Evening star., 1946-03-18
Indictment Charges
10 Soldier
In Traffic Fatality

William Schmidt, "a, soldier, of
the 5000 block of Georgia avenue
NV, today was indicted on charges
Of second degree murder in the
traffic death last month of Richard
H. Haas, 68, of the 800 block Of
Tuckerman street NV. The indict-
ment charges that Schmidt's auto
mobile hit Mr.. Haas on February 2.
Authorities said Mr.. Haas was
crossing Georgia avenue at Ritten-
house street NV. on a green light.
Earlier, police said, Schmidt's car
struck and injured Mrs. Alice Bell,
%, of the 5000 block of Thirteenth
street NV, who was crossing at
Quackenbos street with her young
daughter. Mrs. Bell repeatedly
pushed her daughter, Elizabeth, 8,
from the path of the automobile.
Robert P. Lennon, l8, of the 5000
block of r street NV, was indicted
on charge of second degree mur-
der in the killing of Andrew Nault,
40, OF the 1900 block of Thirty third
street NV, in the latter's apart
ment last month. The indictment
charges Lennon with striking Mr..
Nault with a piece of airplane pro-
peller blade following an argument
on February Is.
Bryan M. Dorsey, 81, Metropol-
itan policeman who recently re-
signed, was indicted on charges of
forgery, blackmail and grand lar
ceny in connection with an auto
mobile transaction.
Forgery Charged.
He was accused of forging his
name on an assignment of title for
an automobile issued by a credit
corporation and allegedly made the
paper appear that the assignment
had been both to Mrs. Lucy Mar
garet Knowles, 3100 block OF Six
teenth street NV, and to himself.
A second indictment, charging
blackmail, accuses him of threat
ening to assail Mrs. Knowles char
acter If she did not retract certain
statements she allegedly had made
to Police Capt. Floyd Truscott, in
vestigating the automobile deal.
Dorsey Is alleged to have also made
the same threat If she made other
statements to Capt. Truscott, A
third indictment against Dorsey
accuses him of grand larceny of
the automobile.
Forty-Two Indictments.
The indictments were among AZ
returned today by the District grand
jury before Chief Justice Bolitha
j.. Laws of District Court. The
cases were presented to the grand
jury by Assistant United States At
torney John j. OLeary.
The indictments list more than
$4,000 allegedly obtained by groups
OF colored men in a series of crimes,
including HOUSEKEEPING and lar
ceny. safe breakings and robbery.
Elvin c. Boulden, %, first block
OF Quincy street NE; Wallace Hart
81, said to have no local address:
Velga Lee Allen, %, of the 300 block
OF First street NV, and James
Q. Jones, 81, of the 1900 block of
Hayes street NE, were named in
two indictments, both charging
housebreaking and larceny in safe
robberies.
Another housebreaking and lar
ceny indictment charges Allen,
Hart and Sylvester wilkins, 20, no
local address, with a $4,000 safe
robbery, in which they allegedly
obtained the safe in a cleaning
establishment in the 1900 block of
South Capitol street and carted it
away after tying up a watchman
and another man.
Allen, Hart, wilkins and Louis E.
Harris, 18, of the 1900 block of
Sixth street NV, are accused in
two additional HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny indictments in which they
allegedly obtained $4,000 in cash
and q couple of watches.
The grand jury ignored the case
Of Henry June. n, colored, of the
1000 block Of Fifteenth street NV,
who had been accused of theft of an
Identification badge from an en-
ploye Of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation.