Evening star., 1932-06-30
IS ARE INDICTED,
3OOTHERS CLEARED
BY GRAND JURORS
Four Accused of Setting Up
Gaming Tables, Four Taken
in Raids Freed.
IFIRST-DEGREE MURDER
CHARGED TO TWO
White and Kirk Held for Trial in
Hold-up of Goodacre-Woman
Freed in Death.

The District grand jury today made
its final report to Justice James M.
Proctor in Criminal Division l and was
discharged. A new grand jury will be
impaneled next week. The final report
contained So indictments. Charges
against 80 other persons were ignored.
Four persons are accused of setting
up gaming table for cards, dice and
horse racing bets and with permitting
such games of chance An owner Of
the building was joined by the grand
jury with one of two persons arrested at
the time of the raid. One of those ar
rested was exonerated by the grand
jprorS and the other held with the
owner of the building as conducting a
gambling establishment. Charges against
three others accused of gambling were
ignored.
Edmund M Cohen is said to be the
owner of premises 1929 Wisconsin ave-
nue., where raid was staged by police
on the third floor, June 16, and is
named as co-defendant with Leonard
F. Hill, who was arrested and charged
with setting up a gaming table.
One Man ExOnerated.
Carroll P. Knuckles and George W.
Settel are also accused of setting up a
gaming table as the result of raid by
police, June IA on the second floor of
building in the 300 block of Thir-
teenth street. Lawrence R. Barry, who
was arrested with Knuckles, was ex-
onerated by the grand jury. Settel,
who was said to have been acting as
doorman, was not arrested at the time
of the raid, but was later taken into
custody.
Three other persons charged with
gambling were exonerated by the grand
jury. They are George w. Neely and
Peter A. Hughes, taken in a police raid
on the eighth floor of an F street Office
building June 81, and Clark Wright,
colored, who had been arrested in rear
of the 1900 block of New York avenue
June Is.
First degree murder Is charged in
two indictments. James NJ. Ross, COL
ored, is said to have shot his wife, Ida
May, and then attempted suicide in a
taxicab on Brookland avenue, near
Michigan avenue, May 7. He recovered
at hospital.
Bennie Montague, colored, Is alleged
to have shot to death Clara Williams,
also colored, June 8, at 1943 Twelfth
street, following a quarrel.
Thomas F. White and John McKeen
Kirk are charged with robbery in con-
nection Of the hold-up Of George L.
Goodacre, 1917 Morningside drive, June
13. White Is said to have jumped on
the running board Of Goodacre's car
as 1t was leaving his home and to have
Snatched a leather case containing
1882. Goodacre'S wife pursued the
alleged bandit and cornered him in a
nearby apartment, where he was ar
rested and the money recovered. Kirk
was said to have been waiting nearby
In an automobile.
Arthur G.. Brock, alleged light"
bandit. is accused in two indictments
of highway robbery He is said to
have boarded the car of George Kerr
while he was waiting for the lights to
change at Wisconsin avenue and Mas
sachusettS avenue June 18. Kerr re-
ported that he lost $l95. a coat and a
cigarette case and that his car was
taken, but later recovered. The second
indictment charges Brock with board
ing the car Of Louis F. Lucas the same
night at Wisconsin avenue and r street
Lucas reported the loss of SIS and his
car. which later was recovered.
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny are
charged against william E. Bedell, who
is said to have broken into a Western
Union Office on Connecticut avenue
June 8 and to have stolen a safe con-
tanning $1,870 in travellers checks. The
safe was recovered on Chillum road.
Woman Freed in Death.
Robbery is also charged against Al
bert K. Johnson. who is said to have
robbed the auditor of the Chastleton
Apartments June 7 of $422. which was
taken from the cash drawer.
The grand jurors exonerated Dolly
T. Pratt, colored, who had been held
responsible for the death of Charles
Smith June 13. The woman shot the
man on the street in front of premises
436 I street when he followed her
after she warned him away. The
grand jurors also declined to indict
Albert Turner and James Henna on
charges Of joy-riding; Joseph Roberts,
grand larceny; James Barnes, William
U. Cole. Roy Higdon, James L. Ford,
John w. Johnson, Walter White Rus
sell T. Henderson, Emmet Clark and
Fleming Bell, housebreaking; Fred
erick Beverly, Henry A. Walker, Nathan
Scott and McHenry Rush, assault with
dangerous weapon; Florence Green,
violating Harrison anti-narcotic law;
Howard c. Emmett, assault to rape;
Edward Brown and Edwin Garvin,
abortion; Grover S. Chaney, larceny
after trust: Harris Moody and Ermon
Henson, violating liquor law.
Others indicted and the charges
against them include: Edwin Stebbing,
John A. Jarboe, Lawrence r. Leon
berger, Woodrow W. Afford, Richard
Allen, James Hallman, Henry B. Lucas,
Walter H. Lutman, Lanfor Darlington,
Aleck Williams, Robert Williams, alias
Richard Randolph Jones; Albert Beck
man and Douglass Smith, joyriding
John William Campbell, depreciation on
private property; Arthur Richardson,
housebreaking; Arthur Richardson. Carl
Frank Wray (two cases. and James
Posey (two cases., housebreaking and
larceny; Mary Goodmans, Doney Nc
Gill, Robert Charles MCGOWAN and
Medough j. Bowdren, grand larceny;
Medough j. BoWdren and Gilbert C.
Smythe, larceny after trust; Preston
Archie Medley, John McKeen Kirk,
Tommy Aston, Orrington, Thomas
Brown, Francis J. Knox, William Rob-
inson. James Johnson, alias Garnett
Robinson: Alfred Hopkins and Oephus
William, robbery.
Ernest F. Watkins, Chester c. Cay,
William Moore, alias Jackie Moore: Her
bert L. Wright, Allen Bevans Ola Mills,
Georgia Lewis, Lawrence Turner, Ida
Warren and Anna Hunter, alias Lump
Galloway, assault with dangerous wea-
pom; Abran Lee, Reginald Smith, Domi-
mic Nanci Rosa and Richard Wilson
Bell, violation of national prohibition
act; Caroline Hertel. abortion; Walter
Holland, perjury; Seymour Anderson,
alias Seymour Anderson. jr.; alias S.
Anderson, jr., and Carl G. Sessinghaus
(two cases.. forgery; Samuel Adler,
alias Daniel j. Harris, forgery and utter
ing; John T. Risher, Daniel M. Gary,
Mortimer. F. Smith, conspiracy; Kath-
crime A. Littleton, alias Katherine A.
IalfChlin false farefeneaS. TrvinU q