Evening star., 1946-10-31
Detectives Trap Four
In $500 Extortion Plot
Against Racing Man

/ A $500 extortion plot against q
washington race horse owner was
broken up by police with the arrest
of three men and a 17-year-old girl
lin q carefully planned trap, detec-
ltives announced today.
The four were charged and booked
by police as follows:
william j. Frye, %. OF 10 / street
NV, alleged ring-leader of the
lgang, one armed robbery and two
jextortion charges.
Joseph r. Donnelly. %. same ad-
dress, one armed robbery and two
lextortion charges.
Mrs. Ruby Kelly, IT, sister of Frye
same address, two extortion charges
Joseph H. Davis, "a, of the $500
block OF Lee Boulevard, Arlington
Igrand larceny of an automobile.
Not Guilty" Pleas Entered.
| Donnelly and Frye pleaded not
lguilty to armed robbery and were
lordered held for the grand jury ir
l$10, 900 bond on that charge when
arraigned this morning before Judge
George D. Nelson in Municipal
ICourt. No action was taken on the
extortion charges.
| Davis was ordered held for the
Igrand jury in 5000 bond on the
auto theft charge after pleading moi
lguilty and police said papers were
Ito be filed in Juvenile Court in con-
Injection with the extortion charges
against Mrs. Kelly.
Detestive Sergt. Joseph Hunt
credited by Chief of Detectives
Robert j. Barrett with planning ano
carrying out the arrests, said the
victim of the plot is Joseph B
Fauver, Al, of the South Clifton
Terrace Apartments. Fourteenth anc
Clifton strets NV, a race horse
owner and part owner of a riding
academy at SMtland.
Met in Lort0n.
Mr.. Fauver, who met Frye wher
both were inmates of Lorton Re.
formatory, told police the gang hac
forced him to pay them 81 and S2s
on two previous occasions after the,
threatened him with gun. Or
Monday night, Sergt. Hunt said. Mr.
Fauver received fresh demand fol
money
You'd better come through Mr.
Fauver said Frye told him, If yol
don't your wife's face will look lik'
it went through a meat-grindel
when we get through with it.
| Mr.. Fauver said he proposed 6
final settlement of $500 and it wa.
agreed that he would leave tht
money with the telephone operatol
in the apartment lobby for Sam
my White" to pick up Tuesday night
Detectives Set Trap.
The victim said he Immediately
called police, disclosed the plot anc
the trap was set. Mrs. Marian P
Rockelli, the operator, was giver
an envelope containing marked
money and detectives hid themselve.
NEARBY, Sergt. Hunt said.
| At 9 pm, the detective said, Mrs
Kelly entered the lobby, picked uI
1.-THE envelope and started to leave
She was seized by detectives as she
left the building and. after ques.
ltioning her. police arrested Frye
and Donnelly. Sergt. Hunt sale
Davis was arrested at the wheel Of
a stolen car in which two loaded
revolvers were found. A third pisto
twas found in Donnelly's room.
+ Mr.. Fauver explained that he wa.
serving a two-month term for pos.
j session of number slips when. he frs
iEEmet Frye who was doing time2 fol
holding up a Western Union Office
here. Police said Frye also served
time at Fort Leavenworth for in.
subordination before being dishon.
orably discharged from the Army. :.
t, The other three also have records
ttpolice revealed Mrs. Kelly is a for.
Hmer inmate of the District Training
i School for Girls, Donnelly spent, al
months in two reform schools arfe
Davis record shows an 18-montl
Sontencc IL, 1od2 for o,Ito {hoff