Evening star., 1932-11-22
GRAND Jury FREES
q 21DEFENDANTS AND.
|ND|CTS At OTHERS.
Four Exonerated of Gambling
Charges Made in War
rantIess Raids.
POLICE FAILED TO HAVE
CHIEFS AUTHORIZATION
One Man Accused of First-Degree
Murder-Woman Bookkeeper
Faces Embezzlement Counts.

Four men were exonerated today by
the grand jury of gambling charges
based on warrantleSs raids by police Off
GERS who had information of alleged
law violations, but did not have a
rants of the former police chief are
designated, to enter the premises.
They are Charles E. Martin, alias Pons;
David Kaplan, David B. Cohen and
Charles B. Stewart.
Martin was arrested November II at
21081a Fourteenth street in a raid con-
Quoted by Capt. Pearson, Sergt. Carroll
and Pvts. Hodge and Carder Of the
second precinct. They said they seized
slot machine and racing slips at the
place.
Kaplan was taken into custody July
Is in a rear room OF candy store at
1884 Seventh street. Sergt. Carroll led
this raid in company with Pvts. Hall
man and Williams.
Stewart and Cohen were taken in
raid by Detective Sergts. Cgle and
Broderick of the Crime Prevention Bu-
reau July 5 in first-floor apartment
ut 4034 Georgia avenue.
IL Others Are Freed.
The grand jurors also refused to in
dict II other persons, including Lee Ray
mond Burch, construction foreman on
o Federal Triangle building at Tenth
street and Constitutional avenue on a
homicide charge. He had been held
by a coroner's jury as responsible for
the death Of Lewis NARROW, workman,
who was fatally injured November 4.
when a plank holding number OF kegs
of rivets on the fifth floor Of the struc-
ture broke and one of the kegs, weigh
ing 800 pounds, struck MARROW. at work
on the second floor. He died the next
day.
A blackmail charge against Ralph H.
Dewitt and his wife, Helen l.. was also
ignored by the grand jury. The woman
and her husband ha<, been charged by
James A. Burrougn-, cn employe OF the
Fire Department, MIA demanding $500
from him on a threat CT exhibiting to
his wife a picture taken on fishing ex-
petition in lower Maryland.
Mamie Gatewood, Margaret Gatewood
and Ellen Witherspoon, all colo-ed, held
in connection with the death OF Walter
Garner, were also exonerated. others
freed by theA grand jurors include Lee
Woods, non-support; Sandford l.
THOMPSON, Kenneth Woolridge, jor-rid-
ing: Harold E. Pelta and James M.
Psters, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
Never Shapiro, receiving stolen prop
ert Faul Byrd and Harvey Fair. as
sat-. with a dangerous weapon; Ray
moad O'Dwye-, assault to commit
carnal knowledge; Mason Monroe, as
sault to rape, and Richard Morris,
larceny after trust.
Al Indictments Reported.
A total of AZ indictments were re-
ported to Chief Justice Alfred A.
Wheat by the grand jury.
George A. Gather, colored, is accused
of murder In the first degree in con-
nection with the death Of Walter Garner,
colored, who was stabbed fatally Octo-
Der AZ, at 487 Cullinan's Court south
west. Three women who were exon
Grated by the grand jury witnessed the
killing.
Emzezzlement of s3,425 from the cor
poration by which she was employed as
bookkeeper is charged in an indictment
reported against Rose Heiskell, who had
served the company for many years.
She is said to have taken 5000 April
/, and 1855 November IL. She was
employed by the Mechanical Engineer
ing g. Construction Co. with ofnces In
the Mills Building.
OL1lCIc mIlObCA GAIN O@A@ ~AA%4 ~
against them include:
John Hitter, Henry Jones, William
Anderson, Randolph w. Neal, Benjamin
jackson, Quint Terry and Clarence
Frazier, assault with dangerous weapon;
Virginia Burnap Rayborn, Gordon L.
Putnam, Robert Frederick Clark, alias
Robert Frederick; James jackson, Le-
roy Harris and Samuel Foti, violation
national prohibition act.
Others Accused.
James G. Landers, alias W. T.
Mathews and R. E. Horgan, alias Rob-
ert z. Horgan, false pretenses; Nelson
Mcclellan DcLong carnal knowledge;
Helen Fifer, alias Lillian Lehman, alias
Lillian c. Lehman alias Helen Rousey,
forgery and uttering; George Lewis
Sweeney, non support of minor chill
dren; Hugh A Payne, Sylvan Taylor,
Kenneth Woodbridge, alias Kenneth
Woodbridge; william r. Van Horn,
James F. Downey, William N. Smith
Richard Halfpap, Robert E. Brooks and
Virgil P. Payton, joyriding; Joseph w.
Haas dwo cases., grand larceny and
joyriding.
John Roland Beck, alias Albert L.
William II. Webster, Hillary H. Savoy,
alias Hillard Savoy; William Jones, Cliff
ford Gladu, William Douglass, Lee Pur-
due. Roger Boyd, alias William Boyd,
alias Cutface Roger, and Lee Purdue,
grand larceny; James Edwards, house
breaking.
Charles H. Rhone, James Rucker,
Walter z. lizard and Richard A. An
derson, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny; Ar
thur Kelton, William M. Owen, George
Blackwell, Thomas Edward Sheehan,
Jacob Gordon GrisSo Ctwo cases., and
John C. Wheeler and James Madison