Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-01
z Criminal Assault
Indictments Included
Among 81 Returned

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yesterday by a District grand jury
on a charge of raping a 17-year-
Iold st. Elizabeths Hospital patient.
He is Robert Morton, colored,
of the 2700 block of P street NV,
who is accused of raping the girl.
also colored, when she went to
visit friends at Morton's home.
A second man, Jerry E. Hol-
land, Is, colored, was indicted on
a charge of raping a 22-year-old
colored woman. Police said he
grabbed her on the street in
Southeast Washington and forced
her to submit in an alley.
A 17-year-old colored youth,
Maurice Jones, of the 900 block of
French street NV, was indicted
on charges Of breaking into the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. William r.
Whitehead, colored, of 500 East
Capitol street, last December and
taking a safe containing $1,000.
Bank EmplOye Indicted.
!, In another indictment, Jack B.
Clements, %, of the $500 block OF
Fourteenth street NV, was &C
cused of embezzling $1,000 last
January, while working as a teller
at the Park road branch Of Riggs
National Bank.
Edward J. Callan. ~. Of the
1900 block of Avon place NV,
was indicted on a charge of en-
bezzling $875 from the District
News Co., Inc, 2216 Sixth street
NV, while working as a route
agent.
Altogether 81 indictments were
returned before Chief Judge b.
litha j. Laws of District Court.
Vernon Dixon, %, colored,' of
the 200 block of F street NV,
was indicted on a charge of rob-
bling William j. Taylor. 70, owner
of meat stand at Eighth and o
streets NV, of $597 lest February
26. Mr.. Taylor was robbed while
on the street. after being grabbed
around the neck, police said.
8 Indicted i'm Police Assault,
Three men were indicted on
charges Of assaultiing policemen.
One of them, Carl E. Bridenstine,
20. for whom no address was list
ed, was accused of hitting Police
Pvts. John Rippa and Melza L.
Griffin last January in Turner's
Arena during q dance. Briden-
slime had been arrested during a
disturbance there, police said.
A second man, Walter Freeman,
l33. colored, of the 200 block of N
street NV, was indicted on a
charge Of assaulting Police Pvt.
Allan D. Wolf by pointing pistol
at him. The incident took place,
police said, when Officer Wolf
went to investigate a complaint
that man was pointing a gun at
woman.
A third man. Thomas E. Fender,
I27, colored, of the 4400 block of
Foote street NE, was indicted
on a charge of assaulting Police
man Horace M. Adams while be-
ling questioned in the station
house about an alleged assault.
Roosevelt johnson, A, colored,
was indicted on an arson charge,
in which he is accused of setting
fire to a building where he lived
in the 1900 block of Sixth-and-a-
half place NV, on March II.
Police said the fire was started
after johnson had an argument
with his wife.
Indicted in Gambling.
Seven men, all colored, were
indicted on gambling charges, &C.
cusing them Of promoting the
numbers game. They are Charles
H. Jones, IS, Of the 700 block of
New Jersey avenue NV; Harvey
w. James, 43, of the 1400 block of
@ street NV: Robert L. Farrow,
"a, of the 400 block Of K street
NV; James Thomas, 81, of the
500 block Of New Jersey avenue
NV; Bonnie Wood, As, of the
First block of Pierce street NV;
Samuel Ray, jr., So, of the 600
block of Pickford place NE, and
James Hart, 80, of the 1400 block
lOf Morse street NE.
The grand jury ignored a homi-
eide charge against John Nichols,
43, of the 900 block of South
Twenty-third street, Arlington,
Va, in connection with the death
of Frank E. Whitaker, Ct, of
Philadelphia, a railroad freight
conductor. Mr.. Nichols, police
said, struck Mr.. Whitaker with
his fist during an argument in
February at Eleventh street and
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