Evening star., 1932-08-16
Grand Jury Names Mccoy of
Pennsylvania, Olson
and Faulkner.
BRICK AND TABLE LEG
USED AGAINST OFFICERS
Effort May Be Made to Determine
If Communist Element In.
stigated Trouble.

Three bonus marchers-Bernard Nc
Coy OF Chicago. John o. Olson of VAL
paraiso, Nebr., and Broadus Faulkner.
anas Brotis Saulkner, of Kentucky-yere
lnolcted today by the District grand iurv
lor assaults with dangerous weapons on
District policemen as the result of the
inquiry by the inquisitorial body be-
gun two weeks ago, into the rioting
which preceded evacuation of the
marchers by the U. S. Army July 20.
Inc District Commissioners had re-
ported to President Hoover that the
civil authorities could no longer cone
with the situation arising from an at
tempt to drive the bonus seekers from
government property.
The most serious charge is that of
an assault to kill Policeman James Z.
Scott, contained in the Indictment
against Mccoy. The officer was hit on
the head with brick in the course of
the melee and is still in the hospital.
The indictment is in three counts. The
first accuses Mccoy of assaulting the
ofticer with brick July %. The sec
ond s!so charges an assault with q
dangerous weapon but alleges the
weapon to have been a blunt instru.
ment better description being un-
known to the grand Jury. The third
count alleges that the assault was COM
mitted with intent to kill the police
man.
Attack Laid to Olson.
The indictment against Olson ac-
cuses him Of using a piece of wood in
the form Of table leg in an attack
with dangerous weapon on Police
man Richard o. Bankert. 1t Is in two
counts, the first alleging the use of the
table leg and the second a blunt instru-
ment Of which the grand Jurors could
give no better description. 1t is al
legged that the bonus seeker with the
table leg or other blunt instrument did
"feloniously and wilfllly strike, beat,
bruise, cut, penetrate and wound" the
policeman.
A piece Of brick appears as the
weapon in the third indictment which
accused Faulkner Of an assault with a
dangerous weapon. Like Olson's charge
It Is In two counts, one alleging the use
=.
Winters and the second alleging that
1t was some blunt instrument.
The maximum penalty for an assault
to Kill Is is years in the penitentiary
and for an assault with dangerous
weapon not more than 10 years
Imprisonment.
Following evacuation Of the bonus
men, Attorney General william D.
Mitchell called into conference United
States Attorney Leo A. Rover and di-
rected that evidence be laid before the
grand jury concerning the outbreak
with the police in an attempt to dis
cover who was responsible for the riot
ing. Rover went before District Su-
preme Court Justice Oscar r. Luhring,
who was then holding the vacation
term of the court, and the Justice called
the grand jury before him and re-
quested thorough investigation Of the
alleged lawlessness.
May Probe Red" Part.
From the scope of the charge of the
court and the designation of Assistant
Attorney General Nugent Dcdds to aid
Mr.. Rover in presentation Of evidence
to the grand jury, the impression grew
about the court house that an effort
would be made to discover whether any
member Of the left wing Of the bonus
army, often referred to as the red" or
Communist" element, had any part in
the instigation of the difficulty with the
police.
Rumor had 1t that a special report"
might be filed by the grand jury DEAL
ing with the general situation arising
from the riotings, but no matter how
much the grand jury or some Of its
members might have been inclined to
make such report, they were brought
face to face with recent ruling by
Justice Proctor, in which he held 1t Is
the duty of the grand jury to indict or
ignore. Report rumors were heightened
when the foreman of the grand jury
was given a copy of an AFFIDAVIT from
one Of the bonus leaders, named VII
fort, charging that the Department Of
Justice had planted persons among the
marchers to incite trouble with police.
Failure to mention any alleged reds"
In indictments would seem to indicate
that the expected evidence failed to
materialiZe and that the only compel
ling testimony received related to the
three assault cases which Rover an
nounced at the beginning of the in
quiry were to be investigated
All three are in the District Jail and
may be shortly arraigned under the
indictments. Trials of the men are ex-
pected to be called shortly after con-
vening Of the Criminal Courts, in
October