Evening star., 1935-03-06
WOMAN INDICTED
IN AUTO DEATH, 8
ON GAME CHARGE
Driver Faces MansIaughter
Count on Failure to
Halt in Mishap.
GAMBLING TRUE BILLS
ARE BASED ON 2 RAIDS
Man Also Accused of Murder and
10 Of Violation Of Liquor
Tax Act.
A woman was indicted on a man.

A woman was indicted on man.
slaughter charge in an automobile
death and eight men on gambling
counts in a list Of IS true bills re-
turned by grand jury in District
Supreme Court today. The jurors
ignored charges in IA cases.
The woman is Miss Mary K. Mere
dith, 20, Of the 800 block of Varnum
street, accused as the driver of a car
which fatally injured Frederick
Treudley. 8l-year-old educator~of 800
Connecticut avenue on the night of
February 20. He died the next day.
Accused of Not Stopping.
Evidence presented to the jurors in
support of the indictment was that
Miss Meredith did not stop after
Treudley was struck, at Pennsylvania
avenue and Thirteen-and-a-half street.
She was apprehended shortly after
ward at Fourteenth and G streets.
The gaming indictments were the
result of two raids. In one. in the
100 block of Fourteenth street, where
the Kayeucka Athletic Club was en-
tered February IA. the vice squad
held six men after reporting the seiZ-
ure Of gambling equipment and $3.50
in cash.
Those accused here are Howard
Benjamin Hill, IS, of the 1900 block
of Harvard street; Henry Edwin
Sykes, 40, of the 1400 block of Co.
lumbia road; Adolph Olewack, %, of
the 800 block of Sixth street south
east; Morris Ewalt (Dutch) Irwin,
So, of the 1900 block of Allison street;
Warren Washburn Davis. 81, of the
1000 block OF Sixth street northeast,
and Edward J. Gibson.
Brothers Taken in Raid.
In the other the men accused are
Michael Sesso, %, and Anthony Sesso,
26. brothers, taken in a raid on a
barber shop basement in the 100
block of Eighth street soaatheast, which
was led by Capt. j. c. Morgan of the
fifth precinct February 19. This place
is near the Navy Yard. and reputedly
was the scene of numbers game
operations.
The jury returned a firSt-degree
murder indictment against Albert
Preston. SO, colored, of the 1900 block
OF Eighth street, accused of shooting
to death Clarence Yancey, 29, colored,
1000 block of Sherman avenue. The
shooting took place February 2 and
the victim died the next day.
Ten indictments were returned for
alleged violation of the liquor taxing
act.
Among the charges ignored was one
OF false pretenses against Charles Ris-
ton Schroth alias c. Riston Schroth.
List of Indictments.
The indictments included:
Leon Shore, non-support: Oscar
Dukes. George S. Walker and James
Powell, joy-riding; Clinton Oswald
Toliver, Lilly Miller and Phillip Santa
gaia (alias Phillip Sande), grand lar
Ceny; James Jumper Joseph j, Luizzi
ana Swanson Gunter. housebreaking
and larceny; Rudolph Robinson, house.
breaking and HOUSEKEEPING and lar
ceny; John G. Foster, John w.
Gardner (alias John w. Daugherty),
Joseph Brooks, Carroll Hughes and
Daniel Wood, HOUSEKEEPING and lar
ceny; Norman Carroll, housebreaking
and larceny from the District of Co.
lumbia; Robert Smith (alias Harry
Turner Smith, HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny; Robert Smith (alias Harry
T. Smith), assault with dangerous
weapon and assault with intent to
commit robbery; Steve Swift, Gussie
Beasley and William Washington,
assault with dangerous weapon.
Alfonzo Simpkins, assault with in
tent to kill and assault with dangerous
weapon; Richard Burris, assault with
intent to commit rape; Thomas Fields,
Sinclair Mitchell, Robert Dixon 1.-TWO
counts, John P. Wood, James B.
Owens, George D. Hobson and Leon
ard S. Brooks, robbery; Pritchard L.
Reeves (alias Pritchard L. Reaves),
robbery and assault with dangerous
weapon.
Liquor Act Defendants.
Theodore Dorsey (alias z. w. Dor
James Smith, William D. Lindsay,
Cecil Robinson, Richard T. Carter,
Greed j. Caldwell, Raymond Diggs,
william Parker and william H. An
derson, violation of liquor taxing act
OF 1884.
Gases ignored included:
Paul E. Washington. joy-riding;
CASTOR Battle, housebreaking and lar
ceny; Rufus Jones, HOUSEKEEPING;
Gertrude E. Selby, assault with dan
gerous weapon; David T. Long, house.
breaking and larceny; George De-
vinon, Andrew Jackson, John Holly
and Izell Banks, assault with dan
gerous weapon; Edward Cunningham,
Daniel Brown and John Robinson, vio-
lation Of liquor taving act of 1884, and
Elsie Bush (aliaS Mrs. Steven Bule-
bosh), larceny after trust.