Evening star., 1935-09-20
Eleven Year Old Douglas
Williams Had Killed Boy
With Thrown Stone.
ASSISTANT CASHIER
INDICTED IN THEFT
John Karl Seyboth Alleged to
Have Embezzled $4,000 From
Second National Bank.

a DlStrlct grand jury IN nOmlclue
case, was exonerated by that body
today in the killing of his 6-year-old
brother Stanley.
Douglas. who lives at 1850 Pearson
place southwest, threw a rock at his
younger brother August 81 to make
him stop chasing a neighbor's chick
ems. Stanleys skull was fractured by
the missile and he died in Gallinger
Hospital. The brother was held for
the grand jury after a coroner's in
quest.
The case attracted considerable at
tention among members of the bar,
many of whom believed an l1-year- -old
boy was too young to have the GRIM
inal intent necessary to support a
murder charge.
Indicted on Embezzlement Charge.
John Karl Seyboth, At, assistant
cashier of the Second National Bank,
was indicted on a charge of embezzling
$4,700 from the bank over a period
of more than three years.
Forty other indictments we're re-
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Seyboth's alleged defalcationS were
discovered last month by a national
bank examiner while Seyboth was on
vacation. When he returned he is
said to have admitted the charge.
Justice Department operatives reported
he took small amounts at time and
used the money for living expenses.
The alleged embezzlements followed a
slash in Seyboths salary after the
depression began.
A trusted employe of the bank of
80 years standing, Seyboth lived at
322 Aspen street with his STEP mother
and crippled sister whom he sup
ported.
Indicted in Hold-Up.
The hold-up Of gambling eStab-
lishment in the 400 block of K street
last February resulted in the indict-
ment on robbery charges of Henry
Raymond Milton, 81. and Carmen
Gale Quantrille, 33.
The two men are alleged to have
used a sawed-of shotgun in the hold
up, forcing seven employees at the
place to sit in chairs and submit to
being bound. No report of the affair
was made to police, who learned of it
some time later. Milton and Guam
trille were not arrested until Septem-
ber 6. when they were picked up at
Seventh and H streets northeast.
Police say they found eight guns
in Quantities room and a quantity
of ammunition in Millions quarters.
The sawed-of shotgun had been taken
apart and stored in a brief case
Two youths, said to have held up
two filling stations, appropriated a car
and finally to have been captured
after a running gun battle with police,
were indicted on four charges They
were Ralph Jones, 81, and Thomas
English, 81 Charges of assault with
dangerous weapon, joy-riding and
two instances of robbery were lodged
against them.
Stations Robbed.
The filling stations alleged to have
been robbed were at 5000 and 4500
Benning road northeast. The first
robbery occurred August IA and the
youths were captured August "a after
chase of several miles across the
Northern section of the city which
ended with a collision with a parked
car near New Hampshire avenue and
Quincy street.
Two charges of HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny were placed against William j.
Sullivan, who police say has been in
Jail almost continuously since 1915.
He is charged with taking $1,000
worth of clothing and silverware from
the home of William j. Du Bose, 3009
o street, and $14l worth of clothing
and jewelry from the home of Joel A.
Tilton, 1920 Twenty-ninth street.
Others Indicted.
Others indicted and the charges
follow:
Samuel w. Gibson and Helen Kelly,
non-support Of a minor child; Leroy
M. Harris, Moses Terrell, Thomas
Shorter and Pauline Lewis, assault
with dangerous weapon; Earl Jenk-
ins, Dorothy Peterkin and David In
graham, grand larceny: Raymond
Webb. Walter Templeton, Harold
Davis, Ernest King. Bernard Griffin
and Ulysses Powell, joyriding.
Ulysses Powell, Robert R. Adams,
Samuel McLurkin, Lloyd c. Deckard,
James Butler, John Swinson, Harry
Sherman Van Gruder, Oliver Adams
and Leo Branford, robbery; Arthur
Martindale, Charles Smith, Benjamin
Beverly, Thomas Thornton, Frank
Edwards and Thomas E. Smith, house
breaking and larceny; Tom March,
Thomas Taylor and Samuel johnson,
larceny from the District of Columbia.
Donald Francis Harley, Frank john
son, Lawrence j. Swami, James H.
Colbert. Frank S. Guy and Robert
Emmett Hunt, violation Of the liquor
taxing act of 1884; Arthur Sturdivant,
false pretenses, and Henry E. Car
penter and William Raymond Gilbo,
violation of the United States Code.
The following Gases were ignored:
Lewis Emerson, assault with a dan
gerous weapon; James H. Ferguson,
grand larceny: Walter Pittman, Mil
ton M. Peters and George Melton,
robbery: James E. Beard, larceny after
trust; Gilfred Brown, perjury; Harold
Jones, violation Of the liquor taxing
act of 1894; James E. Gaskins, a vio-
lation of the United States Code, and
Ernest Tillman and Joseph Wayne,
homicide.