Evening star., 1938-02-16
GRAND Jury HOLDS
TWO TO FACE TRIAL
IN FUND SHORTAGE
True Bills Returned Against
Edwin J. Noyes and Rich
ard Lee Campbell.
LIQUOR MANUFACTURE
is CHARGED TO TRIO
Raid on House Overlooking Rock
! Creek Park Led to
Arrests.

Two former employees of Washing
ton financial institutions were indicted
today on charges that they embezzled
= total of S27,392
They were Edwin j. Noyes, a clerk
In the trust department of the Union
Trust Co.. and Richard Lee Copeland.
a paying and receiving teller at the
Second National Bank.
Noyes' alleged offense concerns the
manipulation of trust account. which
is said to have cost the trust company
$26,2l6 since October, 1885. He was
discharged November %. 1887. when
the so-called Irregularities came to the
attention of bank officials
Copeland. youth of %. who lives
with his widowed mother in Arlington,
Va. allegedly converted sl,l76 of the
banks funds to his own use from
July IL, 1887. to November 10. 1887,
when he was discharged His short
ages were concealed by initiating his
cash account, according to Treasury
officials, and when the National Bank
examiners visited the institution on
the last named dates, he allegedly
placed fictitious check for the entire
amount in his cash account for COL
lection.
Since then he has pleaded guilty be-
fore United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage, and bis mother has
made full restitution of the money
he allegedly embezzled.
The raid by Federal officers jan
uary on fashionable house over
looking Rock Greek Park, at 1871 Mad
ison street NV, which disclosed what
is thought to be the largest distilling
plant found here since repeal, resulted
in the indictment of three men today.
Charges of carrying on an unlicensed
liquor business, of illegally manu-
featuring liquor, Of possessing an un-
registered still and Of possessing un-
taxed liquor were placed against
Ralph Marcontoni. 80: Mazzareno
Magnaterra. 35. and John Della Gatta,
is, who allegedly moved here from
Baltimore and established an extensive
Illicit liquor business which centered
IN the Madison street house.
Indicted on Narcotic Charge.
Benjamin F. Sewell, colored, was
indicted on narcotic charges following
his arrest December during the in
vestigation of an automobile theft
A small quantity of narcotics allegedly
was found in his possession, and more
in his room in the 900 block of West
minister street NV Police said he
had been supplying many of the city's
colored addictS with dope.
Others indicted included:
William L. Geiman, sr.. and Ber-
nard N. De Ment. non-support of
minor children; Aloysius Soboiewski,
Carrie Jackson. Jesse A. Gray, Fred
erick c. Russell, James E. Edelin,,
Will Reese. Harry NJ Scott, George
Briscol and Henry Patterson, house
breaking and larceny: Leroy c.
Montgomery, HOUSEKEEPING; John r.
Wilkinson and Earl r. Byrd. grand
larceny; William S. Seaton and Har-
old E. Taylor. joyriding; Milton
Stocks, Ulysses G. Tucker, William
Louis Joseph. William Arms Clarence
L. Butler. Morgan Williams. Lee
James. Willie James, Margaret Smith,
Calvin Jones and Elijah Scott, gaming
law violation; Bill Rurhmaee, Robert
Francis Henson. Ellen Lynch and
Oliver Hardy narcotic law violations;
Mary Ferguson. violation of the Liquor
Taxing Act; Everett E Hamilton and
Abner M. Velenchik, forging a Gov
eminent check; James P. Young,
Robert G. Timberlake and Eugene K.
Fleming, forgery and uttering; James
r. Young, Clarence E. Bladen. Henry
A. Lane, Edward Willis. Edward j.
Warren, William A. Brown, Mary 3.
Brown, Samuel Copeland, Jone Doe
and Bernard D. Reed, robbery; Frank
B. La Porte, blackmail; Thomas Wood
and Eugene Thomas, assault with a
dangerous weapon; Eugene Veney,,
Arthur j. Speare and Curtis c. Rus
sell, rape; William M Bailey, second
degree murder: George Broadwick and
Milford Woodward, escape from the
National Training School for Boys,
and Robert Walker, possession of an
unregistered still.