Evening star., 1934-02-20
INDICTED
.0NPERSH|NGBUST
SW|NDLE CHARGE
Accused of Fraudulent Use
of Mails in Soliciting
Funds for Artist.
13 PERSONS DETAINED
ON NARCOTIC COUNTS
Accused Were Taken in Roundup
of Federal and D. G. Officers
Last January.

Alfred M. Layton, charged with
swindling more than a score of prom
inent men in the Gen. Pershing bust
racket" was indicted by the District
grand jury today for alleged fraudu-
lent use of the mails.
Layton, who lives at the Kennedy
Warren apartments, is said to have
written letters to some $4,000 persons
soliciting funds for the purchase Of
the famous Moses Dykarr bust Of Gen
Pershing for presentation to the
American people through President
Roosevelt.
Those said to have contributed in
clude Alfred z. Smith, Charles C.
Dawes, Andrew w. Mellon, w. w. At
terbury, William Randolph Hearst,
Ogden L. Mills, George W. Wicker
sham and Alfred P. Sloan, jr.
AIIegedIy Exceeded Authority.
1t is alleged that Mai. Gen. George
o. Squire, at the suggestion of Dy-
karr, engaged Layton to solicit funds
from approximately so men for the
purchase of the bust. Layton al
legedly exceeded his instructions and
wrote nearly $4,000 letters soliciting
money.
After he had been arrested by De-
tective Sergt. Earl P. Hartman, an
investigation was made, resulting in
the assertion that he had raised ap-
proXimately S11 900.
Dykarr, for whose benefit the money
was being raised, committed suicide
last March in New York City. Ap-
parently this was not known to the
sponsors of the fund-raising campaign,
as the drive went forward several
months after his death.
ClimaXing one of Washington's most
extensive narcotic drives, the jury also
returned 13 indictments charging vio-
lations Of the Harrison narcotic act.
Those indicted are Mrs Lorraine
Homer, 80. of 80 Bryant street: John
Bates, Harry Stein. Alfred Maggie,
James Snow. Joseph Samuel Cohen,
Fannie Maggie, Sophie Perrin, Charles
Perrin, May Lee. Charles Dixon, Anna
Reed and John Histon.
Those indicted we're arrested as the
result Of an undercover investigation
started last January Is by Federal
narcotic agents and Metropolitan DO
lice. The arrests were made in va
rious parts of the city and, accord
ing to the investigators, have to a
large extent broken up the drug
traffic here.
Stein, also known as Harry Altman,
was shot while being placed under
arrest ar TTTinV hrv
Agent Thomas F. Maxwell. Max
well reported he shot Stein after
the latter had reached for his hip
pocket when placed under arrest
This arrest was made in December
preceding the January drive.
An indictment also was returned
against Erie whittemore, who is al
legged to have secured money from
two women in I.andover, Md, by tell
ing them he would put to music any
verses they might send him. The
women allegedly paid him a fee for
services which were not rendered.
Other Indictments.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, were:
William A. Manuel, non-support;
Wiloura Bowman, John Kalafut and
Kenneth Lloyd, joy-riding and grand
larceny; Samuel Williams, Lester
Blackwell, Eddie Holloway and Willie
Williams, joy-riding; Willie williams,
smoke screen; Louis Zimmerman,
Louis Snyder Richardson, James Carl
Williams, Murray Blake Vermillon,
Walter Peteet, Hugh Nelson Hutche-
son. Charles Potter Hayes, James
Carl Williams, Horace NJ. Justus and
John j. Reisner, robbery; william W.
White, Tene Binbo, Howard j. Law
less, Edward H. Robinson and Levi
Williams, grand larceny; Edward J.
Murphy. Arthur Davis. william Earl
Proctor. Wesley Z. Smith, Fenton
A. Colbert, George Payson, John j.
Kelley and Daniel z. Shea, house
breaking and larceny; John Mathews,
Eugene Durant, James Seay, Leroy
Taylor and William Mccoy, assault
with intent to commit robbery; Hugh
r. Duffey, Robert Neal, Morton A.
Haley, Christopher Metz, Edward
Morris and Ralph Owens, assault
with dangerous weapon.
Daniel Redman and Norman Baker,
receiving stolen property; Ralph ow-
ems, rape: Jack B. McAllister, IT., vio-
lation of Section 851-b D. c. code;
Geneva Jones, abortion, and William
CEsell, manSlaughter
Cleared by Jury.
The jury cleared the following of
the charges stated:
James A. King, George Crawford
and William Andrew Allen, joy-riding;
Irving Parker, grand larceny; Julia
Russell and Phillip Peyton, house
breaking; Joseph G. Collins, Walter
c. Cook, Ray Sisk and Beatrice H.
Carroll, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
Aloysius Wharton, Maurice ]. Mickey
and Frederick Stewart, robbery;
Leother Green and Melvin A. Moxley,
larceny from the District of Colum-
bia; James A. King. smoke screen;
Francis E. Hall, James McNair and
Mathews Hager, assault with a dan
gerous weapon: James Jackson, carnal
knowledge; Lillian Maddox and John
FerClson Taylor, violation of the Har-
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