Evening star., 1932-04-04
FIVE ARE INDICTED
ON MURDER CHARGE
Another Defendant Accused
of MansIaughter in Traf-
fiC Accident.

FiTst-degree murder was charged
against five persons, one of them white,
in the grand jury's report today to
Justice James M. Proctor in Criminal
Division /. Another man was accused
of manslaughter as the result of traf-
fic accident. Other homicide charges
were ignored by the grand jurors.
Henry Epstein. 81, of Baltimore, was
accused of the murder of James Will
son, 80. who is said to have been shot
to death in a quarrel over the hi
jacking" of liquor. The police reported
that Wilson was shot in an apartment
in the 200 block of Massachusetts
avenue northeast March 81. He was
found dying by passing motorist at
Massachusetts, avenue and D street
northeast
Accused of Staying Grocer.
George E. Herndon and Marvin Pear
son, both colored, were accused of first
degree murder in connection with the
death of Anton Rupert, grocer, 1900
Eleventh street, at his store February
ZO. A third man, supposed to have
fired the fatal shot, has not been ap-
pretended, it was reported
John A. Rupert, 1918 Twelfth street
northeast, son of the slain man, who
was clerking IN the store on the night
OF the tragedy, told police three colored
men entered the store and ordered
groceries. When the proprietor turned
to get some shelf goods for them, one
OF the men shot him, the bullet pene-
trating the brain and resulting In his
death almost instantly. The son had
been forced to the rear of the store by
the 1ntruders and was unable to aid
his parent
William Wells, colored also was ac-
cuSed OF first degree murder. He is
said to have stabbed to death Ruth
Wells, also colored, March /. The
woman was accompanying the accused
to appear before the grand jury when
quarrel arose at Second and L streets
southeast and Wells is said to have
stabbed the woman with an ice pick.
Leaving the body on the ground he
drove his car to police headquarters,
where he crashed into the motorcycle
OF Chief Pelham D. GlaSSford, stand
ing at the curb and struck other parked
automobiles. He said he was on his
way to surrender
First degree murder also was charged
10 Harrison Tucker, colored, in the
death OF Joseph Hall, also colored, who
was shot March 19 in front of 6212
Myrtle street northeast. Witnesses said
Tucker shot Hall twice and when the
latter fell to the ground Tucker stepped
over his PROSTATE body and fired two
more shots.
Manslaughter Charged.
ManSlaughter was alleged in an in
olctment against Stewart A. Hardy, COL
ored. He was charged with driving an
automobile March IL which struck and
killed Bertha Frederick, also colored, as
she was crossing the street at Delaware
avenue and H street southwest.
The grand jurors exonerated Clarence
S. Putnam and Abraham Schumacher
OF a homicide charge growing out OF
an explosion OF an empty" gas tank
which which caused the death of Martin
Swami, an employe of the Washington
Rapid Transit Co. The explosion oc-
CURED at the companys garage, Four
teenth and Buchanan streets, March l.
and Swami died the next day, it was
stated.
Marion Brue, colored, was freed of q
homicide charge in connection with the
death Of Joseph Turner, who had beer
run down by taxicab at Seventh anC
T streets February Is.
| The jurors refused to indict Clarence
Jones, 38, Washington Railway & Elec-
tric Co. motorman, held by a coroner't
Jury in connection with the death. Of
Fireman Maurice c. Ccrbett, 80, OF
lll3 Seventh street northeast.
Corbett was killed when the fire
truck he was riding on collided with
a street car at Eleventh and P streets
February lo. Jones, who lives at 5l4
First street southeast, was seriously In
lured when the front of the car caveo
in.
Charles Loving and Charles Brown
both colored, also were exonerated oi
a homicide charge. They were passen-
gers in the automobile driven by
Stewart A. Hardy, which caused the
death of Rertha Frederick