Evening star., 1945-08-13
Insurance Clerk
Is Indicted in
PecuIation Case
Man Is Accused of
EmbezzIing $4,000
From Title Firms

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more than $4,000 last year while
working as settlement clerk for
three title insurance companies.
The companies from which the
money allegedly was embezzled are
the District Title Insurance Co., the
Lawyers Title Insurance Co. and
the Washington Title Insurance Co.
The alleged embezzlements took
place during April May, June and
July, 1914, according to the indict-
ment.
The Indictment was among "a re-
turned by the District grand jury
before Justice Matthew F. Mcclure
of District Court. The indictments
were presented to the grand jury by
Assistant United States Attorney
Sylvan Schwartz.
Park Robberies Charged.
Several persons were charged with
robbery in parks. Among these were
James Mobley, 80, colored, of the
100 block of Twenty-third street
NV, and Anna Jackson, AZ, of
the 700 block of Third street NV,
who are accused robbing Charles
E. Duval, steamship company
employe, of $22 in a park at Fifth
and strets NV.
Lloyd c. Clark, A, of the 700 block
of Sixth street NV, was accused of
robbing a man of SO in Judiciary
Square.
Willie Beason, %, colored, of the
1900 block of Vermont avenue NV.
was charged with robbing another
colored man of SO while the victim
was asleep in park at Ninth street
and Mount Vernon place NV.
Bennie Williams, 20, colored. of
the 1900 block of Stephens road Sc,
was accused OF robbing another
colored man of a shirt, coat, bilIfold
ring and knife in a park at Sixth
street and Rhode Island avenue
NV.
Engraving Paper Theft.
Elmer H. Dixon, Al, colored, Of
the 400 block of Seventeenth street
Sc, was accused of taking away
from the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing sheet of paper intended
to be put into use as $40 Federal
reserve notes. Dixon was an employe
of the bureau at the time, it was
said. The paper, it was said, had
been printed on the back only, with
the face side blank.
Norman E. Coates. "a, colored,
2700 block of Bruce place Sc, was
charged with theft of an adding
machine and typewriter from the
Government. Both were said to
have been taken from the Agricul-
ture Department Building.
Two persons were charged with
OBTAINING letters in their custody.
One of them was listed as Mrs.
Laura E. Wurfel, so, of.the 300 block
of T street Me-, whose alleged Of
fense occurred, it was said, while
she was working as a temporary
substitute clerk in the District Post
Office. The other person charged
was listed as Theodore H. Cohen,
30, of the 900 block of Randolph
street NV, who allegedly delayed
two letters while serving as clerk
in the Railway Mail Service.
Rhozier T. Brown, 81, colored, of
the 100 block of Seaton street NV.
was indicted on five charges of
housebreaking and larceny. The
thefts allegedly were from dwellings
and beauty parlors. The loot in
cluded money, radios, watches, rings,
stickpins and other items, it was
said.
Illegal Sale of Liquor.
Wallace T. Simms, 43, colored, of
the first block of Logan court NV.
was charged with illegal sale of a
half pint of corn whisky and pos
session of 10 gallons of the liquor
said to have had no stamps on con-
talners noting quantity
The grand jury ignored gaming
charges against five men. The cases
of three of them were presented as
a result of a raid on a building in
the 500 block of G street NV. The
three in that case against whom
the charges were ignored were Tom
S. Pappas, 81; John Sirigos, SO, and
William A. Poland, 26.
The others against whom charges
were ignored were George Clairnes
%, and Vincent A. Martino, SO,
whose cases were presented to the
grand jury as the result of a raid
IN the 900 block of New York
avenue NV