Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02
President of Sigma Chi Chap
ter and Roommate Held
by Grand Jury.
.FIRST-DEGREE MURDER
IS CHARGED TO M'AVOY
Woman Who Shot Colored Sweet
heart Convinces Jurors Kill.
ing Was an Accident.

EAAocie oiiAtAi, 20, president OF the
District chapter of the Sigma Chi Fra
ternity, and his roommate, Edward j.
partition, %, we're indicted by the grand
jury today on charges they started the
fire which virtually destroyed the or
CARNATIONS local headquarters at 1912
N street.
The indictment, one Of many re-
ported in District Supreme Court, was
the result Of police Investigation.
which was said to have revealed gasoline
had been sprinkled through the fra
ternity house Immediately before the
blaze
After their inquiry, the police &C
cused Smith and PARTON of having
purchased the gasoline shortly before
the flre. but the young men denied this,
asserting they were out OF the city at
the time. The indictment charges
tnem with arson. The blaze occurred
July 9.
In one Of the other indictments re-
turned by the grand Jury, Charles Nc
Avoy, 81, of 635 Eleventh street north
east was charged with first-degree muir
der IN the shooting Of Frank Snow, 80,
OF 744 Ninth street.
Indicted Man Wounded.
McAvoy, 1t was alleged, shot Snow
after a quarrel on July 49, Snow was
shot three times a fourth bullet striking
bystander McAvoy also was wound
ed, shot by Policeman Ule Gale, who
flred to protect himself when, after
hearing the shots, he entered the Ninth
street pool room in which the gun play
occurred
The grand jurors refused to tndict
Frances Catherine Allen, 20, of 1929
Twelfth street, who had been held BY a
coroner's jury in connection with the
fatal shooting Of her colored sweetheart.
Albert Fletcher, "a. The shooting is al
legged to have occurred at Twelfth street
and New York avenue shortly after Miss
Allen learned the man she had known
Tor more than year was colored. The
young woman said the shooting was
accidental, resulting from an attempt
by Fletcher to take from her a gun
with which she had planned to take
her own life.
Park Policeman Vernon o. Goltry was
accused Of assault with a dangerous
weapon in two indictments as the re-
suit OF an alleged beating he gave
six boys at the Anacostia golf course
on the night Of July Z. The police
man Is said to have beaten the boys
with his service revolver.
Two MURDER Indictments.
William Smith, colored, was indicted
for flrst-degree murder in the shooting
OF Fannie Nelson, also colored, in Fen
ton place on July 9. An indictment
charging second-degree murder was re-
turned against Charles Thomas, colored,
who is alleged to have fatally stabbed
James Monroe, also colored, on July l.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, we're:
Brooks Ross Newton, Reginald Fair
fax Davis and George Henry Bannar,
non-support: Raymond Kelley, William
E. Curren, James Spradling and Phil
lip c. Irvine. grand larceny; Phillip
c. Irvine. Ernest j. Reaser, Milton H.
Harris, John T. Kenney, Frederick S.
Cole and Russell Pride, joyriding and
grand larceny; James Quinton Briggs,
William T. Mangum, John ]. Starnes
and Ernest j. Burkins. joyriding; Den
mis- Daniels and Emma James, grand
larceny and robbery; John Dallas
Lawrence, Jerry Page Tillman, Syl-
vester johnson and Henry Griffith,
robbery; Nicholas Hoffman, Theodore
Thornton. William Diggs, Ira Lee Gal
loway. Joseph Sullivan. Lawson Nc
Lane, William E. Curren, John Alex
ander. HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
Jordan Walter Mitchell, Osborne S.
Ludlow, Mabel Goodwin, Gupple Nc
Curry, Theodore Davis and William
Graham, assault with a dangerous
weapon; Victor Juliano and Isaiah
Edmonds, violation Of the national
prohibition act; william Acie Nc
Creary, violation of the white slave
traffic act; Jack John Staples, perjury;
William H. Ratcliff and Joseph Carter,
assault with intent to commit carnal
knowledge; William McClain. carnal
knowledge and assault with intent to
commit carnal knowledge, and Roger
E. Marion, false pretenses.
The grand jury cleared the following
of the charges indicated:
Otis Wilson, lie Roy Dyson and Dan
lei Harvey johnson, joyriding; Frank
Page and William Munaw, grand
larceny; Harold Levan, HOUSEKEEPING;
William Henry Page, James Montague,
William Thomas Owen, Leonard E.
George and Bessie Carter. assault with
q dangerous weapon; Samuel Owens
and Fred Gray, robbery; Thomas Law
renee, violation of section 851-B, D. c.
code; Charles Holt, Sidney R. Dulin,
william T. Wells and Thomas G. Bev-
erly, homicide; Julius Frese, assault
with intent to commit rape; Frederick
Hawkins, receiving stolen property;
William Jackson Franklin, arson, and
Benjamin R. Tizkowitz, violation OF
section 1886, D. c. code.