The Washington times., 1935-07-26
MARTINH.CA
INDICTED IN
MAIL CASE

Marvin H. Cave, former secre-
Eary to George H. TAFT, superin-
tendent Of Benjamin Franklin
postoffice station, was indicted by
the District Grand Jury today on
charges of OBTAINING mails.
Postal inspectors caused his ar
rest June % after they claimed to
have seen him remove a letter
from a distributing case and take
it to a lavatory outside the sta
ton. The latter was q "test" let
ter containing five one-dollar bills,
which they had planted in an et-
fort to ascertain the manner in
which mail had been missing from
the station.
Several complaints had come to
the Postoffice Department regard
ing missing mail, the inspectors
said in q statement sent to the
grand jury, and a preliminary in
vestigation caused them to sus-
pect Cave.
Test Letters Used
The accused was not required
to assist in the distribution of the
mail, but frequently did so Of his
own accord, the inspectors said,
and several "test" letters contain
ing money were placed in the:
distributing case and disappeared
before the actual arrest was made.
According to the inspectors,
Cave said he was having domestic
difficulties and had been drinking
heavily, and that he had sought
to replenish his funds by taking
smaH amounts Of cash sent
through the station to depart
ment stores and other firms which
sell goods on deferred payments.
Theft of a valuable dog, the
first indictment of its kind in local
court history, is charged in
grand larceny indictment reported
against Charles B. Ward.
Mr.. Wards accuser is Mrs.
Rhua ]. Rose, of the 200 block
Twelfth Pl. N. E. Mrs. Ward says
the dog was given her three years
ago when he was only three
months old and had been raised
with her children.
Denies Taking Dog
The dog had been placed in
the backyard of a neighboring
house on the night of June l,
last, she says, and in the morning
when she went to release the ami
NAL he was gone. Neighbors told
her, she claims, that they had
seen Ward enter the yard and
take the dog away. Ward is said
to have denied taking the animal,
which has not been found.
Arthur j. Council, jr., white
taxicab driver, is charged with
robbery in an indictment accusing
him of snatching the purse Of a
colored woman.
According to Margaret Brown,
complainant in the case, she was
walking in the vicinity of Six.
tenth and o Streets Northwest
on July IS when the defendant
stopped his cab at the curb and,
leaping in front of her, snatched
her purse containing $3.50.
List of Indictments
A total of 66 indictments was
reported by the grand jury, which
made its first report since it was
impaneled at the beginning Of
the summer recess. Those in
dicted and the charges against
them include:
Albert Roberts, grand larceny;
John T. Landon and John H.
Strickland, joy.riding and grand
larceny; Melvin S. Quigley,
Charles M. Coates, Archie Mach,
Leonard E. Hall and Perry c..
Minor, joy-riding; Robert L. Bur
ton, James Clark, Samuel l.. Ed
wards, George o. Lee. Arthur
Washington. Gilbert Payne, Henry
jackson and Robert L. Moses, as
Sault with dangerous weapon;
Myrtelo Bell, Marsh all v.
Huddleston and Howard Altman,
receiving stolen property; Arthur
j. Huffman, James H. Ford,
Percy Brown, Alphonso Mon
roe, Wayman E. Conner, Samuel
E. Hunter, Talbert L. Mccarthy,
Robert Fuller. Horace w. Ben
nett, Nina L. Bond, Larry
McClain, Oliver Henson, jr.,
Joseph Jackson, Frank White,
Tennessee Burch, Albert Thomas,
William P. Burton, Horace G.
Williams and James Dudley,
housebreaking and larceny.
Others Indicted
Joseph j. Lydon and William
Henry Brown, housebreaking;
Barley c. Pinkind, assault with
intent to rob: George Brown,
Floyd w. Lahore, Lawrence Ste
vens, Clyde Ellis, Robert Mat
thews, Clarence Carroll, Marjorie
Briggs, Robert Hinton, Rooney Fer
guson, Irving Chapman, George
Jones, Walter Massey, James E.
Austin, Ernest Duncan, James F.
Cole, jr., John B. Coleman,
Charles Burke, Walter Lee, Rob-
ert A. Cook and James Smith,
robbery; James Bruce and John
Jones, assault; Frank B. NEGRO
bic, forgery and uttering; Bert
rand M. Turner and Mansfield
Roberts, violation of the National
Motor Vehicle Theft Act; Chester
SimmS, violation liquor tax laws;
Ruth Brown, William Walden and
Harold w. Moore, forgery.
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