0:01

Because some prostitute told him

0:03

that the car could be found in

0:05

a garage owned by former

0:08

DUC officer named Greek. There

0:10

had to be a strong motivation.

0:13

You pay mea or else could

0:15

be one of two things, total and competence,

0:18

or there can be an element of corruption.

0:21

There were things that were just bent left

0:24

Berry. Welcome

0:29

back to Shattered Souls the Carborn Murders.

0:32

I'm your host, Karen Smith. This

0:34

is episode thirteen. This

0:36

podcast contains graphic language and

0:39

is not suitable for children. Previously

0:43

on the Carborn Murders, I

0:48

discovered that there was a follow up report

0:50

that retired Montgomery County Police Captain

0:53

Theodore Bolton had written in nineteen

0:55

fifty four a

0:58

strictly confidential inform. It had

1:00

come forward with information on the Carborn

1:02

case, and Bolton came out of retirement

1:05

to follow it up. I

1:07

thought my investigation might be coming

1:09

to a best shot conclusion, but

1:11

when I read the nineteen fifty four addendum,

1:14

I found out that the story was just

1:16

getting started all over again.

1:20

I had three really strong suspects

1:22

in mind for the Carborn case, William

1:24

Clark, Robert Jenny, and Walter

1:27

Oliver. After weeding through dozens

1:29

listed in the nineteen thirty five file. I

1:32

thought I was headed in the right direction, but

1:34

there was still a big piece of the puzzle

1:36

that was missing that would tip the scales

1:39

from probable cause over

1:41

to beyond a reasonable doubt, the

1:44

threshold I needed to meet. DC

1:48

Metro Detective Richard McCarty

1:50

finally informed Bolton that

1:53

he had discovered a bottle of anesthesia

1:56

in the basement or garage of William

1:58

Clark's apartment. McCarty

2:01

didn't report it until three

2:03

years after the murders. A

2:06

note in the nineteen thirty five file

2:08

listing various tasks had McCarty's

2:11

name on it and detailed items that

2:13

seemed to directly implicate William

2:16

Clark in the murders of Emery

2:18

Smith and James Mitchell. The

2:21

note read, get gun

2:23

taken of Clark's taken by McCarty

2:26

from taxi driver named Williams. Get

2:29

info from McCarty, r E bloody

2:32

clothes. Clark was wearing a

2:34

gun and bloody clothing. Where

2:38

were these items? What did McCarty

2:40

do with them? Why was there no follow

2:42

up or details about them? Where was

2:45

McCarty's report. I

2:47

don't have any other information about this

2:49

gun or bloody clothing of Clark's.

2:51

I don't know if a report was ever written

2:54

and lost not included in the final

2:56

file before it was shelved, or why

2:58

there are no further detail anywhere

3:00

to be found. That appeared to be

3:03

circumstantial evidence to link

3:05

Clark to the Carbarn case, but

3:07

there was no further information about it anywhere.

3:10

And why was DC Detective Richard

3:12

McCarty working independently

3:15

on an investigation of William Clark.

3:18

Those mysterious notes might help

3:20

to explain sections of William Clark's

3:22

slap dash interview with DC

3:25

Detective Frank Brass, and why Brass

3:27

kept harping so hard about a dark

3:30

blue suit that Clark was wearing and

3:32

all the back and forth about the cleaning establishments

3:34

that he used. Frank Brass

3:37

and Richard McCarty worked together

3:39

at the tenth Precinct. So is

3:42

it possible that McCarty

3:44

found out about these bloody clothes during

3:46

Clark's interview and that information

3:49

just didn't quite make it into the notes. McCarty

3:53

told Bolton that he had done an independent

3:55

investigation on Clark and searched

3:58

Clark's apartment and found the ennist Asia

4:00

bottle. Did McCarty also find

4:02

these bloody clothes and never

4:04

report them? Who informed Volton

4:07

about the gun and clothes in nineteen

4:09

thirty five when that checklist was created?

4:12

It certainly wasn't Richard McCarty.

4:14

Somebody was feeding Volton that information?

4:17

And who was the taxi driver named Williams

4:19

who supposedly had possession of a gun

4:22

belonging to Clark then subsequently

4:24

gave it to McCarty. I looked

4:26

up every single taxi driver named Williams

4:29

in historical phone directories and there were

4:31

no less than twenty, So it's anyone's

4:33

guests as to who Williams was.

4:37

To let off some steam. After reading about

4:39

that missing or mishandled evidence,

4:41

I started to research Captain Richard

4:43

McCarty to find out more about him.

