Evening star., 1951-11-22
PierHead0wneI
lsC Convicted Of
PerjjurYCharge
Hendrix Faces Jail
Over His Testimony
About $35 Theft
By O s.off Correspondent Of III. stor


Walter Hendrix, Washington nov
city store proprietor, was con
victed of perjury last night as
result Of testimony in a case in
volving theft of $35 from a sic
machine and liquor establishment
he operates offshore from Colonie
Beach, Va.
An all-male jury deliberated S
minutes before returning a yer
dict against Hendrix, who live
at 10l30 Old Bladensburg roac
Silver Spring, and has his Distric
office at 1908 Fourteenth stree
NV.
Circuit Judges Charles c. Mar
~sry and j. Dudley Digges with
held sentence pending argumen
on a motion for a new trial.
Released on Bond.
Hendrix, who is AZ and has
wife and three children. face
possible Imprisonment up to i
years. He was released in $1,5Ol
bond.
Defense Counsel John S. Whit,
OF HyattsvIlle and Rudolf A. Car.
rico of La Plata said the defendan'
will appeal if the motion for 6
new trial is denied.
-Four other indictments grow
ing out of a probe by the Charles
County Liquor Board into alleged
irregularities in licenses issued
Tor Colonial Beach pier heads are
docketed here against Hendrix
Three charge subornation of per.
jury, which means he is accused
OF influencing others to make false
statements. The other alleges
sale OF liquor without a license
Thomas E. Goldsmith, Chape,
Point farmer. was foreman o1
the jury.
Hendrix brought about invalida.
ton Of a law intended to legalize
Slot machines in Prince Georges
County. The act, approved in 8
referendum, banned out-of-county
distributors. Hendrix filed a cour,
action claiming the restriction
was unconstitutional.
Theft Reported.
Hendrix reported to Sheriff R
Vernon Cooksey on August 8 tha,
S35 had been stolen from his
Monte Carlo pier and claimed the
money was his. At that time
Hendrix was deputy sheriff TO,
Charles County.
Two days later he told Trial
Magistrate Capt. LIE Merton E
Crist at a preliminary hearing
that the money belonged to Harry
H. Hickey Of Faulkner. Md. who
had obtained the liquor license
used at Monte Carlo.
His testimony was used by
States Attorney Robert T. Bar
bour as the basis for the perjury
charge. 1t also started the
check-up of the resort town pier
head liquor licenses which re-
suited in the revocation or sur
render of all but one permit.
Slot machines and sale of liquor
by the drink are illegal in Vir-
glnia. Pier head licenses are is
sued by Charles County on the
premise that Maryland owns the
Potomac River to low water mark
on the Virginia shore.
Toll Collector Testifies.
Hickey, who is a toll collector
at the Potomac River bridge near
Morgantown, testified yesterday
that he agreed to get the Monte
Carlo license with the understand
ing that Hendrix would pay him
$700 a year for so doing. He said
he had no other interest in the
establishment.
He told the court and jury he
penned his signature on the IL
cense application without reading
it or realizing that he had certi-
fed under oath that he held the
sole financial interest in Monte
Carlos liquor department.
Maryland law provides that
liquor permits may be granted
only to persons having full none
tary interest in the places where
the permits are made.
Dealings Explained,
Hendrix admitted that he paid
for the license and that Hickey
made no investment in Monte
Carlo but claimed that Hickey was
to get S per cent of the gross
receipts from liquor sales and that
all liquor transactions were in
Hlckey'S name. He said he paid
Hickey $500 in 1850 and 1920 this
year:
He also testified that he had
been told that the stolen money
was taken from a cash register
containing Dothing but LIQUOR
receipts and that he believed that
legally the money belonged tc
Hickey.
Hendrix said he was not at
Monte Carlo when the theft oc-
cured and did not know until sew
eral days later that the cash was
removed from a change drawer
separate from the cash register
He conceded however that he re.
fused to give the liquor license te
Hickey when the latter and
Charles County Deputy Sheriff
Thomas L. Shymansky came tc
Monte Carlo and asked for II
after the local liquor board started
its probe.
Deputy Shymansky testified
that the license was not on the
wall when he went there with
Hickey September %. He sale
Hendrix told him he had beer
advised to take it down and hide
it. He did not say who gave thu
advice.