Evening star., 1952-07-12
Stolen Goods
Deals Send4
Grocers 10 Jail
All Plead Guilty;
5 Others Sentenced
In Actual Thefts
washington, u. g.
SATURDAY, JULY I2, 1852

-Four Washington grocers were
sentenced yesterday by District
Court Judge James w. Morris
to serve from 6 months to 3 years
each for receiving stolen groceries.
They had pleaded guilty to-
single counts contained in indict-
ments returned against them in
April. Judge Morris allowed each
to remain out on bond for 10 days,
before beginning their sentences
In order to straighten out their
personal affairs.
Judge Morris also sentenced
five men for stealing the groceries
from the Union Wholesale Gro
cery Co.. in the 1900 block of
South Capitol street, in series
: OF houSebreakingS during last
summer and fall. None of the
grocerS was charged with the
thefts.
One Of the grocers was Louis
Maizel, 81, who had pleaded guilty
to receiving $1,000 worth of the
groceries at a market at ITO
Seventeenth street NV.
Two Charged Jointly.
Two others, Louis Futterman,
40, and Morris Weisfeld, As, had
pleaded to a count charging them
with receiving $700 worth of the
groceries at their place of business,
315 @ street NV.
The fourth grocer, Louis Rosso,
49, had pleaded guilty to receiv-
ing $500 worth of the groceries
at his store, 219 L street NV.
Indictments accusing five men
with the thefts listed the value
OF the groceries stolen at more
than $500.
Three of the housebreakers
pleaded guilty to taking part in
eight housebreakings and thefts:
One Of them, John T. Ford, 26,
colored, of the $500 block of
James place NE, was sentenced
to serve from 2 to 6 years. He
had a past police record, the
court was informed. T.
Two Involved in All Thefts.
The other two, who pleaded
guilty to taking part in all of the
housebreakings. were Horace T.
Nelson, %, Of the 1900 block of
Monroe street NV, and George
N. johnson, "a, of the TOO block
of Delaware avenue S.W. Each
was given from 16 months to 4
years. Both are colored. |
A fourth man, Willie j. Newson,
q. colored, of the 2300 block of
Eighteenth street NV, who had
pleaded guilty to five housebreak-
ings, also was given from 16
months to 4 years.
The fifth man, Andrew B. Gar
many. 81, colored, for whom no
address was listed, had pleaded
guilty to taking part in three of
the housebreakings and was given
from 6 months to years.
In another District Court case
yesterday Clarence A. Satterwhite,
26, who already was under SEN
tence Of from to IS years for
housebreakingS and larcenies, was
given an additional 4 to IS months
for escaping from a United States
marshal's van. He escaped last
April by climbing through a win ]
dow of the vehicle. He was re-
captured about IL hours later.
Sentence was by Chief Judge Bo-
litha j. Laws.
Two Narcotic Sentences.
Two men were sentenced at the
court on narcotic charges. One
of them. Wilbert w. Mundell, %,
colored, of the first block of Vir-
ginia avenue S.W.. was given from
] to years by Judge Laws.
The other man was David L.
Hansford, 81, colored. of the 100 .
block Of Hickman street Sc. He !.
was given from Is months to 4
years by Judge F. Dickinson Let's
for possession of a narcotic.
Judge Let's gave William A. /,
Smith, 81, colored, of the 400 block ,
of N street NV, from Q to 6
years for assault with intent to ,
commit carnal knowledge involv-
ing an 11-year-old colored girl.
John S. Lomax, 35, colored, Of
the 100 block of North Carolina
avenue Sc, was given from 3
to 9 years by Judge Let's for a
housebreaking which netted less
than 50. Lomax has a long GRIM !
inal ronnrd tho noiitt ,rroc in +