4:46

Richard McCarty was born in eighteen ninety

4:49

six in Washington, d C. In

4:51

nineteen nineteen, he served as an army

4:53

private in World War One, and by nineteen

4:56

twenty he was a clerk working for

4:58

the railroad. By nine teen thirty,

5:00

he was a DC police officer. By

5:03

nineteen thirty nine, McCarty

5:05

was part of the narcotics squad in DC

5:08

Carbarnes. Suspect Robert Janney

5:10

was busted in an enormous heroin

5:13

trafficking operation in nineteen thirty

5:16

but narcotics were still being transported

5:18

into the district from New York. In nineteen

5:20

thirty nine, McCarty

5:23

was part of a huge sting that involved

5:25

sixty federal agents, forty

5:27

raids of houses and businesses, and the arrest

5:30

of one fifty people. Over

5:32

six thousand dollars worth of heroin

5:34

was being dealt in d C each week in

5:36

nineteen thirty nine. That's the equivalent

5:39

of a hundred and twenty grand today.

5:41

McCarty also busted a horse racing

5:44

wire racket in nineteen thirty seven.

5:46

He tried to record the calls coming

5:48

in on the switchboard teleflash system

5:51

to get more leads, but the calls were coming

5:53

in so fast and furious that a court

5:55

stenographer and telephone operator

5:57

weren't able to keep up. The drug trade,

6:00

horse racing wires, prostitution,

6:02

and the numbers rackets were still wide

6:04

open in nineteen thirty nine, despite

6:07

the district officials resolute denials

6:09

in the newspapers. Between

6:12

nineteen thirty nine and nineteen forty

6:14

two, the d C Metro Police

6:16

Force went through a massive shake up,

6:18

and McCarty was a central figure

6:21

in short. Major Ernest Brown,

6:24

the police superintendent, said that

6:26

his weakest link in the department

6:28

was the plain closed Detective Division that

6:31

meant the homicide unit. Several detectives,

6:33

including McCarty and Robert Barrett,

6:36

alleged that Captain Earl

6:38

Hartman, of the Special Investigation

6:41

Squad, a precursor to Internal

6:43

Affairs, was acting as a quote

6:46

gestapo, sending out

6:48

detectives to spy on detectives.

6:51

Remember Earl Hartman, his name should

6:53

ring a bell. He was one of the

6:55

season detectives specifically requested

6:58

by Montgomery County State Attorney James

7:00

Pew in his letter to Major Brown

7:02

in ninety seven. Hartman

7:05

was too busy on a secret investigation

7:07

to work on the Carborn case. Hartman

7:10

was also Superintendent Brown's

7:12

right hand man, second in

7:14

charge of the department. Earl

7:17

Hartman's so called gestapo

7:20

was formed after several officers had

7:22

been found gambling on duty and

7:24

taking payoffs from racketeers.

7:26

They got busted, so the surveillance

7:29

practice spread into other areas of the department,

7:31

including the homicide unit. Apparently,

7:34

the practice of taking kickbacks from

7:36

the racket kingpins was rampant,

7:39

and McCarty's co worker, Robert

7:42

Barrett's subsequent tenure as police

7:44

chief was riddled with corruption

7:46

and impropriety, and that behavior

7:48

doesn't miraculously begin when

7:51

a person takes the reins. It

7:54

wasn't clear exactly who was

7:56

spying on who or why certain

7:58

officers were targeted and others

8:00

weren't. There was a ton

8:03

of in fighting, jockeying for

8:05

promotion, backbiting, and

8:07

bickering between the detectives and the homicide

8:09

Bureau and McCarty, Robert

8:11

Barrett, and a couple of other senior detectives

8:14

took their experience elsewhere back

8:17

to the street in uniform patrol rather

8:20

than put up with the internal spying

8:22

going on under Captain Earl Hartman

8:25

and Major Ernest Brown. It

8:27

was a blue flu of sorts,

8:29

leaving the Homicide division to flounder

8:31

under new investigators without any

8:34

contacts or experience. McCarty,

8:37

Barrett and the others took a cut

8:39

in pay and they put their patrol uniform

8:41

back on rather than put up with being

8:43

spied on by their own coworkers. Was

8:46

it a legitimate protest of unfair

8:48

work? Ethics or did McCarty

8:50

and Barrett have something to hide? By

8:54

two, everything got sorted out. Major

8:57

Brown retired and McCarty

9:00

went back to the Detective Bureau as a

9:02

sergeant. Robert Barrett

9:04

got a promotion to lieutenant. As

9:07

this new nineteen fifty four report

9:09

from Captain Volton details, McCarty

9:12

was still with the DC Police also

9:14

as a fully ranked Captain. Volton

9:17

contacted McCarty directly and

9:19

gave him the rundown about the information

9:22

provided by the confidential informant.

9:24

Almost twenty years after the start

9:27

of the Carborn case, Captain

9:29

Richard McCarty told Bolton that

9:31

he would do everything in his power to

9:33

solve the murders of Emery Smith and

9:35

James Mitchell. There was no

9:38

follow up as to what McCarty did

9:40

or didn't do with that information from Bolton's

9:42

informant, and Richard McCarty died

9:45

two years later in nineteen fifty

9:47

six. Whatever McCarty knew

9:49

about the Carborn case, any corruption

9:52

cover ups, or this missing gun

9:55

and bloody clothing of William Clark's, went

9:57

to the grave with him.

