The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-12
HUNT YOUNG BANDITS
Four Boys in Stolen Car
Hold Up and Rob Autoists

Tracing clews to the identity
81 the four youthful auto ban.
dts who spe~ded over the Seat
sle-f.verett highway sunday
night rehbing automobilists AT
the point Of an automatic pistol.
sheriff Stringcr's Office reported
Monday an early capture II ex'
pected.
Operating in n stolen machine OF
high power. the four youths held up
eight people. and then went thru the
north end OF Seattle. robbing a pc.
destrian I'm the University district
and another north OF Woodland
park.
The first report OF the activities OF
the motor bandits came from Mar
shat T.. III. Hitsman. Of Bothell, who
reported to Seattle police that tho
automobile In which MIR. and Mrs.
Wilbur Rrowder. ia Madison st.
and Mr.. and Mrs. l.. |. Grtggs, OF
Sunnyside. while travelling To Seat
Tie. had been held IN between Holly
wood and woodlnville. on tho Both
Ell road. by four youths In a high.
powered car. The bandits crowded
the other car partly off the road
Forcing II to stop. jumped out and
cried: up with your hands"
Take Victims Machine
The bandits forced their victims TO
alirht and submit to a search. The
women were not touched. The ban
dits 70, about So. one OF the hold
ups then drove OFF with their vic
Tins machine, leaving them strand
I'd on the highway. while the re
naming three followed their com
panson. Griggs and Browsicr found
their machine about mile away.
where II had been abandoned.
When the bandits stopped their
machine the lights of Briggs car
played upon the license number OF
the robbers machine. Briggs made
= note OF the number. 29.0sT. This
was found TO be the license number
Of a machine stolen saturday night
from Mrs. Catherine Boyd. 1881
s3rd ave. s. while II was parked In
front OF her home.
About half an hour before this
holdup. +. Main. 1910 John st. and
Miss Irene Ashford. sia 2sth ave.
~. en- route TO Seattle from Falls
CITY. were stopped by tho same tao
tics By four young bandits and re-
usved OF about 81. Main and Miss
Ashford were told to stay where
they were, and the highwaymen en-
tered their machine and raced off.
n. n.tt.a1
]. d. Sheridan. OF the Diiier hotel
was next on the list. A stranger In
the city. sheridan could not tell the
police the exact spot where he was
robbed. but said IL was in the Uni
yrrxity district He was walking TO
fhc street car line when the machine
nped up. halted and the four ban
ats aiighted. One OF them pointed
an automatic pistol az Sheridans
head and commanded h,m TO throw
N his hands. Sheridan complied
9Th the demand. He was robbed OF
~ and his watch.
More motorcycle patroimen were
ordered out and a veritabie dragnet
NnFmed about the northeastern por-
don OF the city. Hardly had they
oosn dispatched when A. OBrien.
0ho lives on Greenwood ave. about
: mile north Of the city limits, teie-
ulAcned TO the police that he had
bssn held up at North sIth st and
Greenwood ave. by four youths and
robbed Of s. O'Brien was walking
toward his home when the machine
Appeared and he was invited for a
ride. A. he entered the machine
one Of the bandits pressed the muz-
zle Of a pistol to the back Of his
neck. His purse was taken and he
vas thrown out OF the car.
Descriptions OF the highwaymen
furnished to the police tally exactly.
According to the various victims
statements two OF the bandits wore
hats and the other two wore caps.
Only one of them was armed as in
each case only one automatic pistol
Was In evidence. The bandits evi.
IDENTIFY stole Mrs Boyd's machine
saturday night and headed for the
Botheil road In the belief that there
would b. many automobile parties
AOming into Seattle The police be-