Evening star., 1937-02-18
FANCY BURGLAR
IS INDICTED ON
THIRTY CHARGES
0ffenses Listed Against
Garcia Carry us Years
of Prison Time.
GIEGENGACK AMONG
MANY ALLEGED VICTIMS
Ninety.Nine True Bills Include
Variety of Robbery and As
sault Cases in District.


The so-called "full-dress burglar"
25-year-old George Garcia, who al
legedly has preyed on well-to-do apart
ment house dwellers for six months,
taking some $50, 900 in jewelry, was in
dicted today in 80 cases on charges
which can carry prison sentences total
ing It's years.
Twenty-seven housebreaking and
larceny indictments were returned
against the dapper young Cuban; in
two other true bills he was charged
only with housebreaking, and in one
with larceny.
Under the Districts indeterminate
sentence law, the maximum penalty for
housebreaking and larceny is to Is
years: for housebreaking, to Is years,
and for grand larceny, 2 to 10 years.
Addition of these brings total of 143
to IT'S years.
Detectives who arrested Garcia sew
eral weeks ago in the 100 block Of H
street quoted him as describing himself
as master craftsman-probably one
Of the best thieves in the country"
Apartments Visited.
Often clad in dress suit or
tuxedo, he operated through the bet
ter sections Of the Northwest apart
ment house district, usually during the
late afternoon or early evening.
Bits of celluloid discovered in the
locks Of burglarized apartments led
Detectives Joseph Shimon and Harry
Britton to the conclusion that Garcia
entered the apartments by using a
celluloid strip as jimmy" Police
searched for him for several months
before his arrest.
The grand larceny case concerned
the theft of tray containing $4,000
worth of jewelry from q store at 1906
G street December Z. Adam F.
Arnold, the proprietor, reported he
saw Garcia snatch the tray from a
counter, place it beneath his coat and
run from the store. He escaped.
Eighteen Charges Against Man.
In another true bill among the 80
returned today a colored man, James
E. Thornton, "a, was indicted on 18
charges. Eleven of the bills charged
housebreaking and larceny and seven
robbery. Six of the robbery cases were
store hold-ups in November, December
and January. The housebreaking
cases occurred during December and
January. The loot was small in each
case. Thornton has been arrested and
De 1n1I OF he icfy af ToiI
Ethel Nash, 36-year-old domestic,
who allegedly changed the post Office
record of former employers address
SO the mail would be diverted, was
charged by the grand jury with forgery
and uttering in connection with $50
Christmas savings check so obtained.
Two new indictments against the
three youthful members of the Boots
and Spurs" gang were reported. All
three boys already are serving prison
terms. Several prior indictments also
are pending.
The youths, William N Beck, 20;
Jack Joseph Kurz, 20, and Paul Ber.
ger, 19, were charged in one of the
true bills with holding up couple sit
ting in an automobile parked near
Hams Point about 1870 am. October
81. The complainants were Carl w.
Dulaney. %, 2169 New York avenue,
and Miss Bodena Freeman, 1872 Eight
eenth street northeast.
In the other indictment the trio was
charged with assaulting five colored
railway station porters, with intent to
commit robbery. The porters reported
that Beck, Kurz and Berger stopped
their car November at First and K
street northeast, and with guns in
their hands, demanded money. One of
the porters, however, escaped, and the
young bandits fed, fearful that police
would be summoned.
Second Degree Murder Case.
A second-degree murder charge was
preferred against Hugh P. McLendon,
colored, 80. who allegedly shot Chris
tine Readon, colored, %, August 12, in
o house in the 1900 block of T street.
Charles Slater, colored, SO, was
charged with manslaughter in connec-
ton with the killing of his wife, Laura
Slater, colored, 26, in a house in the
400 block of Cullinanes court. He al
legedly threw a burning kerosene lamp
which ignited her clothing, burning
her to death.
Others charged were:
Z Raymond Spriggs, non-support of
minor children; John L. Leapley, Carl
Akowsky, Nicholas Hoffman, George
Townes, Norman r. Cole and Melcher
d. Robles, grand larceny; Joseph
Smith. Harry Pelham, Leroy Pelham,
Eugene Tolbert, Walter Moore, Roland
Jones, Charles jackson, Charles Chat
man and Mary Elizabeth Preston,
housebreaking and larceny; Curtis
Knight, William Dublin, Earl w.
Larsen and George L. Davis, rob-
berry; Linwood Davis, arson; Fred
erick Beverly and John Giles,
passing counterfeit money; Hobart
Adkins and Wiley Nicholson, assault
with dangerous weapon; John Ran
dali, Clarence Davis, John w. Mackall,
Raymond Davis and Milton Hart, forg-
ing and lfttering Government check:
Melvin johnson, Matthew James,
Samuel Hart, Meta Wagner, John
Frank Herrlein, Hulon Jones. Shirlye
Kaplan, James Jacob Kaplan, James
q. Braxton, Leon Harrison, Robert
Smith, Alvin Ryans, jeremiah Ross,
John Stanley Crow. william p. Moses,
Charles Hurley, Philip M. Petrone,
Earl L. Dixon, Vincent Nogera, James
p. Steed and Thomas Edward Russell,
gambling law violations; William Har-
vey and James Payne. embezzlement,
and Ruth Douglass, Robert T. Stewart,
Heskiah Bryant, Henry Pratt and
Mack Charles Allen, violation Of the
: liquor taxing act.
The grand jury ignored the follow
ing cases:
Walter Spence and Willie Baker, as
sault with intent to commit robbery;
Eddie Coleman, assault with a dam
gerous weapon and with intent to kill,