Evening star., 1933-12-20
warning IS FREED
IN NALLEY Staying;
Jury FAILS TO ACT
Investigating Group Refuses
to Indict i'm Wunder Bar
Club Shooting.
DEATHBED STATEMENT
RESULTED In ARREST
Police Witnesses Testified Of Guar.
rel Preceding U Street
Death.

Charles rags" Warning, "a, arrested
in the Staying of Joseph Na1ley, was
freed today when the District grand
jury refused to indict him,
Warning has been under arrest since
Nalley was shot to death early on the
morning of November Z in the Wunder
Bar Mite Club, Tenth and U streets
Nalley, identified as the "strong-arm"
man for a local gambler. was struck in
the chest by two of four pistol bullets
fired at him from close range as some
200 patrons Of the establishment looked
on.
When police reached the club most of
the patrons had disappeared. Nalley
was taken to Freedmen's Hospital,
where he mumbled an incoherent state
ment before he died Warning, who, with
the aid Of two companions, were said
to have consumed 80 bottles of beer in
the club before the shooting, left be-
fore the officers arrived.
After talking with two employees at
the club and receiving Nalley's dying
statement, however, police broadcast a
lookout for Warning, Don Wallace and
Victor Juliano. The latter two were
with Warning at the club before the
shooting.
Watchman Reports Quarrel.
In the meantime, Macon Payne,
special officer at the club, told police
that shortly before the shooting, Nalley
said to Warning: Lets go outside and
settle this now" The two men started
toward the door, Payne said, but be-
fore they reached it, four shots were
fired and Nalley fell
Subsequently, Warning and his two
companions surrendered to police.
While they were being held at head
quarters, according to the officers,
Warning was identified as the man who
fired the shots by Courtney Thomas,
19-year-old colored hostess ct the club.
At the coroner's inquest, however, the,
girl failed to identify Warning as the
slayer. A few days later, she told
police she was afraid" and Assistant
United States Attorney Charles B.
Murray ordered her arrested as a pre-
cautionary measure.
Warning, on advice Of his attorney,
refused to make any statement at the
inquest. Other witnesses said he and
Nalley talked for IS minutes before
the shooting, returning then to their
respective tables. A few minutes later,
according to police, Warning arose and
walked over to Nalleys table, where
the two men stood staring at each
other. The shots we're fired shortly
afterward.
Nalley, who was "a, lived at 1903
M street. He had been urG1er arrest
so times for various offenses. The
grand Jury had been investigating the
case for several weeks before taking
action today.
Exonerated in Death.
The grand jury also exonerated Lloyd
Van Kirk In the death Of Eugenia
when struck by Van Kinks automobile
November at Third street and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
Sarah Wins, 80, colored, was indicted
for first-degree murder in connection
with the fatal shooting November 80 of
Mabel Snyder, also colored, at 9o9 Sixth
street southeast.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, are:
william J. Quirk, non-support;
ior johnson, joy-riding; James H. Har
ley, joy-riding and grand larceny;
George w. Rhine, James S. Stringer,
william P. Green and George L. Will
lams, grand larceny; Theodore jackson,
Marcellus Glascoe, Alfonzo Frazier,
Henry j. Handy and Charles W. Baker,
housebreaking and larceny; Nathan
Strong and Luther chatham, house
breaking; Charles w Baker, forgery and
uttering; Henry Small and James Curtis,
robbery; Harry Simon, assault with in
tent to commit robbery; Anna NJ.
Snyder, false pretenses, and John Bull
Snively, incest. =.
The jury exonerated the following Of
the charges indicated:
James wilford, Mary Jordon, Eliza
beth Bright, Bertha Boxley and Henry
johnson, joy-riding; James Smith,
housebreaking; James M. Wheeler and
Raymond H. Hammer. housebreaking
and larceny; Edna j. johnson, grand
larceny; Lester Thomas and Isaac Con-
tee, robbery, and Orin T, Whiting and
Howard Nolan, receiving stolen prop
erty.