Evening star., 1932-04-20
MURDER SUSPECT
INDICTED BY Jury
Members, However, Refuse
True Bills in Two Other
Homicide Cases.

One indictment charging frst-degree
. murder and IL others alleging various
7 other crimes were contained in the first
report Of the new grand jury made this
afternoon to Justice James M. Proctor
in Criminal Division /. The grand
jurors declined to indict in two homi-
eide cases and 10 other charges.
/. Walter Mason, colored, is charged
with murder in the first degree in con-
. nection with the death of James Car
roll, also colored, April S. The tragedy
4 occurred at II Fenton place. Mason Is
/ said to have shot Carroll following
quarrel over suspicion that Carroll had
given information to the police con-
. cerning the activities Of Mason.
Assault Laid to Three.
! Three alleged assailants of Detective
Sergt. Howard Ogle are named In an
I indictment charging an assault with
dangerous weapon. The accused are
! Francis J. Mulvey, alias Roy Elmer
: Holt; William Carley and Russell w.
Sn1ithers, all white. Ogle said he was
7 on his way home March 80 when an
/ automobile containing three men at
tracted his suspicious and he forced the
I machine to the curb. AS the officer
questioned Smithers, Mulvey is said to
have drawn a gun and in the melee
!. two shots were fred. Ogle knocked the
gun from Mulveys hand and effected
. the arrest Of two Of the men. The
third was located at rooming house.
Ogle said the men had three guns be-
tween them.
Assault with intent to kill is charged
in an indictment against Jack Mahoney,
growing out of an assault with knife
on Peter RocReili at Thompson's lunch
room, Ninth and e streets, March 90
Mahoney. it is said, accused Rockelli
of giving information to the police.
knife that doctors took 4S stitches to
. close the wounds and he is still under
care Of physician.
Robert Fletcher, colored, and Ralph
J. Hollis are accused in two indictments
for grand larceny in connection with
thefts from the rooms of two students
at Georgetown University.
Value Put at SI0O.
On March 9 they are said to have
visited the room of Arthur E. Fay and
to have stolen a watch, an overcoat, a
, tuxedo suit and other property worth
500. Two weeks later the room of
Walter o. Briggs was entered and a
raccoon coat, valued at S100, and other
property was stolen.
John Sam Alexander and Jefferson
Crawford, both colored, were exonerated
of charges of homicide Alexander was
accused Of causing the death of Philip
Clark, also colored, by shooting him in
the yard of 81 G street southwest, April
6. Crawford had been held by cor
oner's jury for the fatal stabbing of
George McMoore. also colored, March
%, at s42 p street.
The grand jurors also declined to in
diet Beulah Thompson. mayhem: Marie
Jackson violating liquor law; George
Butler, assault to rob; Fred A Barnes
and Osia Mitchell, assault with a dan
gefous weapon; Cecil Hughes. grand
larceny; Robert Ford, joy-riding and
grand larceny George B. Myles, Daniel
j. Stotts and Thomas Fowler, joy-riding.
Other Indictments.
Others indicted and the charges
against them include;
Edgar Tate, Samuel Elmer Cox, Lewis
, Edward Smith and Henry Johnson
Z (two cases., robbery; William NJ. john
son, alias George Thurston, Aubrey C.
/ Cross 1.-TWO cases.; Marcellus Brown
and Fred Douglas Burrous, joy-riding;
Walter Schef1er. Joseph H. Gray, Al
bert Becker Tommy Higgins, William
Browning, Robert William Coleman
and Floyd Lahore, grand larceny;
William Eaglin, assault with intent to
commit carnal knowledge; Arthur Leo
Fountain. alias Ralph Hardman, viola
tion white-slave act; Edward Randolph
Inge, forgery and violation Harrison
narcotic act; John Cady and Charles G.
Schultz, non-support; Gilbert Falcone,
Mike Falcone, Uraldean Benjamin
Conklin, Edward Buchanan, Charles
Williams and James w. Simms, violat-
ing prohibition act; James w. Simms,
Charles williams and Elmo James John
son, smoke screen; Herman Brown, as
sault with dangerous weapon; Robert
Hinson Green, James Howard Colbert,
James Newheiser (alias James Roger
NeVheiser), Glen Settles, Claude Brax-
ton, Thomas A. Epps. Wilbert E Howell,
Leroy Cyprian Coleman. Eugene Hum
pliers and James Harris Ford (alias
James Stevenson), housebreaking and
larceny; William j. williams. James H.
Gordan and Frederick L. Jackson, as
sAult with intent to commit robbery.