Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1930, Page 12

TAWYER CONVCTED OF EMBEZZLENENT Jury Finds R. E. J. Whalen Guilty of Taking $23,000 From Client. Convicted on a charge of embezzling $23,000 from a client, Robert E. J. Whalen, attorney, was in jail today awaiting sentice by Justice Peyton Gor- A jury in Criminal Division 1 of the District Supreme Court returned its verdict late yesterday to Justice Gor- don after deliberating 15 minutes, ‘Whalen had been indicted for em- bezzling the money from Miss An- nie Hurley of Hyattsville subsequent to December, 1927, Miss Hurley, who had been employed by The Evening Star for 35 years as a copyholder, was pen- sioned in November, 1927. Denies Money Was Returned. THE EVENING .STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY)M OCTOBER 24, 1930. : GEORGE WASHINGTON CO-EDS PRACTICE ARCHERY 'KAPPA ALPHA FRAT IN ANNUAL SESSION Chapters Representing Three States Meet With @ W. Unit in Province Convention. Nine chapters of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity, representing colleges of Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia, are in session with the George Wash- ington University Chapter here today in the annual province convention. The meeting was opened this morning with a business session, and it will be ad- journed tomorrow with a luncheon at the home of Frank Myers, province commander. A second business session is being held this afternoon, and a banquet is scheduled for tonight at Picardi’s Res- taurant, with a dance afterward at the Chapter House, at 1901 R street. Be- sides George Washington University, the institutions represented are Uni- versity of Maryland, Delaware College, West Virginia University, Marshall Col- lege, St. John's College of Annapolis, Johns_Hopkins, Bethany College and — WOMAN IN LUXURIOUS APARTMENT FOUND DEADI By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 24.—In a lux- uriously furnished apartment within walking distance of Broadway Miss Rutan, 27-year-old brunette, died yes- terday, while gas flowed from an open et. ¥ Battering in the door, police found Tomorrow_ Safurday . . @& her body, clad in a silk dressing gown, in an overstuffed chair. Across her lap lay a sheet of paper and in her hand was a pencil, as if she had been about to write a note when death came. ‘The walls were lined with heavy silks and the wardrobe was filled with ex- Lee | pensive clothes. Police could locate neither friend nor relative. The apartment house super- intendent said she spoke to no one and had few visitiors. 6.50 All of the latest ideasi, feather fouches, “a bit o' fur”, Irigoyen Minister on Trial. lation of their consii*utional oaths. hat event «+. €xquisite copies of Paris originals West Virginia Wesleyan. tricorne shapes, new-type Whalen, testifying in his own behalf, told the jury that he had two $5,000 bills in a ‘safe deposit box in the Com- | mercial National Bank, Upon rec ing checks from Miss Hurley, he s he deposited part of the money derived | from cashing them in the safe deposit box, and considered that she had an interest in the fund to the extent of the money given him. He said that on June 6 last, he returned the money in five $5,000 bills and received Miss Left to right: Louise Wright, Sara McElroy, Helen Koehne and Helen Lambert, George Washington University co- eds, at archery practice on the Lincoln Memorial grounds. —A. P. Photo. Hurley’s receipt. Miss Hurley denied that any money had been returned, and said that the re- ceipt was not in its present form ‘when she signed it. Prosecuted by Rover. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, who was instrumental in obtaining an early trial of the defendant, prosecuted the charges himself. He called witneses from the bank who testified that a renter of a box is re- quired to sign a paper whenever he visits the vault. Many such papers signed by Whalen were introduced in Berne on Site of Celtic Town. BERNE (#).—Excavations by en- gineers in the north bend of the Aar River at Enge, a suburb, indicate that the capital of Switzerland is built on the site of an old Celtic town, pottery and iron work having been found. evidence, but none of them were dated on or near the day when he said he withdrew the bills from the deposit box to pay Miss Hurley. ‘Whalen was represented by James J. 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