Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1926, Page 18

AGQUIT 7 OFFICERS AT LARCENY TRIAL Judges at Marlboro Freej Robey and Others Indicted Following Raid. ecial Dispateh to Th me."” KING GIVES WRITER HINT. Book Interesting With Anecdotes, Says George. LONDON, May 12 (#).—King George | has many of the qualifications of & good news reporter. After the ex- plorers, Maj. and Mrs. Court Treatt, had recounted their adventures, which are to be put into a book, the King remarked: “Make it human and tell your story in & chatty style with anecdotes of your experlences as they really hap- pened and as you have told them to Make Auto Accident Fatal. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERRYVILLE, Va., May 12.—Hugh | THE EVENING LAST-MINUTEWRIT SAVES PRISON TRIP W. G. Davis, Alias Madden, Was Slated to Go With 36 at Jail to Leavenworth. Willlam G. Davis, alias “Billy”” Mad- den, who says he was a member of the Washington base ball team back in STAR, WASHINGTON : two years for violation of the anti- nareotic law, was about to be placed in a van to be taken to Unilon Station | with his fellow prisoners, when his at- torney, I. Q. H. Alward, presented the writ to Maj. W. L. Peak, District jailer. The writ calls for the appear- ance of the prigoner before Justice Hitz next Tuesday. Sentence Called Yllegal. Attorney Alward claims that the sentence of Davis {s illegal, because imposed many months after he had pleaded guilty, without the term of court belng extended to cover his case, The plea was taken July 16 last, and Davis testiffied for the Government against other drug law violators. It was not until Mareh 6 that the pres- ent sentence wis imposed. Counsel it sontenca should have durlng the July term of Davis also claims thut he D. €, WEDNESDAY one of the largest batches of law- breakers ever sent in one consign- ment from the District to a Federal penitentiary, The 12 white prisoners include Henry Aull, 063, the ‘chloroform burglar,” who has been sentenced during his life to 36 years in various penitentiaries and who is on his way to & 18-year stretch following his con- viction for housebreaking and larceny. ‘Willlam A. Wright, 61, {s en route to do a 20-year sentence on a criminal assault charge brought by a minor. Stanley P. Sampson, who drew three_years for joy-riding, and Wil liam W, Bowman, who was sentenced to elx years for housebreaking, two of the men who Illfll\flefl a delivery from the District jall which was frustrated some months ago when Ma). Peak discovered a note giving away - thelr plans, also will be in the consignment. , MAY 12, 1928. of housebreaking; James A. 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Made the same way it made its reputation For sale ut grocers and delicatessens R MART e Guy 5 W omised a term of only 60 or 90 avenworth Penitentiary with | days when he agreed to aid the Gov- deral prisoners yesterduy, | ernment in the other prosecutions. when a writ of habeas corpus W With sentences totaling more than signed by Justice Willlum Hitz of the [ 200 years hanging over them, 36 District Supreme Court. nrisoners left the District jail yester- Davis, who is under o sentence of | day for Leavenworth, representing Among the 24 colored prisoners are Paul Blackstone and James P. Simp- son, who were checkmated in their plans to rob the Jelleff pay roll by the bravery of the messenger who carrled it. Thelr sentences are 15 years each. Ernest Payne, convicted Mortimer Nelson, uged 87 years, | the early '80s wealthy farmer and sportsman, dled last night in Winchester Memorial Hospital as a resuit of an automobile accldent near Hoyce Saturday night. 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