Evening star., 1937-11-17
|GRAND Jury FINDS
-FOUR INDICTMENTS
AGAINST LAUGHL|N
Attorney Who Won Reversal
OF Former Conviction Faces
New Charges.
ACCUSATIONS BASED
ON CLIENTS STORIES
Nine Persons, Four of Them
Women, Called Drug Law Vic.
lators in Other Cases.

Convicted last winter, only to have
the Judgment reversed by the United
States Court of Appeals. James w.
Laughlin. Washington attorney, was
charged today in four new indict-
ments with larceny, embezzlement,
larceny after trust, forgery and utter
ing and presenting a forged paper
at the Office of Government official
for the purpose of defrauding the
United States.
The two indictments on which he
already has been tried charge lar
ceny, embezzlement larceny after
trust and forgery and uttering. A
District Court jury found him guilty
of forgery and uttering and larceny
after trust
Both the old indictments. which
still are pending and the four new
ones grew out of a complaint made
by three clients of Laughlin. who ac-
cused him of failing properly to ac-
count for some $4,000 they allegedly
gave him to effect their release on
bond from the District Jail.
Evidence Against Them Suppressed.
The clients, Walter C. johnson.
| Edward R. Dietrich and Erma Miller,
were arrested in June, 1896. on
charge of obtaining money by false
pretenses. After Laughlin's trial, JUS
tice Peyton Gordon granted a mo-
ton by their attorney to suppress the
evidence on the ground it had been
Illegally seized by police, and charges
against them were nolle pressed
A homicide charge against Robert L.
Walden. 40. of the 1900 block of N
street NV, who allegedly stabbed his
brother, Richard H. Walden. 2S, with
butcher knife November 6, was
ignored by the grand jury.
Edwin Heaton Bruce. 29-year-old
drug store clerk. was indicted on
charges of robbery and assault with a
dangerous weapon in connection with
the hold-up September 81 of Harry S.
Gildenhorn. proprietor of store at
4400 Georgia avenue NV He is al
legged to have held up the store, OBJ
tanning $25. and to have shot Paul
Stanish, 1920 Fourteenth street NV.
who pursued him when he saw him
flee from the store. Bruce later was
arrested in Alexandria,
Nine Indicted Under Drug Laws.
Nine persons. four of them women.
were charged by the grand jury with
narcotic law violations Arrested at
various times during the past six
months, they were Gladys Bussell,
1000 block of Eighth street NV:
George W. Landon, 600 block of
Sixth street NV; Romolo J. Gen.
tilucci, 100 block of K street NV,
Joan Brandon, Howard Ferguson.
HOO block of Fourth street NE:
Hugh L. Bryan, 1900 block of U
street NV; Lawrence E. McNally.
1900 block of Tenth street NV;
Margaret Sweeney, 1000 block of
Eighth street NV, and Florence
Greene. 400 block of K street NV.
Arthur w. Minor, "a, substitut.
/ mail carrier, was charged with steal
ing letter containing So so from the
mails. He was arrested by postal in
spectors after complaints by Seventh
and Ninth streets merchants. Minor
lives in the 300 block of NJ street NV,
and is married.
The jury returned an indictment
charging DR.. Clarence A. Wright SO.
colored, 900 block of Twentieth street
NV. and Mamie Hammill, 81. Alex
andria, with an illegal operation. The
patient, 19-year-old unmarried Alex
andria girl, died August IL. The two
defendants were arrested the next dav.
Other Indictments Found.
Others indicted were:
Eston U. Davis, Henry c. Millner.
Guy H. Brooks. Raymond v. White.
Aubrey B. Hayward and Franklin E.
Petit, joyriding: Lanfer Darlington,
housebreaking; Edward Bolts. William
A. Brooks. Charles Fields and Vernon
Coghill, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny:
John F. Brown. Mark A. Kollock, Jesse
E. Stewart, Arthur Heffner. John
Gaines, Leroy King, Albert Beasley,
Marion johnson, William Foster and
Edward Collins, grand larceny: Joseph
Jackson, larceny from the District of
Columbia; Charles F. Beal, Russell
Jones, Joseph Fox, Daniel NJ Blackwell,
Emory R. Scott, william W. Green,
Henry G. Scott, Flemming Minor and
David A. jenkins. robbery; Alphonso
Harris Alfred Davis and Walter j.
Haynes, grand larceny and assault with
a dangerous weapon; Haywood Pope,
assault with intent to commit robbery
and attempted robbery; John L. Gray,
embezzlement; Joseph Howard Boteler,
Roger Williams, Lawrence Thomas.
Joseph F Nesline, Ralph Marcontoni.
Constance Marcontoni and Robert
Walker, liquor law violation; Harold
Eugene Jenkins, bigamy; Kenneth c.
Rogers, forgery and uttering; Minter
Virgins, Francis A. BoWser and David
Austin, assault with a dangerous
weapon; George E. Clark, Joseph I.
Bailey, Michael William Donahue,
Clifton Charles Hemsley, Meyer Shu-
man and Frank Leo Shuman, gaming
law violation; Temperance E. Wright,
assault with intent to commit rape;
Wesley B. Prather, theft from the
mails; Edward Collins, Edward john
son and James Broom, manslaughter,
and William j. Marshall, second
degree murder
The following cases were ignored:
Andrew J. Leslie, Brooke E. CORN
ley, Thomas A. Vehtress and Dallas
c. Furr, joyriding; George A. Brawley,
John E. Histon and Arnold Anderson,
grand larceny; Elizabeth Shields and
Arthur C.. Hudson, assault with dan
gerous weapon; Mary Virginia Saul,
illegal operation, and Unez Simpson,
homicide.