Evening star., 1945-07-16
'ConneII Is Indicted
In Death Of Boy, .,
Hit by Automobile
District Court Expected
To Try MonsIouehter
Case This Fall

JdIIlCo n. SOllIlE1l, OT, Oil az
countant of 4437 Faraday place
NV, today was indicted by a
District grand jury on a charge
of manSlaughter in connection
with the traffic death June % of
Donald Raymond De Vol, 9, at
River road and Ellicott street
NV.
Donald, who lived at 4423 Harri-
son street NV, was killed by an
automobile as he sat on grass plot
folding newspapers for his older
brother, Robert, IL, to deliver
Robert has an Evening Star route.
Police said Connell drove the car.
The indictment charges Connell
with criminal negligence in driving
and accuses him of driving while
under the influence of liquor.
Manslaughter, a felony, is triable
in District Court, and the maximum
penalty conviction is is years in
prison.
Connell may be arraigned on the
manslaughter indictment in District
Court on Friday. However, the case
probably will not come up for trial
until fall when the District Court
summer recess ends.
Companion in Auto.
| Connell's companion in the car,
Comdr Stanley L. Wilson. U. S. N,
said by police to be with the hydro
graphic division, was charged with
being drunk and disorderly. His
charges have been turned over to
the Navy Shore Patrol for dispo-
sition.
The indictment against Connell
was one of 10 presented to the Dis
trict grand jury by Assistant United
States Attorney Joseph F. Lawless,
, in charge of the panel, and returned
before District Court Justice David
A. Pine. - 4
Alfred Jones, Al, colored, grocery
store proprietor of the HOO block of
| S street NV, indicted last month
on charges of conspiracy to violate
the Second War Powers Act and to
steal from the Government in con-
nection with diversion of more than
a ton of meat from Fort Myer, Va,
today was named in another indict-
ment. In the new true bill he was
accused of buying 10 cases of IL
year -old Scotch whisky valued at
$500 which police charged were
stolen from the Merchants Transfer
& Storage Co., 920 E street NV,
on March 3.
In another case, Solveig Medina,
%, said by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to be former enlisted
member of the WAC, was indicted
on a charge of Illegally wearing a
uniform. When arrested by military
police June 16 in the 1000 block of
I street NV. she was wearing the
uniform of an enlisted WAC with
officers braid sewed OH the sleeves,
it was charged.
The FBI said she was honorably
discharged from the service on De-
cember 8, 1914, for medical reasons
She enlisted July IL, 1914, the FBI
said. She told officers that when
she enlisted she was living with a
sister in Arlington, Va.
Indicted on Mail Charge.
Clarence L. deBethizy, 40, of the
6100 block of Edmonston road, Riv-
erdale, Md, said by police to be an
assistant station master at Union
Station, was indicted on charge
of taking property from the United
States mails.
Herman Billet, 81, of st. Mary's
County, Md, was indicted on a.
charge of violating the Harrison
Narcotic Act and the Narcotic Drugs
Export and Import Act by Illegally
purchasing and possessing narcotics.
In another indictment, John Man.
sour, 30, of Brooklyn, N. Y, was
charged with robbery of $45l from
Ali M. Yandjabil, restaurant oper-
ator of the HOO block of Thirteenth
street NV. Police said the robbery
occurred in room in downtown
h0fel