Evening star., 1932-03-17
Grand Jury Accuses James
H. Steele, R. C. Printz,
Margaret Belt.
CASH AND PROMISSORY
NOTES FIGURE IN CASE
Trio Accused of Appropriating
Money That Was Involved
in Farm Purchase.

James H. Steele and Margaret Belt,
said to be real estate agents at Freder-
lex, Md, and Raymond G. PrintZ, realty
agent of Herndon, Va, were jointly in
dicted today by the District grand jury
on a charge of embezzlement. They are
alleged to have appropriated to their
own use $3.50 in cash and promissory
notes of S4,350 given to them by Charles
A. and Sarah z. Compton of Washing
ton in connection with the purchase of
a farm near Taneytown, Md, last Sum-
mer.
The indictment is in four counts. The
first alleges that $4,000 was given by
the prospective purchasers to the de-
PENDANTS June %, 1881; the second al
legeS receipts of $3.50 from the Comp
tons, July 13; the third charges the en-
bezzlement of a note for $3.50 received
from the Comptons, and the fourth
charges they appropriated to their own
use four promisSory notes of $1,000
each. Assistant United States Attorney
William A. Gallagher presented the case
to the grand jury on complaint of At
torney David Riordan, who represented
the Comptons.
Colored Lawyer Indicted.
Embezzlement also is charged in a
new indictment against Peter p. Rich
ardson, colored, member of the bar.
who was recently convicted of false
pretenses in connection with taking a
deed to piece of property when the
owner thought she was giving him a
deed of trust. A motion for a new
trial in the false pretense case is pend
ing before Justice Let's. The new
charge involves a check for $500 which
the lawyer is alleged to have received
as attorney for an administrator Octo-
Der 27 last and which he is said to have
appropriated to his own use
Oltn r. Webb, colored, is charged
with murder in the second degree in
connection with the fatal shooting of
Marie Barnes, also colored, February
81, at Seventh and v streets north
east. The woman died the next day.
The grand jurors exonerated Max
well F. Strunk of responsibility for the
death OF Walter Fox, colored, in an
automobile accident February 13 at
Thirteenth and S streets.
Other Gases Ignored.
They also ignored the following
cases: Charles H. Bryant, joy-riding;
Herbert J. Ivey. grand larceny; Conrad
Mason and Hubert " Cooper, house
breaking and larceny; Frank Feeney,
assault with a dangerous weapon;' Ma
than Steele, assault to rob; James Nc
Mellon, arson; Julian r. Foster, smoke
screen and liquor violation; Amos
Stepany and Charles Black, violating
Harrison anti-narcotic law; James E.
Meadows. national auto theft act;
Claude w. Burnaman, false pretenses.
Others indicted and the charges
against them include Frederick H.
Knapp, forgery and uttering; MacHill-
man, selling copyrighted songs: Leonard
j. Caranfa, forgery; Harry N. Smith.
embezzlement and grand larceny; Nor
man S. Beall, larceny from the Federal
Government; John White, assault with
dangerous weapon; Gilbert Ward Lewis,
assault with intent to kill; Raymond
Delmore Dorsey, smoke screen; Ray
mond Delmore Dorsey, Mark Werner
and Ray Moore, violation national pro-
hibition act; Jack Mahoney, alias John
j. Mahoney, violation Harrison narcotic
act; Thomas Matthews Lucas, depreda-
ton on private property; William z.
Walters, Alfred j. Wise, George j.
Bergling, John Wentworth Knight and
Roy Venable, non-support; Roosevelt
James, Charles jackson, Roland Long,
George Anderson, Richard F. Mccoy,
Theodore G. Brannum and Andrew G.
Butler, joy-riding; Louis J. j. Weingart,
grand larceny and joy-riding; Hebron
Murphy, grand larceny; Arlie E.
Walker, receiving stolen property;
Howard Berry and Melvin Banks,
housebreaking; Melvin Banks, William
Evans, Elliott Henry Burks, Joseph
Higgie (two cases., John G. Foster,
Delvin Grafton English, Fred Mills and
Walter Howell English, housebreaking
and larceny; John Sager, Henry Gray,
alias Puss Gray, and Nathan Steele, as
sault with intent to commit robbery;
Carl E. Smith, alias Carl E. McKem-
mer; James Gray, alias Horace Turner;
Raymond Ignatius Carter, Willie Paulin,
alias Reds Paulin, and Edward Thorn
ton, robbery.