Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-04
GRAND JURY HOLDS
| FIVE IN MURDERS
Slayer of Capt. Norman
Among 70 Indicted for
Various Crimes.

Five persons, including the alleged
slayer of Capt. William Frank Norman,
former assistant to the Attorney Gen.
eral, were charged with first-degree
murder today in indictments returned
by the District grand jury.
In all more than 70 true bills wrre
returned, the charges varying from
murder to joy-riding The grand
jurors refused to indict in 81 cases.
Joseph Henry Degges, colored, formsa
dcorman at the Wardman Park Hote;.
/ was indicted in the fatal shooting of
Capt. Norman. which occurred August
II in front CT the hotel. The tragedy
is said TO nave followed a dispute over
the place in which Capt. Norman had
! parked his automobile. Norman is said
to have slapped the colored man on a
previous occasion.
Charged With Taxi Staying.
First degree murder also was charged
to William Clinton Robinson, Charles
E. Washington and Leonard A. Layton,
all colored. They are alleged to have
shot to death Mamie Solomon, a taxi
, driver. on July % at Union and o streets
southwest, police said the men had
attempted to hold-up the taXi-driver
his cab to drive away
LaJoie A. Cooper cclored. also was
indicted on a first degree murder
| charge. He is said to have shot 10
death Joseph Edwards. also colored,
June 30 in an argument over the pay
| ment of money said to be due him from
the victim. The shooting took place at
2247 Twelfth place northwest
A manSlaughter indictment was re-
/, turned against Paul Leslie Blackner
1853 Blair road. whose automobile ia
tally injured 8-year-old Carter Downing,
$40 RittenhouSe street in a collision
with the Downing machine August II
at Fifth and Rittenhouse streets. The
chlld's father Webster Downing, a pat
ent attorney, was driving his car.
William H. Gordon, alias Jordan, and
| Thomas King were named on two
charges of assault with dangerous
weapon. They are accused of using a
blackjack and a lead pipe in attacking
| William F. Dermott and Howell R.
| Bouldin in revenge for supposed mis-
treatment of Mrs. Ann Sparks, friend
Of Gordon.
Mrs. Sparks died at Sibley Hospital
| recently from injuries received when
she jumped from an automobile in
| Maryland into the path of another ma
chine. Dermott and Bouldin claimed
/ they were kidnapped by Gordon and
/ King and taken to a garage in the rear
OF 1882 Calvert street. where. they said,
they were beaten severely. Separate in
! cictmentS charge assaults on Dermott
and Bouldin.
charge of shooting William NJ. Tay-
Tor, an employe of the Salvation Army,
was made in an indictment against
Robert E. Turner for an assault with a
dangerous weapon. The men were in A
dispute July over the obstruction OF
IN aileyWay by a truck of the Salvation
Army.
Held for Mann Act.
! Three indictments charging violations
| OF the Mann act were reo0r.ed aea-art
| Walter r. Roberts and his wife, p-u'ir~.
! They ere accused Of Transporting taree
young women from Macon, Ca. TO- IN
moral purposes.
/ Others indicted and the ollf-c~s
against them include
Harlan Gerald Cramer. ass ult
/ intent TO commit carilal knovlc:'~~ -
cases: Henry Williams, assault V. \ i
] tent to commit carnsl krow'eG72;
lam Alexander Padget5 and tlt J.
Coleman, assault with t2-~c. 5
weapon; Harry w. Stephens; c..nc
ment and forgery: Charles Marin. as
! Charles Martina, alias Edgar D. Jones.
forgery: two cases: Vincent w. D,.e-
/ gleleWski. alias Vincent w. Kramer.
forgery and uttering: G. Harold Strorc.
alias Brian Kent, false pretenses. two
/ cases: Leonard Dean, alias Edward
! Dean: Clyde Lincoln Ford Robert
Goodwin. Covan Prester and James
: Whitfield, grand larceny; Leroy Doug
las and Henry Jackson, grand larceny
and JOY riding
Daniel Childs q cases.. Victor Cor
tinere. John Carcich. Arthur Lee d.
Nis, Robert Lewis Davis. Clifton Ar
thur Hall, Harry Brown Jerrid. Arthur
Jonnston: Francis Edward johnson,
William Carter Jones. Will Wilks. Fred
| erlck Carl Russell, Grant Maurice Rich
ardson. Charles Ashton, Albert Smith,
Clarence White. William Ernest Pice
HeWett Todd. Henry Brown and James
BOYD, Joyriding; James A. Baker and
George Roy Stevenson, alias Roy FIELDS
grano larceny. larceny after trust: John
Latham Brooks Moses Brown. Robert
Burhs' Leonard Dean, alias Edward
Dean; Clyde Lincoln Ford. William
Carter Jones. Will Wilks, Frederick Carl
russell, William Howard Long. john
william Hickey. Eugene Mothersnead
George w. McGaha, Thomas z
Redmond, Frank Morgan. house
breaking and larceny two cases..
waiter Wallace Smith HOUSEKEEPING
and larceny: Benny Sin1ms, house.
hreaklng; Warren Dixon. William
Clinton Robinson. Leonard A, Law
ton leach two cases. and LAWYER
Thomas, robbery; Clyde William Marsh.
Elias Palmer talias Kid Palmer and
Beverly Peterson, forgery: Ernest Cliff
ton Meyers, violation national prchihi-
ton act; Dwight Oliver w. Holmes, ir..
receiving stolen property: Steve Jastic
and Sigmund RcgodznSki talias Ziggie
Rogodzinski. alias ziggie Rogers. alias
John Smith, violation national motor
vehicle theft act William F. Clarkson,
John Joseph Fowler. George La Nav.
Franklin Ford Thompson. Augustus
Phalcn O'Neal, Albert W. Wyrick and
George S. Krippenstapel. non-support OF
family: Sherman r. Evans and Thomas
Joseph Carney, robbery; Walter c. Hol-
Ston, forgery.
The 81 persons eXonerated by the
grand jury include: JOHN Joseph Shee-
han. assault with intent to commit car
nal knowledge; Lewis johnson. Eugene
Brown Robert Carter. eli2s Sheep
| Trapper, George C. Palmer and Thomas
King, assault with dangerous weapon:
Frederick B. Austin, Albert Matthews
Nicholson and Francis Webb. house
breaking; Robert Coleman. Sylvester M
Langford. Henry c. Proctor, Earl Toll
liver and Joseph Nocente, joy riding;
Howard Sheron Kaylor. larceny after
trust: Thomas woodstock, Fred Spasaro
and Bruno Crispairoo, violations of ma
| tional prohibition act: woodward Wilson
Abbott. perjury in securing marriage
| license, ana James Howar, rape.