Evening star., 1915-02-16
THINK FIND IS CLUE
TO CAR BARN THEFT
Police Discover on River Bank
RevoIvers, Sack, Blackjack
and Cartridge Belt.
FOUR SUSPECTS HELD;
GIRL FRIENDS SOUGHT
Offer of 5000 Reward Stimulates
Search for Robbers Who
Got $4,000.

| A number of artices of wearing apparel
blue steel revolver, a cheap pistol, bel
of cartridges, wig. piece of rubber hose
with steel wedged in one end that might
easily be used as a blackjack. a guhny
sack and other articles are held at the
ninth precinct police station on suspicion
that some of them may belong to the
two men who held up the night clerk and
his assistant at the East Capitol street
car barn yesterday morning and made
| away with nearly $1,000.
| Four suspects held by the police of the
ninth precinct are registered as Harry H
Shook, twentySeven years old. metal
worker. 1907 14th street southeast: Ben
Jamin Maddox, -twenty-six years old
painter. 604 d street northwest Clarence
E. Curren, twenty mine years old, steam
filter, 225 d street northwest, and John
Waters, twenty-one years old. mechanic
225 D street northwest.
Maddox and Shook are friends, the
police say, and after their arrest last
night search was made of the house at
b04 d street. but no trace of money or
car tickets was found. The police found
a pair of gloves that are said to resemble
the gloves worn by the robber who col
lected the money and car tickets and
placed the booty in gunny sack.
Seeking Young Women.
Search is being made for several young
women, said to be friends of two of the
men under arrest, the police believing
they may be able to throw some light
on the movements of their friends about
the time the robbery was committed. It
was said by the police this afternoon
that no trace of any of the plunder had
been found Capt. Falvey of the ninth
precinct said he was confident that his
men would solve the problem and fix the
crime upon two men who reside in this
city.
Lieut.. Bremerman, who led party
OF officers in the search for the rob-
bers. learned that two men had been
seen going in the direction of the
Eastern branch near the smallpox hos
pital and Jail. and. it is said, foot
prints similar to those found on the
lot at 14th and A streets yesterday
morning were trailed in the direction
of the water.
the gunny sack and other articles that
are held at the police station as pos
s1ble evidence in the case. The sack
was found before the rain started fall
ing and was perfectly dry. and the
police are satisfied that it had been on
the, river bank only a short time be-
fore it was found.
Saw Two Men in Boat.
Following the clue. which led them to
the river, the police made inquiry of
boatmen to ascertain if any boats had
been taken from the river front They
failed to learn that any boats were
missing, they said, but did learn that
two men in a boat went in the direc-
ton of Benning bridge about o'clock
yesterday morning, fully one hour aft
er the robbery was perpetrated
1t was suggested by some of the DO
llcemen engaged in the investigation
that crossing the river in boat might
indicate that the robbers did not be-
long IN this city, and that they went
in that direction to board a freight
train to get away from this vicinity.
jeremiah Hagerty, depot clerk at the
car barn, and Roy Brady, his assist
ant, who were in the Office when the
hold-up was committed, have seen the
art1cies in the possession of the police
They say that some of the articles re-
semble what was worn by the robbers.
but they are not able to identify posi-
lively any of them.
Commenting upon the affair, an in
terested person called attention to the
fact that there was not weapon of
any kind in the office of the car harm
to be used in defending the company's
property, while the robbers went about
the city at will armed with weanons
enough to put up Il strong fight.
Business Houses Unprotected.
1t developed yesterday that a num-
Der of large business houses were
without such protection. and, il is
stated, a number of them quickly made
purchases of such weapons for possible
future use. Had the office of the car
barn had wire connection with the
nearest police station yesterday morn
ing it is possible that a policeman
woulo have been on hand before the
robbers left the building.
A meeting between the robbers and
policemen. it is believed, would have
resulted in pistol fight similar to the
one in which Sergt Lohman and Detec-
tive Cole engaged early Sunday morn
ing
Maj. Sylvester's offer of a reward Of
5000 for the arrest of each of the rob-
bers has been communicated to the
police department of other cities and
county officers in nearby states