Evening star., 1952-12-13
Judge Sentences Pal
Here in Staying Of
Two Women Friends

another for manslaughter in the
Staying of their women friends.
Haskell A. Smith, 38, colored,
was given from seven to "a years
for second-degree murder in the
fatal beating last April of Mary
Lee Smith. 40, colored. with a rife
stock. Smith and the victim lived
at the same address, in the 900
block of Sixth street S.E.
Joseph E. Middleton, 80. col
ored. was given from two to eight
years for manslaughter in the
killing of Thelma Jones. 80, coll
ored, by kicking her. Their home
was in the 200 block of Sixth
street NE.
Both men were given the SEN
tenceS in the United States Dis
trict Court for the District of
Columbia. Smith was sentenced
by Judge David A. Pine and Mid
Edleton by Judge Burnita Shelton
Matthews.
Several Others Sentenced.
A number of others were SEN
fenced yesterday.
Melvin B. Starks. %, colored.
of the 1900 block of Howison
place S.W, was given a suspended
sentence of from eight months
to two years and placed on proba-
ton for two years by Judge
Matthews for stealing IL unfin-
ished $40 bills from the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing while
working there.
Theft of the bills came to light,
the court was informed, when a
man to whom Starks had lost one
of the bills in a gambling game
presented it to be changed. It
was then found that the finishing
touches to the bill had not been
made.
Several persons, all colored,
were given prison terms for mar
cotic law violations. Two of them
were given from two to eight years
each by Judge Edward M. Curran.
They are Clarence w. Jones, 36,
and Beulah Jones, 80, both of the
1900 block of Kenyon street NV.
The man was sentenced for SELL
ing and facilitating the sale and
concealment of a narcotic, and
the woman for making two sales.
Both defendants are narcotic ad-
diets, the court was informed.
Judge Curran also gave two men
from 20 months to five years for
narcotic law violations. One of
them was Rutealua Brookins, 81.
of the 100 block of I street NV,
who was given the time for facil-
litating the sale and concealment
OF a narcotic. The other man,
Robert M. Simmons. %, of Balti-
more, was sentenced for illegal
possession of a narcotic.
Others sentenced for narcotic
law violations were James Robert
Taylor, colored, for whom no ad-
dress was listed. who was given
from 20 months to five years for
making sale and facilitating the
sale and concealment of a mar
cotlc, and Robert E. Mclaughlin,
18. of the 1900 block of Eighth
street NV, who was given from
six months to three years for H.
legal possession. Both were sem
fenced by Judge Edward A. Tamm.
Forgery Sentence. Suspended.
Miss Helen c. Donovan, 35. of
the 4700 block of Connecticut
avenue, was placed on probation
for three years for forging three
checks totaling $43. Judge Curran.
who gave her probation. suspended
sentence of from one to three
years. Charges accusing Miss
Donovan of cashing the checks
were dropped.
| Arthur E. Lucas, 27, colored.
listed as OF no fixed address, was
given from nine to q months by
Judge Matthews for possession of
a stolen Government check and
for forging a name on a second
check.
Robert L. Hester, "a, colored, of
the 600 block of M street NV,
was given from six to l8 months
by Judge Tamm for stealing a
$1O5 Government check from a
residential mail box and cashing
the check.