Evening star., 1934-05-29
.FIRST-DEGREEM MURDER
INDICTMENTS RETURNED
Other Defendants Face Gaming
Charges, Larceny, Housebreak-
ing and Other Counts.


ago. There were also numerous
bruises and contusions on his head
Mrs. Lytle was held for grand jury
| action after an inquiry by the coro-
ners jury. 1t was testified there that
her fingers were so tightly entwined
in the mans necktie that police were
forced to cut the tie to release her.
Says Husband Attacked Her.
Attracted by the woman's screams
| and means, neighbors called police
who found Lytle lying face down on
the floor of the furnace room, his
wife beside him. She told police her
husband had asked her to 20 down
to the basement with him. When
they reached the furnace room, she
said, he grabbed her hand and held
her despite ner efforts to break aWay
Mrs. Lytle said she screamed for help
for nearly an hour before neighbors
heard her.
Mrs. Lytle, on advice of her attor-
ney, Charles E. Ford, did not testify
at the inquest, but submitted a writ
ten statement to the effect that she
did not know how her finger became
entwined in the necktie. An investi-
CATION showed the finger was badly
swollen.
Murder Indictments Returned.
Harry M. Duval, colored, was
| charged with first degree murder in
two indictments based on the fatal
shooting April % of a white man and
a colored man.
Duval allegedly shot and killed
James johnson, colored, at Ninth and
M streets after an argument over a
woman. Running from the scene
according to police, Duval passed
| Newell r. Styles, IS, 141O Military
ROAD. who was getting out of his car
The colored man, it is alleged. asked
Styles what he was looking at and
then shot him without waiting for a
reply.
Charges of assault with intent to
commit robbery, joy-riding and alb.
duction were lodged against two mer
who allegedly held up and robbed
David T. Burgh, 1901 K street, and
then forced him to drive to Sunny
side, Md, where they stripped him
tied him to tree and abandoned him
Those named In the indictment are
George Murphy. "a. and John Dono-
hue, 20, both of Baltimore The hold
up allegedly occurred May 5 at Nine
teenth and l streets.
After being fastened to the tree all
night, clad only in his underclothes
Burgh finally freed himself and Sc
cured aid at nearby farm house.
First-Degree Murder Charge.
Leonard Smith, colored, was charged
with first-degree murder in connec-
| tion with the shooting April 81 oi
Ernest E. Nelson, also colored, and
five other men, three of whom are
white, were charged as accessories
after the fact.
Nelson was shot at 1923 P street
Smith told police Nelson came to his
apartment and threatened him, and
that he shot in self-defense. Ear
Gray Funk, Leo Warning, Charles
Warning, all white, and Clarence
Eugene Ross and Andrew jackson al
legedly put Nelson's body in a truck
and took it to Montgomery County
where it was left beside the road. They
were charged as accessories after the
fact. The Warnings, according to the
Government, followed behind the
truck in an automobile with a girl
companion.
Michael P. Drain was charged with
operating bucket shop" under the
firm name of Leucker & Co.. in the
Mills Building after Tomas Gale, an
employe of the Spanish embassy, had
complained that he gave Drain large
sums of money to purchase stocks or
margin and that Drain had failed tc
account to him for this money. II
is claimed the book balance should
have shown $28, 900 in Gales favor.
Indicted on Gaming Charges.
George William Stephens, 81, and
David Rones. A, arrested in a recent
gambling raid at 514 Tenth street
were indicted on gaming charges As
the alleged operators of the estab-
lishment.
! Harold Bates Busser, former book
keeper at the Northeast Motor Co.
920 Bladensburg road. was charged
with embezzlement in connection with
an alleged shortage of $40 in his ac-
counts
Three colored men, said to have
offered Policeman R. L. Eubank OF
the eleventh precinct 50 to release a
girl he had arrested on charge OF
drunkenness, were indicted for bribery
They are Bernard P jackson, Walter
Ward and Waverly Sellers.
Other Indictments.
Others indicted. with the charges
against them, were:
Larry E. Allen, James c. Williams
Charles E., Smith and James Davis
Joy-riding; Clarence L. Butler and
Elkton M. Skinner, joy-riding and
grand larceny; Nathaniel Pannell
Thomas Williams, Joseph w. Little
Jay w. Nelson, Grady E.. Barnes
Roosevelt Rogers, Sylvester Gray, Al
bert Brown, william Gibson, Mar
garet Gibson and Frank Lee Vines
grand larceny; Calvin D. Smith
housebreaking; Oscar r. Neale, Eddie
| GLADDEN., Raymond F. Pennington
| Harry A. Young, Horace G. Williams
Daniel Anderson and Francis N. Fow-
Ter, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny.
Almond Macon, robbery; Douglas
Jones. Nose Massey and John Hodge
assault with dangerous weapon;
William c. Jackson, assault with q
dangerous weapon and assault with
intent to kill; James T. Stanton, Jo-
seph w. King, June Martinez, Walter
Thomas Hart, Fred Martinez, Beau.
ford Findley, John r. Shipley. Mar
garet Shipley and James L. Neverson