Evening star., 1948-09-27
North Carolina Farmer
Indicted in Attack on
Wife Of Policeman

The District grand jury today in
dicted Elvid H. Perrell. 26. of Bare
Creek, N. c., on a charge Of raping
the 31-year-old wife of a Park
policeman September 7.
Perrell was arrested on informa-
ton of the victim that she had OBJ
tanned the North Carolina auto
mobile license tag numbers of her
assailant. ...---..
A telephone operator for a private
concern. the woman told police she
was accosted near her home in the
5000 block of Brothers place S. E
after leaving her job at l am.
Alighting from a bus, she was
walking the two blocks to her home
when a man drove by and asked if
she wanted a lift. When she de-
clined, the man seized her and
drove her to a secluded place where
the attack occurred, she said. Later
she was let out near her home and
was taken to a hospital for treat
ment of cuts and bruises.
Arrested Next Day.
Perrell, who was visiting here,
was arrested the following day
when police saw a car with the IL
cense number given them by the
woman on a parking lot. They
waited until he returned to the car
and arrested him.
The indictment was among 81 re-
turned before Judge Matthew F.
MCGUIRE of District Court. A total
of 81 persons were named in the
true bills.
Jean Lincoln, 26, listed as of no
fixed address, whose husband
Edward A. Lincoln, was killed on
August "a in an attempt to rob the
manager of the Whitestone Hotel
HOO Sixteenth street NV, today
was indicted on a charge of at
tempted robbery. She was accused
of being her husbands accomplice
Mrs. Lincoln had waited outside
in an automobile. When her hus-
band failed to return she went into
the hotel where she learned he had
been shot.
The indictment accused her Of at
tempting to rob Douglas l.. Farr
manager of the hotel, who had shot
and killed her husband. Mrs. Lin
coin was charged in separate
count in the indictment with rob-
bing the Bellevue Hotel, Is E street
NV, of $3.50 in addition to rob-
bing a hotel employe Of a wrist
watch. According to police, she hao
accompanied her husband during
the actual robbery.
Indicted in Assault.
Calvin j. Sneed, 81. colored, o1
Oxon Hill. was indicted on charges
of breaking into the basement OF
an apartment in the 200 block o1
o street S.W. on August 20 and at
tempting to rape 32-year-old
housewife. He also is accused oi
striking her with a wrench.
Archibald I. Koester, 80, of Falls
Church. Navy chief radio man, was
indicted on charges of assaultine
two policemen on August % neal
Wisconsin avenue and N street
NV. Police accused him of fight.
ing and biting Pvts. F. L. Gibson
and Frank F. Blessington while be.
ing arrested on a disorderly con.
duct charge.
Koester. through an attorney
made a formal complaint to police
officials that the two policemen hao
mistreated him and that he was
kept in a cellblock for u hour.
without water.
! Indicted for Murder.
! Two persons were indicted or
second degree murder charges.
! One of them was Alex Ferguson
I31, colored. of the 1900 block o1
Fourteenth street NV, who was
accused of fatally stabbing John
Pollard, %. colored, of the 800 block
of Twenty-fourth street NV. or
July 81, and Marion Brown, 81
colored. was accused of fatally
staobing Jimmie r. Jefferies. IS
Fcolored, of the 400 block Of D street
NV.
Among others indicted was Willie
Mae Murkeson, 43. colored. of the
100 block of Schotts court NE. who
was accused of mayhem. She was