Evening star., 1937-08-26
JAN|T0R INDICTED
IN WOMAg'S DEATH.
Trial Of M'Affee on First.De.
gree Murder Charge Due
in Fall.

William (Major) McAfee was in
dicted on first-degree murder charge
today. shortly after detectives went be-
fore the grand jury with evidence by
which they hope to prove the e1-year-
old colored man killed Mrs. Henrietta
Anderson, So, Of 1888 L street, with a
furnace shaker last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Anderson, an attractive widow,
who had been employed at the Vet
erans' Administration, was beaten to
death. She was the mother of three
children and the widow Of World
War veteran. McAffee was janitor at
the rooming house where she lived.
Within IL hours after his arrest
Sunday McAffee is said to have vol
unteered q confession. The statement
was read to the coroner's jury by De-
tective Sergt. John c. Dalglish yes
terday.
McAf1ee, diminutive and wrinkled, Is
alleged to have told police he had
quarreled with Mrs. Anderson and that
she threatened him with an ice pick
before the Staying.
Trial Of his case is expected to be
held this Fall
Jewel Cutter Indicted.
Joseph Van Ryck Presbourg, expert
Jewel cutter. who is alleged to have
stolen 4 huge emerald intrusted to
him by Mrs. Catherine Mayo, was in
dicted on four charges of larceny
after trust. Because OF Mrs. Mayo's
absence from the city, her complaint
was not presented to the grand jury,
but will be taken up later.
The true bills charge that Pres
bourg absconded with some $4,000
worth OF diamonds which had been
given to him for recutting by four
local jewelers.. The jewelers. were
Arthur Markell. 92l street. William
Hyman, 1857 K street: Jacob Held
enheimer. 1915 H street, and Max
Zweig, 937 d street
Presbourg is in Seattle awaiting
extradition.
The grand jury ignored homicide
charge against James Lanham, chief
engineer Of the Palace Laundry, who
was held by a coroner's jury in con-
nection with the death August 3 Of
James Steadman, colored employe of
the laundry, who was crushed to
death in an allegedly defective eleva-
tor.
FxnoSed Wire Rla~>d
Steadman, who worked at the main
plant at Ninth and H streets, was
said by witnesses to have just placed
one foot on the elevator platform when
it started to rise. the heavy door
pinioning him and the platform crush
ing him against the framework OF the
shaft.
Before the accident the elevator
worked perfectly. 1t was said. An ex-
posed wire was reported by investiga-
tors to have caused the lift to start
upward as soon as 1t reached the
ground level.
Others indicted were:
Benjamin H. Baylor, John L. Frye
and Catherine Wright. joyriding;
Moses Brown, Samuel Miller, Martin
A. Gleason and Norman Leaks. grand
larceny; Edith Hardesty and Francis
G. Kicks, larceny from the United
States; Albert Pinckney, receiving
stolen property; James Page, Mary
Maxwell, Charles A. Wyles and Jesse
Battle, violation of the gaming law:
Wanda w. Toombs and Robert E.
Bickford. violation of the liquor taxing
act: Zeph Moore, operating a smoke
screen: Margaret Histon, violation Of
the Harrison narcotic act; William
c. Schwetz, false pretenses; Stanley
P. Wazny. forgery and uttering
Ernest r. Watson. larceny after trust;
Harvey A. DePue, embezzlement;
Emerson Martin. assault with a dan
gerous weapon and mayhem; Arthur
Reed and Zelmar H. Berry. assault
with a dangerous weapon; Mary
Fowler. manslaughter, and Joseph
Barnhart, first degree murder.
Besides the Lanham matter, cases
ignored included:
Charles A. Foreman, larceny from
the United States; Claude Hall, house
breaking; Mary E. Barber. larceny
after trust: Thomas E. Hall and
Buford r. Hitting, joyriding, and
George W. Harrel, forging 4 Gov
eminent check.