Evening star., 1935-05-16
AL|B| WITNESSES
FOR GANGSTERS
INDICTED BY JURY
Woman and Three Men Face
Trial for Perjury When
Arrested.
2 MANSLAUGHTER BILLS
AMONG So INDICTMENTS
Two Minors Named Defendants
for Accidents Resulting in
Two Deaths.

Dunn and Samuel c. Berlin. tri-State
gangsters, for the daylight robbery OF
the Huerich Brewery on October S,
1893. were indicted on perjury charges
by the District grand jury today.
The quartet, all of Richmond, have
not yet been arrested. Since Dunn
and Berlin were convicted despite
their testimony, the present status of
the robbery conviction cannot be dis
.trbed by the outcome of the perjury
charges.
Those indicted were Ruth Hoffman,
identified during the trial as long
time friend of Dunn; Elmer Ray
Neville, Thomas ]. Nehmi and Edward
Dewey Strain.
They are charged with having at
tempted to place Dunn in Richmond
on the afternoon or evening OF the
robbery at times inconsistent with his
participation in the crime. Opposing
this testimony was that Of one man
positively identifying both Dunn and
Berlin as the men who committed the
hold-up, and of another man partially
identifying them.
The jury elected to disbelieve the
alibi witnesses and brought in ver-
dict of guilty. The gangsters were
sentenced to prison terms OF from
, to Is years each.
So Indictments Returned.
Fffty-three indictments in all were
returned by the grand jury, among
them being two manslaughter true
bills arising from traffic accidents last
April. Both defendants are minors.
One was Melvin Harvey Turner, 16,
who allegedly was driving the car
which struck telegraph pole at high
speed April 81 at Forty-ninth
street and Central avenue northeast.
Pauline Jane Haddle, 18, a passenger
in the car, was killed instantly.
Young Turner told police he was
using his mothers car without her
permission and that he and a party
of friends were returning to Wash
ington from Capitol Heights, Md.
Four of the seven occupants of the
machine were injured.
The second manslaughter charge
was placed against Glenn Warren
Fasnacht, 20, alleged driver of the
car which struck Earl T. Lewis, A,
Of 53l5 Thirteenth street on Naylor
road southeast at the District line on
April IA. He Is alleged to have failed
10 stop.
According to evidence placed before
the jury, Lewis, his daughter and two
other young women were driving along
Naylor road when their car stalled.
Lewis stopped motorist to secure
assistance. After he got his motor
running again, he walked over to
the car of the other motorist. Joseph
r. Brewer of Waldorf, Md. to thank
him for his help. Returning to his
own machine, he allegedly was struck
by Fasnacht's speeding automobile.
Perjury Charged.
In another indictment, William L.
Thomas, attorney, who for several
years has been an examiner in the
Veterans Administration, was charged
with perjury, forging an Endorsement
to a compensation check and making
. false statement and voucher in
connection with the same case.
All three charges arose out of the
applications of Scott Hunt and his
wife, Annie E. Hunt, of Marshall, Va,
for compensation as dependents of
their deceased son, William Edward
Hunt, who was in the Navy.
Alleged to have forged and cashed
16 travel and mileage vouchers in the
names of Army Air Corps officers, for
a total of some 81 300, Earle c. Wood.
travel and mileage clerk in the office
of the chief of Air Corps at the War
Department, was indicted on three
charges of violations of the United
States penal code.
Daniel A. Sullivan, jr., an employe
Of the Munsey Trust Co., was charged
by the jury with embezZling $718.18
of the trust company's funds during
the last several months. The indict-
ment is in four counts, each alleging
embezzlement of part of the total.
Mrs. Rogers Cleared.
Among the cases ignored by the
Jury was the homicide charge against
Mrs. Matte Estelle Rogers, whose
automobile fatally injured Mrs. Sarah
Bowerman. Mrs. Rogers committed
suicide Monday.
Others indicted include James
Evans, Sam Collins and Georgianna
Cheeks, grand larceny; John H. Pitts,
Everett Green, John C.. Stewart,
woodrow Austin, Clarence Mayfeld,
John Henry Henderson, Wallace
Brown, Joseph Holmes, Ernest Jenifer,
Edward johnson, Harry Simons, Mack
Cannon and Benjamin H. Green,
housebreaking and larceny; Sylvester
johnson, John Mumaw, Roy Lee Dam
cey, Russell Beale, Paul Marshall, FL
n1er Clifton and Jesse Leonard, rob-
berry; Henry Motion, Madeline Tibbs,
James McNair, Johnnie Williams,
Rodney Degore, Willie Claitt, John E.
Kelly, Catherine Kelly, William B.
Parker, Joseph Baskerville Organ,
George Honesty and Lee Nelson, as
sault with a dangerous weapon; Will
liam Hepburn, Sam Foti and Sam La
mamma, violation Of the liquor taxing
act Of 1884; Benjamin j. Harris, lar
ceny from the District of Columbia; !;
Zoilie Lee Davis, second-degree muir
der: William Smith, manslaughter;
william Henry May and Lloyd Fran
els Carter, gaming; Louis Wellington.
violation of section 712, title 36,
United States Code; Bertha Lindsey
and Jesse McCannon, violation Of Sec
tion 73, title 18, United States Code;
Albert r. Anderson, violation section
ga. United States Penal Code, and
Curtis Money, violation section 408,
title 18, United States Code.
Other cases ignored included: Wal
ter Geary and Ira Mcdaniel, grand
larceny; James A. Barnes, receiving
stolen property; Wilbur Thomas and
Jessie May Rollins, assault with q
dangerous weapon; William j. Resseg'
Ger. joy riding. and John Banks, viola
ton of the liquor taxing act.