Evening star., 1954-05-04
D. {. Man Is Indicted
In Mail Threat 10
Kill Contractor, 81

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A 35-year- -old man was in
dicted yesterday on a charge
Of attempting to extort $4,000
from an 82-year-old contractor
by sending him a letter through
the mail threatening to kill
him.
The man accused is Roscoe
w. Sans Of the 1400 block of
N street NV, a former medical
student. Sans is accused of
sending the letter on March 3
to w. A. Gruman of $500 Ritten-
house street NV. Actually the
letter allegedly was mailed to
Gruman at an address of a rel
ative of the contractor, accord
ing to Assistant United States
Attorney Frederick G. Smith
son.
The wording. of the letter, Mr..
SmithSon said, was formed from
words clipped from newspapers
and magazines and pasted to-
gether to form the threatening
message.
Three Murder Charges.
Three persons were indicted
on second degree murder
charges. One of them, Marian
A. Henderson, 35, colored, of
the 1000 block of Eighth street
NE, was charged with Staying
her father, James E. Wingfield,
Sc. and her mother Mrs. Laura
Wingfield, 83, both of the Eighth
street address.
The indictment charges the
slayings occurred on March 10.
1t accuses her of killing her
father by stabbing him with a
knife. and her mother by stran-
Cling with a scarf.
Police quoted the defendant
as saying she heard voices, which
kept telling her she was going
to die and to take the parents
with her.
Evertt Watts, 36, colored, of
the first block of G street S.W.
was indicted on a charge of
second-degree murder. accusing
him of fatally stabbing Joseph
Warren, Sc, colored, of the first
block of G street S.W. Police
. said the stabbing took place dur
ing an argument over a woman.
Wife Strang1ing Charged.
Another person indicted on
charge of second-degree murder
is Leroy Parker, SIS, colored, of
the 1900 block of Twelfth street
NV, accused of fatally stran-
Cling his wife Louise, 43, with
his hands on April 3.
A 19-year-old youth was in
dicted on a charge of raping a
38-year-old married woman in
the basement of building in
the 1900 block of Twelfth street
NV, where she lived. The
youth accused is Andrew r. NAL
lory, who, police said, lived in
the janitor's quarters of the
building. The woman victim.
who is white, was using a wash
ing machine in the basement at
the time of the alleged attack.
James L. Hedgepeth, 81, COL
ored, of the HOO block of v
street NV, was named in three
indictments on robbery charges.
One of them charges him with a
$50 holdup robbery of a store
in the $500 block of Fourteenth
street NV. The other indict-
ments accuse him of robbing two
taxicab drivers of small amounts
Of cash and their cabs.
The indictment accusing him
of robbing the store also con-
tains a count accusing him of
asSaulting Police Pvt. Robert L.
Reavis of No. 13 precinct when
the latter tried to arrest him.
Grabs Gun, Escapes.
Hedgepeth,' according to po-
lice. grabbed the officers gun,
pointed it at him and made his
getaway. He was captured, how
ever. the following day.
William E. Evans, 38, colored, |
listed as having no fixed ad-
dress, was indicted on charges
of breaking into the Liberty |
Baptist Church, in the 800 block
of Twenty-t third street NV, on |
three different occasions and of |
stealing a movie protector the
third time.
Robert L. Santmyer, 43, of the |
1900 block of Irving street NV,
was indicted on a charge of TAX
ing indecent liberties with a 10
year-old girl.
Mildred C. Nowicki, "a, of Chi
cago, was indicted on charges
of forging and cashing $100 |
Savings Bond and of causing a
bad check to be transported in
interstate commerce.
The indictments were among
q total of % returned by a grand
jury before Judge Richmond B.
Keech of the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia.