The Washington times., 1938-08-24
SANFORD PROBE.
HEARS STORY OF.
FIGHT At DANCE.
Events on Fatal Night
Detailed at Inquest

A cOrOner's jury held George
MOIIOy, 1S; Leroy Evans, 10, and
James POsey, 20, for action Of
the Grand Jury today at the con.
Clusion Of an inquest in the fatal
shooting Of George E. Sanford.
A sordid story Of events which
led up to the fatal shooting Of
George E. Sanford, 20, on August
13 was unfolded today by wit
nesses at an inquest at the Dis
trict Morgue.
Sanford's three companions who
fled after they deposited his body
in the emergency room at Chill
dren's Hospital were brought be
fore the coroner's jury under a
police guard. They are George
Molloy, 18, Leroy Evans, 10, and
James Pos1y, %.
INVOLVED IN FIGHT
Detective Sergeant John W.
Wise, of the homicide squad, first
witness called, told the jury that
according to the story Molloy told
him the four youths became In
volved in fight at Y. M. c. A.
dance EARLY on the evening Of the
fatal shooting and later went for
O ride.
In Lafayette Park, according to
Molloy's story as told by Wise to
day, the youths met Thomas Giles,
colored, who offered to give them
q drink at a Fourteenth Street ad"
dress.
Molloy told him, Wise related,
that as he drove toward the
Fourteenth Street address a fight
started on the back seat Of the
car. The car drove into an alley,
where the colored man was thrown
out of the car, Molloy told him,
Wise said.
IDENTIFIED IN LINEUP
sanford's three companions were
placed in a police Lineup" last
night and Molloy was identified
by John A. jackson, a carpenter
of 67 New York Ave. N. E., as one
Of two youths who held him up
last May.
Molloy was later indicted for
the holdup and police have been
searching for him since. A COM
panion in the holdup was later
captured, convicted and is now
serving a sentence in Lorton.
The chief witness for the Gov
ernment at the inquest will be
Giles. who was picked up by po-
lice yesterday and who admitted
he had been beaten by the trio
held and thrown from their car
the night Sanford was killed.
IDENTIFIES CLUES
Taken to police headquarters,
Giles identified all three Of the
youths, despite the assertion Of
Posel that he had left the car
before the shooting took place.
Giles also identified as his prop
ert;. a hat, pocketbook and keys
picked up in an alley in the rear
Of al Iowa Avenue house several
hours after Sanford was killed.
It was in this alley that several
men were heard talking a short
time before Sanford's body was
dumped at Childrens' Hospital,
and another Government witness
is expected to testify that he heard
someone say:
1--WE will have to take him to
o hospital"
CAUGHT IN RICHMOND
Police said that Molloy and
Evans. who were arrested in Rich
mond last week, admitted a colored
man was being beaten over the
head with small caliber pistol
when the weapon was accidentally
discharged, the bullet striking
Evans in the hand and entering
Sanford'S chest above the heart.
Sanford was carried into the
hospital about 3 o'clock in the
morning by two youths, one suf-
fering a bullet wound in the
hand. They fled after telling the
night nurse they were going out
to park their car" When they
first entered the hospital they
said the wounded man had been
shot by a holdup man.