Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-16
Ex-PoIiceman
Gets 6 Months
For Break-in

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A former Washington police
man and a second man have
received six-to-18-month jail
terms after pleading guilty to
a HOUSEKEEPING charge that
they broke into an empty
theater in February.
Chief District Court Judge
Matthew F. MCGUIRE gave the
jail sentences to Raymond L.
Taft, "a, and Robert Cole, 81,
both of the 5000 block Of
Wheeler road Sc. Taft, who
was a police private, resigned
after the incident.
Cole, who was employed by a
safe and lock company, was
found in an alcove near the
mems room of the Highland
Theater, 1888 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc. Taft was found
hiding in a room behind the
screen. Both men were dis
covered in the empty theater
at 8 am.
Safe Not Touched
Police said they found a pair
of bolt cutters. a wrecking bar,
steel concrete bits and an
S-inch punch. They said a safe
in an upstairs office had not
been touched. Taft, police
said, had made a duplicate key
to the theater earlier during a
period of bad weather.
In other action, Judge Nc
CURE gave a three-to-nine year
prison term to Charles Cren-
shaw, jr.. IS, of the $500 block
Of Just street NE, who pleaded
guilty to two robbery charges.
In one. $500 was taken from a
woman in a clothing shop at
gunpoint. In the other, a liquor
store holdup Melted $377.
Robert L. Blair, 81, of the
5000 block Of c street Sc, who
was indicted with Crenshaw,
was given an indeterminate SEN
tence under the Federal Youth
Corrections Act on two robbery
charges, one involving a $415
liquor store holdup and the
other a $20.10 robbery of a
man last February.
Judge Charles F. McLaugh-
lin gave an indeterminate sem
tence under the Youth Act to
Eugene DeWalt Taylor, Is, of
the $500 block of Thirteenth
place NE. who was convicted
of carnal knowledge in an al
legged gang attack last June
upon a 14-year-old girl at a
school playground.
Gets 2 Years
Judge David A. Pine gave a
two-to-eight year prison term
to Terrell w. Brockington, l8.
of the 100 block of Eighth
street NV, who pleaded guilty
to two HOUSEKEEPING charges
and a charge Of carrying a dan
gerous weapon.
Robert B. Ingram, II, of the
1900 block Of independence
avenue Sc, was given an in
determinate sentence under the
Youth Act by Judge Henry A.
Schweinhaut on two robbery
charges. In one, the purse of
a 52-year-old woman contain
ing $63 was snatched. In the
other, three youths beat a So
year-old man who had been
drinking and took $1l0.
Judge Schweinhaut also gave
an indeterminate sentence UNI
der the Youth Act to Virgil |
Tillison Long. II. of the 1900 |
block Of Seventeenth street |
NV, who pleaded guilty to
two purse snatchings. Long,
originally charged with several
other offenses, was waived for
adult trial by Juvenile Court
Judge Orm w. Ketcham.
Robbers Sentenced
A five-to-15-year prison
term was given by Judge Ed
ward M. Curran to William r.
Leach, 81, listed as at the Am
bassador Hotel. who was
charged with robbery as one
of tive men who took $3.50 at
gun point last January from
the manager Of the Parkside
Hotel, Fourteenth and I streets
NV.
Judge Curran gave a three
to-nine-year prison term to
Ira Stroud, SO, of the 300 block
Of I street NV, who was con-
victed of robbery in the March
10 hold up by two men of a
store in the 200 block Of Fiji
teenth street NE, in which
$50 was taken.