Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
Postal Clerk Took Child From
Mothers Home, Jury
Hears.
EXTRACTION PLANNED
AS SEARCH CONTINUES
Ten Robbery Suspects Formally
Charged-Grand Jury Also Acts
in Auto Perjury and Staying.

An indictment for kidnapping. not
comparable to the Lindbergh affair yet
having an international angle, was re-
ported today by the District grand jury
against William SilaS Barr Post ONCE
Department clerk, who is said to nave
taken his 5-year-old son from its
mothers custody, and to have Travelled
alleged kidnapping Barr secured from
the State Department, it is said, pass
port for himself and a small child
Assistant United States Attorney M.
Pearl Mccall, who presented the case
to the grand jury, said the mother had
received communications from Barr
pcstmarked at Paris and telling her of
the child's welfare. She expressed
doubt that he is still in France. but
said extradition would be sought If he
was found there.
According to the Indictment Mrs.
Dorothy Waite Barr. 1457 Park road,
obtained last October from Chief JUS
tice Alfred A., Wheat an order for tenn
porary alimony and custody of her son,
William Waite Barr, following a Sepa-
ration from her husband. Christmas
eve. Barr is said to have visited the
Park road home of his estranged wife
and to have enticed the child to &C
COMPANY him The mother has not
seen her child since.
Faces Perjury Charge.
Perjury is charged in an indictment
sgainst Harry j. Miller, alias Robert Lee
Kelly, in connection with an applica-
ton for a motor vehicle operators per-
nit December / last it is charged
Miller, whose permit had been revoked
by the traffic director, made applica-
ton under the name of Kelly. giving
his address as Logan circle. The ap-
plication was sworn to before notary
public and the statements made therein
were not true and were known to Miller
to be untrue, it is alleged.
Ten men, three of them white, are
accused of highway robbery in the
grand jury's report. Willard Messick,
william G. Duffy and William E.
Mckinney are charged with holding up
q taxi driver, Ernest M. Morningstar, at
Twenty-ninth and Albemarle streets
February TO- The cries of the victim
for help attracted the attention of
police in a cruising car, who after
chase of 10 miles caught the men.
Morningstar said they took his cab
and S2.55 in cash.
George Taylor, Rudolph BriSco,
Herbert Price. Lawrence Boston and
Thomas Cleveland, all colored, are
charged with holding up cab driver,
February 6 at ty-eighth street and
Central avenue northeast. George Taylor,
Thomas Cleveland and Herbert Jonas,
jr., all colored, are indicted for an
alleged robbery of a taxi driver, Febru-
airy on Shepherd road. In a third
indictment Taylor, Briscoe and Price
are accused of robbing another cab
driver, February T. The robbers took
the drivers overcoat and Taylor Is said
to have been wearing the garment when
caught.
Indicted for Murder.
Lewis Cooper, colored, the tenth
bandit suspect is accused of snatching
a pocketbook from Elizabeth Mcqueen,
$50 M street northwest, as she was
walking near her home February IA.
Murder in the first degree is charged
in an Indictment against Sims Rich
ardson, colored. He is said to have shot
Aloysius Brown, also colored, January
%, in a fight at 1853 Burdens court.
Brown died February g.
Joseph Minton, colored, is accused of
manslaughter in connection with the
death of Clara WaShburn, a white
woman, in an automobile collision at
Connecticut avenue and @ street jan
uary 81. The woman was a passenger
in car with which Minton's machine
collided.
The grand jurors declined to indict
13 persons accused before them of law
violations. The cases ignored include
Joseph B. Casey, grand larceny and
Joy-riding; Granville Robinson, James
King. Ernest Nelson, Percy T. Jones,
William Raymer, James r. Sheehan,
Robert P. Davis, Charles Murray and
Harry T. Green, HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny; Charles w. White and W:il
Allen, assault with dangerous weapon,
and George West, robbery.
Other Charges Listed.
Others indicted and The charges
against them include:
Frederick Cecil Wood, George w
Burwell and Francis Joseph Bauer,
non-support; Robert w Ferguson.
James Middleton, William Bailor and
John Harris, joy-riding; Glen Dale
Sieben, Maynard E. Wise and Ernest
H. Barefoot grand larceny; Theodore
Cruitchfleld, HOUSEKEEPING; Walter
Dyson, William Hyde Benton, Theodore
Briscoe, Norville G. Simpson, James
Hickman and John w Hall, house
breaking and larceny; Mathew Dixon.
Charlie Ingram, Albert Cooper and
William Mcdowell, assault with dan
gerous weapon; Roy Bolton, forgery;
c. S. Ellis, embazzlement and larceny
after trust; Max Miller and Thomas
Watterson, alias Tom Watterson, false
pretenses.