Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
LIQUOR CONSPIRACY.
CHARGED TODOCTOR.
Or. A. H. Lee Is Indicted by
Jury With G. w. r. Boyd,
Pharmacist.

DR.. Adelbert H. Lee, q physician OF
Capitol Heights, Md. and George w. r.
Boyd, registered pharmacist employed
by chain drug store, were indicted to-
day by the grand jury on charge Of
conspiracy to violate the national pro-
hibition act. 1t is charged that be-
tween March /, 1929, and March l,
1881, the men conspired with other per-
sons unknown to the grand jurors to
sell liquor for beverage purposes.
In the indictment Boyd is charged
with securing from DR.. Lee prescrip-
tons for medicinal liquor in the names
of different persons without these per-
sons appearing before the physician for
examination and selling the preScrip-
tionS to the persons named and later
filling the prescriptions with full knowl-
edge that they had been illegally OBJ
tanned. The indictment alleges that the
conspiracy contemplated the conn rs.
sion Of 25 such offenses against the
United States.
First Degree Murder Charged.
Murder in the first degree is charged
in two indictments against Benjamin
Brown and James Sawyer, both colored.
Brown is said to have shot to death
Alice Brown, also colored, at 401a Han
over street, March 81. Sawyer, who IS
also known as Georgia Boy, is accused
of stabbing Jake Coleman, also colored,
March %, at $50 Missouri avenue caus-
ing his death. He has not been appre-
hs nded.
Paul Alexander Clements, pop-gun
bandit, is accused of an assault with in
a. - A oNrf-
cab driver, residing in HyattSville, Nd,
declared that Clements hired his cab
March % and told him to drive to Sixth
street between L and M streets, where
Clements produced what the driver
thought was q pistol and demanded
money. Newman resisted and over
powered the alleged bandit only to find
that it was toy pistol. The alleged
bandit was turned over to the police.
Mrs. Maude Voss Indicted.
Mrs. Maude E. Voss, 1926 Sixteenth
street, is named defendant in an indict-
ment charging false pretenses and en-
bezZlement. She is said to have OBJ
tanned several hundred dollars from
Greet, by representing that she YVES
employed by Tennille & BLY, of Detroit
TO sell silk to local merchants, for which
she would be paid commission Of so
Fer cent. She also represented. 1t Is
stated, that she could make more IL
she had funds to buy the silk in larger
quantities. Inquiry developed, 1t is de-
6lared, there Is no such firm in De-
t1oit dealing in silk and the defendant
was not known by the buyers at local
stores where she had claimed to have
made sales. The money was converted
TO her own use, it is charged.
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny and grand
larceny are charged In two indictments
against Dale Richards, one at the home
of a friend who had acted as good
Samaritan" and the other for looting
the ONCE Of the Federal Protective Blu
reau in the Bond Building. Alfred l..
Vonacci: 1877 New Hampshire avenue,
reported to police that he had taken
Richards to this home, when he said he
was out Of work, and had left him read
ing on retiring. When he awoke on the
morning Of March II, he said. Richards
had gone and with him two suits Of
@lothes, a $40 overcoat and $40 in cash.
At the other place Richards is said to
nave obtained S16 in money orders and
u worth Of stamps.
Two Indictments Ignored.
y A total Of 20 indictments were re-
ported and were ignored. The grand
jurors declined to indict Joseph F. Frye,
former attendant at the National Sol
diers' Home, in Virginia, where Michael
J. Higgins, veteran, was a patient in
the insane ward. Frye Is said to have
come to Washington by direction of
Higgins, bringing his loan certificate,
on which a larger loan was to be Sc
cured In the rush Of veterans under the
new law. He is said to have signed
Higgins name to an application, but as
ne claimed authority from Higgins, the
grand Jurors would not indict.
They also refused to indict Ralph
Evans, who was accused of offering Po-
nceman John z. ONeill, fourth pre-
cinct, $40 not to put charge of pos
session of liquor against him.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are:
Thomas H.SClatterbuck, David Henry
Gould, James Franklin Butler, William
7. Walsh and Joseph James Joholski,
non-support Of minor children; Louis
d. Mayhugh, forgery and uttering:
William Sylvester Wells 1.-TWO cases. .
depreciation: James w. Gray. house,
breaking and larceny Johnnie Smith.
alias William H. Merrill, alias John
Smith, smoke screen; Emma Benthol
Marie Smith and Inez Means, grand
larceny, and William Hamilton, rob-
berry.