Evening star., 1934-07-18
CHARGE
DRAWS TRUE BILL
D. c. Grand Jurors Indict
Several for Gambling
and Larceny.

Charges OF false pretenses and
grand larceny were returned by the
District grand jury today against Will
liam H. Little, former employe OF the
Western Union Telegraph Co.. who al
legedly obtained $500 from that con-
cern by sending fictitious messages to
Police say Little sent himself sew
eral kilograms on June is, clipped
from them the words necessary to
make up bogus order for 5000 and
then cashed the order at one of the
company's stations.
Gambling indictments were returned
against William A. Jones. 54 Edward
c. Rathel. 81. and Ernest p. Cham
bers. IS, as result of recent gaming
raids. Jones and Rathell were ar
rested in raid July 7 on an estab-
lishment in the 500 block OF H street
northeast. while Chambers was taken
into custody July IL when police
raided cigar store in the 1900 block
of Twentieth street.
Youth Charged With Larceny.
George r. Burns, Is, was charged
with larceny Of $500. He allegedly
was implicated in a plot whereby the
l4-year-old stepson Of John Di Do
minico, TOO block OF Tenth street
northeast, stole the money from the
elder mans pillow while he was sleep
ing July 4.
William Hood and Morris Pratt,
who allegedly broke into a grocery
store July II and store 3 cents
from the cash register, were indicted
on a charge Of housebreaking. They
we're also accused of JOY riding.
Charles L. Wyland was charged
with violating the Mann act. Police
say he transported Ruth M. Comley,
25, to various cities for immoral pur-
poses. She allegedly preferred the
charges against him after he took a
pet dog away from her.
Others Indicted.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, are:
George Mexican and Edmund p.
Molony, non-support: George r.
Anderson, Calvin Patterson, Joseph r.
Warner, Clarence E. Davis, Floyd
Mills, Bobby Jones and James Robin
son, Joy riding; Andrew Smith, house.
breaking; Raymond j. Howard, Henry
j. Carpenter. lie Roy d. Washington,
Milton B. Cureton. Purcell Green,
Robert Young, Herbert H. Wade, jr.;
Theodore johnson. Calvin Chase and
Horase Clayton, housebreaking and
Ia A fnx ~,
Neale Gary, Fabian B. Thomas,
Douglas Mcknight. George Wiley and
Ollin NJ Wiley, grand larceny.
Mon D. ZanoraS, Pete c. Pettas and
Boratious Drayton, assault with intent
to commit robbery; Arthur L. Peter
son, James Johnson, James L. Butler,
Milton Ketchum, Walter H. Bodkinson
and Stephen T. Bisler. robbery: Albert
Howard, Thomas Walker, Solomon
Govan, Lloyd e. Butler. Cormelia
Watron, Willie N. Howard and Isaac
Colesby, assault with a dangerous
weapon; Walter Camp, Charles Moore
and Harley B. Maddox, carnaf knowl-
edge and assault with intent to COM
init eafnal knowledge. s -
The grand jury cleared the follow
ing of the charges indicated:
Evelyn Jones, Arthur Wainwright,
Lille May Walker. Carl Holmes, John
H. Shields, Charlie Brown, Mary
washington and Herbert Thompson.
assault with dangerous weapon;
Alfonzo Harris, Carl Smith, Paul L.
HUNT and David c. Mooney joyrid-
ing; Horace Smith and Carlton. B.
Brown; housebreaking and larceny;
Benjamin F. williams and Henry
Brown, grand larceny; Maurice Stark,
assault with intent to commit robbery,
and Bernard L. Turner, robbery.