Evening star., 1932-06-07
CHARGED
|NF|RST TEST HERE
OF SALES STATUTE
Raff0Ie PreSutti Indicted on
Charge of Concealing
Creditors.
80 OTHERS ARE ACCUSED
IN GRAND JURY REPORT
Husband Accused of First Degree
Murder in Fatal Shooting
of Wife.

The first criminal prosecution grow
ing out of an alleged violation of the
bulk-saleS law was launched today
when the District grand jury reported
an indictment for perjury against Raf-
fole Presutti. He is alleged to have
sworn falsely that he had only one cred
itor when he sold out his delicatessen
store at 14l7 H street northeast last
December.
The law requires that the vendor of a
stock OF merchandise shall give the
names of all persons holding claims
against the stock as we'll as the amount
Of each claim
PreSutti is said to have given a bill
OF sale to the purchaser and to have
appeared before notary public and
sworn to it when it contained the state
ment that his only creditor was Nicola
SIG" The Daniel Loughran Co. had
claim against the merchant and COM
planned to the United States attorneys
Office, when 1t was found there were
other creditors.
The indictment cited the Loughran
claim as sl24 and smaller amounts said
to be due the National Cigar Sales Cor
poration, William Deiches & Co. and
the National Cigar & Tobacco Co.
80 Others Are Indicted.
Thirty-two other indictments were
returned to Justice James M. Proctor.
The grand jurors declined to indict in
one homicide and eight other cases.
FirSt-degree murder was charged
against Henry Clea Lyon. colored. jani-
lor of an apartment house at 370l Six
teenth street. He is said to have shot
his wife in their basement apartment
May "a Police say he charged his
wife had been nagging him.
Assault with a dangerous weapon
was alleged against Edward Caldwell, a
real estate operator at 1914 Fifth street
northeast, who is said to have shot
three times Eldred H. Buchanan. a
salesman in his employ. The shooting
occurred April Is at the Office of Phil
lips & Caldwell after a quarrel between
the men.
Harry Dalton McGill was charged
with operating a gambling place. The
indictment resulted from raid on the
top floor of 43l Eleventh street May 81.
The indictment is in nine counts.
The grand jury exonerated Isaac H.
Hodge, colored, who had been held by
a coroner's jury for the death of Ray
mond Taylor, also colored. Taylor was
struck by an automobile driven by Hodge
May 81 at Forty-ninth street and Dean
avenue. Taylor died six days later.
The grand jurors also ignored a
charge of non-support against Aloysius
r Murphy: Edwin G. Condor, Ernest
Little and Rudolph Boykin, joy-riding;
Willie Fielder, Willie Jackson and Hilary
Darlington assault with dangerous
weapon, and Harry Travers and Albert
Ford, depreciation on private property.
List of Indictments.
Others indicted and the charges
against them include:
William S. Hart and Francis Joseph
Hayes. non-support; Eddie Lindsay,
Leroy Lindsay. Willie l. Williams, Theo-
dore Brown. Edward N. Holmes (alias
Eddie Holiness, Jack Franey (alias Jack
Fanney alias Jack Tracy, Ernest
Coakley, James W. Handy and Simon
King. iQy-riding.
Maurice Strinck. William H. Jackson,
James w. Handy and Simon King,
grand larceny and ioy-riding.
James Wilson Handy. William Henry
Jackson, Arthur Bell. Hugh Mays talias
Oscar Hugs Nays. Ruth May Smith,
James CAN'T, George Williams and Fred
Kennicutt. grand larceny.
Mamie Hill. Preston Ellsworth Smith
and Leola Williams, assault with dan
gerouS weapon
Charles McWilliams (alias Charley
Williams). assault with intent to COM
NIT carnal knowledge and carnal knowl-
edge.
William Henry Preston, alias William
Henry johnson g cases.; Joseph John
Jones, Frank Davis, William Henry
Jackson, James Wilson Handy, Simon
King and William Harris, housebreak-
ing and larceny.
Nathan Neil Scott, housebreaking.
Harry Sturdevant, robbery.
George Furr and joseph Brett, vio-
lation national prohibition act.
Wallace o. Hickcox, alias Frank Wren
forgery and uttering