Evening star., 1954-10-03
Carper and Taylor
Go on Trial tuesday
In Narcotics Case

The trial Of suspended Police
1t. H. H. Carper and his former
aide, Sergt. William L. Taylor,
scheduled to open Tuesday,
highlights the first week of reg
ular sessions at the U. S. Dis
trict Court for the District of
Columbia since the summer re-
cess.
1t. Carper and Sergt. Taylor
are accused of conspiracy to
violate narcotics laws and of ac-
cepting protection payments
from dope peddlers.
They were first indicted in
May, 1852. But later the indict-
ment was thrown out on the
grounds that deputy marshals
were illegally present in the
grand jury room during testi-
mony. A second indictment then
was obtained.
Judge Edward A. Tamm will
preside at the trial. Assistant
United States Attorney Frederick
G. Smithson will prosecute. The
defendants will be represented
by Attorneys MYon Ehrlich and
Joseph Sitnick.
Murder Trials Slated.
Also in the offing is the trial
of 1t. Carper alone on conspiracy
and bribery charges and an
other case naming 1t. Carper
and Randolph (Catfish) Turner.
former narcotics ringleader. on
similar charges.
The trial Of william D. HOWE,
IS. colored. accused OF second
degree murder in the shooting
to death of a former Marine. is
scheduled to begin Thursday.
The veteran, William j. Lind
stedt, was slain on the street in
the 1900 block Of Fourteenth
street NV. last December IL.
Clarence E. Watson, 20, col
ored, former shoeshine boy, is
scheduled to stand trial October
18, in the murder of a Govern
ment employe in her apartment
last July 5.
The woman. Miss Alyce o.
Taggart, As, was found blud-
geoned to death. Watson cur
rently is serving a 13-to-40-year
sentence for raping an airline
hostess. Judge Matthew F. Nc
Guire is scheduled to preside at
the murder trial.
Labor Official to Be Tried.
Clayton A. Lowry. q painters
union official, and Robert e.
Minte, a Washington building
contractor, are slated to be tried
October %. on a charge OF vio-
lating the Taft-Hartley Act.
They are accused of violating
a provision Of the act which for
bids an employer to bribe q un-
ion representative and which pc
nalizes the representative for ac-
cepting such a bribe.
Willie Lee Stewart, 80, colored,
is slated to be retired November
Is for the fatal shooting of grocer
Harry Honikman, IS. in March,
1853.
Stewart had been convicted of
the murder and sentenced to
death. But the conviction was
set aside and a new trial ordered
by the U. s. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia. The
court held that the trial judge,
Henry A. Schweinhaut, had
erred in attempting to distin-
guish between mental disease"
and mental disorder" when
charging the jury.
Gambling Case Nov. Is
November Is is the current
date for the trial Of suspended
Police Captain John B. Monroe.
Detective George c. Prather and
a group of gamblers.
The defendants are accused of
conspiracy and bribery. Four
other cases on similar charges
are pending Monroe and three
other indictments have been re-
turned against Detective Prather.
Trial of Henry w. (The Dutch
mani Grunewald is scheduled for
the same day. Grunewald is ac-
cused of perjury involving his
testimony as to alleged influence
used on income tax officials In
behalf of clients"
All trials dates are tentative
and often are set back upon mo-
tion Of prosecution or defense or