Evening star., 1945-11-05
Seven Indicted
In Breakdown
On Lotteries
Action Follows
| Complaints Of Sales
To Teen-Agers

A further breakdown on the num-
bers game operations here was in
dicated today when seven persons
were indicted on charges of promot- :
Ing a lottery, sale Of chances on
numbers and illegal possession Of
numbers slips.
Indictment Of three of those
named followed complaints to au-
thorities that 'teen-aged children
had been obtaining chances. The
trio indicted following investigation
brought about through the COM
plant were listed as Robert S. Rich
ards, %, and Walter Richards, 80,
both of the 1900 block of Fourth
street S.W., and Thomas j. Henry,
80, Vienna, Va.
Patrick j. Kinney, AZ, of the 110o
block of Oates street NE, also in
dicted on numbers charges, was
named on additional counts which
accused him of setting up a gaming
table and keeping place for gam
ing.
Women Also Indicted.
Others named on numbers charges
were listed as Viola Gordon, 80, coll
ored, of the 1900 block of Church
street NV; Lena Jones, 38, colored,
of the HOO block of Tenth street
NV, and Larathca Noble, 26, coll
ored, of the 1000 block of v street
NV.
Melville J. Eschwege, said to be
from Reading, Pa, was indicted on
charges of violating the Federal
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by al
legedly delivering an adulterated
and mislabeled drug to three local
physicians
The preparation also was said to
have been represented as having
been manufactured by a certain
manufacturer when allegedly it was
not.
The indictments were among So
returned by the District grand jury
before Chief Justice Bolitha j. Laws
of District Court. The indictments
were presented to the grand jury
by Assistant United States Attor-
ney Joseph E. Lawless, jr.
S3,435 Embezzlement Charged.
Herbert G. Cooper, As, was charged
with larceny after trust and en-
bezzlement of more than $1,000 from
a man, whom he repeatedly rep-
resented as an agent in real estate
transactions.
Ernest M. Giles, 43, was charged
with embezzling $3,435 from the
Capital View Realty Co., while work.
| ing there as a sales manager.
Richard Van AIKEN, 81, of the 140o
block of Fairmont street NV, and
Lanceford j. Pruitt, 80, of the 1900
block of Twenty-eighth street Sc,
were charged with grand larceny
and larceny after trust of $500 they
were said to have obtained from q
Hyattsville woman to purchase her
an automobile Pruitt also was
named in a second indictment ac-
cusing him of grand larceny and
larceny after trust of $3.50 in a SINH
lar case.
Two men were indicted on perjury
charges for allegedly falsifying at
Municipal Court traffic case trial.
in which Mrs. Lottie E. Rose, 90, 300
block of Fifteenth street Sc, was
accused of failing to yield right Of
way. One of those indicted was Ray
Rose, who is charged with having
untruthfully stated he witnessed the
accident figuring in the case. The
other man indicted was listed as
Lane Maulden. He is charged with
having falsely testified Mr.. Rose
was at the scene.
Accused of Picking Pockets.
Roscoe c. Fields, 33, colored, Of
the 1400 block of w street NV,
was named in three robbery indict-
ments which accused him of pick
ing the pockets of his victims on
streetcars. He allegedly obtained
more than $500 in cash and a $500
postal savings certificate.
/ Two men were indicted on
charges of escaping from the Dis
trict Jail. One Of them, Joseph G..
Shaw, "a, was under sentence. it
was said, for an escape in Virginia
when he made his getaway here last
July. The other man, Karl W.
Church, 36, said to be from Balti-
more, escaped while he was serving
time for illegally wearing the uni
form of Navy commander, accord.
ing to the authorities.
Harry zavadoff, so, of the 1900
block OF street NV, was indicted
on charges of bigamy and perjury.
He allegedly married here this year
while still wed to woman he mar
ried in 1916. He also is said to
have falsified by stating he had no