Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-20
Bandit Suspects
Are Denied Bail
Continued from Pare One

Continued from Pare One
Scdgley avenue. Lego was brought to
this city from Franklin. Va. by De-
tectives Nledenthal and Swain. De-
tectivo Townsend produced a record
showing that Lego was arrested In Pitts
burgh for automobile stealing n Is
now VENTED in the latter city for the
theft OF five more cars.
Soldiers Get Long Sentences
Two discharged cegro soldiers who
were living on the bounty Of the War
Camp Com.nuni y Service, at 1900 South
College avenue. received prison terms
for stealing from the organization. Hoe
tor W. Douglass took IN overcoat be-
longing to Sergeant Harris. who was
also living at the place. He was sem
fenced to three years in the county
prison. Tit other defendant, Frank j.
Williams, received n sentence Of two
years in the same institution. He stole
a talking machine, pool balls and other
articles belonging to the service club.
Carl Mccarthy, Fourth street near
Girard avenue; Charles Johnson and
Jack Aires. Eleventh street near Spring
Garden. were arraigned in Central sta
ton as suspicious characters and held
for n further hearing in $4,000 bail each.
Detective Walsh testified he had ar
rested the youths neal their homes last
night. There have been many rob
berries in that district" said the detec-
tive, land as | didn't Xix the way these
men were conducting themselves, I
placed them under arrest. Aires had a
razor attached to his belt n johnson
carried a wrench"
Although the hold-up was reported 70
the police several days age the affair
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Warren l.. Stobert, superintendent of
the laundry Of the Emergency Fleet
Hotel, was held up and obbed by foot
pads at Ninety-fourth street and Tint
cum avenue.
Beaten with Blackjack
Two negroes. according to Stobert.
approached him and one Of them struck
him with a blackjack. He fell to the
street. Although shots were fired at
the h~ighwaymen, they rined his pockets
and escaped with S7S.
Mr. Stobert had reached the corner
with Frank Maui. a Waterman at the
shipyard. Mr.. Maui first boarded the
trolley. The attack occurred while the
superintendent had his hand on the iron
railing and was about to enter the car
Mr.. Maui and another passenger fired
at the footpads. The trolley was stopped
and a search made, but no trace of
them was found.
Mr.. Stobert was revived later and in
sisted on going home alone. While in a
trolley car he was suddenly overcome at
Eighteenth ana Callowhill streets. He
was taken to the Garretson Hospital.
where it was said he will recover.
Bandits Choke Woman
Three men entered the home of Mrs.
Helen Henry, of East ~Pensauken, y. j.,
at noon yesterday. and after choking her
until she was helpless, robbed her of
$40. Mrs. Henry was alone in the house
when the men entered and demanded
money. She said II was in another room
and obtained two loaded revolvers and
ordered the men to leave. The money
she had placed in her stocking.
The revolvers were knocked from her
hand by the men and she was chokeu
and the revolvers and money taken
rom her. Three men were later arrested
by Chief of Police Linderman, of Mer-
/ Chantvi le. who gave the names of David
Baird. South T~wenty-tirst street Will
liam Burrell, South Second street, and
James Selfridge Mcclellan street, all
OF Philadelphia. They were committed
to the county Jail without bail by Justice
oil tine lCdCt NIalS' NhlSs I1tllTE co.
lapsed after the hearing and was placed
rn6er the care of a physician.
Thieves Blind Victim With Red Pepper
Red pepper was used by motor thieves
in Camden, who. in full, view of hun
dreds of persons. blinded John Dough-
erty, of 1884 $ nth street, and robbed
him of about $50. The robbery occur
red at noon yesterday az Delaware ave
nue. and Market street. Camden. a square
from the Pennsylvania Railroad fer
( ries.
Dougherty was diving a New York
Pie Baking Company wagon back to
Philadelphia with his morning receipts.
The bandits drove VI in their machine,
and while one blinded him with the
pepper another struck him with a piece
Of pipe and the third robbed him. II al.
happened so quickly that he could not
call for help until the men We're speed
ing away. He was treated at the Cooper
Hospital.
The home of William II. Arrott. 1904
South Rittenhouse square, was broken
into Il week ago and $500 wortl, OF Jew