10:00

When I saw McCarty's name in the nineteen

10:02

fifty four report, I went back

10:04

and looked at the various notes made in nineteen

10:06

thirty five. Not only

10:09

did those notes have the information about

10:11

this missing gun and bloody close,

10:14

they also said this question

10:17

Mary, as to who officer was

10:19

that Clark got three or four

10:21

different guns, and also about

10:23

Pettit. That's Mary Branch

10:26

question her about who the officer

10:29

was that gave Clark three or

10:31

four different guns. Pettit

10:34

as in suspect Lawrence Pettit from

10:36

the Main Office robbery conspiracy.

10:39

There was no further information about any

10:42

of this missing evidence or answers

10:44

to these questions. Why would

10:46

the detectives, especially Volton,

10:49

let something like that fall by the wayside.

10:52

There was no common sense, no justification,

10:56

no reason for questions of that magnitude

10:59

to go unanswered. I just didn't understand

11:02

information like that and the missing

11:04

gun and bloody clothing from McCarty

11:06

could crack a case wide open. It

11:09

would be all hands on deck. Everyone

11:11

in the detective division would redouble our efforts

11:14

if we received that kind of intel. Why

11:16

would Volton write it down and

11:19

not give Chase Something

11:21

was really wrong, something

11:24

stank, something, or

11:27

rather some one was corrupt,

11:30

And why was Mary Branch such

11:32

a Gordian Knot was

11:34

she ever formally questioned again to explain

11:37

all of these associations and information

11:40

she possessed. It seemed to me

11:42

like little miss Mary was

11:44

the keeper of many,

11:46

many secrets. During

11:49

her interview, Mary Branch

11:51

said that a police officer came

11:53

to her apartment on the Sunday night

11:55

before the murders to meet with William

11:57

Clark and they sat around talking. She

12:00

said that the officer, whose name sounded

12:03

like Creek or Greek, worked in

12:05

the area of thirteenth Street Southeast,

12:07

and that he had blonde hair, but there

12:09

were no follow up notes to show that any

12:12

officer was ever questioned about

12:14

Mary's allegation. Bolton's

12:16

notes said that an officer got

12:19

Clark three or four different guns.

12:21

When did that happen? Who gave

12:24

that information to Volton? What

12:26

kind of guns? Was one of thirty

12:28

two caliber Colt semi automatic. The

12:31

notes also said to ask Mary Branch

12:33

about Pettit. On Valentine's

12:36

Day in nineteen thirty five, Lawrence

12:38

Pettit was arrested along with George

12:40

Bruffy for planning a robbery of the main

12:42

office Carborn at thirty six in m Streets,

12:45

and they were the subject of an eleven day stake

12:47

out at a diner downtown.

12:50

Lawrence Pettit ran his mouth about the

12:52

Carborn case, saying that was

12:54

all a mistake, forget it, and Bruffy

12:56

kicked him under the table and told him to

12:58

shut his pie hole. Pettit

13:01

and Bruffy were locked up for the attempted

13:03

robbery. These two didn't

13:05

seem very sophisticated, since

13:08

they still hadn't pulled off that robbery.

13:10

After eleven full days of planning. I

13:13

researched these two morons, and the

13:15

only other charge I could find on Pettit was

13:17

a drunken assault in nineteen thirty two.

13:20

There was nothing more on George Bruffy

13:22

at all. Were they just part of the underworld,

13:25

heard rumors and parroted what

13:27

they'd heard to Volton's informat at lunch.

13:30

If Volton made a note to question

13:33

Mary Branch about Pettit, she

13:35

must have either known him or known

13:37

of some affiliation between Lawrence Pettitt

13:40

and William Clark. Everything

13:42

was just so nebulous it was difficult

13:45

to say for sure. Something

13:47

else I discovered during what I considered

13:50

to be an off day of newspaper research

13:53

changed everything. I

13:56

came across an article about the Carborn

13:59

murders in this little rinky dink

14:01

paper, the Cumberland Evening

14:03

Times. Within the pages

14:06

was a lynch pin that blew me

14:08

away. The article said,

14:11

one of the men detained by police is

14:13

a former employee of the street car

14:15

company who once before was arrested

14:18

for questioning in connection with a Washington

14:20

hold up. Mitchell, one

14:22

of the murdered men, is said to

14:24

have aided in his previous arrest.

14:28

The man gave himself up at police headquarters

14:30

when he learned he was wanted. The woman

14:32

is alleged to have been with the former

14:35

employee on the night of the robbery.

14:38

Did you catch that? You heard

14:40

it right? A former

14:43

employee of the transit company

14:45

who gave himself up at police headquarters

14:48

and a woman was with him on the night

14:50

of the robbery. Who else

14:52

would that be? William

14:55

Clark committed a robbery

14:57

prior to the car Barn case, probably

15:00

one in October of nineteen thirty four.

15:03

After that robbery,

15:05

James Mitchell aided the

15:07

police in his arrest. That

15:10

fact was omitted from the case file.

