Evening star., 1932-05-02
EIGHT ARE INDICTED
IN GAMBLING RAIDS
LED BY GLASSFO
Men Accused of Operating
Places on Ninth and
| Streets.
ONE WARRANT ISSUED
BY CHIEF OF POLICE
Grand Jury Hands Down 35 Other
True Bills and Ignores
Is Cases.

Three indictments accusing eight
men Of operating gambling establish
ments were reported today by the grand
jury to Justice James M Proctor as
the result of the recent whirlwind raids
conducted by Gen. PaIham D. Glass
ford, chief of police, April %.
Three places were raided, two under
Police Court warrants and the third
under warrant issued by Gen. Glass
ford, under a little-used section of the
District code permitting the chief of
police to order warrants under certain
circumstances. The police forced their
way into premises at 713 Eye street,
8l5 Ninth street and the second floor
OF l402 Eye street. The Ninth street
place, it is said, was equipped with
radio set capable of receiving broad
casts from the Police Department
Ehort-wave station.
Names Of Defendants.
Named as defendants are George D.
Craig, 1918 H street; Fred Fillah, 1137
Tenth street: Joseph D. Ruppel, 929
Fifth street, and Clifford Voorhees,, S02
Eye street, as connected with the Ninth
street place; Joseph H. Linkins, 3609 o
street; John A. Mahoney, 906 Eleventh
street northeast, and Herman z. Roach,
Sl6 K street, arrested at the 713 Eye
street place, and Percy Clinton Jones,
second floor of 1902 Eye street.
The raid at the Jones establishment
was made under the Glassford warrant
and not after bets had been made there
In the other two places, it is alleged
bets were made by Lawrence M. Carey,
an operative of the Department of Jus
tice, and on whose affidavit the Police
A Court warrants were issued. Jones is
charged with violating sections 865 and
= 866 Of the District code, the former
/. charging the setting up of a gaming
table and the other permitting gaming.
In the other two indictments charge
OF violating section $50 is added, which
covers the bets alleged to have been
made by Carey.
Receipt Of Bets Charged.
The defendants in the two indict-
ments charging violations of sections
865, 866 end $50 are accused of setting
4 up a gaming table for the playing of
4"blackjack, for receiving bets on horse
races and for playing games with dice
Three counts relate to the setting up of
the place, three others charge per-
mitting bets on races. and playing of
cards and dice, and the seventh count
charges the acceptance OF single bet
v on a horse race.
Thirty-five other indictments were
reported by the grand jury and 1t de-
n clined to tndict in Is cases.
Clarence A. Wright, colored, ply
Sician, was charged with performing
criminal operation on Frances Banks,
wife Of Calvin Banks, 1920 Central ave-
nue. northeast. The woman died
March Is.
Lettie King Hickman, colored. said
to be midwife. is accused of causing
h the death of Elsie Bernice Randall. an
legged criminal operation.
/ List of Exonerations.
The grand jurors exonerated Rosa
Macklin of charge of homicide in
causing the death Of her newborn baby,
April 6, 1882, at 429 Kenyon street.
Other cases ignored include Tommy
! Higgins, grand larceny; Raymond john
son, housebreaking and larceny; Rob-
ert Roach, robbery; Marion johnson,
assault with a dangerous weapon; Ray
mond Owens and Betty Owens. pander-
+dng; Frank PoSey, smoke screen; Fred
erick Grice, Frank Posey; Stanley j.
Adams and Frank Pose, national prohi-
bition law; Frederick Grice and Frank
Posey, laying a smoke screen.
Others indicted and the charges
against them include:
Ralph Green and Andrew Stanfleld,
AIsmoke screen and national prohibition
act; Lester Carter, Raymond Moten
alias Lester Carter, William Harris,
John Lloyd Marshall, George Tinney,
Luigi Dickviara and Harry Edgar Klapp,
national prohibition act; Melvin Lee
#Tippett, Thomas Laurie Jameson and
Selden G. OBryan, non-support of
Sminor child; Stanley johnson, Earl
sAOwens and Sylvester Gordon, joyriding;
flames Msrcelius Coates, William Beall,
Walter Turk, Joseph Warren Wilkinson,
Charles Sinclair, Robert Philip Burgess,
Joseph Reid, Harry A. West and Rob-
EBert Jackson q cases., housebreaking
hand larceny; Elzear j. Howder, William
sBElson Brown, Floyd willis and Ray
8mond Smith Cotton. robbery; Harry
SWellS, Lewis Harry Wilson and James
Henry White, assault with dangerous
N weapon; Cornelius Gross and william
johnson. robbery and assault with a
dangerous weapon; James Metz and
Thomas Jefferson Buchanan, assault
|aRith dangerous weapon; John Roy Berg,
assault with intent to commit carnal
knowledge.