Evening star., 1934-07-02
Grand Jury Action Follows
Garnett's Pact With ,
Wire Services.
AUTOMOBILE DEALER
AND MANAGER CITED
Two Men Are Charged With
$1,646 Hold-Up at Heurich
Brewery in March.

ington gamblers, the District grand
jury today indicted IL men for al
legged infractions of the anti-gaming
laws.
1t was believed this action, coming
on the heels of compromise agree
ment worked out last week by United
States Attorney Leslie c.. Garnett.
will seriously cripple activities here
of local gamblers in the future.
Garnett obtained agreements from
two so-called news services and the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. which were expected to prevent
gambling establishments from obtain
ing information as to race track re-
suits.
Harry Smith. Winifred Jacob Flagg,
William O'Neill and Edgar J. Behrle
were named defendants in one in
dictment resulting from a raid in the
500 block of Thirteenth street last
month. Police entered the establish
ment through a glass skylight and ar
rested the defendants and SO wit
nesseS.
Indictment Refused.
Arthur Bannister, the man who
hung" the jury in the assault trial
of Representative Francis Shoemaker
of Minnesota, was arrested in the raid,
but the grand jury refused to indict
him.
Another skylight raid resulted in
indictments being returned against
Nathan Hyman. Clyde Brewster. Sam
Melincov and Shirley Rowe Several
score of patrons escaped through a
trap door during this raid and police
seized only two witnesses.
Other indictments on gaming
charges are John Kenney William
H. Webster, Ruben Kaplan and Louis
Talbert.
william J. Nolan, local automobile
dealer. and his branch manager Fran
els M. Kearney, we're indicted on a
charge of bribing two witnesses sub
poenaed to testify in the divorce suit
instituted by Mrs Alice Nolan. Nolan
and Kearney were arrested last week
after allegedly giving Charles Young
and his wife $50 to drive to Columbia,
s. c.. two days before the divorce
case was scheduled for trial.
James H. Hanley, colored was
named defendant in an indictment
charging him with escaping from
prison This was the first such in
dictment returned here under the act
of July Is, 1882. Hanley's record re-
veals 10 convictions against him and
four previous escapes from prison.
Charged With Robbing Brewery.
John Dunn and Samuel c. Berlin
were charged with robbery in con-
nection with the s1,646 hold-up of
the Heurich Brewery last October S..
During the police investigation of this
crime information was obtained from
Mrs. Eleanor Fontaine, who was SUBJ
sequently shot by members of the
so-called "Tri-State Gang" in Upper
Darby. Pa
Walter Mitchell, now serving time
In Sing Sing Penitentiary. was charged
with giving Pearson & Crane. local
jewelers.. a worthless check for 1915
In exchange for a diamond ring in
1928.
Arthur T. Sturdy, jr. was indicted
from a vacuum cleaner concern for
which he was salesman. Cornelius K
Keedy, desk clerk and cashier. was
charged with embezzling 1853 from
the Chastleton Hotel Another en-
bezzlement indictment was returned
against Alexander T Speck for the
alleged conversion of 1927 from funds
turned in by drivers while he was
employed as night clerk at the Abner
.Drury Brewing Co.
First-Degree Murder Charged.
John Spanos, AZ. proprietor of a
lunch room at TIT F. street southwest.
was charged with f1rst-degree murder
in connection with the fatal shooting
of Joseph Jackson, colored, during an
alteration June 9.
Other first degree murder indict-
ments were returned against Frank
Smith. Walter Wise and William
Glenn, all colored Smith allegedly
killed Raymond Horton. colored. in
an argument over a 75-cent debt
Wise is charged with the Staying of
Pierce Byrd. colored. during a gam
bling alteration. while Glenn al
legedly killed Mary Butler, colored,
with a club.
The grand jury ignored a charge of
arson against Dean Bradley Thomas:
29, watchman in meat plant at Ben
ming and Anacostia roads northeast.
The plant was destroyed by fire
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