15:13

There was nothing, not a sintilla

15:15

of a mention within the hundreds of pages

15:18

that referenced this momentous clue,

15:20

just like Clark's attempted murder of Mary

15:23

Branch was nowhere to be found. Thanks

15:26

to that article, I could explain

15:28

the overkill and reason why

15:30

James Mitchell was shot three times

15:33

in the head. The final shot

15:35

was a coup de graw after Mitchell

15:38

was already dead, and act like

15:40

that is cold, calculated

15:43

and unnecessary. I

15:45

was in the suspect's head, which was

15:47

a really unenviable place, But

15:49

there were only two reasons for that

15:52

overkill, revenge and

15:54

witness elimination. James Mitchell

15:57

did know his killer, just

15:59

as I said aspected from the beginning, and

16:02

Mitchell assisted the police with

16:04

William Clark's previous arrest.

16:08

William Clark said that he didn't know

16:10

Emory Smith, but as I've said

16:12

before, that was a lie. Clark

16:15

described the barn Man at Chevy

16:17

Chase Lake as a short, chunky

16:20

fellow whom Clark admitted to

16:22

speaking with on Saturday, January nine.

16:25

The only short chunky barn Man was

16:27

my great uncle. Clark also said

16:29

he had never spoken to Emory Smith. How

16:32

could he deny, ever, speaking to a

16:34

man he didn't know uncle

16:37

Emery was shot four times in the head.

16:40

That was also really personal,

16:42

very deliberate. My uncle

16:45

was not supposed to be working the graveyard

16:47

shift that night, which would have come as

16:49

a surprise to the suspects if

16:52

one of them did know him.

16:54

This was personal, This was panic,

16:57

This was someone he knew, my

16:59

own word from months before. The

17:02

motivating factors behind both murders

17:04

were panic, revenge, and

17:07

most importantly, witness

17:09

elimination. After reconsidering

17:12

the murders with the revelation that James

17:14

Mitchell aided the police with the arrest

17:16

of William Clark on a previous robbery,

17:19

I referred back to Walter

17:21

Oliver's confession to Horace

17:23

Davis. Davis asked

17:25

Oliver why they killed the

17:27

man in the creek, meaning Uncle

17:29

Emery, and Oliver said he

17:32

recognized one of us. Emery

17:34

Smith did recognize one of them,

17:37

William Clark. Walter Oliver

17:39

also said he was with a couple of fellows

17:42

without naming them, I could name

17:44

them William Clark and

17:46

Robert Janny. My great

17:48

uncle's murder was a second witness

17:51

elimination. James Mitchell was dead,

17:53

Clark, Oliver and Janny weren't

17:56

going to leave anyone alive who could

17:58

identify them on a pre meditated

18:00

murder rap, a surefire trip

18:02

to the gallows to be hanged. Emery

18:05

Smith heard the shouting and gunshots

18:08

from inside of the car barn, and he

18:10

confronted the suspects on Connecticut Avenue

18:13

as they fled north past the barn. Uncle

18:15

Emery recognized William Clark,

18:18

and Clark recognized him back. Emery

18:21

was forced into the car at gunpoint and

18:24

killed on the way to the bridge, which was

18:26

the first convenient place to dump his body.

18:29

Panic, a cover up, and witness

18:31

elimination. Those were the motivating

18:34

factors for both of their murders, and

18:36

that left one person at

18:38

the chevy Chase Lake office still

18:41

breathing, Francis Gregory.

18:44

Why wasn't he killed? Two After

18:47

they dumped my uncle's body into Rock

18:49

Creek. I don't believe they continued

18:51

going north into rural Maryland. I

18:54

believe they took a right onto

18:56

pliers Mill Road in Kensington.

18:59

An extension pliers Mill had just

19:01

been completed in nineteen thirty four, and

19:03

it went east to Georgia Avenue,

19:05

which they then took south back into the district.

19:09

Why several reasons. The

19:11

first witnesses to arrive at the office

19:14

that morning, Parker Hannah and

19:16

Robert Abersold, drove south

19:18

on Connecticut Avenue on their way to work,

19:20

within thirty to forty minutes of the murders.

