Evening star., 1935-12-04
AUTNST INDICTED
IN TRAFFIC DEATH
OF GIRL STUDENT
MansIaughter Count Filed
Against Charles E.
Smith, rs.
PHYSICIAN ACCUSED
OF ILLEGAL PRACTICE
DR.. James w. Hart Faces Charge
as Result of Fatal Operation
on Young Woman.

A manSlaughter indictment was
returned by the District grand jury
today against Charles E. Smith, %,
of 1868 Somerset place, whose auto
mobile struck and killed 16-year-old
Muriel v. Weinberg at Sixteenth and
Upshur streets October IA as she was
walking to friends home to study
her lessons.
Smith was taken into custody i'm
mediately after the accident and a
coroner's jury later held him re-
sponsible for the girls death.
Miss Weinberg, a student at Roose-
welt High School, had just left her
home at 4211 Sixteenth street when
she was struck. Smith took her to
Walter Reed Hospital in his car, but
she was dead on arrival.
Physician Indicted.
Held by a coroner's jury as re-
sponsible for the death November 81
of Hazel Mears, %, of 2125 G street
DR.. James w. Hart, so, of 2156 F
street, was charged by the grand
Jurors with performing an illegal op-
Grafton on the young woman.
Seven similar charges against DR.
Hart had been placed before the
grand jury since 1929. Five were ig'
nored and two indictments returned
Both indictments were nolle pressed
however, either for want Of prosecu-
ton or lack of sufficient evidence
-Four deaths we're involved in the
seven cases.
Miss MearS, who was waitress
came here from Norfolk. Va, last
June. She died in Emergency Hos
pital.
Indicted in $3.50 Hold-Up.
Arrested November 10 in the Provi-
dence (R. - railway station by q
Philadelphia detective who recognized
him by chance, Michael F. Callahan
54. was indicted in connection with
the robbery of q Commercial National
Bank messenger March 80, 1928.
Callahan and Michael Preston, So
who is still at large, were charged
with stealing $3.50 in cash from the
pockets Of the bank employe, Enoch
G. johnson of Alta Vista, Md.
johnson told police two men 1ostled
him as he entered the bank and fes
minutes later he found the money
had been taken from his pockets. The
robbers missed $4,000 he carried In
another pocket.
In March, 1882, Callahan was ar
rested III Philadelphia but disappeared
after being released on bail. Last
month, however, the same officer who
arrested him in Philadelphia saw him
in Providence.
Rug Dealer Faces Charge.
Alleging that Nejib Hekimian, who
until last year conducted rug store
on Connecticut avenue, failed to re-
turn two valuable rugs intrusted to
him for cleaning and storage, the
grand jury indicted him on an en-
bezzlement charge. The rugs, one
valued at $1,000 and the other at
$500, belonged to Capt. George c.
Mcdonald, q. S. Army Air Corps.
Elmer w. Dodson. 90, Of the 400
block Of Massachusetts, avenue, was
indicted for assault. Mrs. Stella M.
Cares, 1920 Tenth street, said Dodson,
representing himself as policeman,
dragged her into an alley off the 600
block of I street and attacked her No
vember 10.
Nine Cases Ignored.
Forty-three indictments in all were
reported and nine cases were ignored.
Those indicted included:
James Rudolph West, Bernard
Crozier Baker and Benjamin Harrison
Hinton, joyriding; Earl Rodgers, house
breaking; william c. Thomas, Emmett
Waller, Melvin j. Buchanan, Harry
Taylor, Horace Lucas, Jasper Shep-
herd, Richard Epps, Samuel Mcbride
and Philip A. Castro, housebreaking
and larceny; James E. Chappell,
Arthur Jackson, Edgar II. Richardson,
Frank E. Wallace, Roosevelt Camp
bell and Roy Dean, grand larceny:
Morris L. Bernstein, larceny from the
United States; Arthur washington,
larceny from the District of Columbia
Thomas P. Wharton and Homer E.
Stogner, false pretenses; Taylor Sulli-
van, Henry Scott, Andrew Davis and
Vernon Brown, robbery; Willie Bailey,
Herman Bailey and James Bailey,
blackmail and assault with intent to
commit robbery; Richard Clark, Ro-
molo Gentilucci and William B.
Fletcher, violation of the liquor taxing
act; william B. Fletcher and Joseph
P. Munitz, receiving stolen property;
Charles c. Davis, Ellison Clayburn and
Rudolph Tuckson, assault with dan
gerous weapon; James Anderson and
Thomas G. Arnett, violation of the ma
tional motor vehicle theft act; Doro-
thy Mae Avaunt, concealing mort
gagged property; Mary Morales, pre-
venting a police claim against the
United States; Walter A. Crawford, jr.,
embezzlement of mail; Elias Horovitz,
impersonating a Federal officer, and
John B. Catoe, perjury.
The following cases were ignored:
Burrell Stevens, Joy riding; Carl r,
Haley, grand larceny; Francis C. Stew
art, larceny after trust; William Davis,
Alvin Thomas and Joseph Danhakl,
assault with a dangerous weapon; Solo
mon Brown, Robert Harris, Frank
Christian and Marie Holmes, violation
of the liquor taxing act, and Joseph A.
Brown, carnal knowledge.