The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-01
DC. SWEPT
BY. CRIME
WAVE
Hotel and Grocery Store Are
''stuck Up Cop shot-soy
Robbed in Auto.

"A CRIME wave. OF no mean
proportions swept over Washing
ton last night and early this
morning, leaving in it's wake the
record of some of the most dar-
ingly perpetrated crimes in re-
cent months.
Starting at 7:30 o'clock last
night police and detectives were
kept busy answering frenzied ap-
peals for protection, from citizens
who had been held-up and robbed.
Not until 6 o'clock this morning
did the impromptu wave Of crime
abate and give the harassed police
a chance to catch up on their
work.
Hotel Is Held Up.
Included in the nights disorders
were:
The hold-up and robbing of the
City Hotel, 329 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest.
The hold-up and robbing of the
grocery store of Abraham Resented,
44O1 Sheriff road northeast.
The shooting Of e. policeman who
attempted to arrest a drink-crazed
man. 49,
The discovery of a negro burglar
in the home of C. A. Carrigan, 1S4S
W street southeast.
The holdup and assault OF Con-
gresham James B. Aswelfs seven
teen-year-old son;
The burglarizing Of house where
nearly everything movable was
stolen:
Numerous fights and many small
larcencies.
Marines Loot 1915.
John C. Ricketts,, night clerk of
the City hotel, 329 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, talked to a
United States marine for two hours
early this morning. Then, when he
was about to close up for the night
the marine poked a gun in his face.
IF you make a crack I'm going
to blow your head off," he threat
ened.
While Ricketts, stood by. the ma
rine ransacked the hotels office,
taking all he could find, $5.75. With
a menacing gesture he backed out of
the hotel and fled. An hour later
Detective Sergoants Springman and
Darnall arrested Otto o. Hooking,
Quantico. at the ST. James Hotel
Hooking is said to have admitted
that he stuck up the hotel clerk.
The money, it was said. was found
under his pillow. Hooking would not
admit the detectives and they were
forced to climb through a window in
his room to get him. He is charged
with robbery.
Three Rob Grocer.
Three heavily armed negroes con.
fronted Abraham Rosenfeld. grocer.
44O1 Sheriff road northeast, at $50
this morning. Resented decided
that courtesy was the better part of
valor. and he meekly complied with
the requests of the trio. Waving
their pistols to intimidate the grocer,
the negroes leisurely looked over the
store. They left with $40 taken from,
the till.
Hopping into a high. powered auto
mobile, the trio was we'll out of the
way when reserves from the Ninth
precinct and headquarters detectives
arrived at the store. Rosenfeld said
he could identify the negroes.
James Aswell. son of Congress
man James B. ASwell OF Louis
lana, living here at the Northumb.
herland. New Hampshire avenue
and v streets northwest. told De,
tectives Darrall and Springma n
that he was driving his father car
near the apartment house when q
man Jumped on the running boar
pressed a pistol into his back and
told him to drive out Sixteenth
street When the car reached a
SPOT near the reservoir the man
told Young AnswelI to stop.
When he failed to secure any.
thing OF value from his youthful
victim the robber struck MIN on
the head and threw him into the
bushes Recovering an. hour later.
the boy made his way to his home
and told Of the affair. He said
he did not knew whether the man
was white or colored.
Burglar i'm Room.
C. A. Csrrigan, insurance sales
man. living at 1349 w street south
east, awol1e with a start about 11:3
last night. In the dim light Of his
bed room he perceived a negro.
cautiously going through his pants
pockets. Carrigan leaped for the
intruder but he was not quick
enough. Jumping through rear
escape with $50. and some papers
that were of no value The house
had been entered by a rear win
dow. Carrigan said he would be
able to identify the man. h
In a scuffle for nosseakion nf a