Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-03
TWO EX-MAR|NES
INDICTED ON THREE
ROBBERY CHARGES
Third Man Accused in One
Case Still at Large-Same
Victim Held Up Twice.
GRAND JURY IGNORES
CASES BASED ON DEATHS
IA Other True Bills Involve Lar
ceny, False Pretenses, Embezzle-
ment and Non-SuppOrt.

Charged with selecting the same man
twice within a little more than six
months as the victim of hold-ups.
Clarence Paul Hulse and Samuel A.
johnson, former Marines, weer held
today by the grand jury on two indict-
ments for robbery. A third Indictment
charges the two men with holding up
cab driver and taking his cab from
him July Is last. In one of the other
indictments James A. Peters Is named
eS an accomplice, but he has never
been apprehended.
Hulse and johnson are said to have
stolen cab from Fred w. Hopkins
July Is, 1880, and in the cab to have
visited a Lord Baltimore filling station
at 1873 Pennsylvania avenue later the
same evening. They are charged with
taking $2,116.82 from Benjamin F.
Burch, collector for the company
which operates the filling station.
The third indictment, in which Peters
is also named, alleges that the three
men again held up Burch, the collector,
at another station of the same company
at Sixth street and Rhode Island avenue
February 1. 1881, and took 81 ,043.3 81.
Burch got the number of the cars tag
from q colored bystander and notified
the police, who arrested Hulse and
johnson. Peters escaped. This latter
station was the scene of a hold-up
Thanksgiving night, 1928, which resulted
in the death of the manager, Philbert
(Jack) Bitner.
IA Other Indictments Reported.
Fourteen other indictments were re-
ported by the grand jury. which de-
clined to indict IN six other cases pre-
Sented>to them.
The grand jurors ignored charges of
homicide against Jack S. Small and
William Moore. Both men are colored
and had been accused of causing the
death of white men.
Moore was exonerated of responsibility
for the death Of Samuel j. r. Long, an
employee Of the House folding room, who
fell down the steps of premises 50 g
street southwest January 3. The man
died January 10. Evidene given the
grand jury showed that Long had been
drinking and had fallen down the stairs
Of the house, but no positive testimony
Of his being pushed was developed, 1t
was stated.
Small was driving an automobile
which struck and killed Robert Kookem
Westernport, Md, February Is, at Ken
lucky and South Carolina avenues.
Other Gases Ignored.
Other cases in which indictments were
refused are Edward Coffey, housebreak-
ing; James r. Brown, violating prohibi-
ton law; Hugh L. Wilson, forgery, and
Noble P. Grill, false pretenses.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are:
Warren A. Gorrell, non-support of
minor children. Viola Strother, alias
Rachael Strother 1.-TWO cases., and Cor
dia Mcknight. alias Grace Tooke, alias
Mary Ann Wilson (two cases), forgery
and uttering. Walter r. Roberts, alias
Walter Rogers; Olive Cooper and NJ. l..
Cooper, false pretenses. Peter NJ. Nc
CluSkey. embezzlement. James Ollie
Lewis, Adolph Rudolph Dietz, Maurice
Davis, alias Billy Hooks; John Corne-
Illus johnson, Samuel johnson, William
Murray, alias Willie Murray, alias Billy
Murray; Albert Burrell King, Virginia
E. Jackson, Annie Robinson, Beatrice
Robinson and William Rossen, alias
william Ross, HOUSEKEEPING and lar
ceny. Robert E. Moore, alias Raymond
B. Murphy, robbery. Benjamin j. Mat
thews, grand larceny.