Evening star., 1935-11-20
COUNTERFEIT BILL
CLIQUE CHARGED
IN INDICTMENTS
O'DonnelI and Two Others
Named by Jury in To-
7 days Returns.
DUTCH IRWIN CHARGED
WITH GAMBLING DEALS
Six More Are Held Also After
Raid on Elaborate Quarters
on Fourteenth.

Indictments against James S. ODon-
nell, former employe OF ODonnellS
Sea Grill 1907 E street, and Morris
e. Dutch) Irwin, described by police
as a leading gambler here, were re-
turned today by the District grand
jury.
ODonnell was charged with posses
sing and passing counterfeit $40 bllls.
Named with him in the indictment
were his brother-in-law, Aubrey W.
Jones, 20, of the' 1900 block OF c
street northeast, and Joseph Furr. "a.
of the 1900 block of Sixth street south
west
Their arrest last month following
investigation by Secret Service opera
tives of numerous complaints from
storekeepers concerning bogus $40
notes on the Federal Reserve Bank OF
New York.
Denial Held Disproved.
ODonnell denied any connection
with the scheme, but Jones and Furr
are said by police to have implicated
him as the man who furnished them
- with 81 900 worth of counterfeit bills,
which they bought at the rate of 30
cents on the dollar. Jones is quoted as
saying he obtained loan on his fur
niture to purchase the first 20 of the
bills. Jones and Furr are alleged to
have passed a total of 40 $50 notes.
About 5000 of the fake money was
believed still in circulation at the time
Of O'Donnells arrest october 9.
On arrignment before United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage
last month both O'Donnell and Jones
pleaded not guilty, but Fur entered
O guilty plea.
Irwin was under bond on previous
gambling indictment when he was
arrested October % during raid on
the elaborate gambling establishment
he allegedly conducted in the HOO
block of Fourteenth street. AS re-
suit of that raid he and six other men
were charged today by the grand jury
with gaming and with conspiracy to
violate the gaming laws
Others Are Named.
Named with him were Edward J.
Gibson, also included in the indict-
ment of last February; Wilbur S.
Carroll, Leonard F. Hill, Frank E.
Crandall, Morris A. Malone and
James Mcintyre.
Members of the raiding squad said
they had to break through three
heavy doors to reach the elaborately
outfitted room on the fourth floor. 1t
was at the same place that Irwin was
arrested in the previous raid.
Nine other alleged gamblers, arrest
ed in four raids during the latter part
of October, also were indicted on gam
ing charges. They we're William Poe
Moses, William Arthur, Oliver P. Will
kins, Bryan George, Vincent A. Ma
rino, Charles H. Kesecker, Louis r.
Rupp, Walter Edward eddie Upton
and Harry Milloff.
James w Rand, alias Louis L. McNa-
mara, who was arrested when he is
said to have held up the Greyhound
Bus Terminal at 1407 New York ave-
nue. on Armistice day after robbing a
restaurant across the street the day
before, was indicted for robbery in
both cases.
Another Counterfeiting Charge.
Another charge of passing counter
felt money was lodged against George
Lebyak, arrested october 3 after al
legedly passing two bogus 50-cent |
pieces on street cars.
SiXty-three indictments in all were
reported and eight cases were ignored. |
Others indicted we're:
Robert T. Moore, Clinton L. Cole.
man and Theodore R. Hawkins, house.
breaking; Theodore r. Hawkins Rufus |
Smart, Emmett Waller, James P.
Frazier. Percy Honesty, William Ed
ward Hayes. Leo Fendau Queen, Leroy |
Norman, Bozelle L. Robinson, James |
T. Murphy, Walter Brown, James r. |
Williams, William johnson, James |
Beasley. George A. Thompson, Rich
ard B. Heck and Harry B. Fury, house.
breaking and larceny; John Oliver
Driver, John johnson, William Claud
Bearss. Charles Brack. John Treze-
want, Robert w. Winkey, Howard Glenn |
and Wilbur M. Parham, grand lar
ceny; Nicholas J. Forte, joy-riding and |
grand larceny; David Page and James |
= 6. Beard, joyriding; Bruins Tilenda, |
blackmail and robbery; Julius N. Nc
Lenden, Linwood r. Simpson and |
George H Lamb, robbery; Marie Will
liarns, assault with intent to commit
robbery; Odessa M. Madre, Bernard
Einbinder, Anthony H. Pierce, Charles
C. Colley and Joseph N Smith, re-
ceiving stolen property. James Thomas,
Edward Hazel, Othello P. Graves,
! Broadus Cureton, William Workman,
Willard Greathouse, Moses N. Craig,
Sarah Collins and Albert Marshall,
assault with a dangerous weapon;
James Dyer, Alex Kelley, William
Calvert Drury, Julie McCord and
Walter A. Crawford, jr., forgery; Sam
Foti, possession of an unlicensed still;
Oscar w. Alexander and George w. |
Heacox, forgery and uttering; James |
A. McEaddy, violation of the liquor |
taxing act; Harry Henry Hester, viola
tion of the white slave traffic act and |
George Albert Jones, second degree
murder.
Charges ignored included:
Paul H. Rosasco, joyriding and
housebreaking and larceny; Roy S.
Oden, grand larceny; Wendell Cencius,
receiving stolen property; Andrew
Green, George foyer Richard Haw-
kins, Willie Bell and Melvin Diggs,
violation Of the liquor taxing act;
James White, Ruth E. Jackson and
Andrew Moore, assault with dan
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