Evening star., 1934-04-18
Woman in List After Pre-
vious Body'S Failure
to Act.
METHODS ARE CHANGED
IN PRESENTING CASES
Spectacular G Street Round-ups,
Which Had Been Ignored, and
Ninth Street Arrests on List.


dictments against % men and one
woman arrested in nine raids.
previous grand jury had refused to
several times delays and technicalities
caused adverse Police Court action.
The indictment followed sharp de-
parture in the methods of presenting
the cases to the jury. Hundreds Of
witnesses, many Of them reluctant tc
testify, were paraded before the former
grand jury. In presenting the charge.
during the last week, however, as
sistants of United States Attorney
Leslie c. Garnett, brought in only
key witnesses and had police take be-
fore the jurors the gambling devices
seized. In one case, five officers wert
required to carry heavily reinforced
trap door into the jury room.
All the raids were made by the head
quarters squad headed by Lieut.
George NJ Little and all, but one were
in the downtown section Of the city.
Raids on G Street.
The two most spectacular raids
were made simultaneously on adjoin-
ing premises in the busy l400 block
of G street at the height of the after
noon rush hour, February %. About
100 persons were arrested in each
place after police had cut through
walls and dropped through skylightS
Both these cases had been ignored by
the March term grand jury, but re-
suited in indictments today.
Alleged principals in one case were
Edward J. COLDER, 81: William c.
Bryne, 80; Mack N. Handracks, 40
and John Maddox. Those charged
as a result of the other raid were
Leo z. Wallach, SO; John Papofotis,
Al: Frank W. Hicks. 29; John Moore,
"a; Hugh F. Gallagher, 33. and
Robert j. Forbes, 35.
The other case ignored by the for
mer grand jury was that growing out
of a raid February q in the 900
block of Ninth street Those indicted
today in this case were Victor Juliano,
"a. and William Baroni, alias Clark
P. Stockstill. Two other men arrested
in the same raid were indicted about
a month ago They were Wilbur
Dorsey and Thomas W. Simon.
Five men arrested in a raid in the
500 block of G street April IL are
named in another indictment. They
are Charles Everett McWhirt, 80;
James r. Miller, 27; William Garner,
"a; Harry White, 33, and Albert c.
Gibson, 80.
Two Are Cleared.
The jury ignored charges against
Parker H. Murphy, 36, and Richard D.
Ours, &c. but indicted Charles w. Lee,
go, and Howard Fowler, 38, who were
taken in a raid in the TOO block OF
North Capitol street New Year day.
A raid in the 1900 block of Four
teenth street March 16 brought indict-
ments against four men. They are
Alfred Jones, 80; Joseph U. Curtis
81; Arthur Washington, 4S, and
Thomas A. Bryant, 23
Carroll P. Nuckolls, "a. and Harry
C. Adams were indicted on the basis
of raid March % In the 300 block
of Ninth street.
The last gambling indictment is
against Benjamin Livingston, 36, and
Adolph Olewack, 27, both arrested
when police raided premises in the
300 block of D street.
Thomas E. Archer, At, of the 1900
block of Euclid street, and J. George
McAlwee, 81, of the 100 block of
Park road, former c. w. A. super
visors, were indicted on a charge of
conspiracy to commit petit larceny.
They are alleged to have received
money from C. w. A. employees on the
pretext of saving their jobs for them.
Both men had been liberated on
the same charges at Police Court
hearing several weeks ago. McAlwee
is reported to have left the city since
then.
The first two indictments charging
violation of the 1884 liquor tax law
were handed down by the grand
jurors Under the indictments, three
persons are charged with possessing
liquor bearing no stamps indicating
the contents or showing that the tax
had been paid. They are Frank
Marano, II, arrested April 7, at his
home in the 300 block of Third street,
and Mary Brown, colored. %, Of the
first block of Maderson court, and
Anna Giles, colored, 81, of the 500
block of Second street, both arrested
at the latter address.
Miss Eula H. Puckett, 68, of the
HOO block of Eleventh street, was in
dicted on a forgery charge. She is
alleged to have forged the name of
Mrs. Anna Berger, an 83-year-old
neighbor, living at 1882 Eleventh
street, in an attempt to borrow money
on property owned by Mrs. Berger
The jury failed to indict in the case
of the death of Fred Davis, 17-year-
old messenger boy, who was killed in
a fall down an elevator shaft in a
building in the 1000 block of E street
December 49,
Others indicted were:
William johnson, grand larceny
James j. Mclaughlin, grand larceny;
Lewis Cook. grand larceny; James
Jackson and Howard w. Adams, two
cases of robbery; Vincent Curry, as
sault with dangerous weapon; James
Hampton. assault with a dangerous
weapon; Robert ]. Paul and James w.
Hebron, two cases of HOUSEKEEPING
and larceny; William r. Pearson, alias
George Tucker, housebreaking and
larceny; John Ward, carnal knowl-
edge; Elizabeth Ferguson, perjury;
Giles Edmund W. Cowan, embezzle-
ment; Benjamin N. Gary, embezzle-
ment and grand larceny; Pearl l..
Gray, embezzlement of postal funds,
and Herbert Bradmon, passing coun-
.erfeit money.
The following cases were ignored ::
Russell Estelle. grand larceny; Willie
johnson, assault with a dangerous
weapon; HeSkie Bryant, assault with
q dangerous weapon; Michael Swee-
ney. forgery and uttering; Percy E.
Johnston. homicide: John Doe. man.
slaughter. and Payton johnson, man.
slaughter.