19:23

They both said they didn't see any other cars

19:25

either on or off the road. If

19:27

the suspects cut across Pler's

19:29

Mill, they could have driven the mile to

19:32

Georgia Avenue with plenty of time

19:34

to spare before the others arrived. But

19:37

most importantly, I say this because

19:39

of where the suspect vehicle, the

19:42

stolen green Buick, in my opinion, ended

19:44

up, which was back in Washington,

19:47

d C. Captain

19:49

Volton's nineteen fifty four report

19:52

was more than a gem. It was

19:54

priceless. It was also

19:56

difficult to decipher. So I'm going

19:58

to explain it all in small oss. Now,

20:01

if you need to go grab a coffee or

20:03

go raid the cookie jar, now

20:05

is a really good time to press pause. Pincuse

20:08

trust me. This next part is

20:10

a long walk. I'll be here

20:12

when you get back. Okay,

20:16

you're ready for this next part. Here we

20:18

go. I had to jump

20:20

back and forth between the nineteen fifty four

20:22

addendum and the nineteen thirty five

20:24

reports to start making headway

20:26

about the vehicle. There was a

20:29

notation in the nineteen fifty four addendum

20:31

that coincided with another

20:33

random note in the nineteen thirty

20:35

five report. Both of them

20:38

told me exactly where

20:40

I believe the stolen green Buick was

20:42

hidden after the murders. In

20:45

the nineteen thirty five report, there

20:48

was a notation that said, quote see

20:50

shorty rear over garage

20:53

at thirty seventh

20:55

Street Northwest can tell more about

20:57

Clark than anyone. The

21:00

nineteen thirty five Historical Directory

21:02

placed a furniture store at that

21:04

address. A furniture store

21:07

would definitely have a loading dock and

21:09

it would have a garage used for storage.

21:12

That address is near the intersection of

21:14

Seventh and n Streets northwest.

21:16

Remember that Seventh and End

21:19

Streets northwest. Now here's

21:21

what Captain Volton wrote in his nineteen

21:24

fifty four addendum. The

21:26

informant and Captain Volton went to

21:28

the rear of a building in an alley between

21:30

seventh and m or End Streets

21:33

northwest, where a man named Duffy

21:35

was supposed to operate and run a garage.

21:38

The informant stated that she

21:41

knew that the car that contained the body

21:43

of Emory Smith, one of the murdered

21:45

parties in the Carborn Job, was

21:47

located in this garage at

21:49

the rear of either seventh and M

21:52

or N Streets. However, the

21:54

informant and Captain Volton were

21:56

never able to locate this garage

21:59

baby steps First, the

22:02

nineteen fifty four report said

22:04

that a man named Duffy worked

22:06

as a mechanic in a garage in the

22:08

area of Seventh and m or

22:10

End Streets northwest. The nineteen

22:13

thirty five notes said that Shorty

22:16

could be found over the garage at Seventh

22:18

and End Streets northwest. Second,

22:21

Volton was working with information from

22:24

two informants, one male, one

22:27

female. The female

22:29

informant was certain that the

22:31

vehicle used in the Carborn murders

22:33

had been stored in this garage, which

22:36

was in a rear alley. So

22:39

the car was parked in d C in

22:41

a back alley garage at seventh

22:44

and End Street, possibly

22:46

for a number of years before

22:48

this female informant and Volton went

22:50

looking for it in nineteen forty, but

22:53

never found it. Now

22:55

that I knew where the car had been stored

22:58

and hidden, I looked at the map on my

23:00

wall where I did geographic profiling.

23:03

I said that I believe the suspects

23:05

went east on Plyer's Mill Road

23:07

and then south on Georgia Avenue to

23:09

get back into the district after the murders. Georgia

23:13

Avenue turns into Seventh

23:15

Street northwest at the intersection

23:17

of Florida Avenue. It would

23:19

have been a straight shot

23:22

down Seventh Street to end Street

23:24

and into that back alley garage

23:27

run by either Duffy or Shorty.

23:30

Didn't I warn you that there was a lot to unpack

23:32

in this new report, Well, hang on, this is

23:34

just the beginning onto the next

23:36

part. This is the

23:39

first paragraph from Bolton's

23:41

nineteen fifty four addendum. I'm going to

23:43

read it in full, then I'm going to break it

23:45

down. An

23:48

informant came to me on August nineteen

23:51

fifty four and told me that he

23:53

had some additional information on what the

23:55

police department called the Carbarn murder

23:57

case. In nineteen forty,

24:00

the same informant came to me and

24:03

told me that there was a black man by the name

24:05

of Duffy who was an automobile

24:07

mechanic for an ex Sergeant

24:09

Green, a former member of the Washington

24:12

Police Department. The information

24:14

from my informant came from a

24:16

woman who was employed by ex

24:19

Sergeant Green in a beauty

24:21

parlor. I know it's

24:23

a lot. Let's start with

24:25

the confidential informants. The

24:28

original informant from nineteen forty

24:31

was male. He came forward again

24:33

in nineteen fifty four. His

24:36

informant was a female who

24:39

worked in a beauty parlor for

24:41

a former d C police sergeant

24:43

named Green. James

24:46

Weir had the Shingle Shop beauty

24:48

parlor before he fled d C to join

24:50

the military. His sister,

24:53

Niva Berardinelli had a beauty

24:55

parlor, and William Clark's

24:57

girlfriend Edith Small also

25:00

worked in a beauty parlor. Things

25:02

were starting to make sense now that I had broken

25:04

down a little bit of the nineteen fifty four report,

25:07

but there was a lot more to uncover based

25:09

on Bolton's new revelations. Volton

25:12

tended to jump around from year to year,

25:15

so I had to unravel the long timeline

25:17

and follow ups decade by decade,

25:20

going back to nineteen thirty

25:22

eight. In nineteen thirty

25:25

eight, Bolton and Leroy Rogers

25:27

went to Richmond, Virginia to follow

25:29

up some information on another case

25:32

they received from Sergeant Anthony

25:34

of the Richmond Police Department. They

25:36

met with Sergeant Anthony, who said,

25:38

quote, I understand you had a murder

25:40

in your county, referring to the Carbarn

25:43

case. Before getting to the

25:45

business at hand, Anthony

25:47

popped off a one liner, to

25:50

the great surprise of Bolton and Rogers.

