Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-09
Detective Sergt.- -Alligood
and E. E. Monk
Wounded
TOLEDO, O., PAIR HELD
Shooting Followed Hold up in Store
Alligood Shot in Abdomen-Monk,
a Bystander. Shot in Right Hip.

Washington, D. c., Oct. 9.-ln a
/ running gun fight at Twelfth and E
streets northwest at $50 o'clock last
night, during which pistols blazed a
dozen times. Detective Sergeant
Frank NJ. Alligood was shot in the
abdomen and seriously wounded, and
| Edwin E. Monk, metal worker, 2734
| Sherman avenue. in the right hip.
The shooting followed the hold-up
of the furnishing store of William
| Gildcnhorn, 1923 Pennsylvania ave
nue., by two Toledo hold-up men, Joe
Homer, % years old, and Walter
Randall, 81, few moments before.
Both were captured at plstolS
point by Bicycleman John H. Fowler
md Detective Thomas Walsh on
street, in front of the Frank +. Jel-
left store.
Two young men entered the store
shortly after o'clock, ostehS'pig 10
| purchase a pair of shoes.
They appeared hard to satisfy and
fooled" around nearly an hour
| while other customers came in and
went out. Finally, Randall, it is
said, with the new shoes Oh his feet
reached in his pocket and pulled out
4 gun.
Gildenhorn was forced into room
! in the rear. gagged with two hand
kerchiefs and bound with small
rope to water pipe. Homer, it i
alleged, wrapped up two pairs OF
shoes, two hats, and rifled the cash
register.
Randall, becoming impatient, went
to the door leading to the front OF
the store. the police say, and asked
Homer if everything was all right.
| In this short interval, Gildenhorn
managed to free one of his hands.
and the minute Randall slammed the
door, reached down and united the
rope from his ankles. Half an hour
later at Number One he still had the
| rope around one leg.
The two gurmen ran west on
Pennsylvania avenue, with Gilden-
horn not far behind. yelling for the
police. Reaching Thirteenth street,
they turned north, doubling back on
f street.
By this time small crowd had
taken up the chase, leaving Gilden-
| horn behind.
Half way between Thirteenth and
Twelfth streets Monk, bystander,
! raised small piece of pipe to hit
| Homer. Randall, it is said, shot him
rom behind.
This was the first shot fired and
| Bicycle Policeman J. H. Fowler,
standing at Thirteenth and F streets,
hearing it, and seeing the crowd, ran
| ,ast on F street to head off the fIei-
tives.
In the meantime the gunmen
| reached Twelfth street on f and
turned north, where, finding the
pursuit growing hotter. one turned
and fired again, this time dropping
| Alligood.
Alligood, with Detective Thomas
Walsh, who was ''in' at the arrest
| Of the two men, just few minutes
before had run his car up the decline
| runway of the Service Garage, where
he had put it away for the night.
He was on the seond floor when he
heard sounds of the chase, and ran
out, firing at the gunmen across the
street. He pursued them to the COR
! ner where he received his wound.
I Reaching F street. the two again
/ doubled back westward, passing
| Officer Fowler who, because of the
,loseness of the pursuing crowd was
unable to determine which were the
pursued.
"There they 60" yelled some one,
and Fowler called for the two high
| waymen to stop. When they failed
to heed him, he fired once and start
d in pursuit, firing again as he ran
Thoroughly winded. and one of
them showing siens of being wound
ID, they fired their guns downward
nd. stumbling over n gravel n;le in
front ofGt the sthre of Frank R. Jel-
Jeff, where building alterations are
in progress, surrendered without q
/ struggle:
Lieut.. Guy C. Burlingame exam.