Evening star., 1938-03-30
MULCT|NC WIDOW
LAID TO BROKER
Felix Lake, Long Missing,
Indicted on Charges of
Taking $3.50.

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Accused Of mulcting a widow of
$3.50 OF insurance money she re-
ceived at her husbands death, Felix
Lake, SIS, said to have once been a
prominent local real estate broker,
was indicted today on charges of en-
bezzlement, grand larceny and larceny
after trust.
A United States commissioners war
rant for his arrest was issued last
June, and police have been searching
for him since. Authorities in most Of
the country's major cities have been
asked to locate him
Mrs. Bessie c. Rogers. complainant,
reported she met Lake through her
husband in September. 1884 Because
her husband considered him a fine
man." she said. she turned to Lake for
advice when Mr.. Rogers died in De-
cember. 1884. She said she had in
tended to keep the $4,000 she re-
ceived from life insurance policies in
insurance annuities and to supple
ment her income by working Accord
ingly, authorities were told. she asked
Lake how she could find employment
in the real estate business.
Some time later. she said, Lake
told her he had an opportunity to
purchase a fashionable apartment
building on Massachusetts, avenue
northwest. and wanted her to invest
her money in the deal She added that
he promised she would be made a
member Of the board of directors
would receive a $3.50 monthly salary
as manager of the apartment house,
and should receive 5000 month
on her investment.
Jewelry Theft Indictments.
David Pinas, long sought as the
third defendant in the case here in
which James Bennett, alias Jewell
Ashby Gould. and his wife, Eula Mae
Bennett, are charged with interstate
transportation of stolen jewelry, was
indicted along with them today.
The Bennetts were placed on trial
in District Court recently. but mis-
trial was declared when a juror was
found in conempt for communicating
with a lawyer as to whether he might
permissibly question witness.
Pinas was arrested about two
months ago in Hollywood. Fla, and
returned to Washington. He and
Mrs. Bennett are at liberty on bail
while Bennett is still in custody.
Pinas was located through a rou-
tine check OF fingerprints sent to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation by
the National Cabinet Of Identified
ton in Havana, Cuba
Police recovered some $4,000 worth
Of jewelry in October. 1885, when, Mrs
Bennett was arrested. Bennett and
Pinas allegedly fled and became Fed.
eral fugitives. The former was ar
rested by G-men in New York tailor
shop last May and was returned here
Five Articles Mentioned.
The new indictment charges the
three with transporting jewelry valued
at sG,5Oc from New York to Wash
ington. Only five articles were men,
toned in the true bill. since these are
all police have been able to identify.
Two indictments charging forgery
and uttering were returned against 9
young white man identified only as
John Doe" who allegedly passed
seven bogus checks at two local de-
parsment stores February 21.
Others indicted were:
ton. grand larceny; William Burton,
William Keating, Nelson Pinkney,
Wilbert H. Punch, Bruce c. Moore,
Warren E. Houston, Herbert L. Taylor,
Moses A. Walton and Isaiah Johnson,
joyriding; Robert Neal, Oliver Henson,
Mitchell Hawkins, Milton Smith, Lloyd
Smith, Frederick P. Somerville, Joseph
H. Davidson and Lavinia Louise Smith,
housebreaking and larceny; William F.
Eaglin, housebreaking; Melvin I.
Young, James Nelson, Lawrence
Krooler, George N Baskerville, Her.
bert White and Sylvester L. Brooks,
robbery; Mary Marshall and Raymond
Marshall, assault with dangerous
weapon; William Cooper, attempted
criminal assault; Bernard r. Jenkins,
assault; Joseph Goldfarb, forging q
Government check; John D. Will, jr.,
and Marion Kessler, forgery and ut
tering; James A. Deal. James F. Small
and Walter j. Blackburn, forgery;
Wilbur c. Meadows, false pretenses;
Waldo H. Jones, mutilating official
records; George Crawford, Helen r..
Barry, Louis M. Morganstein and John
D. Allen, gaming law violation; Jerome
Spriggs, violation of marihuana tax
act; John Henry Cooper, Sarah Robin
son, Henry Loving, Samuel Lee, Jesse
j. johnson, Milton E. Smith and
Thomas Kennedy, violation of the
liquor taxing act; Henry L. Moore,
narcotic law violation, and William L.
Bell, manslaughter.
The grand jury ignored the follow
ing cases:
Willie Saunders and William Banks,
assault with dangerous weapon, and
William Piper, Louis E. Watson and
Marie Butler, joyriding and grand
larceny.