin
SeIIers (two cases. and Wilbur Dorse
1.-TWO cases., setting up gaming table.