Evening star., 1933-12-13
Pair Held in New York in Plot
to Violate Law on Sell
ing Offices.
DISTRICT JURY RETURNS
FOUR MURDER CHARGES
Extradition Proceedings Started
Against Filipino Accused of Col
lecting Federal Job Fee.

Two men recently arrested in New
York in connection with an alleged
patronage racket were indicted by the
District grand jury today on charges
Of conspiring to violate a Federal act
to prevent the purchase and sale of
public offices.
The men are Porfirio U. Sevilla, q
Filipino, and Francis r. Ziesse, who
was identified as Sevilla's secretary
Extradition proceedings will be started
at once.
The indictment charges the two with
obtaining various sums of money from
four men in Brooklyn, N. Y, after
promising to place them in lucrative
Government jobs with the N. r. A.,
Public Works. or other Federal agencies.
Department Of Justice Agents Louis
Loebl and Earl M. Black, who investi-
gated preceding the arrests, are under
stood to have told the grand jury
Sevilla charged fees ranging from $50
to $40 for each job application placed
through him. 1t is alleged he was to
receive $500 for each appointment he
succeeded in securing.
Payment Explained.
In the course Of his discussions with
the various job seekers, Sevilla is said
TO have told them part of the money
they paid was used in entertaining
f,rOninpy1f Can tore uhpca &c
on the job applications were essential.
Sevilla, who Is %, is alleged to have
represented himself as chairman of the
Latin American division of the Demo-
cratic National Committee in communi-
cations to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation in behalf of the job seek
erS. He is said to have addressed one
of these letters to Jesse Jones, chairman
Of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton.
The grand jury also returned two first
degree and two second degree murder
indictments. James Preston Love and
John Dorls, both colored, were charged
with second degree murder. Love was
accused of killing Norman johnson,
colored. with a butcher knife November
26. Dorna was charged with the fatal
shooting of Cornelius Hall, colored, on
the same day.
Louis jackson, colored, was charged
with the first-degree murder of Utells
Brown, colored, on November 81. The
other first-degree murder indictmen,
charged Catherine Bowen, colored. with
stabbing Henry l.. Estep, also colcred
on November %.
Others Indicted.
Others indicted. with the charges
against them. were:
William Edward Gallagher, non-sup-
port; William G. Pond and Fred l.
Hazelwood, joy-riding; Clarence Back
and Theophil Tiverney, joy-riding and
grand larceny: Frank Stroman, Harry
E. Thomas, Arthur A. Wilson, Mar
cellus Glascoe. Albert c. Day and Will
bur Thomas. housebreaking and lar
ceny; Vincent Flaherty, HOUSEKEEPING;
Francis Contee, James Marshall, Forrest
w. Harler, Howard C. Redlick, William
S. Palmer, Frank Williams, Phillip
Sharp, James Harmon and Raymond
Barnes, robbery; Henry Stevens and
William Jones, robbery and housebreak-
ing and larceny; Leon Sutton, William
Brown and John Lackutoff, assault with
intent to commit robbery; Daniel Smith,
George Noisette, Frank Stroman, LIE
Roy Odens. Christos Dello, John Walker
and Milton Kelley, assault with a dan
gerous weapon; James Hawkins, smoke
screen; John G. Knox, embezzlement;
Hubert S. Hutchins and Anna M. Sny-
der, forgery and uttering; Charles
Pelinger, violation white slave act;
Louise Richardson, false pretenses, and
Mary Lillian Gray and Mary Medeline
Davis, abortion.
The following were cleared Of the
charges indicated:
Ewell Beane and Walter C. Brady,
joy-riding Julius Jones, assault with a
dangerous weapon: Raymond Barnes,
robbery, and David Frank Tipp, homi-
eide.