Evening star., 1932-02-17
M0T0R|ST INDICTED
FOR THE KILLING 0E
". R. {. SW|TCHMAN
Sinclair Bowen Fowler Is
Charged With MansIaughter
in Trolley Pit Death.
81 OTHER TRUE BILLS
RETURNED BY JURY
Many Larceny, Robbery and Pro-
hibition Cases on Docket.
Twenty Are Ignored.

Manslaughter is charged in an in
dictment reported today to Justice
James M. Proctor by the grand jury
against Sinclair Bowen Fowler. SO,
l540 Seventeenth street. Fifty-one
other indictments were returned and
the grand jury ignored charges against
20 persons.
Fowler was the driver of an auto
mobile which struck and killed John
E. Saunders, so, switchman of the
Washington Railway & Electric Co..
February 2. at Wisconsin avenue and
street. Saunders was crushed against
the rear of a street car as he was
lowering its overhead trolley at the P
street plowpit. Fowler was cut and
bruised in the accident.
Exonerated in Shooting.
Vivian H. PEPPER BIT Third street
southeast, was exonerated by the grand
jurors of a charge Of assault with a
dangerous weapon. Miss PEPPER had
fired a shot through her apartment
door February at Robert l.. Mcl!eely,
1918 Pennsylvania avenue, when he
sought her company. She had COM
planned of annoyance from McNeely, 1t
was reported
Because an indictment reported last
December, against Edith Mildred Will
key. alias Wilke colored. was faulty
and could not be sustained by the
evidence, United States Attorney Rover
decided to resubmit the case to the
present grand jury. She was accused
of throwing her one-day-old infant
into an incinerator at 4l05 Wisconsin
avenue, December 10. The evidence
showed the child was dead before it
was thrown into the incinerator. The
grand jury refused to indict.
Melvin E. Walker, colored. was ex-
onerated of a charge of murder in con-
nection with the fatal stabbing OF
George Jones, also colored. The fight
occurred January % at 32O6 N street.
The grand Jurors also refused to in
dict Ernest Brown. Edward Roberts,
Isaiah Brown and John w. Hall, house
breaking William Jimroclos. Prodronos
and Alexander PappaS, Louis Bernardy.
Helen L. May and Jack Foster, grand
larceny; George Bruckman, Sherman
Dowell, James H. Busey, assault with
dangerous weapon; Milton Brooks, rob-
berry; Joseph S. Parker, prohibition;
Richard Epps, robbery.
Others Indicted.
Others indicted and the charges
against them include:
Robert Marshall Deboard, Gus
Gregory, alias Gus Gregorian; George
Haight, Mack S. Smith, Louis Dore-
man and Willard Ambrose Robey, nom
support; Herbert @. O'Steen two
cases, Francis o. Beall, Alphonso Card
we'll, Leroy Coleman. alias Leroy
Thompson; James Somerville. two
cases., James Mcdonald Gray, James
Randall and Earl Jackson and James
Wesley Davis housebreaking and lar
ceny Robert Dodson, Francis McDevitt,
Solomon Holmes and Leon Howard
Christian, joy riding; Elizabeth Frank
lin. James H. Mcmillan and John D.
Johnson, grand larceny; James A.
Walsh, grand larceny and embezzle-
ment; Fred Trdoier, assault with intent
to commit robbery; Frank Paul Kar-
vosky, James Sommerville, Clinton
Randolph James Sommerville, James
Hayes and Sidney Statomne, robbery:
Robert Spencer Brown and Jimmie
Jackson Jordon,. Leanna Bellows and
weapon; Rama r. Gibson, assault with
intent to commit rape; Latimer Mat
thews, smoke screen; DeWilton Snow
den Duvall, Taylor Quinn, Charles
Young, Frank Joseph Dwyer, Norris
Aloysius Barron, German Wright,
George Turner, Earl Jethro Green, Pete
Howard Ridley and Joseph Eugene Reid
violation of national prohibition act;
Nat Diehl, larceny after trust; Edward
D. Burrier, violational national motor
vehicle theft act; Patrick Gordon, Clint
Birmingham, violation Harrison mar
cotic act; Langston M. Williams, viola
ton POSTAL laws; Sylvester Leroy Brown
Robert Theodore Brown and Herbert
Jones, jr.. robbery; Daniel Robinson and
Rogers Wilson, Walter Jordan and
James F. Donovan (three cases., rob-
berry.