Evening star., 1937-11-24
-FOUR DRUGGISTS
INDICTED IN THEFTS
Five Ex-Emp|oyes of Drug
Exchange Warehouse He'll
on Larceny Counts.

Theft of thousands Of dollars worth
Of merchandise from the Washing
ton Wholesale. Drug Exchange dur
ing the last two years resulted today
in the indictment Of four Washing
ton druggists on charges of receiv-
ing stolen property and of five for
mer employees of the exchange on
larceny charges.
Drugs and other articles allegedly
were stolen from the exchanges ware
house by John r. Gordon, stock clerk,
and turned over to four drivers who
were accused Of selling them to drug
gists at half price. Other druggists
than the four indicted we're involved
but authorities felt they did not know
the merchandise was stolen.
The druggists named by the grand
jury and the addresses of their stores
were Benjamin Bass, 1856 Columbia
road NV; Charles NJ. Brown, 4421
Sheriff road NE; Nathaniel johnson.
500 Third street S.W.. and George
w. Beasley. 3l1 Fifteenth street Sc.
Drivers Indicted.
Also indicted on a charge of
receiving stolen property were the
four drivers, Philip Nelson Newly,
Jesse Frank Piper. Clarence w. Tur-
ner and Norman L. Slater, and Simon
kessler, 600 block of Keefer place
NV. who is alleged to have pur-
chased some of the stolen merchan-
disc and resold it to druggists The
drivers also were charged with larceny,
Norman A. Genaro, 3e-year-old
salesman was indicted on charges of
embezzelment and larceny after trust.
He was accused Of swindling Mrs,
Emile K. Wunderlich, 718 C street
Sc, out Of s1,l50 between last jan
uary and April. Mrs. Wunderlich told
police Genaro promised to obtain
stock in a quicksilver concern for
her, but never produced the shares
He was arrested in Philadelphia and
returned to Washington.
The grand jury ignored a man
slaughter charge against Edward D.
Williams, 80, Of the 1900 block of
North Carolina avenue NE, who was
held by a coroner's jury in connection
with the death October rs OF Charles
E. Kelly, ~, 435 Fifteenth street Sc
Mr.. Kelly was passenger in an auto
mobile which crashed against a power
line guy pole, q tree and finally q
house at Eighteenth street and Good
Hope road Sc. During the inquests
witnesses could not say definitely who
was driving the car.
Other Indictments.
Others indicted were:
Simon D. Campbell, Marcus John.
son and Clyde w. Driskell, grand
larceny: Benjamin Henderson. Clar.
ence Coates and william Murray
Rushing, robbery; James Avery, as.
sault with intent to commit robbery;
Clarence Emile Huck, assault with
intent to commit rape; Albert w
Krause. James H. Mccormick, Lloyd
T. Carter and James Fisher, house.
breaking and larceny; Otis Fuller and
Charles A. Colbert, assault with Z
dangerous weapon; Robert Frazier ant
Edward N. Snow, narcotic law viola.
tion; Benjamin Henderson, black.
mail: James Robinson. William
Calomiris, Mary e. Miner, James Z
Jackson and Hayes Fisher, gaminf
law violation, and John Ringold, sec.
ond degree murder.
The following cases were ignored
Robert E. Clark, robbery; Albert c
Berry, grand larceny; Jack e. Nc
Murray and Edward B. Looney, JOY
riding and grand larceny; Max Kos.
SOW and Elliott Fineman, receiving
stolen property; Speros Garapeanos
Joseph w. McKernan and George N
Speropulos, gaming law violation.