Evening star., 1938-05-11
PAIR IS INDICTED
IN FUTILE EFFORT
TO ROB BUS BARN
SchofieId Also Charged in
Two Housebreaking and
Larceny Cases.
MEN WERE CAPTURED
IN TRAP BY POLICEMEN
True Bills Are Also Returned
Against Alleged Buyers of
Stolen Jewelry.

Captured in carefully-laid police
ambush during a daring attempt to
hold up the cashier of the Capital
Transit Co. bus barn at 46l5 Four
teenth street NV. April %, Gordon
A. Schofeld, 26, was indicted today
on a charge of assault with intent to
commit robbery and in two cases OF
housebreaking and larceny.
One Of the HOUSEKEEPING and lar
ceny indictments was based on the
burglary April "a of the Castelberg
Jewelry Store at 1904 F street NV,
where jewelry valued at approximately
$4,000 was stolen. The other con-
cerned the theft of about s15b worth
OF jewelry April IS from the store of
Meyer Greenbaum, 14l1 U street NV.
Indicted along with Schofield in the
assault with intent to commit robbery
case was James w. Glynn, q, who
was seized with him during the bus
barn robbery attempt Schofield alone
was charged in the Castelberg and
Greenbaum cases.
Tip From Underworld.
After receipt of a tip from an un-
derWorld source that two men would
attempt to hold up the bus barn dur
ing the early morning of April %, a
party OF policemen led by 1t. John H.
Fowler hid in room situated so they
could watch the cashiers cage, where
Russell j. Garner Orrin c. Eadie and
Matthew j. RamiSch, transit company
employees, were counting the days re-
ceipts.
At 2:55 am. Schofield and Glynn
walked in and the former drew gun
when Mr.. Garner refused his request
for change for $40 bill. The officers
sprang from hiding and the would-be
bandits submitted quietly.
Schof1eld was released from the
Reformatory on November 9. 1885,
after serving a HOUSEKEEPING sen.
tence; Glynn was released from Lor-
ton on April %, 1887, after serving a
robbery sentence. Both have add.
tional police records.
Sold for S545.
Two men who allegedly purchased
from Schofleld the loot in both the
Castelberg and Greenbaum burglaries
were indicted on charges of receiving
stolen property, most of which was
recovered. They are Percival j. Abel
man, 26, and Michael Steinberg. 80.
both of the 800 block Of Farragut
street NV.
Schofield allegedly told police he
sold the jewelry stolen at Castel-
berg's for $500 and that taken in the
other housbreaking for s45.
Charles Tore, As, described by
police as a brother-in-law of Tony
(The Singer Cugino, notorious gang
killer, who committed suicide in a
New York jail, was indicted today
with three others on a charge of con-
spiracy to violate the gaming laws,
He already was under a bribery in.
dlctmenu charging him with attempts
ing to buy protection for gambling
establishment he Is accused of con-
Quoting in the HOO block of Thir-
teenth street NV.
Tore, his brother, Albert Tore:
John Thomas Costello and Joseph
Steve d'AmbroSio were charged today
with conspiracy to set up a gaming
table and to conduct numbers lot
terry. Tore alone was charged in an
other indictment with setting up a
gaming table. The Thirteenth street
establishment was raided January 20.
Two Murder Indictments.
Two flrst-degree murder indictments
were included in the report today by
the grand jury.
One charges Levi Frederick, colored.
SO, with fatally shooting John I. Layne.
colored, April % in a house in the
1900 block Of Eighth street NV. In
the other, Ransom Rembert, colored,
"a. is charged with shooting Irving
Hawkins, colored, 38. April is in the
1000 block or Chase's court NV.
Others indicted were:
Frank Maddox. Edward j. Lindsev.
Lee Elder and Arthur Junior Elder,
joyriding; Clifton T. Smith, John w.
Smith, William j. Sullivan. Milton
Williams, Leonard Smallwood, John
Taylor. Earl Neal. Charles E. West,
Charles Pryor and Mark Bullock,
housebreaking and larceny: James H.
Simms and Anthony Lo Bianco. rob-
berry; Troy H. Holloway. grand lar
ceny; Leo George. housebreaking, and
Harry F. Mcbride, narcotic law viola
tions.
The following cases were ignored:
Charles F. Holfester. housebreaking
and larceny; John, Boone. assault with
dangerous weapon, and George M.
Hess, larceny after trust.