Evening star., 1939-02-09
Numbers Trial
Defendant
Pleads A|ibi
Parks Auto After
Taking Wife to Work
Says Lawyer

Juan r. Quijano, Filipino lawyer
accused by the Government of being
the hacker of a numbers racket here
took the witness stand in his oWr
behalf in District Court today and
with the aid of his diary, declared
that he was not engaged in any illi-
cit transactions on the dates named
in the indictment.
On December 9, which is one OF
the days the Government says he
was active in the illicit business, Mr.
Quijano said that he was being ad-
mitted to practice before the Su-
preme Court of the United States
and his lawyer, E. Russell Kelly, pro-
duced the certificate in evidence tc
substantiate this testimony.
On one occasion, in which the
Government says he was busy in
the numbers game, Mr. Quijano as
serted that he was present at the
ceremony at which the new resident
commissioner of the Philippines was
1nducted into the Office at the State
War and Navy Building and that
later he went to cocktail party at
the officials suite at the Shoreham
hotel and subsequently ate at a
Filipino restaurant.
Car on Lot All Day.
Under questioning by Mr.. Kelly
Mr.. Quijano told the jury how he
takes his wife, a clerk at the Gen
eral Accounting Office, to work daily
and then parks his car on a lot at
Twelfth and E streets NV, where it
stays all day. The Government
charges that one of the Filipino law
yer's automobiles was utilized as a
pickup car in the numbers racket
After work, Mr.. Quijano said, he
meets his wife and takes her home,
but on some evenings she attends
George Washington University.
The alleged numbers king fire.
Guently referred to his diary to re-
fresh his memory, at the suggestion
CT Mr.. Kelly, and he was able to
show that he was engaged in lawful
enterprises at the time the Govern
ment contends he was busy making
numbers. He denied any connection
with these allegedly illegal trans
actions.
At one point in the testimony,
after Mr.. Quijano had recited how
he had secured an affidavit from a
party in an administration case for
the register of wills, Justice James
M. Proctor questioned Mr.. Ouijano
and asked him if he did not know
that was an illegal procedure, getting
.an affidavit without the person max
Ing 1t swearing to it before a notary
public at the time. Mr.. Quiiano
indicated that it was prabably irreg-
illar.
Z. S. Closes Case.
Assistant United States Attorney
William S. Tarver closed the Gov
,ernments case in chief after he
had adduced evidence tending to
ehow that the numbers player was
traced from the place of Barklev
Hawkins, 76year-old colored re-
tired Government employe, from
$40 Twentieth street NV, to East
Riverdale, Md, where, the Govern
ment says, Mr.. Quiiano had his
headquarters.
With Mr.. Kelly representing Mr..
QuiJano Is Attorney Dorsey K. Of
futt, who prepared to call a long
list OF witnesses for the defense this
afternoon, in an effort to prove that
their client had nothing to do with
the numbers racket. There was a
possibility that the case might 20
to the jury late today.
Justice Proctor yesterday directed
that the jury be locked up for the
night and be under surveillance dur
ing the course of the trial-an un-
usual procedure, but traceable bv
observers to the ruckus raised over
the Warning tax conspiracy case and
charges of jury tampering.
AS the trial started. four of the
persons indicted with Quiiano plead
ed guilty-Numeriano del Rosario
allegedly his partner in the numbers
racket; Venacio @. Liberato, an
other Filipino, who played lesser
part; Alice H, Haight, colored, and
Barkley Hawkins. A separate trial
was granted William Wooten, COL
ored, the other member of the SEX
tet, which the Government says did
a thriving numbers business here.
using QulJanos house in East River
dale. Md as the haco of o,,oro+;ox,,