Evening star., 1932-09-30
Jury RETURNS FIVE
| COUNTS Of MURDER
IN 6S INDICTMENTS
Two Motorists Are Charged
With MansIaughter as
Result of Accidents.
THREE HELD IN DEATH
OF POLICEMAN FREED
Two Drivers Are Cleared of Blame
in Fatal Injuring of Boy,
10, on September II.

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motorists involved in fatal accidents re-
Gently were contained in 68 indictments
returned to District Supreme Court
Justice Gordon today in the final report
OF the retiring Summer grand jury
The Jury's report today also included
3 flrst-degree murder charges and 90
lgnoramuses. Three colored youths, ar
rested in connection with the Staying
OF Park Policeman Milo j. Kennedy,
and two motorists, involved in an ac-
cldent in which l0-year old boy was
killed, were among those freed by ig-
noramuses
During the entire service of three
months, the jury returned about 375 in
dictments, including true bills for three
members Of the Bonus Expeditionary
Force
The motorists held for trial on man
slaughter charges are Robert F. Rup-
pel, 929 Fifth street, and John A
Decatur.
Killed September :.
Mrs. Evelyn c. Petrone, %, of the 600
block of I street was killed September
7, when Ruppells car crashed into a
tree near Hams Point The jury re-
fused to indict Frank Brady so, of 8l2
Twelfth street, who, with Miss Fannie
Enrich. 81, was riding with the couple.
Ruppell, Brady and Miss Enrich were
injured in the crash
Decatur was charged with being the
driver Of machine that struck and
killed Arthur Moran near Massachu-
settS avenue and Sixth street northeast.
on September II. James A. Decatur,
WHO was riding with him, was exon
Grated.
The motorists cleared in connection
with the l0-year-old boys death are
Herbert A. Whitney and James R. An
oerSon, colored. AnderSon's automobile
overturned and crushed Francis Kennev
TO death at Tenth street and MARYLAND
avenue southwest on September II.
when he Swerved in an effort to avoid
collision with Whitney's car.
Named in Sayings.
Those charged with first degree mur-
der are:
Viola B. Clay, Butler Settles. Luther
b. Spencer, Lawrence King and Sydney
Cotton, all colored. The victims of the
alleged slayings also we're colored.
| Others indicted are:
John Warning, Herbert Pope, Walter
Jarboe. woodrow Dean. Alfred Downs.
Thelma Humphrey and Gertrude Kes-
terton, charged with stealing a taxicab
valued at 81 500 and setting fire to it.
Joseph p. Neal, colored. a lawyer.
charged with misappropriating more
| than $1,000 from trust funds after hav-
ing been appointed trustee by the
court.
The youths exonerated in the killing
! OF Policeman Kennedy were LIE Roy U.
Brazler. Grafton Baylous and Walter
A. Murray. Others relieved of charges
were George w. Warren, violating Har-
rlson anti-narcotic law: Ollie Haw and
John H. Thomas, liquor law violation;
Andrew w. Johnson, bigamy: Robert E.
Stanton. robbery; Jesse w. Chinn. Oscar
Lewis. Louise Tanner. Russell Beal and
Edward L. Martin. housebreakirg and
larceny: John T. Tomlinson and
Henry T. Snowden, grand larceny: FL
/ renee F. Vanover, Cecil E. Rhodes, Joe
w. Cheseldine. William Marshall and
James Sullivan, manslaughter.
List of Other Indictments
Others indicted and the charges
against them include:
| John Semer Farnsworth Harold L.
Herbert, Edwin Gordon. Louis Marucci
and Joseph Green, non-support of
/ minor children.
Walter J. Young and Clinton Rob-
ertson, grand larceny and joyriding
George j. Jackson, Clinton A Daven-
port, Lawrence Helpler, John L. john
son. Charles Woodward. Duvall F.
Hutchinson, George oxford, Gilbert A.
Doyle, Joseph F. Wilson, Arthur T.
! Newman, William Tirney (alias William
/ Tiverny), Archie Lyles and William L.
Stauffer. jovriding.
| Minnie Jackson, James Nixon, ESau
Bishop, Charles Jackson Ethel Howard
, and Hyman Schorr (alias Herman
/ Shaw grand larceny
! Morris Edelman, receiving stolen
| property; Albert Turner and William
Loury, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
! Charles Bowes, Arthur Bowes Marino
Caporelli 1.-TWO cases., Alfred Downs,
John Warning Alvin Queen, George w.
/ Davis and William H. Davis 1.-TWO cases.,
! housebreaking
! Willie A. Brooks, George Brown, alias
| Payton Powell; William L. Stauffer,
/ Raymond Johnson. James L. Patter-
! son. James T. Abbott, Archie Lyles. Al
fred Harris, John Kingsbury. Edward
! Kinard and James Carter, housebreak-
! ing an larceny
Henry Madison. Nathaniel Fields.
Leona Fitzgerald; John Catcher. alias
Dick Fleet; Joe Black, alias Joseph
Caster: Claude o. Soper. John Williams,
alias Walter Reed. and Isaiah Carter,
assault with dangerous weapon
10y Clifford Hibbs. assault with In
tent to commit robbery: Clinton A.
Davenport. Lawrence Helper, John L.
johnson, Charles Woodward. Lee Car
| ter, Joseph Lott, Violet Parks Fleming,
Russell j. Harris, alias Charles B. Jer-
| ONE, Vernon S. Story and Ebert Pierce,
alias George Williams, robbery.
Harry Edgar Padgett. Anthony JOS
eph Tambrino. Raphael Marcontoni,
Guseppi Ranish, Berwid Cole, George
Cole, Peter Bencich and Andrew r.
Ccdwell, violation national prohibition +
act.
George Cole Levister, violation Harri-
, sen narcotic act; John Hugh Mccarthy,
alias John McCarty. and Lester A.
BERN, forgery; Seymour j. Kramer,
embezzlement; Edward Burnette, rape.
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