Evening star., 1935-02-13
Z MEN INDICTED
IN STREET CAR
HOLD-UP ATTACK
Pair Accused Of Shooting
Observation-Disclosures
Cases Ignored.
COLORED BANK CASHIER
CHARGED WITH LARCENY
Two c. c. C. Men Face True Bills
for Robbery-Pair Absolved
in Traffic Deaths.

Two men alleged TO have held up
and shot Capital Transit Co. motor
man 10 days ago were indicted today
by the District grand jury. Charges
against SIX alleged numbers operators
were ignored
Harrison K. Moore and Robert r.
Nolan were charged with robbery and
assault with a dangerous weapon in
connection with the robbery and
shooting Of Preston c. Bowling. mo-
torman, at Wisconsin avenue and Ma
comb street February g. Witnesses
Bowling, while police said Moore was
driving the bandits automobile. which
was stopped after a chase of eight
blocks.
The men obtained $3.50 from Bow
ling, who is recovering in Georgetown
Hospital from a wound in the groin.
Gaming Charges Ignored.
Gambling charges we're ignored
against James Oliver Morris, who,
according to police, admitted he drove
a taXicab in the daytime and wrote
numbers at night. He was arrested
in an alley in the 400 block Of
Twelfth street. Police said they found
a quantity of numbers books in his
taxicab. Morris, according to police,
declared he couldn't make living
driving his cab and therefore began
writing numbers. He vas arrested
February /.
Similar charges were ignored
against Joseph 7. Coffren and Maurice
P. Mcdonnell. arrested January 81
in a raid at 2O28 Fourteenth street.
Police claim they found two numbers
books on the premises.
The other numbers case resulted
in charges being dropped against Paul
S. De Bruhl, Carl Chase and Ma
thaniel Wilson, who we're arrested De-
cember % in the 2l00 block Of Tenth
street. Numbers books and betting
slips. according to police. were con-
flscated during the raid.
Bank Cashier Indicted.
Walter L. Carter, colored cashier Of
the Industrial Bank of Washington,
was charged with grand larceny in
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from a safety deposit box in the bank
ing institution. Carter is alleged to
have confessed taking the money,
which belonged to Beltran Parker, on
December 81.
Two men in the c. c. c. camp at
Benning, D. c., Nichols J. De Nato
and Walter S. Duda, were indicted
with Albert L. Wilson, 1903 Twenty
second street southeast, and B. J. COL
Inns, 2305 Pennsylvania avenue SOUTH
east, on robbery charge. 1t is al
legged they picked up Benjamin F.
Duncan, jr., Howard University stu
dent, and threw him out of their auto
mobile after robbing him February 3.
Two Drivers ExOnerated.
Two men were eXonerated Of homi-
eide charges in connection with traffic
deaths.
The jury absolved Robert D. Man
ming, %, who was driving a car which
Collided with a milk truck December
16 at Twenty-frst and r streets, re-
sulting in fatal injuries to William
j. Ball, so, a helper on the truck. In
the other case Edward johnson, COL
ored. was cleared of responsibility in
the death of Thomas c. Stewart, COL
ored, who was run down by Johnsons
car January % in the 1900 block of
V street.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, are:
Otho Robinson. Obie P. Gray. Rob-
ert White, Berkley Smith. Leon Stein
berg. William H Davenport and John
W. TasS. ioy-riding; Robert T. Brown,
Lamar E. Brown. Paul Lee. Claude
Barbeny. Leon Steinberg, Richard c.
Parks, Charles BatSon, John w. TaSS
and William H. Davenport. house,
breaking and larceny; Raymond Paris,
housebreaking; Arthur L. Butler, Alice
Bonds and Henry P. Parrish. assault
with a dangerous weapon; George r.
Hayden, James w. Simms, Lloyd Sloan.
Richard Curry. John Robinson. Fred
die Steadman and Stanley M. Beaner,
violating liquor taxing act: H. NJ. Jod-
zies and Herman Kleinheitz. embezzle-
ment; Carl Haygood, removing letters
from the mails; Della A. Anawalt. en-
bezzlement from the United States
Government; Albert Scheeler. attempt
ing to pass counterfeit money; Mar
garet Wise. forgery and uttering, and
Dorothy Jackson, manslaughter.
The jury cleared the following Of
the charges indicated:
William H. James. Willie Davis and
Robert Scott, robbery; Mary Watts
and William Hamilton. forgery and
attempted uttering, and Thomas
Mitchell, assault with a dangerous
weapon.