Evening star., 1932-10-25
|72 NEW CHARGES
| RETURNED BY Jury;
| :. ONE RE|ND|CTED
October Panel Refuses to
Present Bills in II
Other Cases.
POLICEMAN Is FACING
| ASSAULT PROSECUTION
Two Are Accused of Staging Bold
Daylight Robbery at Store
| on Conduit Road.

The October grand jury today made
its first report to Chief Justice Alfred
A. Wheat in Criminal Division l, re-
turning 72 new indictments and a re-
indictment of Charles Cay, colored, on
a murder charge. The grand jurors
declined to indict in II other cases pre-
sentej
Assault with dangerous weapon was
charged against William E. Atkinson,
third precinct policeman. who is said
to have run amuck with his service pis-
tol September 81. He is accused of
firing several shots at Louie P. Martell,
taxi driver. of Cherrydale, Va. The
policeman attempted to commander a
suburban bus at Nineteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue to take him to
Arlington. When the driver refused,
the officer is said to have threatened
him. then transferred his attentions to
Martell, entering his cab and shooting
through the open windshield when the
cabman fed.
Daylight Robbery Charged.
Thomas B. Lunsford and Gordon R.
Mckinney were accused of staging a
daring daylight robbery at a Sanitary
grocery store on Conduit road Septem-
ber 80. They secured, it is said, s146
from the store safe after binding two
clerks and several customers who en-
tered during the hold-up.
Joseph Houston, 4531 Canal road. was
alleged to have emptied his pistol at his
wife, Pearl, as she stood near an automo-
bile in front of their home and to have
entered his home and, after reloading
his pistol. fired again at the wife.
None of the shots took effect.
Tbnca pyOpprotaI l11r ha i,lrxy
include Leroy R. Sydney. charged with
non-support: William kembaugh. house
breaking; Samuel Harper and John Do
Ian, housebreaking and larceny; Rogers
Thomas, Winfred Coleman, Mary Hill,
Helen Carpenter, grand larceny; James
H. Haggard, joy-riding and grand lar
ceny; James jackson, robbery; Fred
Smithwick. assault to rob: Gus Sarus,
Florence Carey, Wilbur F. Brown and
Nathan T. Jackson assault with dam
gerous weapon; Willie Thomas, Wilbur
Young, Willie Wilson. Robert G. Ellison
and Henry Pabst. violation liquor law,
and CASTOR Brown, arson.
List of Indictments.
Those indicted and the charges against
them include:
John H. King. Frank I. Harris. John
Alfred Brown and Frederick C. Speidel.
non n-support of minor children.
Lewis Jones, John Alexander. Will
liam E. Atkinson. Mary G. Cuthbertson.
Dozier Balknight, Raymond Corbin,
John Haywood, William Butler, Joseph
Houston, Montgomery Wheeler. alias
William Wheeler; Richard Warren,
alias Joseph Warren. and Sylvester Lud-
ley. assault with dangerous weapon.
Carmen Galen, James Jackson. Leroy
Harold Porter, John Melvin Buchanan,
Arthur Sanders. Frank Harris, Earl
Campbell, Charles Wooden, Kermit R.
Hill, James R. West, Lenwood E. Will
loughby, Milton W. Washington and
Robert A. Travers, grand larceny.
Samuel Foti. Raymond Edward Man.
ney. Ethel Christina Nanney, Albert
Hopkins and Frank Marion LIE Droux,
violating national prohibition act.
Housebreaking and Larceny.
Dave Odom, Raymond P Connolly,
Clarence Jones. John Lawrence Taylor,
Robert Mitchell Orange NJ. Norman,
James Barnes, Raymond Wilson, Leo
Scott, Carl E. Salomane and Robert M.
Bittle. housebreaking and larceny
Richard Grant, carnal knowledge and
assault with intent to commit carnal
knowledge.
Kermit jackson, assault with intent
| to commit carnal knowledge.
Albert r. Diehl, assault with intent
| to commit rape.
John William McAvoy, forgery.
Daniel P. Morgan, Wynona Baker and
| pretenses.
Charles Young, Ruth F. Pinkney.
alias Pearl Brown, and Carroll Crockett
alias Tim Crockett forgery
Frank Smith and Hyman Sachs,
forgery and uttering.
James L. NeeSe. Thomas E. Cheney,
King Mckinney and James c. Shep-
herd, assault with intent to commit
robbery.
Robbery Indictments.
King Mckinney, James C. Shepherd,
Ralph E. Brown, Leroy j. Butler, George
E. Hill, Thomas Newman, James Ward
| George Mitchell, Bernard Simms, Floyd
| Thomas B. Lunsford. Gordon R. Nc
Kinney. Lee Garter. Clinton A. Daven.
port, Austin D. Hollis. Leslie T. Nc
Clure and George P. Ryan, robbery.
John Smith, alias Ernest Hall, and
John Mitchell. grand larceny.
Raymond Crawford. Samuel Thomas
and Raymond v. Prayer, grand larceny
and joyriding.
George Perry Ryan. Lester Bernard
Dixon, Leslie T. Mcclure. Bernard
Michael Finley. Robert w. Seeley, Ed
ward L. Carroll, Jesse Mcdonald, JEFF
Harris, Howard G. Mculton, Alfonso
Young, alias Lankin Kenney; William
Chase, Ernest N. White. James D. Mill
burn, Clyde v. Sterling, James Miller
alias Henry Miller, and Stero Super
Joyriding