Evening star., 1958-07-06

lblue-eyed blonde, five feet eight
inches tall, weighing ITO
pounds. A registered nurse in
Maryland, her, last known job
| here was with the Liberian En-
bassy. Her last local address
was in the 1400 block of Up
shur street NV.
She had told Mr.. Hassan she
would testify against Mrs.
| Grimes in a trial set for jan
uary She did not show up.
When she was arrested in
February on a streetcar by
Washington detectives, Assist
ant commemorative Attorney
Earl Shaffer of Arlington told
Municipal Court Judge Andrew
] Howard that she had hidden
herself in a Baltimore hotel
room for a week during the
January proceedings.
$500 Bond Forfeited
Judge Howard used rarely
invoked reciprocity agreement
to order the woman to appear
in the Virginia court on May S
or be held in contempt and be
subject to a 30-day Jail SEN
tence. Judge Howard set bond
at $500. She did not appear
and the bond was forfeited.
At a hearing before Arlington
Circuit Court Judge Walter T.
Mccarthy, Mr.. Shaffer testified
that Miss Broderson had told
him she had been threatened
by friends of Mrs. Grimes.
The Grimes trial in which
she is regarded as a key witness
has now been put off to October
Faces Is Years in Prison
This is the box score of in
dictmentS and convictions since
the first arrests we're made in
the current investigation more
than a year ago:
Mrs. Grimes now faces prison
terms totalling Is years. She
was one of seven persons
arrested in a raid four years
ago on DR.. G. Thomas
Strother's Fauquier County
abortion ring.
In that case. she pleaded
guilty to five counts of aiding
an abortion. In January, 1865,
she drew a $2,500 fine, a 10
month suspended sentence
and probation for five years.
Fauquier County has not yet
acted on the probation ques-
ton.
In the current investigation,
Mrs Grimes was convicted in
May by a jury which set a
f1ve-year prison term. She was
. convicted in June by a jury
which set 10-year term. She
, still faces two trials.
With her first sentence stayed
pending the outcome of hel
appeal, Mrs. Grimes is now
living in her Lake Bancroft
, Va, home. She once put this
home on the market with ar
asking price of more thar
$4,000.
COOpers Awaiting Trial
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Cooper
sr., both SIS. of the 45OO BLOCK
} Of North Thirty-second road
Arlington, who were indicted
with Mrs. Grimes. have not yer
r gone to trial. The Cooper,
! testified in the Grimes trial
: as State witnesses.
/. At the trials, Mr.. Cooper
S was identified as the driver O.
: the car carrying girls to hi
, $4,000 rambler in Countr,
Club Hills, for abortions.
Mrs. Cooper was identified a.
e the go-between who made tn,
r telephone arrangements anC
e collected the money.
e The Coopers were the frs
: arrested June 10, 1857, in tn
o current investigation and tn
first to talk.
5 Arrested in Prince Georges
= The second set of arrest
S came on September 26, 1851
n after a tip to Maryland Stat
e police. Five defendants wer
t charged in Prince George
County, Md, and Fairfax Coun
: ty, Va, All have since pleade,
n guilty or been convicted.
o Lawrence Shaw was con
: victed in this group. Detectiv
Sergt. George E. Clements @
e the Prince Georges police sal
a he had forwarded an earle
l. complaint about Shaw
S. Washington police, but the gil
IS refused to prosecute. He sal
q he had tried to arrange
v plant" but that didn't worl
Altar the tin "a the stat