Evening star., 1937-12-08
50 ARE INDICTED
.BYD.C.GRANDJURY
Three Are Charged With As.
sauIting a ederaI Officer
Attaching Auto.

Thirty-nine indictments were re-
turned today by the District grand
jury. One charged three colored men,
who allegedly attacked a deputy
marshal November "a as he was
attempting to attach an automobile,
with assaulting Federal officer.
Deputy Gordon B. Greene, 81, re-
ported that he went to the l700 block
OF Seventh street NV. with Gordon
N Buskey, an employe Of General
Motors Acceptance Corp, to repossess
an automobile belonging to James A.
Tatum, IS, colored. When he at
tempted to take the machine, he said,
Tatum and his brother, William, 80,
set upon him with their fists, while
a third colored man, Joseph A. Jack
son. pushed and threatened him.
One white and six colored men were
indicted on charge of assault with
intent to commit robbery in connec-
ton with what police believe to have
been an attempt to hold up num-
NollCStOl lew WSchS dRO.
Thomas j. Peterson allegedly told
police he drove a car for numbers"
collector and that his employer had
just gone in house in the 400
block Of Franklin street NV, when
Clifton johnson and Frank Kendrick,
both colored, entered his car, drew
guns and drove to Fenton street NV.
There they are said to have searched
his pockets and. finding nothing, Or
dered him to drive away johnson
and Kendrick are said to have i'm
plicated Horace Willoughby, Thomas
Dawkins. George J. Wise, who is
white; William Edward Harris and
Herbert johnson. All were charged
in the true bill.
Robert Winters, %, was charged
by the grand jury with HOUSEKEEPING
and larceny in connection with the
alleged theft of some $500 pounds
of copper sheeting from the Enterprise
Roofing Co. warehouse, 2125 Rhode
Island avenue NE Winters was ar
rested recently in Baltimore.
A first-degree murder charge was
placed against Preston w. Coleman,
81, colored, 800 block of v street NV,
who allegedly killed Josephine Ashton,
also colored. same address, with a
knife october 80. He was arrested the
next day.
The grand jury ignored a charge Of
assault with q dangerous weapon
against John M. Stickley, %, of the
600 block Of Pennsylvania avenue Sc,
who was accused by police Of shooting
a man whom he allegedly found with
his wife when he Unexpectedly re-
turned home. The man was shot in
one leg.
Others indicted were:
Henry j. White, non-support of
minor child; Royal Shepard, James
E. Perry. Horace Brigham, Stanley
Taylor, William E. Brown and James
Lewis. HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
William w. McGraw, housebreaking;
Stanley Gray, grand larceny; George
Purdy, Ernest Hasson and Oscar B.
Mccall, joyriding; Joseph H. Thomas,
larceny from the United States; John
D. Sumpter, grand larceny and i'm
bezzlement: = Walter Gardner, jay
Vernon, Paul j. Davis and James c.
Wylie, assault with a dangerous wea-
pom; Milton Winslow, assault with in
tent to commit robbery: William M.
Alexander, George E. Shanks, Ulysses
Hymes, James Chambers and Connie
Walter Tinsley, robbery: Alonzo T,
Penix, assault with q dangerous
weapon and with intent to kill; Moses
H. Moore, mayhem and assault with
q dangerous weapon; Sophie Denen-
berg, Willie Brown and Taylor Black
wel, gaming law violation, and John
7. Hopkins and George r. Stewart,
forgery and uttering.