25:53

Sergeant Anthony told them that while

25:55

he was on a trip to the district in nineteen

25:57

thirty five to tech to,

26:00

Frank Brass of the Washington Police

26:02

Department did him a solid and

26:04

hooked Anthony up with a prostitute.

26:08

Anthony recalled her first name was

26:10

Marjorie. It must have been quite a rendezvous,

26:13

and I now understood that Frank

26:15

Brass not only had underworld

26:18

contacts in the prostitution racket,

26:21

he wasn't shy about extending

26:23

personal illegal favors to

26:25

out of town officers. Volton

26:28

and Rogers didn't travel three hours

26:30

to Richmond to hear about Anthony's exploits

26:33

with a hooker, but Anthony

26:35

reminisced and told them that this

26:37

woman, Marjorie, had

26:40

done some pillow talk while they were together. Marjorie

26:43

told Sergeant Anthony that the Carbarn

26:46

murders were planned in the Houston

26:48

Hotel, and that William

26:50

Clark was connected with the job.

26:55

It seemed the street rumors about

26:57

Clark extended foreign

26:59

way, even to indiscriminate

27:02

hookers. Everyone in the

27:04

district seemed to know about

27:06

Clark. Somehow, the whole

27:09

city had the skinny on him,

27:11

everyone except the

27:13

district detectives working the case.

27:16

What a crock. Mattris

27:19

Maven Marjorie confirmed

27:21

my hunch that this case was

27:23

a cover up buried under a

27:25

mound of corruption. I didn't know

27:27

the reason why yet, but I was

27:29

hoping to find out. Sticking

27:32

with that time frame of nineteen thirty

27:35

eight, there was a letter dated

27:37

August night,

27:40

written by inmate Floyd Gray

27:42

of the Moundsville Penitentiary in West Virginia.

27:46

Here's what Floyd Gray's letter said. Mr

27:49

C. M. Stone Warden, Dear Warden.

27:52

I am in the South Hall and in cell with

27:54

Joseph war Kirby. He

27:57

was, as you know, connected with the slaying

27:59

of Old Dolman, along with Lawrence

28:01

Gingle and Willie be Read.

28:04

The latter was hung here. Joseph

28:07

Kirby asked me a while back if I would

28:09

write a story of his crimes for him.

28:11

This I did for him, and in doing so,

28:14

I discovered that he knew the name of the man

28:16

who robbed and killed a man at

28:18

the street Car Barn offices in Chevy

28:20

Chase, Maryland. The man was a night

28:22

watchman for the street car company. This

28:24

case is still unsolved. The prosecuting

28:27

attorney from Montgomery County came to Charleston

28:29

and questioned Kirby about this killing, but

28:32

he denied knowing anything about it. I

28:34

learned that one of the men is now serving a ten

28:36

year sentence in the Maryland House of Corrections.

28:39

I'm sure that the state of Maryland would like to see

28:41

this mystery murder case solved. I'm

28:43

willing to help all I can, that is to say

28:46

what he told me about it. The prosecuting

28:48

attorney's name is mister Pew, Rockville,

28:50

Maryland. You may write to him and he can

28:52

tell you all about it. I sell with

28:54

Kirby, and I don't want him to know what I'm doing

28:57

to help solve this mystery. And if Mr

28:59

Pew writes me any letters concerning it, please

29:01

see that they're not brought to my cell door. As

29:04

Kirby could see the postmark and become

29:06

suspicious about what I was doing. Tell

29:08

them I'll give them a real hot tip if he wants

29:10

me to, please see to this that it

29:13

does not reach Kirby via the grapevine route.

29:15

Yours truly, Floyd G. Gray, South

29:18

Hall. Why is

29:20

this relevant? Joseph

29:22

war Kirby, Willie Reid,

29:25

and his two brothers were known as

29:27

the Read Gang. Volton

29:30

had been tracking the Read Gang after

29:32

they were suspected in a series of robberies

29:34

and murders. Detective Volton

29:37

went to Moundsville Penitentiary and he

29:39

spoke with Floyd Gray and with

29:41

Joseph war Kirby. Floyd

29:43

Gray told Bolton that he had a

29:45

faint recollection of the name William

29:48

Clark being mentioned by Joseph

29:51

war Kirby. Gray's letter alleged

29:53

that one of the Carbarnes suspects was

29:56

currently serving ten years at

29:58

the Maryland House of Corrections. William

30:00

Clark and Robert Jenny were

30:02

serving their sentences there in nineteen thirty

30:04

eight. When Bolton spoke with

30:07

Joseph war Kirby, he told

30:09

Bolton that he recalled the name Clark

30:11

being mentioned by the Reed brothers. Kirby

30:14

also said that he recalled the name Weir

30:17

being mentioned. Joseph

30:19

war Kirby placed William Clark

30:22

and James Weir in the same

30:24

criminal circle as the Reed Gang.

