Evening star., 1935-01-31
GAMBLING DRIVE
SLOWS Up AS JURY
EXONERATESE|GHT
Three Alleged Numbers Run.
ners Freed-Six Indicted
for Gaming.
TWO MEN ARE HELD ON
| MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
Colored Defendants Said to Have
Fatally Shot Another Dur
ing Quarrel.

The anti-gambling campaign slowed
up bit today as the District grand
jury indicted six men on gaming
charges and exonerated eight, the lat
ter including three alleged numbers
runners for Jimmy La Fontaine.
The alleged runners, Patrick Spald-
ing, 81; Harry Lee Spalding, %, and
Earl Day, 20, were taken into custody
by the vice squad last December 81
while police were picketing "Jimmy's
place" across the District line on
Bladensburg road.
Evidence Held insufficient.
Police claimed the three men were
running number plays across the line
to the gambling establishment, but
the grand jury decided there was not
sufficient evidence to support the
charge.
Other alleged gamblers exonerated
by the jury are James M. Russell,
Hugh r. Moore, Robert Contino and
Joseph H. Mealey, who were arrested
January 2 during a raid on an estab-
lishment in the 1400 block of L street.
and Robert L. Noland, who was ar
rested January at Grant road and
Division avenue northeast on charges
of operating lottery.
The jury indicted Robert Simpkins
John Kelly, Haywood Smith and John
Howard, all of whom were arrested in
connection with the operation of an
alleged numbers game establishment
in the 14O0 block of Eleventh street.
Edward T. Parsons and Guy r.
Briner. accused of operating horse
race betting establishment in the
HOO block of Fourteenth street, also
were indicted.
Indicted for ManSlaughter.
Scott Hill and Louis D. Jenkins,
both colored, were indicted for man
slaughter.
The indictments charge Hill with
fatally shooting Leland r. Carroll,
also colored, during a quarrel January
8, while jenkins is alleged to have
been the driver of an automobile
which collided with another car De-
cember l6, resulting in fatal injuries
to Ellsworth Jenkins, who was riding
| with him.
Others Indicted
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, are:
Horace r. Hawkins, Joseph Walker,
| Merriott o. Wells and Melvin M.
Carr, joy-riding; John Ellis, Bennie
Starks, John Thompson, Willie Brick,
SilaS Haversham, Bernice Wooden,
Floyd G. Smith and William Coates,
grand larceny; Mabel Brown, grand
larceny and receiving stolen prop
erty and accessory after the fact to
| grand larceny; Lorenzo Gray, Joseph
l.. Sewell and Joseph F. Brogling, JOY
riding and grand larceny; Randolph
| Smith, Garnett Reynolds, Amber
| Roberts and Frank Tolson, house
breaking and grand larceny; Thomas
Morton, Emory Scott, Thomas John
son, William Cross, George Gillian,
William Baker, Edward White, Fred
West, Ernest Pollard and James
L. Jones, robbery; George Gil
lians, William Baker and william
Cross, assault with intent to COM
NIT robbery; Robert Higgins, as
sault with a dangerous weapon and
robbery: Andrew Worke, Roosevelt
Blackstock and Roland Queen, assault
with a dangerous weapon: Edward
Butler, Raymond Diggs and Lewis
Wright, violating liquor taxing act of
1884; Walter E. Harde, violating sec
ton 265, title Is, United States Code;
Claude w. Bailey. smoke screen; Tre-
vanion Guy, violating section 848,
| District of Columbia Code; Edward
Talmadge Ward, violating section 1874,
United States Penal Code; Lester
Washington and Charles Washington,
violating section 1874, United States
Penal Code and forgery and uttering;
Frederick B. Warner, bigamy, and Ar
thur E. Kennedy, abortion.
List of Those Cleared.
The jury cleared the following Of
the charges indicated:
Paul E. Arthur, joy-riding; Sterling
Stokes, joy-riding and grand larceny;
| Nathaniel Jackson, HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny; Robert Higgins, John Beasley.
Deloris Morris and Harry Baker, as
| sault with dangerous weapon; Harry
w. Fletcher and william w. Gray,
robbery; Charles Cohen, Lewis Levine
and Barney Munitz, conspiracy; Major
Montgomery, violating section 277,
chapter z, title 10, United States Penal
Code, and Alfred T. Morris. D. W.
johnson and Catherine Linquist, homi-