Evening star., 1951-10-25
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after they had been ordered to ap-
pear at the Marlboro Court House
to post bond.
All eight were indicted on
gambling charges by the District
Grand Jury last week. Their
names had been kept secret until
county investigators had located
them and made sure they would
surrender.
Charles E. Nelson, reputed chief
tain of a Sc million interstate
numbers syndicate, and his wife
were the first to surrender after
the county grand jury returned
tits indictments yesterday. They
posted $4,000 bond last night.
Last Unidentified.
Last to be identified in the group
ACCUSED by the county jury were
Mrs. Ruby Geary of Capitol
Heights. Md, and Miss Effie Lou
Trent of st. Pleasant, Md. Each
posted $500 bond.
Robert L. Nowland of 104 East
Braddock road, Alexandria, a Nell
son associate, and Mrs. Nowland
Iagreed to surrender to Maryland
authorities after Inspector Russell
A. HaWes of the Alexandria police
reached them at their home. War
rants for their arrest had been
forwarded to Inspector Hawes by
Prince Georges County authors
ties.
The two policemen, both vet
erans of the District force, were
brought to the county courthouse
today by Deputy Sheriff William
H. Limerick, proprietor OF a Ben
ming road gas station who figured
oddly in the sequence of events
Monday when the District grand
jury indicted Lowry. Kirby and
Police Inspector Albert I. Bullock
and the county grand jury wanted
to question them.
Met at Gas Station.
At Bullock's request, Mr.. Linn
lerick met him at his gas station
and lunched with him on Monday.
Later, Mr.. Limerick, when tele-
Iphoned by Sheriff Carlton Beall,
said he had not seen Bullock.
Still later, Mr.. Limerick told
Sheriff Bean that he had been
with Bullock. He explained the
contradiction by saying Bullock
was at his elbow when the sheriff
called and he didn't want to do
too much talking. Why Bullock
wanted to see him in the first
place was never explained.
Kirby and Lowry each posted
$1,500 at the courthouse today.
| Mr.. Limerick, according to the
Isheriff's Office. was delegated to
bring them in and a rendezvous
was arranged at the Limerick gas
station.
An Upper Marlboro attorney.
M. Frank Hall, conferred with the
two policemen at the courthouse
and explained he had been called
from Washington to arrange for
their bond. He did not say who
had called him.
The Prince Georges County
grand jury wound up it's racket
probe late yesterday and handed
the indictments and an accom-
panying report to Circuit Court
Judge Charles c. Marbury.
Came in Last Night.
The Nelson's came into the al
most deserted county courthouse
about 8 pm. yesterday-some four
hours after their indictment.
A. Gwynn Bowie, former States
attorney and now Maryland coun-
sci for the Nelson's, said he
brought them in after learning
they had been indicted. He said
Nelson was accused of attempted
bribery and assault as well an
gambling conspiracy. His wife
was indicted only on the latter
charge.
The bribery charge presumably
concerns statements made by
Sheriff Beall before the Senate
Crime Investigating Committee
that Nelson offered him $4,000 a
month for permission to operate
unmolested in the county.
The assault count stems from
the accusation of an admitted
numbers man that Nelson pistol
whipped him at Nelson's (Ritchie
(Mdo farm last February.