30:28

There was another important link to mention

30:30

here. Remember Arthur Waugh

30:33

and Harry Simon, the Kensington

30:35

men brought in for questioning in March of

30:37

nineteen thirty five. Harry

30:40

Simon, not his real name, schlept

30:43

condoms in a brief case and he

30:45

had Rackett ties to New York, Philadelphia

30:47

and d C. Arthur Waugh's

30:50

interview was half baked and

30:52

he couldn't remember anything because

30:54

he spent most nights drinking in

30:57

the district. Now here's the link

30:59

that I want to make. One of Arthur

31:01

was good friends was named

31:04

Ernest Day Mood, and he was mentioned

31:06

during Arthur's questioning. Well,

31:08

here's the kicker and the link between Arthur

31:11

Waugh and the Read Gang. The

31:13

Reed Brother's sister, Mary Frances,

31:17

married into Earnest Day MUD's

31:19

family. There were connections

31:21

between the murderous Reed brothers and

31:24

Arthur Waugh's friend Ernest day

31:26

Mood. They all lived in Kensington,

31:29

which was a really small section of Montgomery

31:31

County. Everybody knew everybody. The

31:34

connections between Arthur Waugh and

31:36

his friend Ernest Damed to the

31:38

read gang, wasn't all I found. The

31:41

names Arthur and Luke, as

31:44

in Arthur's uncle Luke Johnson,

31:46

were mentioned in a tax evasion

31:49

case involving another

31:51

family involved in the rackets, the

31:53

Warring Brothers. They were known

31:55

as the Foggy Bottom Gang. I

31:58

know all of these well known racket

32:00

gangs, and there was no crime in the district

32:03

right The Warring Brothers.

32:06

The Foggy Bottom Gang were the gambling

32:09

kingpins of the district hands

32:11

down. They ran bookie joints,

32:14

the numbers racket, and gambling

32:16

halls all over d C. To

32:18

the tune of four million

32:20

bucks. In you

32:23

do the math, the government

32:25

busted the Foggy Bottom Gang on tax

32:27

fraud, and the Washington Post

32:30

listed every single person, all

32:32

seventy five of them, who received

32:35

proceeds from the Foggy Bottom Gangs

32:37

gaming racket from the menial bookies

32:40

all the way up the ladder to the principles. The

32:43

names Arthur and Luke

32:45

address unknown were listed with

32:47

another name, Shorty,

32:50

the man who lived above the garage at

32:52

Seventh and End Streets Northwest. The

32:55

list detailed that Luke received

32:58

about four hundred bucks, Arthur

33:00

got five fifty bucks, and

33:02

Shorty pocketed a paltry six

33:05

dollars. That

33:07

is what Arthur Waugh was doing during

33:10

his mysterious all night benders

33:12

in the district. And listen, I

33:14

don't care who you know or who you blow. Arthur

33:17

Waugh wasn't drinking free

33:19

liquor on someone else's dime.

33:22

Unemployed Arthur was getting

33:25

money from somewhere to go on his boozer

33:27

benches, and at sure as hell wasn't his

33:29

estranged wife Myrtle or his uncle Luke

33:31

Johnson. When I coupled the likelihood

33:34

that Arthur and Luke were running

33:36

numbers for the Warring Brothers and

33:38

the Foggy Bottom Gang, their adjacent

33:41

affiliation to the Reed Brothers

33:43

via Ernest Day Mood, along with Harry

33:45

Simon's condom soliciting bullshit,

33:48

it led to this conclusion for my investigation.

33:51

Arthur Waugh, Luke Johnson,

33:54

and Harry Simon had their petty

33:56

underworld connections. Simon's

33:59

were in Lee in New York, where he

34:01

peddled prophylactics. Arthur

34:03

Waugh and Luke Johnson were

34:05

running numbers or booking horse

34:08

racing bets for the Foggy Bottom

34:10

Gang. Not that I'm a gambling

34:12

type gal, but I'd put money

34:15

on Dan's hot dog stand

34:17

as the central place for meetups and exchanges

34:20

between Kensington and d C. That

34:22

assertion is not unsubstantiated.

34:25

During my research, I read a book

34:28

titled l a p d s Rogue Cops

34:30

Cover Ups in the Cookie Jar, written by

34:32

former l a p D officer Vincent

34:35

Carter, about his days as a cop

34:37

in Los Angeles in the nineteen forties.

