Evening star., 1934-02-06
GAMING CRUSADE
GETS SETBACK BY
ACT|ONOF JURORS
Grand Jury Refuses to In.
dict Five Taken in Spec
tacular Raid.
HANDLING OF WITNESSES
BRINGS FORTH PROTEST
Cab Driver Charged With Man
slaughter in Death of
Pedestrian.

The recently inaugurated gambling
crusade in Washington received a
severe setback today as the District
grand jury refused to indict five men
implicated in gambling activities by
police after a spectacular raid two
weeks ago at 1910 H street.
There were reports that some Of
the grand jurors objected to the man.
ner in which approximately 80 wit
nesses were handled at police head
quarters. where they were taken after
being arrested when found in the
establishment at the time of the raid.
Four of the men cleared by the
grand jury were charged with setting
up gaming tables by police following
the raid They are Leon Cohan.
Thomas McClaine, John Sylvester
Macaboy and William Cunningham.
The fifth, Zachariah T. (Zebbie)
Goldsmith, we'll known local sports
man. was named in the warrant used
by the police as occupant" of the
raided premises. He was not arrested.
Found Gaming Equipment.
The raid was one of very few made
on a warrant issued by United States
Commissioner Needham C. Turnage.
When police finally gained entrance
to the elaborately furnished estab-
]ishment on the fourth floor of the
building, they found large quantity
of gambling equipment and more than
so men in the place.
The men were loaded into police
vans and taken to headquarters for
the usual routine questioning, which
required several hours. Many of the
witnesses said they were crowded into
a room too small to accommodate
them, and one man said he was held
although supposed to be home with
sick wife.
Lieut.. George M. Little, who ham
died the raid, issued the following
statement:
If there was any delay it was due
to the unwillingness of the individuals
to make explanations of why they
were there and also an unWillingness
to make their identities known. With
81 men to question. it would neces-
sarily take time to question them all
Every one can see what they went
there for"
Sought "Higher-ups."
One of the witnesses said they were
held from 3 o'clock in the afternoon
until nearly IL: 80 that night. He said
the witnesses that were called before
the grand jury complained of this
alleged mistreatment to the jurors.
The raid was made in an effort to
oollnI irb ht,f
the unfavorable action of the grand
in procedure
Ray Elliss Childress, cab driver,
was charged with manslaughter in
connection with the traffic death De-
cember 10 Of John Darcangelo, who
was knocked down by Childress' cab
at Third and K streets northeast.
John Green, colored, was charged
with rSt-degree murder in connection
with the fatal stabbing of his wife,
Luvenia Green, January II. Percy E.
Johnston, also colored, was indicted
for second-degree murder in connec-
ton with the fatal stabbing January
IL Of John g. Brandford.
List Of Other Indictments.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, were:
Frank Geraci. non-support; Roy
McCloud, joyriding Callie w. Ben
nett, John H. MacKey and Harry E.
Goss, housebreaking, larceny and joy
riding; Albert F. Berry, Lucy Pollard
Lloyd Green, Thomas J. Russell. John
A. Ingram, Henry Brown, Charles
Jones, Keese Milford and John Will
liams, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
Tene Bimbo, Bennie Davis, Mildred
Mayo. Irving Parker, Walter Logan
and Emmett Richards, grand larceny;
Bernard o. Mahoney, Joseph A. Gross.
robbery, and Theodore Lawson Sand
bo, violation of the white slave traffic
act.
The following were cleared of the
charges indicated:
Lewis Bradshaw, grand larceny;
Herman Richardson. William Murray,
Joseph w. Clark and Lester Morton,
robbery: Murray Sullivan and George
E. Kumbo, assault with dangerous
weapon: Ruth Byrd, mayhem: Lester
B. English, bribery. and Robert Chap
man and Charles R. Smith homicide