Evening star., 1933-11-01
OFFICERS INDICTED
IN EXTORT|ON CASE
INVOLVING $50 SUM
Policemen SChIeiChert and
Bauer Charged 48 Hours
After Arrest.
TWO EMBEZZLEMENT
COUNTS ARE RETURNED
Bookkeeper Admits Taking Ap.
proximately $45,OO0 in
10 Years.

Two policemen-arrested only AZ
hours before-Were charged with eX-
tortion in an indictment returned in
District Supreme Court today by the
grand jury.
The indictment named Policemen
Harry G. Bauer and Rudolph Schlel-
ebert of the police liquor squad who
allegedly eXtorted $50 from a rum run
ner as a fee for not pressing a liquor
arrested by Capt. James E. Bobo and
EieutS. Oscar j. Letterman and Emil
Desch after the alleged rum runner,
Alfred H. Dudley, had told United
States Attorney Leo A. Rover of the
supposed eXtortion attempt.
A plan was devised to trap the sus-
pected policemen, and Dudley met
them at Eighth and l. streets Monday
morning He handed them an envelope
containing $50 in marked money and
the policemen, after they allegedly &C
cepted it, were arrested by their three
superiors who had watched the trans
action from a moving van parked
across the street.
Averill Admits Charges.
Wilbur N. Averill, former bookkeeper
at the Northeast Savings Bank, was
charged with embezzling S14783 from
thdC 1nStlluClCn. he Is SdlO 10 nave
admitted that he took approximately
S45000 from the bank over 1O-year
period and lost it gambling. He told
authorities that he operated by cashing
checks outside the bank and destroying
them as they reached him at his own
bank after clearance.
Another embezzlement indictment
was returned against John Francis
Cook, former teller at the United States
Savings Bank. He is alleged to have
stolen Sl,700 during March.
Arthur Warden, colored, was indicted
for murder in connection with the
death CT Wilfred Thompson following
a fight September 26 First degree
murder was also charged against Alice
Dixon, colored. who is said to have
fatally stabbed Writ Grimes, colored,
. few months ago.
Others indicted. with the charges
against them, were:
Other Indictments.
Bernard Feinstein, William Perry
Beckwith and Allen @. D. Harpine,
non-support; John Williams. Charles
c. Evans, James Bledsoe, Roy G.
Thompson and Dale Richards, grand
larceny; Carl C. Vaughn, Dale Rich
ards, Elwood A. Posselt, William G.
Scott, Percy Irwin, John w. Kinkaid,
William H. Parker. John R. Parker
and George R. Watts, HOUSEKEEPING
and larceny; Dale Richards, bigamy;
Louis B. Bord, housebreaking: William
H. Parker, John R. Parker. Harvey H
Frederick and James E. Ferrier, joy
riding and grand larceny; Lester Black
well, Raymond Brown, Thomas Harris,
William Rector and James E. Thomas,
joyriding: Charles P Young, Clarence
Ravnell, James w. Lewis and Nathaniel
Branch, robbery: Robert Jackson, Lloyd
Hamilton, Sadie Shields, Charles jack
son and George Thomas, assault with
a dangerous weapon; Henry Smith,
Milford Ware, George West and Ray
mond Allen, carnal knowledge, and Ida
v. Dove, manslaughter.
The jury cleared the following of the
charges indicated:
Morton A. Haley Maurice c. Haley
and Gus M. Maurer, joyriding; John L.
Agnew, receiving stolen property; Mel
vim Neal and Willie Sinms. assault with
a dangerous weapon; William Shep
herd, jr, violation of section 842, D.
c. Code; Thomas Healy, embeZzlement,
and John Oberleitner, homicide.