34:40

This is a quote from Carter's book. The

34:43

arrest that got him in trouble was made by

34:45

him and his partner at a hot dog

34:47

stand. The owner was selling

34:49

a lot more than hot dogs. He was

34:51

dealing in everything that was hot, from narcotics,

34:54

two guns. He preferred guns

34:57

because he had protection in the robbery

34:59

division and could get the guns back

35:01

to deal again. If

35:04

underworld deals were happening at hot

35:06

dog stands across the country,

35:08

in Los Angeles, it's highly

35:10

probable, if not a certainty,

35:13

that dirty deals were happening at

35:15

Dan's hot dog stand. At chevy

35:17

Chase Lake, bootlegger

35:20

Mildred Oliver was loitering

35:22

at Dan's. Likely meeting up

35:24

with William Clark in the fall of nineteen

35:26

thirty four, These clandestine

35:28

affairs would also help to explain

35:30

why Arthur Waugh and Harry Simon

35:33

were so evasive during their interviews,

35:36

and why Arthur's younger brother Clarence

35:39

was hanging out at Dan's after

35:41

dark. If meetups were happening

35:43

next to the Chevy Chase Lake ticket office

35:46

at Dan's hot dog stand, and Arthur

35:48

Waugh and Harry Simon were in

35:50

the know about the shady ship going

35:52

on, coupled with the foggy Bottom

35:54

gangs, wall to wall gambling hustle,

35:57

and the Reed brothers affiliation to people

35:59

they knew in Kensington, it's not

36:01

a wonder why Arthur Waugh and Harry

36:04

Simon bumbled their way through their words

36:06

rather than to admit any affiliation

36:08

with the local rackets. Admitting

36:11

as much to the police would have put a target

36:13

on their backs after a double

36:15

homicide. They weren't about to squawk

36:18

about anything they were doing on the lowdown

36:20

or about anyone else. I

36:22

realized that was a long hike, but I

36:25

wanted to tie up those loose ends. Let's

36:27

get back to the nineteen fifty report from

36:29

Captain Bolton. When

36:31

Volton went to Richmond, Virginia in

36:33

nineteen thirty eight, he talked with Sergeant

36:36

Anthony, who told him that Frank Brass

36:38

had hooked him up with a prostitute named Marjorie

36:41

back in nineteen thirty five. Anthony

36:43

also said that this woman, Marjorie, had done some

36:45

pillow talk while they were together. She told

36:47

Anthony that the Carborn murders were planned

36:50

in the Houston Hotel and that William

36:52

Clark was connected with the job. Bolton

36:55

and Rodgers took that information and looked

36:57

through the i D files for prostitutes

37:00

named Marjorie and pulled several

37:02

photos which Volton held

37:04

onto for several years. In

37:06

nineteen forty four or forty five,

37:09

Volton recalled driving all the way

37:11

down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to talk

37:13

with retired d C. Detective

37:15

Frank Brass, who was working for the Post

37:17

Office. Volton showed

37:19

Brass the pictures of several women

37:21

of the night who went by the name Marjorie

37:23

in nineteen thirty five. Frank

37:26

Brass did not deny setting up

37:28

Sergeant Anthony with a prostitute, and he looked

37:30

the photos over, but he couldn't identify

37:33

any of them as being the woman he knew back

37:35

then. Captain Volton got

37:37

himself into some hot water after

37:40

that little jaunt to Florida because he used

37:42

an unauthorized city vehicle for

37:44

the twenty two hundred mile round trip. He

37:46

was given a thirty day suspension when he got

37:48

back. He admitted to mixing

37:50

business with pleasure on that trip to Fort Lauderdale,

37:53

and he took his lumps from the police administration.

37:56

Sometimes it's better to ask forgiveness

37:58

than permission. Continuing

38:00

with the report from nineteen fifty four, the

38:03

confidential male informant

38:05

provided Volton with several

38:07

bombshells. My job

38:10

was to sort out the final pieces of the puzzle,

38:12

even though the box top with the whole

38:14

picture was gone. That was easier

38:17

said than done. But I was game for

38:19

the ride, and I hope you are too tighten

38:21

your seat belt. The

38:24

male informant told Volton that

38:27

the female informant said

38:29

the best satisfaction she could

38:31

get would be to get back at

38:34

ex Sergeant Green from the d

38:36

C Police Force. The mail

38:38

informant apprized Captain Vulton that

38:40

by nineteen fifty four, the female

38:43

informant was dead. Before

38:45

she died, she told the mail informant

38:48

that the Carbarn murders were planned

38:50

in a beauty salon operated by

38:52

ex Sergeant Green, and the people

38:55

present at that planning were ex

38:57

Sergeant Green, William Franklin

38:59

Clark, a man by the name of White,

39:02

a girl with the name Emmanuel who

39:04

worked for ex Sergeant Green who had

39:07

an Italian last name, and

39:09

also Duffy, the man who

39:11

worked in a garage as a mechanic for

39:13

ex Sergeant Green. Well

39:16

I had my next assignment find

39:19

out the identity of ex

39:21

Sergeant Green. If

39:26

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39:28

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