Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-08
COURT RESUMES
PARADERS' TRIAL
Petition Presented to Roose.
welt Asking Dismissal of
Inspector HeadIey.


staging parade Monday without a
permit, was resumed before Judge Gus
Schuldt in Police Court this afternoon
with the prosecutions case still uncom-
pleted. Although 38 persons were ar
rested, only IS were arraigned yester-
day, and the case against one man was
dismissed.
Before resumption of today's session,
10 men and women who figured in the
parade Tight called at the White House
to present petition demanding the
immediate dismissal Of Police Inspector
Albert Headley, whom they charged
with being responsible for the fight
They also asked the immediate release
OF their companions, whom they de-
clared were "brutally attacked by the
police"
The delegation was received by Col.
M. H. Mcintyre. President Roosevelt's
public contact secretary, who after lis
tening to their demands received the
petition on behalf Of the President and
said the matter would be given con-
sideration.
Those arrested took part in q march
from 1909 Eleventh street destined for
the District Building, where the par
Elephants intended to meet a commit
tee of 10 selected to petition the Com
missioners for increased unemployment
relief and equality of treatment be-
tween white and colored persons.
Stopped by Clubs.
They were stopped at Twelfth and P
streets by policemen with drawn clubs,
who arrested 38, of whom required
hospital treatment for cut and bruised
heads.
The prosecution occupied four and Q
half hours yesterday in presenting its
case. Judge Schuldt let all of the de-
PENDANTS out on personal bonds to re-
turn today. holding that they had al
ready suffered a day and half's con-
finement and some of them bore EVIL
dence Of rough handling.
Meanwhile, the Washington Commit
tee Of the American Civil Liberties
Union filed with the Commissioners q
written protest against the brutal
clubbing. as witnessed by representa-
tives OF this organization, of the unem-
ployed men and women who we're pa
rading.' The group also demanded the
dismissal of Inspector Headley, who the
protest claims, was directly responsible
for this brutality"
The communication urged the Com
missioners hereafter to enforce strict
compliance with the views expressed by
President Roosevelt, approving of pa
rades which do not interfere with traf-
flc, so that in future there will be no
repetition OF police violence which pro-
duces disorder rather than guarding
against it,
Jury Trial Denied.
At the trial yesterday Judge Schuldt
ruled the persons arrested were not en-
titled to jury trial.
Inc court strove to conflne the issues
sharply to whether the persons ar
raigned actually had paraded and
whether they actually had a written
permit to do so from the director Of
traffic
William A. Van Duzer and M. O.
Eldridgc, director and assistant director
OF traffic, testified no permit had been
issued. When it came to testing out
which OF the men and women had
paraded, however, great confusion
arose. A parade OF policemen filed on
10 the stand. Some Of them failed to
identity anybody as their prisoner.
Several OF than identified the same
man, each claiming to have been the
only one to arrest him
One man, Joseph Macdonald. colored.
was found by Pvt E. c. Rue lying in
the street with his head cut. Judge
Schuldt ruled this was not parading,
and as there was no evidence offered
TO connect him with the parade, the
case against Macdonald was dismissed.
The evidence against several others
also was vague. but Judge Schuldt re-
served his ruling until the end of the
trial. saying that he let Macdonald go
because OF his battered condition.
Olver Green, colored, was seen BY
Pvt. G. H. Tucker in custody of a
second policeman, according to fuckers
testimony. Tucker said he did not
know VINO the other policeman was,
and did not know whether his prisoner
had taken part in the parade.
Among those identified by police were
Robert E, Guyton; Charlie Edmonds,
| colored; Lester Gurley; William Harris,
colored; Frank Douglas. colored Noble
! Williams, colored; Leslie Ferguson:
John DeBarno; Mrs. Doro Short: Mrs.
Clara Speer and Mrs. Edith Bloom.
Commissioners subpoenaed.
David Levinson, defense attorney,
subpoenaed Commissioners Luther II.
Reiche!defer and John c. Gotwals in
an effort to show President Roosevelt
mad told them before the parade that
he had no objection to it. Gotwals
said he had not talked to the Presi-
dent, and Reicheldefer was not allowed
to answer questions on this point,
Judge Schuldt holding that he could
make no difference what the President
had said.
The judge likewise ruled out all at
tempts to question the policemen as to
the beating of those arrested. Half o
dozen of the defendants had bandaged
heads, black eyes, and other evidences
OF being beaten, but Judge Schuldt
stopped all questions on this point,
ruling that how the men were arrested
had nothing to do with the case.
In spite of the objection of Edward
M. Welliver, who was prosecuting, In
Spector Albert j. Headley, who led the
attack on the marchers, shouted loud
ly that he did not know anybody had
been beaten.