Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-10
JURY |ND|CTS FIVE
IN THEFT OF BONUS
FROM D. c. VETERAN
Three Bills Returned After
0. F. Cox Is Robbed of
$425 of Loan.
BLUCHER is CHARGED.
IN "HIT-RUN" Staying
H. L. Frissell Accused in Death of
74-Year-0ld Man in
Accident.

The grand jury today reported three
indictments against five persons Ii
connection with the robbery of Over
F.. Cox, 512 Fifth street northeast
who was relieved of S425 of his bonu,
loan money while visiting the home OF
Edna M. Lee, colored, 81 Fenton street
northeast, March 4. Charles Bolden
colored, is charged with taking the
money from Cox.
Sterling A. Reed and Preston Henry
also indicted for robbery, are accused
of taking the money from Laura
Monroe, while George Buck and his
motheK Jennie Buck, are charged with
receiving stolen money.
Police Tell Details.
Details of the robbery as worked out
by the police and told to the grand
jury are that Cox after caShing his
bonus loan check, went to the Fenton
street house and displayed 500 bill
telling Edna Lee that he bet it had
been some time since she had seen a
500 bill Bolden, it is claimed, was In
the room with Reed and Henry, and
followed the veteran to an clubhouse
where he got possession of S425. The
Lee woman. hearing the struggle, went
into the yard and took the money away
from Bolden and gave it to her sister,
Laura Monroe. telling her to put it
upstairs AS the latter was going up
the steps, it is alleged, Reed and Henry
took the money from her and left the
house.
The money was then taken to the
home of Jennie Buck. colored, .54 Fen
ton street northwest, who. in turn, sent
lit to the home of her son George, 1914
Seventh street northeast, who put it in
a jar and buried it under the flooring.
Police recovered the money and placed
the five accused under arrest.
MansIaughter Charged.
Manslaughter is charged in two in
dictments reported today. Harold A
Butcher is accused of causing the death
of Edward T. Ryon by striking him with
an automobile February "a at Anacostia
road and N street southeast. The car
had been stolen from Mrs. Katie /. Scott
1881 X street, who had parked it in
front of the Racquet Club on Sixteenth
street A separate indictment chary&s
Butcher with joy-riding in the stolen
car. He was first arrested for the latter
charge, but when the condition of the
car indicated that there had been a
collision police claim that Butcher con-
fessed to striking the man.
Harry Leonard Frissell is also charged
with manslaughter III causing the death
of Thomas Carey. "A years old, who
was struck with an automobile March 4,
while walking on the sidewalk under
the railroad viaduct on II street be-
tween First and Second streets north
east. He died the next day. Frissell
is said TO have struck a colored youth
riding a bicycle and TO have Swerved
onto the sidewalk hitting the pedestrian.
Coleman Duckett. colored, was in
dicted for HOUSEKEEPING and larceny.
He is said TO have broken into the fur
store of Isidore Rosendorf, 923 @ street,
and taken furs valued at $421, all Of
which were recovered.
Helds as Purse Snatcher.
Horace /. Lancaster, colored, is
charged with robbery, it being alleged
that he sna.ched the pocketbook of
Katherine Kirby, Cairo apartments, at
Seventeenth and o streets, February %.
Others indicted, and the charges
against them, include:
william T. Ford, Wade Hampton
Lynn. Irwin L. Wagner, Charles Waters
Rhine, Robert Paul Weske. John Norris
Clingan, Walter H. Wilson, Thomas G.
Olsen and Richard Byron Franklin,
non-support of minor children; Virginia
Katherine Saunders, alias Katherine
Langley, Harrison narcotic act; Bernard
E. German, embeZZlement; Herb-Tt
Montgomery King and Clarence Ware,
violation national prohibition act; Ed
ward A. Jackson and Joshua Collander
(two cases., HOUSEKEEPING and lar
ceny: Henry Jackson. HOUSEKEEPING;
Charles K. Lohr, Julius Strange, alias
Doc Strange, and Edward A. Jackson
1.-TWO cases), grand larceny.
The grand jurors declined to indict
in the following cases: Frank Carson
and Elmer Dyer, forgery; Vernon
Brownell and Alvin Barnes, violating
the national prohibition law.