Evening star., 1935-03-29
Robert {. Smith, 16, Is
Charged With MansIaugh-
ter in Crash.
MAN Is ACCUSED IN
CLEVELAND ART CASE
Alleged Forgery of ]. Edgar Hoo.
ver's Name to Check
Brings Action.

The tragic death Of 15-year-old
Elizabeth C. Petrey. whose body was
found lying in the street by her father
when he ran out to investigate an au-
tomobile accident, resulted today in
the indictment of Robert E. Smith.
Is. by the District grand jury on
manslaughter charges.
Smith, it is charged, ran the girl
down on Fifth street between Quincy
and Randolph streets last February
10 while passing another car at an
excessive rate OF speed.
The father. Lawrence j. Petrol,
1922 Fifth street, had sent the girl to
a nearby grocery store. Standing on
his front porch, he watched Smiths
car as it suddenly leaped the curb.
hit another machine and a stone wall
and then wedged between a wall and
a tree
Wife Calls Police.
Telling his wife to call the police,
Petrey ran into the street to see what
had caused the accident.
''I didn't know the car had struck
any one" Petrey told the district
attorney, until I heard Smith say;
I've killed her."
Petrey then discovered his own
child lying against the curb. and
took her to a hospital, where she
died short time later.
George J. Shepard, who allegedly
attempted to sell a bogus portrait to
Richard F. Cleveland, son of the late
President, also was indicted. It is
alleged he offered Cleveland a por-
trait of Charles Carroll of Carrollton,
supposed to have been painted by
Rembrandt Peale. The indictment,
which charges use of the mails to
defraud, was returned after H. D.
Ellsworth of the Walters Art Gallery,
Baltimore, had testified the portrait
was not painted by Peale.
Alleged Forger Indicted.
William Joseph O'Brien, who al
legedly forged the name of Edgar j.
Hoover, chief of the Division of In
vestigation, to a $40 check, was
charged with impersonating a De-
partment of Justice agent. The in
dictment alleges O'Brien attempted to
cash the check in a restaurant at
629 Fourth street southwest.
Three men said to have made the
mistake of planning a robbery with
a policeman were indicted for an al
legged conspiracy to rob a car barn at
Thirty-sixth and NJ streets. Those
indicted are Lawrence Franklin Pet
tit, George Thomas Bruffey and Rich
ard Burke Boyle.
1t is alleged they mistook Jerry
Hobbs, Montgomery County policeman,
for a former convict and took him
into their confidence while plotting
the robbery.
The grand jury also indicted four
men for alleged violation Of the
gaming laws. They are Garry Francis
Quinn, Robert Abbot Murray, Clar-
ence Adams Langley and Edward
Turner Parsons.
They were charged as a result of a
raid in the 1400 block of H street on
March l3 in which As men we're taken
into custody.
Others Indicted.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, are:
Cecil j. Ketner, non-support; George
Malone. Joy riding; William A. Glenn
entS, David Sodero, Henry L. Clatter-
buck, Jack E. Hopkins and Joseph S.
Warren, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
David Wilson, housebreaking and lar
ceny from the District; Walter H.
Davis, grand larceny; Fred Thompson,
robbery; Harold w. Black, Harrison
z. Gordon, William Anthony, James
Barrett, Alberta D. Minor and Jessie
Crosby, violating liquor taxing act;
Fred Exam Bryan, false pretenses; FL
bert o. Williams, embezzlement and
forgery and uttering; Henry Butler
and Charles Davis, violating section
73, title 18. United States code. and
Marius A. Jacobson, violating section
80, title l8, United States code.
Others Cleared.
The jury cleared the following of
the charges indicated:
Melvin A. Sole and Harry c. Riley.
non-support; Lester Weaver, ioyrid-
ing: Herbert L. Holcomb, Frederick
Walton, Clyde Mayo and Clarence
Minor, housebreaking and larceny;
Charles w. Swami and Burton Turner,
grand larceny; Abraham Blum, rob-
berry; Clarence Beverly, John Fitz.
gerald. Vergie Mack, Robert Kelly,
Leonard Geary and Edward Logan, as.
sault with dangerous weapon: Beat
rice Edwards, violating liquor taxing
act; Philip Mobley, carnal knowledge;
Sylvester Ramsey, jr., assault with in
tent to commit rape; David Hawkins,
arson, and Carl Dyson, homicide.