Evening star., 1951-10-22
True Bill Links
Lowry and Kirby
With Nelson's
District Grand Jury
Accuses 16 Persons
OfGomine Conspiracy

The District grand jury today
indicted Police Inspector Albert
I. Bullock and Is others on gam
bling conspiracy and lottery
charges.
Both Charles E. Nelson and his
wife, Virginia Madge Nelson, were
accused in the mass indictment.
Nelson. a Ritchie (Md) horse
breeder, already indicted on per-
jury charges, is the reputed chief
tain of a Sc million interstate
gambling racket. His wife has
been widely described as the
brains" of the syndicate.
District police indicted along
with Inspector Bullock. were De-
tective Sergt. Robert G. Kirby of
the Homicide Squad and former
Detective James E. Lowry, who re-
tired from the force in 1947 and
recently quit his job as part-time
deputy marshal.
Thirty-two overt acts-two for
each defendant-were listed in the
indictments.
Suspensions Ordered.
Police Chief Robert j. Barrett
said Bullock and Kirby have been
suspended.
Bullock was accused in the in
dictment of visiting the Seat Pleas
ant (MdD home of William M.
Richardson, operator of the Tea
Topper Tavern in the 1900 block
of Central avenue, Seat Pleasant.
An accompanying press release
from United States Attorney
George Morris Fay said the con-
spirators at the time of the al
legged Bullock visit had their
numbers headquarters in the
Richardson home and were in &C
tive operation.
Bullock also was accused of at
tending a party at the Tea-Toper
Tavern and the Government pros
ecutors said they will be able to
show that this party was given
and being attended by certain of
the defendants and those working
in the numbers business with
them.
Lowry and Kirby were accused
of bringing numbers slips to the
Maryland headquarters of the
numbers operation. Lowry was
also accused of being employed for
a time while a retired policeman
"as an armed guard with sawed
off shot gun" at Nelson's Ritchie
home while numbers operations
were being conducted there.
Count Carries Three Years.
Kirby was also accused of tax
ing part-time employment as a
guard in one of Nelson's North
Beach buildings which was ac-
tually being used as the headquar-
ters for the numbers operations"
The first count of the indict-
ment charged the eight men and
eight women with jointly engag-
ing in the numbers business in
the District during the last three
years. This count carries a max
imum penalty of a 81 ZOO fine and
not more than three years i'm
prisonment or both.
The second count charged the
16 defendants with conspiring to
violate the Districts lottery laws.
In this count the defendants were
accused of taking numbers bets
in the District, bringing the money
and slips from the District to
headquarters in Prince Georges
and Calvert Counties, Md, and
later-after the slips and records
had been Notwithstanding the
money from Maryland to winners
in the District. This count car
ries a maximum of five years i'm
prisonment or $4,000 fine or both.
Nelson Relatives Named.
Others indicted were:
Nelson's son-in-law and daugh-
ter, William K. McWilliams and
Bertha Nelson McWilliams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Nowland
of Alexandria, Va. Nelson has ad-
mitted being financial backer of
Robert Nowland Associates, which
WAS described bv the Senate Crime
Investigating Committee as a
multi million dollar interstate
numbers racket. Nowland was ar
rested in a numbers raid here last
December but was charged only
with disorderly conduct.
Blight H. Lee, former Arlington
gambler now living in Oxon Hill,
Md. One of the counts in Mel
(See GAMBLING, Page A-6.)