Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-11-19
q Indictments
Are Returned BY
Fall Grand Jury
Two Men Accused OF Killing
Waterman; Charge Brought
In Waters Case

AWSHty-HIee lIlulcUmenCS were re-
turned by the grand jury in the
Fall term of the Circuit Court meet
ing at Rockville. Another indictment
was later brought against prisoner
in the Maryland penitentiary for the
murder of Horace Waters, German
town merchant, whose death has
never been officially solved.
Two men were indicted for the
brutal murder of 65-year-old William
F. Ford during a $40 robbery last
June, while two others were charged
with assault with intent to kill Night
Warden Hugh Walker in a futile
attempt to escape from the county
jail August %.
John Henry Burns, proprietor of
a fruit and grocery store at Eigh-
teenth street and Columbia road, was
indicted in an attack case. He was
arrested after Washington girl told
police he offered to drive her home
from party ON October 2, but
carried her to lonely spot near
Congressional Country Club instead,
and committed the assault.
The murder of Ford was charged
to John Thomas Dove, colored, 38,
and William Parr, 25, who are al
legged to have slain the carpenter
night Waterman in a house under
construction at 1906 Leland street,
Chevy Chase, Md, on the night Of
June Z.
Dove, arrested the day following
the Staying, is said to have told
police he beat Ford to death after
being secreted in the house by Parr,
whom the Waterman had befriended
and allowed to sleep in the structure.
Officers said Dove declared the MUIR
der was staged to rob Ford of his
$40 weekly salary received that day.
Michael Misowich and William F.
O'Brien were indicted for assaulting
Warden Walker in the unsuccessful
effort made to escape from the jail
on the night of August %.
Two men allegedly picked the lock
on their cell door, stole into the
main corridor, and beat Walker into
Inconsistencies, but County Police
men Joseph Nolte and Ira Hoover
heard the connection and prevented
the escape.
1t is said the two men were plan
ming to lead seven others, with
whom they were confined in the
jail's "bull pen," to freedom when
the officers put in their timely APP
pearance. Among them were Dove
and Parr.
Misowich also was indicted for
housebreaking, a charge he was
being held on when the jail break
was attempted. He was arrested in
connection with an attempted robbery
at Martins Delicatessen at Bethesda.
Others indicted by the jury follow:
Lewis Dixon and Thomas Peter,
statutory offense; Edward Burke Cis-
sci, false pretense; Roosevelt jackson
and Walter Citing, manslaughter;
Robert Roden, Carroll Ruhl and Clar-
ence Parboe, larceny and unauthor-
lied use of automobiles; Louis
Seeker, unauthorized use Of auto
mobile; David Bynaker, forgery and
uttering; Leroy Smith, George Keith,
Edgar White, Fred ]. Skazen, lar
ceny and HOUSEKEEPING; Fred Poy-
ton, John Wilson, housebreaking;
Edward Brown, murder; Blondell
Elmo Redmond, larceny; Herman
Baker, assault and battery; Ann
DOye, forgery; Aubrey H. Dellenger.
receiving stolen goods; George Floyd
Moore, Milne Swan, bigamy.
States Attorney Pugh said the
criminal cases awaiting trial during
the current court term probably win
be docketed to being about Novem-