Evening star., 1933-12-29
D. {. GRAND Jury
|ND|CTS D. N. ROLL
ON FRAUD CHARGE
Alleged to Have SWindIed
Former Senators Owen
and Hatfield.
POLICEMEN J. R. LIE FOE
AND H. |. WOODS HELD
Charge Against Solomon Matlin
in Mail Fraud Case
Upheld.


swindled several prominent public OIL
cials of large sums of money, was in
dicted by the District grand jury today
on charges of false pretenSeS and
forgery and uttering.
Among those he is said to have vic
timized are former Senator Robert l..
Owen of Oklahoma, who is said to have
lost approximately $4,000, and John l..
Hatfield, former West Virginia State
Senator, who repeatedly paid to Roll
comparatively small sum.
Ford Affidavit Shown.
The indictment charges that Roll,
after exhibiting a purported contract
between himself and Henry Ford. au-
thorizing Roll to lease Muscle Shoals
for S88, 900 900, asked his intended vic
tins to advance him money. offering In
return to assign them a portion OF his
interest in the contract.
It is understood the grand jury was
shown an affidavit from Mr.. Ford in
which the contract was branded as
fraudulent.
Roll also carried an allegedly forged
letter from the late Senator Dwight
Morrow of New Jersey, which he IS said
to have used in furtherance of his
scheme. He was arrested several weeks
ago at the Shoreham Hotel after
lengthy investigation by Louis Loebl and
Earle M Black, special agents of the
division of investigation OF the Depart
ment of Justice.
Another indictment charged Motor
Cycle Policemen John R. LeF'oe and
Henry L. Woods with eXtorting $40
from Wayne B. King, 720 Girard street.
The policemen were arrested after
King told police officials he had been
asked to pay $40 in return for having
q traffic charge against him dropped.
Four men captured recently by De-
tective Sergt. Frank o. Brass after a
gun battle in the Arlington Hotel, were
charged in another indictment with
robbery. Those indicted are James
. Earl Neal, Leslie F. Williams, John
Marshall Tabler and Lawrence E. NC
Nally. They are alleged to have taken
a pistol and $40 from the Arlington
Hotel apartment of Tom Moore, local
sportsman, on December 20.
Neal and Williams were charged In
another indictment with robblng Her
liable stickpin at the Raleigh Hotel
last August 81. Neal also was charged
with obtaining a small sum OF money
from Mrs. Anna Mitchell during a
hold-up in her home at 912 Sixth
street last June.
Matlin Charged With Fraud.
Alleged to have defrauded Brook
avn. N. Y, family Of more than S5,UOo
after winning the affections of daugh-
ter. Solomon Matlin was charged with
using the mails to defraud. He IS al
legged to have met Miss Sadie Green
baum in Brooklyn in 1880. He proposed
marriage to her and she accepted. he
Is then alleged to have induced ner'
1oa,- fot
ris. to advance him approximately
$4,000 to be used in securing a patent
for an improvement to laundry ma
chimes. He is alleged TO nave SEM 70
ent, but, according to the Indictment,
did not secure it and did not return the
money. 100000
First-degree murder was charged
against Melvin Strothers, Carroll w.
Broadus, Milton E. Terry and Arthur
Leigh. all colored, in connection with
The fatal shooting Of George Hatch our
ing an attempted robbery November ":
The Jurors refused to indict Fred =.
Williamson, who had been charged W1th
attempting to obtain S125 from Elmer
w. Holland, ST., local patent attorney
WilliamSon's fiancee, Leila MorrlSon'
28. was fatally wounded in his apart
ment last Summer by bullet accl-
dentally fired by Hollands son. Inc
latter was found not guilty In connec,
tion with the shooting after trlal
IN District Supreme Court. William
eon claimed he asked for the money
to help defray the girls funeral ex-
nenses but police said he told the
{ather Young Holland would be put
on the spot" unless the money was
paid. to,+ for r.
prvan Pitts. former head OF the r. h.
smith Co., was exonerated on charge
of false pretenses. The charge in
volyed the cashing Of $lOO cheek
Others Indicted.
Others indicted, with the charges
e chauncev Ashton and William Lee
Allen, ioyriding; Harry Lee Splitter,
Grand larceny: John Frank Briggs ana
larceny; Benjamin Haskins. Els
worth Jefferson and Thomas Arthur
Klimik, robbery; Gus Curtis Smith,
Charles w. Tucker and Brady H. Rldg-
lev. assault with a dangerous weapon;
Louis Dinkin, receiving stolen property;
William B. Patterson, assault with In.
tent to commit rape; Albert Drexel
Holmes. violation of national motor We
hicle theft act, and Samuel Robert
Foltz, jr., and Willhimena Brown
forgery and uttering.
The iury cleared the following OF the
charges indicated:
Fred M. Brooks, housebreahng and
larceny; Loveless Yarber, assault with
a dangerous weapon, and David Booker,